AC Milan are set to raise their summer spending to above €100m with the signing of Yunus Musah from Valencia and more could be invested yet, a report claims.
Felice Raimondo writes how the signing of Musah for the reported €18m plus bonuses means Milan’s total spent will be up to €107m when factoring in the fixed part of all of the paid-for signings so far this summer.
After the recruitment of Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Christian Pulisic, Tijjani Reijnders, Noah Okafor, Samuel Chukwueze and Musah, it is necessary ‘to sell the scrap metal’ that could then ‘increase residual margins for what is missing’ in terms of the squad.
If the management were to succeed in making some sales to raise funds and lower the wage bill, the summer spending could go on to reach €150m as per the journalist.
RedBird Capital are ‘laying the foundations for our future’, Raimondo writes, in that they are building a ‘young, talented group that can be resold at much higher values than the purchase price’.
Instead of opting for such radical change each summer, it is more likely that Milan will ‘undergo small variations every year’ but thanks to these variations they ‘will maintain high quality and competitiveness’.
Some fans still whine how cardinal isn’t spending, meanwhile milan buying players left and right.
People really just want to complain, dont they? I know i do my fair share of it
without tonali’s sale, Milan won’t sign players left and right bro.
Tonali sale only count for €64m this season. The money spent on new players has exceed that amount easily.
And that’s the way a professional club should be, dude. It’s no longer the era where owner can just insert their money to the club – nor I want them to do so.
You can’t compare Tonali sale with arrivals. Tonali sale of 64mill is shown in books like 64mil minus rest of ammortisation. That’s probable 55 million of capital gain.
And 110 million in income transfers is spread on year’s of players contracts.
So without Tonali gain Milan would not be able to increase overall ammortisation, because increased ammortisation from this year would be covered by bigger revenue from players sale.
WELL pass that already. Stop being stuck on this. A good chunk of the budget was Redbird’s money.
we’re way pass that already. And what’s the problem with reinvesting? Milan was linked to a loan of Arnuatovic when Maldini was still in charge.
What redbirds money? Milan made money from UCL semi-final + tv rights + new sponzor + finishing 4th in Serie A etc + the sale of Tonali
Cardinale / Redbird did NOT invest a single cent from their pocket. It’s all the money that Milan made without the financial help from Cardinale…
It’s not like Elliott or Suning did it either. Juve went crazy now they are broke. Do you really want Milan to go crazy like they did under the Chinese fraudster? For me having a decent budget of like 50-60 million plus any player sales is good
I don’t have any problem with reinvesting tho.. and I’m not in the Maldini team nor Moncada team.. but to make statement that it’s Cardinale’s money/spending seems kinda false in one position.. We all know that one of the reason of Maldini’s exit was because the owner doesn’t want to raise the $30mio budget or something right? so to say that the current mercato spending thanks to Cardinale just seem kinda wrong in a position.
FYI, on the market, we used 120 million in extra income not predicted in last year’s budget, plus 60 million from Tonali’s sale…180 million euros.
Those transfers are done because they refused to STRENGTHEN our team last year and put our team’s success in peril. We wouldn’t be in the champions league next year due to their poor decisions to their insistence that the team was strong enough as it stood according to their computer modelling estimates.
Although the transfers done are commendable, they were not out of ownerships pockets, they are actually less than what we have at our disposal through our operations budget.
This isn’t the ownership paying, it is our team’s finances that cover these costs. Nothing is out of pocket for them.
Remember this, if Maldini could sell DonnaRuma, Calhanoglu, and Kessie successfully, he would have had more budget to operate for last summer. To create more budget, selling and offloading useless high income players would be helpful. He spent entire summer in bidding wars for Botman and CDK with no backing up plan. Then eventually had to sign low quality loan contacts like Dest, and Vrank. He signed bad contracts and failed to strengthen other needed positions like Kessie’s replacement and RW.
Even with 50mil budget, if Maldini had back up plans, and successfully made some good selling, we would have had a better summer transfer.
Vrancks is not low quality
Well I think, the first issue of not spending became an issue of too much spending mixed with what they’re spending the money on which is fair. So far we’ve bought potential and many fans like that sort of thing while others would disagree. Hence those that disagree would prefer targets that are better guarantees. For me I’m trying to figure out how they fit in the current setup. And then there’s the other issue of changing too much which is valid; technically we could have a team with half of it being new players (Chuk, Puli, deer, RLC, Musah, Okafor)
I’m in the same boat with you and I’m hoping for a strong campaign. Hopefully Pioli is up to the task.
It’s a massive task for him. Not sure if ppl are underestimating that. I guess the euphoria still in the air.
As it is stated in the text – they want to resell players for higher amount of money
Basically being a feeder club..
Feeder clubs make profit from selling their difference-makers. We made profit from selling a player with somewhat replaceable characteristics. Maignan, Theo and Leao are still here.
Vieri told Bobo TV: “If Maldini leaves, it is because the club won’t put in a euro. Surely this Cardinale is crazy if he makes Maldini leave”.
A lot of clowns in the “media” hurried up to spew nonsense.
Well he must invest, but he invest Milan revenue money, not his money.
We will see how this year arrivals will be successful compare to previous one.
What?
Milan made profit of only 17 mil after all the expenses this fiscal year.
Tonali was sold for 64 mil, at least 10% of that is going to Brescia.
So far they have spent 107 mil.
Do the math.
First people were saying that even if he sold players he won’t reinvest the money, that was proven wrong, so now the narrative is that he doesn’t spend his own money but the money the club makes.
Newsflash. The point of running a successful business is for the business to make money(profit) that will allow you to reinvest that profit to further grow that business, not to use your own money to finance the business.
Real Madrid, by far the best club in the world, over the last 5 years, transfer seasons, are plus 10 mil from players bought and players sold. While Milan just in the last 2 years is minus 135 mil, not including at least another 135 mil lost by losing 4 of our best players for nothing.
Football is entertainment business. Players are employees. And fans are customers.
Yes Rebird have so far spent more even if we take your number 58M for Tonali after Brescia cut. Add the 35M budget and that is 93M budget if we have spent 107M thus far then we are 13M over budget BUT we haven’t sold anyone yet – which those sales SHOULD cover the 13M gap. So we haven’t really spent more $$$ over our budget – BUT – what we did do is make a bold and calculated risk to sell a big player (Tonali) and re-invest that $$ back into the team for multiple players. Bold like I said. Looks positive and I actually like the moves and players we bought (some from the new regime some from the old regime) – but time will tell. I tho k it will work out in long run for the best and we have real chance to win league and if Pioli does his job well and integrates everyone and we stay healthy fast we will win the Scudetto. Question is will we need to sell a big player each summer to fund our market or not. Hope we don’t sell the likes of Theo Mike Leao etc…but I could see ya selling players like Kalulu, Tomori, Benny – players that are a bit more replaceable. We will see. It’s exciting all these new players. Let’s hope it translates into success. I think it’s will this season. Positve thoughts
Fans who got mad and kept complaining about the new management need to understand that Milan is no longer a team that could easily win bidding wars on transfer market against big budget teams like Real, Bayer or EPL teams. They all have their owned big ass stadiums to generate money for their annual transfer market.
To have a stable annual budget for transferring, we need to have better foundation. Building new stadium is one of the first steps; And this management is pushing hard to make that happen.
Also, because we don’t have that kind of infinite budget flows, we have to operate the transfer market smarter. Selling one star to reinvest into young talents with way more room to grow and high potential resale value is a great move compare to spending big 40-60mil on a single player.
I’m sick of fans that keep complaining about the new management. Milan just got out of the financial crisis not too long time ago. So every single move on the transfer market need to be right and smart. Look at Inter, Juve, and Napoli, they are doing the same thing as we did. Selling big players to balance their transfer window. Because they don’t wanna be deducted points like Juve last season.
Give this management times to show us what they can do before we judge them. With the new stadium building plan, plus positive transfers so far, I think they have big plans to make Milan a better team on and off the field. Remember this, they are not gonna make any big ass profit out of Milan by turning the team into a shitty team but the other way around.
Thanks for explaining the situation. On twitter people kept on saying some 31 year old with serie a experience is worth way more than musah or ‘this guy fits the position better’. it did not seem obvious to everyone that they were grabbing value.
Fact is: we are doin’ an excellent calciomercato. Period. And Maldini clownish dumbass widows can go to hell.
Ya clownish ok…windows that just brought us Theo Mike Tonali Leao Benny Krunic Giroud Thiaw Kalulu Tomori etc….some fans are just plain dumb. That’s you bro
Well how about pelegri,meite,bakayoko,florenzi,devisvasques,juniormessias,saladmaker,dest,rebic,origi,balotoure?
How about Kessie, Donna, Hakan?
Also thanks to Maldini’s negotiation to let Kessie, Hakan, and Donnaruma left for free, FOR FREE!
With his genius plans for useless players like CDK, Origi, now someone else have to clean his mess.
By the way, Maldini was a sporting director, he didn’t know shit about scouting, he got helps from Milan’s scouting team to help him. (Theo, Leao, Mike..ex)
“in that they are building a ‘young, talented group that can be resold at much higher values than the purchase price’.”
So, no one is talking about this part…
Hehehe
After signing yunus, and maybe alejo & singo . Management already doing their part , now it is pioli & his squad do their part in serie A, coppa & CL .
i am surprised that this seems to generally be accepted as an ok practice, I doubt it will be ideal when the next guy gets to Tonali value and is sold…also they are obviously going to favor playing younger players, i think loftus cheek may have misread the situation.
I like that idea : “Small Variations every years”. It means we will focus finding the wonderkids all around world like : Luka Romero & Noah Raveyre. It will give bigger burden for Moncada, to scout best players every years.
Milan became feeder club. Selling top players to other clubs. will win UEFA Champions League. Red bird is suck