In an interview earlier today, Giorgio Furlani once again reiterated that AC Milan don’t need to sell any of their stars this summer. The Rossoneri CEO also shared his thoughts on the club becoming ‘more American’ in recent years.
Having only signed Alex Jimenez and Alvaro Morata so far, frustration is growing among the Milan fans and there are many questions to be answered. The club’s CEO, Giorgio Furlani, is currently in the US and spoke to Bloomberg about the situation this morning.
In addition to whether Milan need to sell their stars or not to fund the mercato, Furlani admitted that the club has become more American in the last few years. He did, however, make it clear that their decisions are always made on a sporting basis in terms of which players to sign.
On the Americanisation…
“We have definitely become more American. We’re owned by an American firm which is RedBird Capital, a leading investor in sports media and entertainment, and we work very closely with them. We have also become more American on the field, we have two American players.
“Our decisions on whom to field are entirely sporting, so there isn’t a decision on the base what passport the player has but it’s about how good the player is. Obviously, some players just by nature of being American have a certain commercial appeal in the US which is certainly helpful, but we don’t sporting decisions by passport,” he began.
On selling the stars…
“On the sporting side, our ambition is to fight for the title every year and to be competitive in the Champions League. Now, we do this while running a business that is sustainable. Two years ago was the first year in 17 years that AC Milan was profitable and last year was the second year and I don’t think it’s ever happened before.
“What that translates into is we’re not forced to sell players because of capital shortage or cash flow issues. So we don’t need to sell anyone and as a fan [the reporter], I’m telling you, you shouldn’t be worried about that,” he concluded.
He says that they are not forced to sell the star players. But what will happen if you don’t increase the salaries on Theo and Mike for example? Ending up selling them
Skating carefully around the renewal question…
What a setup of media BS.
Furlani was not ask the correct questions he was just comfortably welcomed with a massage and a cup of coffee.
The question should have been the mercato what have you done, what are you doing, why are you selling if you are boasting financial wealth?
Why buy second tier players instead of missing out on first choice targets to other clubs always?
Why are you giving seasons of second best football to loyal Rosso Nero supporters?
Why are you not in Italy working on the Fofana deal to repair you and Moncada’s failure and stuff up?
Why are you in the country Workington your other first choice targets and making sure other club don’t pinch them from under your nose?
Morata second tier player ?? So far ACM signing only morata and you say second tier player . Last season signing like tiji are one of the best midfield in eredivisie ( dutch league() , samu chukwu perform good in laliga), okafor perform well with salzburg in CL & domestic, pulisic are USA besr player, jovic flop in RM but perform well in frankfurt ( he is free player) , RLC destroy ACM midfield in CL with his physical beat duo tonali – bennacer. Second tier only luka romero ( free transfer and can be sold for capital gain) . You know italian club are poor financial and cannot signing player expensive like arsenal , city,psg,chelsea ,MU,Bayern muenchen ,Real madrid ???
We don’t have to sell stars yet he says they will only renew theo hernandez at the end of the transfer window
You’d have to be an absolute fool to believe anything this lier says.
We don’t have to sell is not the same as we won’t sell.
They don’t need to sell yet they’re having troubles in getting any deals done. Unlike last season when they had easy money from Tonali’s sale.
They don’t have to sell them, sure. But they can make it look like they are the bad guys with their “exaggerated” demands and that they have no other option but to sell in order not to lose money.
Inter didn’t lose time extending their stars so why stall until end of mercato to extend ours? Simply to wait and see if anyone will come with coffers full of greens for any of our prized assets.
Complete nonsense.
Sorry .Wrong place
The first year Milan were profitable in the last 17 years, the owners fired the Scudetto winning and CL semi-final reaching management and sold one of our star players without replacing him. The way they sacked Maldini, a club legend and successful director, was a major red flag. I don’t care about glamorous signings but the lack of clear plan is worrying. This was highlighted in another article on this website about the positional uncertainty of some players. It is unclear what positions Okafor, Reinders, Loftus-Cheek and Musah were brought in to play. Position-less/versatile players are for the bench. For a starting line-up, you need specialists.
Not this crap again. Maldini botched his last mercato when he signed CDK and Origi. There was and is obviously a clear plan – improve the squad + Futuro + build a new stadium. Last season’s mercato was one of the best in history, only Musah and Chukwueze didn’t work out.
That’s nice but we’re coming into August. Less than 3 weeks away from the start of the season and we have no clue in who’s coming and who’s leaving. Why are they taking their sweet time in negotiating? Do they want fonseca to fail? It’s bad enough that euros disrupts the preseason but you want to bring in 4 starters and so far we only have a striker who won’t even meet his new team until a week before the season. First 5 games is against tough opponents.
Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, and Liverpool haven’t signed anyone either. Barcelona have signed one player, for €2.7 million, Inter signed a goalkeeper, old players on free transfers and players that were on loan last season. Clubs are being more careful. It doesn’t matter what Roma or Juve do, if clubs want to compromise their future, that’s their business.
Sorry but it’s not really an excuse. Arsenal, CA Madrid, Liverpool have different problems and different situations that ours. Plus, two (or even 3) of the clubs you mentionned are unlikely to ever win anything, so I don’t understand why are they a good example.
It doesn’t really matter who inter brought, they already brought them and they already have the best team in Italy, renewed to their best players and kept their coach despite “being in a financial crisis” or whatever BS.
We agreed with Pavlovic and Fofana for like 3 weeks now and we still can’t get the deals done. We’ve been rumored to have 100M€ for the transfers only for CDK to turn to not come before 2025 and we have now something like 40M€ and despite being unable to find a player for our most urgent need (CDM) we still find time to non-sense negociations like Emerson and Fullkrug.
Fired that clown …..
Yes please
Milan going to USA preparations with one signing while our direct rivals are 90% done with reinforcements.
Here’s where you insert Borat with a wooden carriage screaming “I go to America!” photo.
Our only direct rivals are Juve and Inter. Juve have prostituted their future by selling Soule and Huijsen. Inter already had the best squad in the league and signed a goalkeeper, old players on free transfers and made loan deals permanent.
Best thing he can do is to get the hell out of this club.
He would sell his own mother.
They don’t need to sell, means nothing, nothing.
Does that mean they wont?
Does it mean we keep Mike and Theo but sell off talent like Bennacer, Thiaw, Simic etc
These people lie for a living
Its like a team of Donald Trumps running the show, no clue what they are doing, just constantly change the narrative to suit
“ On the sporting side, our ambition is to fight for the title every year and to be competitive in the Champions League.”
And there it is. We only aspire to “be COMPETITVE in the Champions League”??? Not to WIN IT??????
in the past the goal each year was to win UCL – not just compete in it. But I guess that would negatively affect the PROFIT margin of Redbird and we certainly cannot have that LOL.
Sad
Furlani is correct, we don’t need to sell in order to buy because the finances are healthy. As for the renewals, most of you claimed Leao would leave on a free, he didn’t.
Who are you what do you know about football ? Foff loser…and take Gerry with you
Clearly I know more than you do because you lack the intelligence to make an actual argument. What are you complaining about the owner for? An owner who spent over €100 million on transfers last season + €20 million on cleaning the land next to the new stadium, which is being built + another €20 million on Futuro, so what are you complaining about? Because you’re an ingrate.
@ubber they got to the green positive finance thanks to the suddecto group. and they made those profit selling that core pieces one by one. now he has problem replacing them and replicating the success.
from a finance world Gerry did milan some solid that will last us a long term.
but in a sporting world. he his killing the passion and joy in the sport. by not adding qualities not quantities to his products.
He’s killing nothing. Projects take time. The squad was improved last season. The mercato has been poor so far this season, but we only need a DF and a DM, we don’t need a huge overhaul.