Paolo Maldini was sacked from his role last summer, and there is still a lot of discourse about his exit. Today, Carlo Pellegatti has suggested that the icon could have stayed at AC Milan with a few talks with the owner.
The Maldini sacking still remains a frustrating topic for Milan fans, especially given the year that followed after his departure. During the former defender’s spell at the club, the Rossoneri won the Scudetto and got to the final four of the Champions League, then last season, there was little substance to lessen the blow of a departure.
Due to Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s start to a similar role, the conversation about Maldini’s exit has been recurring, and there is no sign of the conversation dying down.
Today, Pellegatti spoke about the situation on his YouTube channel and touched on his belief that the former director could have stayed with more intervention from Gerry Cardinale words have been relayed by Pianeta Milan.
“Paolo Maldini is the great regret of many fans. I don’t know what Gerry Cardinale’s choice was due to, but if he had had two/three talks with Paolo, perhaps a solution would have been found. Perhaps it was a decision that did not stem from knowledge of the subject. I don’t know how many direct talks between the two took place.
“Perhaps that situation would have been avoided. I still say that society speaks too little. Cardinale’s last statement came pre-derby. Cardinale is criticised for phrases, but if he would speak: I would like to hear the management speak more. With Berlusconi the communication was clear.”
Why must we keep him? He’s already shown more and more arrogance in his final year, and I’ve never seen a manager at any club express his displeasure with the owner to the press on a regular basis.
Fact is that we won under Maldini… these new owners are a joke and I applaud Paolo for not being a sell-out like Ibra…
Fonseca, no midfielders, no RB, and no Abate at Futuro… we will sell them to Genoa in a season or 2 and that’s where they will shine or at Fiorentina or Sassuolo or Bologna… I would have preferred any youth over RLC wasting the club’s money…
Jesus some people here really look like some Redbird kamikazes. The fans want to win. Paolo Maldini is the biggest Milan fan on this planet. His grandfather was Milanista, his father was Milanista. He played his entire career as a Milanista. We can’t probably even imagine the bond that ties him to these colours. So don’t say he was arrogant when he was just concerned about the sake of the club, as many fan should be, and asked for investments because Milan was quickly growing on the accounts but it didn’t translate with the sporting ambitions. After more than a year with this management, we know exactly why Maldini was concerned about the sake of the club.
I hope you are enjoying the Milan show since he left the club.
Did you listen to the Maldini interview?, he said he never signed anyone on his own, that all the signing was authorized by the management. He proposed so many names that was rejected by the management.
So tell me where did he fail?.
Or maybe the two parties are lieing.
All I know his that we need someone that will feel the pain when we lose like the way we fans feel it and the person close to that is Maldini.
I guess this entertainment that is going on at Ac Milan is soo much better than when Maldini was here right??.
Don’t worry you would soon tell yourself the truth. It took some here a good amount of time, but what the doom and gloomers as some here where called have been saying as been unravelling. Not only them, Maldini said same also, Milan is not yet there, invest more, and get the right targets.
Don’t worry with enough time and if you are true to yourself you too would see the half time show at Milan currently. Then I would love to read your next writeup on this issue. Especially if Maldini has been vindicated or not.
Are you sure you are a ACM fan and even know what kind of sport ACM competes in?
Your lack of knowledge and insight into the world of football is impressive.
Unless you are cardinale, you are as stupid as they get
Because he doesn’t care he speaks as a fan as a sun not as a GM
Bring our captain back, the only person aside from us who gives a $h1t about Milan…
Just pay up Yankee, you (watched few highlight max) said you know more than us (who have supported this team through thick and thin, you gave us a word that you keep breaking, so don’t point at us), yet the recent 2 losses tell a different story…
“Just pay up Yankee” – you sound like a kid throwing tantrum while you have zero clue how to run a business, less so a famous club like Milan. The “Yankee” did something right in his life being able to afford Milan (not to mention he wants to build a new stadium) while all you do is sit on computer and complain. Milan is financially stable after many years of mismanagement but you’re too illiterate to even realize that. Berlusconi, as great as he was for Milan, left the club in a huge mess and it took time to fix those issues. If you don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s best to keep quiet or you will just embarrass yourself like you just did.
Milan is financially stable thanks to Elliott not RedBird, they’re only taking care of what they got. And we won Scudetto under Elliott and Maldini with a tight budget. Unlike wasting almost 200 millions in two summers with nothing much to show.
A ‘business….”
LOL.
A football club isn’t a ‘business’.
It’s an ego trip, or cover for money or sports laundering.
I wish a football club was a business. A business would never accept writing off billions in assets, or the rate of staff over attrition.
Maldini wanted to win. Redburd wants to reach top 4 and cl games with minimal investments.
What’s really sad about this farse is that our minimal investments have been adding up and adding up. The only player we got for cheap and added proper value to the team is pulisic.
Spend 80-90 mil on 4 midfielders so far and all of them are shíte.. a cheap fiora midfield runs them over…
Truly wish the rumors about Paolo seeking Arab investors to buy up Milan are true and happens faster
Why would you want investment from a regime that regularly murders people???
I believe Maldini would still be here if we’d fired Pioli halfway through the season following the Scudetto.
We certainly would not be where we are now..
I guess he was sacked because he complained about Gerry’s cheap mercato. How is it possible Gerry does not buy any Italian/Serie A talent. Maybe Maldini demanded too much, so to speak.
Inter should give back Juve their Scudetto. They won it on the pitch
This reminds me of the Kessie situation. Since he’s left there’s been a gaping hole in the squad, literally and figuratively. We don’t necessarily have to bring back Kessie, just replace him with a player that performs his role excellently.
Similar with Maldini. Pellegati is really saying we need a sporting director. We don’t necessarily have to bring him back unless they value former legends at the club (debatable), just replace him with a director who has been known to be good at the job.
Btw, Maldini did brilliantly given the parameters he worked under and his lack of experience in the role ….which over time made him experienced. There’s no denying that. If we continue on our current track I doubt we’re going to see similar results
Very true, both about Maldini, the Kessie situation and the lack of a Sporting Director.
So true.
And can we have fewer chefs in the kitchen?
Surely we only need one person making transfer decisions (in addition to the coach)?
What’s so difficult?
All he has to do is put together a coherent squad of players preferably targeting players from other top sides nearing retirement (e.g. Morata) or up and coming players from teams in the tier below (e.g. Atalanta)?
Why is it so hard to put together a midfield of players that compliment each other: a tackler and a passer.
It’s not rocket science.
But it gets so overcomplicated with all of the wheeling and dealing.
We can’t sign one midfielder we have to sign three or whatever.
Just focus.
And the only to focus is to have fewer chefs in the kitchen.
“Why is it so hard to put together a midfield of players that compliment each other: a tackler and a passer.
It’s not rocket science.”
That’s a loaded statement.. putting together a midfield that works is indeed difficult. Maldini’s midfield is still vastly superior to the ones after because each player brought something different in terms of skills but they were all fi.ghters for the team.. In addition they all were functional to the playing style. And that’s the genius of a sporting director. Maldini used as much experience as he can to assemble a team that could challenge for titles.
What we have now, we barely have players functional to any formation..how that is possible I dont even know. And they’re not functional to the style of the coach either. You can’t just grab ingredients off the grocery store shelf and think you can throw together dinner just like that.
Saddest part is, these clowns that took over from him will probably get away with wasting 200 millions making this team worse.
Maldini did a lot good and is a legend for us all, but many significant mistakes was made too…
– Losing Kessie, Donnaruma, Calhanouglu etc for free…
– Signing Origi, de Ketelere etc.
– The scudetto was lucky, but how did the other seasons end up?
– Club finally in financial stability, certainly not Maldinis contribution. we can dream about new stadium or renovate the old one to gain competitive advantage in revenue at the long run. real fans don’t think short term
– Internal conflict through media is never acceptable in any company, no matter which part is wrong. It only proves lack of communication skills and eq
Scudetto and UCL are probability games, risk vs reward, only one winner every year… please focus on giving the management time to implement their philosophy, and look at the quality of football over a season, instead of short-sight bias comments and complaints all the time. So tiresome to read
As a fan, a healthy club is the most important. Remember the painful ten years after the economic collapse at the club… Ibra was among the catalysts of the return to glory, and is the legend of football overall, not only at Milan. So don’t complain at him because, we like Maldini too. He did not replace Maldini position-wise, and certainly was not the one making the decisions to sack him. they still remain friends I think and respects eachother. U should too
Overall, I do dislike investors (both Elliott and Red bird) who takes over clubs using less ethical financial methods though, rather than purchasing it through common market exchange
Your comment contradicts itself. Maldini lost players literally because this very management, Furliani and his advisor Mr.Moneyball refused to give him an increased wage budget, they kept cutting it back on him.
As seen with Thuram, Taremi abd other negotiations they felt “comfortable” they could push negotiations to the last minute to squeeze out a dime here in there because they were sure the players were signing with us. That never happened. They do it with players they tried to acquire and they employed the “push it to the last minute ” because their computers said their numbers were fair and the players would bever turn their offerz down despite Maldini constantly challenging them to do otherwise and offer them fair salaries. Furliani and Mr.Bean advised Redbird and Elliott against retaining those players, even against buying Bennacer, Tonali, Theo, Leao, Ibra. Maldini was the one who brought them here and the financial computer gurus never took his advice unless he went at their necks for months.
The reason he left is because he refused to allow them to tarnish his and our club’s reputation further by allowing them to continue with the same philosophy without adding the needed pieces and retaining his best players because they didn’t increase investment in relation to the clubs improving finances. They only spent 40 million euros per window since Redbird came in. Sales and departures funded the rest. 40 million per season, on one sure player, if they increased the wage budget to allow Maldini to retain the players you blame him for leaving would have been fine. That isn’t what happened or will happen because they are incompetent. Stop licking their boots.
Fool
“Signing Origi, de Ketelaere etc.”
– Signing Chuk, Musah, Emerson, Pellegrino etc. or rather spending almost 200 millions with nothing much to show.
“The scudetto was lucky, but how did the other seasons end up?”
– CL semi finals and qualifying CL for next season.
“Club finally in financial stability, certainly not Maldinis contribution. we can dream about new stadium or renovate the old one to gain competitive advantage in revenue at the long run. real fans don’t think short term”
– Guess what, neither was RedBird’s doing. It was Elliott’s. They at least had capacity to understand they know nothing about sport’s side of football and thus got people in charge who knew the club from inside out. Which got us Scudetto with a tight budget. Unlike wasting 200 millions to participate.
“Internal conflict through media is never acceptable in any company, no matter which part is wrong. It only proves lack of communication skills and eq”
– Lack of communication skills? Yeah good thing we got Ibra, a PR mastermind. Read the article again on who lacks proper communication. Since Maldini left the environment has become quite toxic.
Wow very well said. 👏
– Losing Kessie, Donnaruma, Calhanouglu etc for free was not a mistake.They are SCUM and you should not be siding with SCUM and their SCUM AGENTS over the club. Kessie did his job. Won the Scudetto. Donnarumma was replaced with an upgrade. The Turk never produced anything of note for Milan.
– Origi and De Ketelere were two of thousands of signings that summer and in the past 10 years that didn’t work out. It happens. Most transfers end in failure.
– The Scudetto was not lucky. The league table doesn’t lie and over the course of a season the best sides win. The others seasons saw 2 top 2 finishes and a top 4 (FOUR) finish, as well as a run to the semi-finals of the Champions League,. Stop downplaying the success of YOUR TEAM.
– Makdini left the club in a far better financial position achieving all of the above successes on a shoestring,
– Why would you side with some random people in the background who have nothing to do with the club beyond using it to launder their egos OVER a club legend?
What is the point of you supporting any football club?
Yes Maldini did alot of good and made mistakes too. But to highlight all the so-called bad stuff then we all know where you’re going with it…..it’s all bad in your books.
Lucky Scudetto?? but what what happened in other seasons? Don’t make me laugh, forget the time we won something?.
Haha 😂. Bro we’ve been in “other seasons” ever since and it dont seem like we’re getting a Scudetto anytime soon. Forget about a semi in the UCL