On Wednesday evening, UEFA confirmed that AC Milan have complied with all of the necessary requirements to officially exit their Settlement Agreement.
Thanks to the positive results in the last few years, making a profit from the 2022-23 season onwards, everyone expected Milan to exit their Settlement Agreement with UEFA. In fact, it was reported about almost a year ago, but we had to wait for the confirmation.
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Indeed, yesterday evening, UEFA published their summary of the Settlement Agreements in place and confirmed that AC Milan, Monaco, Besiktas, PSG, Royal Antwerp, and Trabzonspor all met their respective final targets for the 2025-26 season.
“AC Milan (ITA), AS Monaco FC (FRA), Beşiktaş JK (TUR), FC Internazionale Milano (ITA), Paris Saint-Germain (FRA), Royal Antwerp FC (BEL) and Trabzonspor A.Ş. (TUR) met the final target of the settlement by complying with the football earnings rule in the 2025/26 season (i.e. covering the reporting periods ending in 2023, 2024 and 2025) and therefore exited the settlement regime,” it reads.
This means that Milan will be able to comply with the Football Earnings rule without any further restrictions, or rather extra eyes monitoring their every step. Considering that they entered the agreement back in 2022, it’s nice to see them finally exit it.
It’s certainly better than Roma, who are still under a Settlement Agreement and were found to have breached two requirements, resulting in fines of €6m.
In recent days, AC Milan leaked that the decision to appoint Ruben Amorim as coach had been endorsed by Krosche himself. So what’s happening now? As Tuttosport reported this morning, “the club is leaking that, in addition to Krosche, there are still several candidates who were being explored and will be contacted again after the German plan fell through. According to the club, the other candidates who will be reconsidered were aligned with the choice of Ruben Amorim as coach , and according to this line of reasoning, it’s reasonable to assume that whoever is appointed head of football and sporting director will have already given positive feedback on the Portuguese coach.”
I really hope they got this one right for a change.
“I know that Gerry Cardinale has been following Amorim for some time, a coach he’s looked at
with great interest. I also trust that Gerry Cardinale has a magical touch when it comes to selecting players; he’s demonstrated it many times in his life, and I hope it’s truly a magical touch this time too,” AC Milan president Paolo Scaroni told Tg Regionale, commenting on Rubén Amorim’s arrival as AC Milan coach. “I’m confident he’ll start everything off on a new footing,” Scaroni added. (ANSA)
Anyone knows what was so particular about the settlement agreement that was different from the earnings rule? (Anyone sensible ofc 😅). Because from what I’ve read they looked pretty much the same.
As an aside, in some sense smaller club can technically operate on huge losses and then cool off for three years, in the mean time building up a proper team 🤷♂️ and still be able to compete in UEFA competitions.
I would LOVE to find out how PSG met the UEFA financial settlement agreements.
Slush fund.