Tijjani Reijnders’ departure was confirmed earlier this week, and AC Milan made several errors, it seems.
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Many will still feel it was a mistake selling Reijnders, it is likely that that feeling will not go away any time soon. However, if Milan replace him well, perhaps the feeling will be lessened. The opposite of what happened with Tonali, effectively.
With the sale itself, though, there have been many gripes.
Major mistakes
It is nothing new for the management to be criticised. However, their positions have taken significant damage recently. Largely, it is due to their own naivety and words of reassurance – very preventable, ultimately. The issue is that lessons are seemingly never learned.
Geoffrey Moncada said a few months ago the side was Scudetto-worthy, and then stated that Reijnders would stay at the club. Both, obviously, have been proven wrong. Today, Franco Ordine reviewed the sale of Reijnders and the management’s errors for Milan News.
“The sale of Reijnders has become official. It is a triple error for which those responsible will have to answer.
“First formal error: if you say [Giorgio Furlani before Milan-Monza] that you do not need to sell “given the situation we are in”, that is, with the numbers in hand, in the hours in which you are probably already negotiating the exit of the Dutchman, then it means that credibility is definitively lost.
“On a technical level, it is a very painful loss because he is one of the best midfielders around, albeit with offensive characteristics, and in full technical and physical maturity.
“On an economic level, it is not a bargain because the 72 million collected (between fixed part and bonuses producing a net capital gain of 40 million) is not a figure capable of making you hesitate and because it does not take into account other possible negotiations that would have brought hay to the barn.
“The truth is that as soon as Dad Reijnders called (from how he thanked Milan, I understood that he was the mediator used by City), Furlani jumped at the chance to pay off the discounted minus 25 million before June 30th.
“Not to mention that between the redemption of Kalulu (17 million) and some other operations now in the pipeline (Musah), the result of closing with a plus on the balance sheet would have been equally achieved.”