More information continues to filter regarding what happened leading up to Paolo Maldini’s sacking as the technical director by Gerry Cardinale.
The dust has just about begun to settle after the news broke over the last few days that Milan have sacked Paolo Maldini and Ricky Massara and have chosen to start a new era of sorts with a different management team.
Journalist Franco Ordine provided everything he knew about the breakdown in a piece for Corriere dello Sport yesterday, talking about the differing stances regarding transfer strategy and the fall-out after an interview given following the second leg against Inter.
Now, Ordine has written a column for Il Giornale in which he offers a couple more details on two things that increased the tension between the duo, with his words relayed by our colleagues at SempreMilan.it.
“Behind the very lively confrontation that took place between Maldini and Pioli on the use of the recent transfer market, there was a trace of Pirlo’s involvement as his eventual successor,” he said.
“The two, Paolo and Andrea, team-mates at the time of Ancelotti’s coach among other things, saw each other and must have chatted for a long time during a short Easter break in Dubai. Pioli, here is the other piece of the mosaic, was not unaware of the plot.
“But there is another detail that should have made Paolo Maldini understand what the outcome of his relationship with the shareholder would have been.
“A few months earlier, the Rossoneri technical director sent Gerry Cardinale a draft of a three-year investment plan to be implemented at Milan following the model of sustainable football. He never received a response to that email.”
