A report this morning has questioned the AC Milan management and their ability to sell players, or rather their judgement on who should no longer be a part of their squad.
This morning’s edition of La Repubblica (via MilanNews) analyses a topic that has come to light recently as fans continue to read of players that left Milan during the summer transfer window thriving at their new clubs.
Geoffrey Moncada and his team ‘almost gave away’ Pierre Kalulu and Daniel Maldini in the recent mercato, players who – due to their characteristics – could have been very useful to Paulo Fonseca this season.
The newspaper writes that Kalulu ‘has become a transfer hit or, seen from the Milan perspective, the seed of a repentance, the mirror of a regret, the pretext to kick one’s heels’, as he continues to shine in a starting spot for rivals Juve.
Daniel Maldini meanwhile made the short hop to Monza where he was on loan during the second half of last season. He joined them on a free with the Rossoneri getting just a 50% resale clause, and he got a national team call-up after a great start to the season.
The paper adds that the Italian playmaker ‘was let go too hastily when in the end’ and ‘doesn’t seem much worse than Okafor or Chukwueze’. Given Fonseca has also gone back to playing with an attacking midfielder and is using Morata (a striker) there, it seems an even more questionable choice.
Milan loand out 9 players and 5 left on free. How many of them are shining again? Easy to cherry pick a few and question decisions.
Tho I always thought Kalulu should be our rb, we bought royal for the sake of buying and not “upgrade” or anything.
Maldini wouldn’t even be playing if he stayed.
Even Galliani wasnt sure with him, thats why he only get 2 years contract
Kalulu is a great modern CB. He wasn’t really a RB since he was 16.
Shows what you know. He’s an average cb and could develop into a solid rb.
You don’t seem concerned that 13 players left the club!
How’s that normal?
Well if you ever looked at transfers from other clubs you’d see it very normal. Clubs loan out players, clubs have players leave on free.
Inter had 20 players “leave”. Juve sold 8 and another 11 “left”.
Welcome to the 21st century.
Wow. Shocking! Milan isn’t the team who shipped out most players. The whole world crumples. Oh wait… Only MH’s illusions.
Serie A clubs generally trade in far more players than the top leagues which is why Serie A is no longer a top league.
It’s got nothing to do with the ‘21st century’ but a dysfunctional system.
But my do people around here get annoyed if anyone questions it.
Keep accepting failure and taking your anger out on the players.
What a life.
“Keep accepting failure and taking your anger out on the players.
What a life.”
B’tching every day about the modern day mercato.
WHAT. A. LIFE.
no they dont. its the same all over. where is proof for your claims?
And serie A is top league. Ever heard of the top 5?
Adli also
Well it is better to spend 15-20 million on a foreign player and let the homegrown kid leave on a free. I am sure he is not worse than RLC or Okafor.
Shows what you know times 2. Kalulu isn’t homegrown
Moncada and Ibra are two morons. If I become owner of Milan today, till midnight they are 100% gone. My first decision will be this 😆
Let’s see how long will it take for Simic to make similar headlines.
This is the squad we could’ve had had we been better managed in the past 10 years (and I include the period under Maldini where he allowed Cutrone and others to go).
Donnarumma*
Plizarri
Torriani
Theo 20m
De Sciglio
Acerbi 4m
Gabbia
Simić
RUBEN DIAS 68m
Calabria
Bellanova
Cristante
Locatelli
Pessina
Brescianini
Verdi
Maldini
El Shaaraway
MBAPPE 180m
Cutrone
HAALAND 60m
Total cost: 352m
*I am going to put this pr##k in here on the basis that he might have stayed had we been better managed.
Most of that squad was FREE.
And having spent ZERO on the core of the team we’d have [whatever let’s call it 352m] to spend on [whoever I have listed some random world class players above].
We’d have:
– a core of players with a close connection to the club;
– players who had played for us for years some close to a decade (100s of appearances TOGETHER);
– genuinely world class players;
– a TEAM;
– SOUL,
and we’d still be competing with (yes) Real, Barca, Bayern, Liverpool and Man City because we’d be managed like them.
Instead in that period we’ve been through thousands of players and billions of Euros and we have one Scudetto to show for it and years in the European wilderness.
But let’s keep making the same mistakes. Let’s alienate the few world class players we have, boot out another youth player, captain and close connection to the club, and keep rolling the dice on new players every few months.
MBappe and Haaland ain’t coming here to play with Verdi and ElSha with all due respect to them. That forward line is not dangerous with just the club players. Seems a very mediocre team of u ask me with hint of good players in between..all in the sake of oh let’s wait a whole @ss 10 years for the player to actually eventually come good like Acerbi. You don’t seem to recall how badly he played for us do u?
Don’t get me wrong there are players I like on the list but let’s not make it look like they will all peak at the same time and if they do would it still be enough
Wish Kalulu all the best at his new club. He seemed unhappy at Milan, so a change might be good for him. I also think Daniel Maldini will do better away from Milan, where there’s less pressure on him. That said, I really like the current Milan team and have no regrets about the direction we’re heading in
we get rid of the gems maldini found for some more expensive scrubs. great work redbird