Journalist Mauro Suma has urged AC Milan fans to temper their expectations given the current situation that the club are in financially.
Milan’s project has been one centred around controlling costs but also making targeted investments in young and talented players to develop an exciting core for the future, which the acquisitions of players like Kalulu, Tomori, Tonali, Bennacer, Theo Hernandez and Leao stand to prove.
It culminated with the victory of the Scudetto last season but rather than that being an end point it is natural for fans to have bigger expectations, to demand more investment in the squad to aim for bigger targets.
Mauro Suma – a journalist who does work for Milan TV – spoke in a column for MilanNews in which he highlighted the situation that the Rossoneri still find themselves in.
“These winds of slowness on the question of the new stadium are badly experienced. The time has come to tell us one thing clearly. In the last two summer transfer markets, Milan have spent more than 100 million, without making any significant sales,” he began.
“The club does everything it can to keep the team competitive and keep the accounts in check. Because with the now exploded and crazy costs of today’s football, there is the risk of getting seriously hurt. As we see clearly around.
“And so what we have to say clearly is that the time has come to stop harassing football clubs. Besieged by agent commissions, hounded by Financial Fair Play, disappointed by the slowness with which projects for new stadiums are evaluated and immobilised by TV rights that a backward and swampy football movement like ours is unable to fully exploit. Because we export football produced in old stadiums around the world, football that is tired and not cutting-edge.
“Now that Juventus too will have to play sustainable football and that therefore there will no longer be multi-millionaire cicadas in our movement, the time must come when fans stop asking for the money from signings and renewals from clubs that firstly cannot spend it by regulation and secondly which do not generate them from their sources of revenue.
“The moment must come when the political class of the country that does not give tools to the fourth-fifth Italian industrial chain and the institutional bodies of football, not only in Italy, begin to give answers.
“Because beyond the debts they all have (I remember that Milan is rightly considered virtuous, but they still lost 66 million euros, a lot of money, in the last balance sheet), the Italian clubs can no longer fly.
“You can’t live football on two tracks. The fans with their transfer market dreams and the clubs with their penalties for paying year-end taxes. With all due respect to those who, from Mars, accuse clubs that have lost almost 1,000 million euros in recent years of wanting to speculate.”
