AC Milan’s former technical director Paolo Maldini spoke a bit about Yacine Adli and Daniel Maldini, but refused to answer questions on his old club.
The surprise retirement of Zlatan Ibrahimovic after the final match of 2022-23 was an emotional curtain call after a rollercoaster campaign, but there was to be even bigger news to come less than 48 hours later.
Indeed, soon after that win against Verona the news broke that club icon Maldini and his right-hand man Ricky Massara were being relieved of their duties as the technical and sporting director, plunging the project into disrepute.
The reasons for the dismissal of the duo was debated at length but in short it seemed Gerry Cardinale wanted a more collegial working group, with Geoffrey Moncada effectively promoted.
Since then, Maldini has been linked with various jobs but has remained unattached, but there have even been rumours about him potentially being the face of a Saudi consortium who might look to buy the club from RedBird Capital.
Maldini was interviewed at Coverciano by a few journalists who were present and he answered some questions about players that he worked with at Milan, with his comments relayed by TMW.
Do you like Serie A?
“I like it, without a doubt: it’s a league that isn’t considered too strong, but on a technical, tactical and knowledge level it’s in the top three.
“Starting grid? It’s the usual one. Inter are the best equipped team, then there have been many changes in the various opponents who need a little time to put the team together a bit.”
What is your opinion of Yacine Adli?
“He found little space in Milan in his first year, last year more. I think he can give a lot to Fiorentina, he has great vision and is a good guy.”
Are you bored at home?
“No. In the end, my career has been long and demanding, even as a director. Even the periods of rest are healthy.”
We can’t ask you anything about Milan?
“Rightly so.”
Is Daniel Maldini a Serie A level player?
“There are players who are precocious, others who are late. He is probably late, but he has a quality that is not common: in shooting, in seeing the game. And now he has physically exploded. Now is the time to show what he is worth.”
Who came closest to Inter?
“Milan came in second last year and are another candidate, Juve have strengthened, as have Napoli and Roma. The teams aiming to win the title are always the same.”
Milan went from being a family to a dictatorship.
Legends threatened with law suites
To be fair AC Milan might have been more like a family under Berlusconi but it was also ran like a dictatorship. How many Presidents dictates how the coaches field formations and dictates starters in the lineups which there are many indications about over the years.
its different. if any owner puts a lot of money into a club, I think he should be a dictatorship other ways the owner would be run over by everybody.
Doesn’t really change the fact that its quite unusual that club owners publicly meddles with formations or starter choices besides of choosing which coach who trains and manages the team.
come back to Milan Paolo. this Red Birds company turned out the group of dangerous communists and manipulators from Wall Street.
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nowadays Milan is nothing. other teams have beaten us like a kids. there are no appropriate relationships in the club anymore. there are no attachments, no local players, no brother love anymore.
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few seasons more and Red Bird company will turn this club into a McDonald’s.
Communists from wall street Ok if you say so it must be true, you really gotta hear a lot before your ears fall off 😀
I understand that you did not update your knowledge for long time. That’s the paradox of new years. People like for example George Soros have played on the Wall Street, but also created some theoretically non-profit organisations as open society and other to make legal corruption of the elites (as universities qualified staff, media/journalist, politicians, businessmen, lawyers) which attended to these organisations. After that they implemented their agenda/ideas in practice by influenced it to people by media which they could control. This is neomarxism which is controlled by these Wall Street groups who expected use the culture to turn the world in their own way. And that is one of the reason why the Red Birds company was created. they want to make impact throughout the culture, media or great and very popular clubs such as AC Milan.
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don’t worry they are clever people. we even could a bit say that they wanted to wash people brains in their own way. and later make money on the new McDonald’s. this time AC Milan. I don’t want turn AC Milan into McDonald. but it seems that it’s what happening now.
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that is new consumerism connected with neomarxism. paradox, but also our reality. sth like a controlled revolution by Wall Street.
😀 You sound like you have been too busy with Qanon and its likes as this has nothing to do about communism if anything its capitalism in its full blossom.
Neither do I want AC Milan to turn into a new McDonald’s franchise but I still doesn’t see any point in your conspiracy theories.
where have you seen any conspiracy theories? search the site of Red Bird and they openly wrote about their agenda – influence by sport. who is behind of them? which people? don Silvio Berlusconi was always on the first front.
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but let’s talk about proper management which it’s also drama. we didn’t want to pay Thuram 1mln euro more for contract last season and he chose Inter. this season our best players not performed well, but other club offered Leao or Theo double salary than in Milan. we don’t care about our best players. they deserve for better contract so let’s give them. we have got limits? ok, so let’s sell them to other clubs when other clubs offer us 75 or 80 millions. no. we will sell them when their worth drop to 20 or 30 millions. I mean that there is no consistency in club. we can’t afford for better contract to player so better to sell. if we want to keep important players so give them better contracts. simple.
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in this club there are just a few Italian players and you said that it is not McDonald’s? are you feeling well? that is exactly football’s McDonald’s. reflect on this.
Maybe comparing them with communist is a beginning when they in fact are ultra captitalists. Certainly more in the vein of Gordon Gecko than any marxist stuff. So was Berlusconi also a communist because that fella owned most of italian media to my knowledge and surely he used his power and influences to avoid problems as he would otherwise have been send to jail for some of the stuff he did.
I’m by the way not here in some defense of the management or ownership and neither are I here to bash them but sure they do make mistakes and I certainly believe that Theo deserves as good a salary as Leao gets,
I have ALWAYS been outspoken of Milan should have a majority of Italian players and I’m not even Italian myself. In fact if it was up to me all teams shouldn’t be allowed to have more than maybe 5 foreigners in their teams but that is not the world we live in but I’m at least to some extent of the hope that we will see more Italians in the team in the coming years when we hopefully benefits from our Futuro players progress.
@renegat LOL good comment
Adli got 1 assist and Daniel got 2 assist and 1 goal, don’t forget Colombo already have 2 goals. Tell me if I am wrong. Hehe.. chukwu, RLC, musah only run like limbo in the park. Hehe…
brother this management is something else. Elliot saved us and now Red Bird are sending us back to the stone ages
I hope Maldini comes back with Boban, PIF (or similar) and Klopp.
@kam that would be the perfect Trinity unfortunately our current Trinity consists of the incompetent Furlani Scaroni and the biggest disappointment the backstabbing Ibra I’ve completely lost all respect for this clown…Redbirds out Cardinale fu