Inter president Beppe Marotta has hit back at Gerry Cardinale’s comments, calling them disrespectful and insisting that they are inaccurate.
Back on December 11 the Harvard Business School released a document containing a very interesting case study on Milan, in which the most influential and important people at the club were interviewed, including Cardinale.
We went through five of his most interesting declarations in a feature that went out last night, but what has made the headlines the most is that he claimed Inter went ‘bankrupt’ after winning the league title, something he would not want Milan to repeat.
Then, a report emerged claiming that the Nerazzurri leadership were far from happy about what he said, and now a more official response has arrived from the club president and CEO.
Marotta spoke to Sky just before Inter took on Como at San Siro last night, a game that they won 2-0, and he was asked for his thoughts on what Cardinale said.
“I didn’t want to talk about it, but I think it’s my duty to respond. I think they are out of place, disrespectful statements, of the prestige and image of our club and I think Cardinale got a bit confused,” he said (via Calciomercato.com).
“It’s true that in the past years our majority shareholder has experienced a period of economic difficulty. He was immediately joined by Oaktree two years ago and Oaktree itself is now the owner of our club.
“Since then, we have drawn up some guidelines and I remind him that managing Inter is a completely different thing. We respect financial fair play, we have gone from a loss of 240 million to 36 million, achieving the victory of the Scudetto, the Supercup, we have won the second star and we are the only team in Milan that has it.”
What Marotta want to tell is, they gain supercoppa, 1 serie a and champion league final, and pay that 1 billion of dollars.
Total inter Milan debt is around 1 billion, which is now liability of Okatree..
Well done beppe the blindy.
Fairplay to him he took the risk inter have piles of trophies and still in the title race. Milan have nothing thanks to Gerry the clown and his b*tch Zlatan
Dude, Inter have 0.
For 1 bn usd, you can buy Manchester City first team.
Well i get your point here but you cant buy citys first team for a billion usd. Haaland probably would cost 200-250 mil on his own for city to even consider selling him.
You can’t buy a single title with money. That is what most of you clowns keep telling us, along with Cardinale and his staff clowns. However, real life proves all of you wrong. Inter is so falling apart that they were close to winning CL and will win Serie A again. That is 0, but Milan is at 10, but won’t qualify for CL this season. And Cardinale has been begging for an investment anywhere he could and god DECLINED. Because Milan is doing great…
Nobody wanted to invest in Milan. No one, 0 arabs. Doing great.
You’re right. We should risk Serie D for “piles of trophies”.
Cardinale is just a typical American loudmouth.
We have a president whose main objective is to make money and does not care of our glory or history. If we continue like that, the fans and the sponsors will leave us and Carnevales objective will turn out to be a disaster.
He is selling the club as soon as the stadium is solved. So I really hope it happens asap. Or that he defaults the loan as he doesn’t have that money so Eliott can again take over and maybe sell to a lesser clown.
Cardinale is an arrogant fool who doesn’t understand Milan, its history, and football in Italy. He is damaging his own investment by naming clowns to manage club operations, the same clowns who hired and still support the disaster called Paulo Fonseca. We went from 2nd last season to 8th. That’s not surprising as to replace the coach who finished 2nd in Europe’s league with be best UEFA annual coefficient last season, the clowns hired a coach who finished 4th in Europe’s 5th league. Gerry is the fool who said that winning is boring. That says it all.
I’m as tired of Cardinale and the management as everyone else so its not to talk his case or anything but that part about “wining is boring” is continuously repeated even though it was said in the context of the time when Juventus won 9 league titles in a row which certainly made the interest for the league less hence why it was mentioned being boring. The same can be argued in regard of Lyon in the 00s and PSG onwards in Ligue 1. Even the Bundesliga has not been the same since the 90ies when other teams than them won on a regular basis.
In the end though I don’t like him either both due to him sacking Maldini and how he overall operates the club with practically no Italians in the squad and for that matter his irritating interviews makes me wanna smack him in his face but fair should be fair nevertheless.
…since the 90ies when other teams than Bayern…
No, even if you bring in the Juventus context, it’s still a damaging thing to say when you consider the larger context of his lack of ambition for winning titles. A truly ambitious boss would have encouraged the hiring of a top coach and would have named competent people to run club operations. If he doesn’t understand Italian football then it’s his obligation to surround himself with people who do, such as a proper sporting director.
Well it is though because it was said in the context of juve dominating the league for 9 years straight and the fact that he wanted the entire league to increase its quality and have a lot of new stadiums build so the other part is just emotions even if i share your views of him mismanaging the club and I would like to see him suroundh himself with people who understands the game and league better.
Saying otherwise is borderlining to fake news.
It’s not fake news at all. He didn’t even mention Juve. This is what he said:
“The fans obviously always want to win. The irony in sports is that if you win every year you make the competition less interesting.”
This is the American model. The American leagues actually reward losing because if you lose enough, you qualify for a higher pick in the draft (and you never get relegated). Gerry doesn’t understand that in Italy, that’s not the concept. He is clueless.
Me, I want Milan to win every year.
It was said in a context not just a small snippet.
Anywho screw Cardinale, but this is not an American league drafting system and if it ever becomes one I drop a turd in a shoebox and send it to Milans headquarters myself and stop watching football.
I want Milan to win everything as well but it doesn’t change the context either but its fine no need to quarrel, merry Christmas Luigi.
Bigger problem is he is delusional. Like saying how everyone was telling him he is a fool to invest in Italy. He forgot to mention Milan became 9th club in Serie A under US ownership. Our big pioneer was 9th. I hate that clown
“we have won the second star and we are the only team in Milan that has it.”
No team in Milan has yet to have 2 stars.
Do you actually understand what is in this quote? A star above the crest is equal 10 league titles. Inter has 20 therefore they have two stars. We have 19 therefore we still only have 1 star above our crest. Inter’s president meant that they are the only team in Milano with two stars, and unfortunately he is correct.
Do you actually understand the history? Inter got one title ahead of Milan because they were gifted it thanks to Juve scandal back in 2004-2005 (inter was involved in that scandal along with Juve and others but inter escaped because of statue of limitation). Inter shouldn’t be gifted that freebie at all. So inter is not two stars.