Paolo Maldini and Ricky Massara were making moves to strengthen the team prior to their sacking, and they had a meeting planned over Domenico Berardi.
Tuttosport (via SpazioMilan) have a section in today’s paper titled: ‘Berardi was one step away from the Rossoneri’. They claim that Sassuolo winger could have been one of Milan’s new reinforcements, before the recent changes.
There was actually a meeting scheduled between the then-directors Paolo Maldini and Ricky Massara for Tuesday, the day after their farewell, which is a sign that he was very much a concrete target.
The talks were obviously then cancelled and Berardi’s agent did not react well to Maldini’s departure from Milan, so the hypothesis has now vanished.
CEO Giorgio Furlani and chief scout Geoffrey Moncada have chosen Christian Pulisic to reinforce the attacking department. The Chelsea winger has a contract expiring in June 2024 and for this reason the cost of the operation should be affordable.
Maldini: Berardi!
Cardinale: Pulisic!!
Pioli: MESSIAS!!!
Maldini was the one to exercise buy option on Messias….
@flossonero,yeah because PIOLI likes messias..dont forget how “BIG” our budget was,so big we could buy haaland and de bryune LOL
messias has been a stop gap solution due to lacking funds but truth be told even though i seriously hate our current management then maldini actually discovered messias in a game he played against his son christian maldini in serie c if i remember correctly then later on messias moved to cotrone and then was brought to milan by maldini after one serie a season.
Messias has done some good for us so i will not sit here and bash him but has kinda lacked consistentcy and we should get an upgrade for the right wing.
I would nevetheless prefer berradi any day compared to pulisic.
So data says that Pulisic is better than Berardi? Based on the six minutes he played over the last four years?
He’s also five years younger. This is proof Maldini abandoned the project of building a young, sustainable team in favor of trying to win as many trophies as possible ASAP. He said it himself the moment has to be taken advantage of…he still thinks like player not ownership with 5, 10, 20 years plan, that’s why he’s gone.
Look at Toulouse. The project was sustainable for two or three years, it’s starting to show its limitations.
Maldini knew that you need to bring high profile veterans to complement young players. We were dreaming of Berardi and Milinkovic-Savic for years, two of the best players in Serie A on a regular basis, and now that they were affordable for the first time, it’s over. As our hope to see Milan’s resurgence. This is beyond Maldini. Maldini embodied a project. It’s gone with him.
Toulouse is not Milan. They do not have the fan base of Milan, the resources of Milan, the city or the brand of Milan. It’s not an adept comparison.
Not to mention that 2 years is way too short time period to make any valid assessments.
Maldini only used the “young project” excuse to defend himself for not signing Dybala, while in the same window he signed over 30 years old Florenzi and Messias and a 27 year old Origi who was just a year younger than Dybala,
He lacked accountability and self awareness as a director
Exactly. Dybala had 18 goals and 7 assists in all comps and CDK had 1 assist. It is well known ownership wanted Dybala. On this basis one it can be seen why ownership said play by our rules or leave. We know how that turned out now.
It was reported that the CEO Furlani was pushing for Dybala.
Maldinisti wanna say that Maldini was fired because he had higher ambitions than the owners, where in reality he got fired for his failures in the transfer market, inability to sell players and from what Scaroni said today unwillingness to collaborate with others, like with the coach, the scouts, even the CEO and definitely the owner, and of course running his mouth to the media while bashing the ownership.
He thought he was the smartest man in the room.
Look, enough with this hindsight thing. It’s always 20/20.
We were (actually still are) a team riddled with injury, and of course everyone would take a gamble on Dybala, who was injury prone. Of course NOW we know it worked out for Roma, good for them. But could you imagine if he flopped/spent more time on the hospital bed than the field? I bet you’d be blaming Maldini/whoever too.
Dybala chapter was closed. It was a risky gamble, with high risk and high reward. Roma took it, we didn’t. It paid off for them. End of. What I’m trying to say that it was a measured, understandable move and we went the conservative route by getting CDK.
What a distortion of reality, as usual. If Dybala was so highly regarded last year, he wouldn’t have signed for a cheap salary with Roma, he would have extended with Juventus or signed with PSG or Real Madrid. Did Maldini killed your entire family? Or are you just Jerry’s accountant?
Please give us your address so we can offer you a jersey with “Jerry’s wallet” on the back.
LOL if dybala was so great and other clubs wouldnt mind his injury record,why didnt clubs like city,chelsea,MU,arsenal,madrid,barca,psg went after him? LOL..look at asensio,PSG in a heartbeat went after him
Maldinisti are using Dybala injury record to defend maldinis decision not to sign him, while that same maldini spent most of the summer chasing world most injury prone footballer Renato Sanches.
You can’t make this stuff up
Poli you always lie, why? You can’t even write facts to back your lying claims. So, Maldini did not want to sign Dybala but then took it to press to say that Milan could have signed him but Milan is going for young players? Who exactly put up that policy? Maldini that was fired because he obviously didn’t agree with it fully or some guy called Jerry, Gary or something like that?
Which policy?
So, you always act like a smartass and like you know everything but you are not capable of reading 5 sentences with understanding? Of course you act like that, you don’t understand anything. Anyway, I definitely won’t waste my time on you ever again, you are a pointless distraction to Milan fans.
@Martin how can you speak about young players policy after Maldini signed injury prone Florenzi, who was 31 at the time, 32 now. Messias who was 31 at the time, 32 now. Injured Origi, who was 27 at the time, 28 now.
While Dybala was 28 at the time, 29 now. What young player policy was Maldini following based on these players ages.
Maybe you should be less emotional, and less idol worshiping Maldini, the man who lied to excuse himself from his failures
Those were epic 6 minutes. Obviously, you don’t understand data analytics. 🙂
Based on marketing data that shows he can develop Milan brand in USA.
At some point we need to start buying these proven Serie A players if we want to compete in multiple tournaments. If we don’t want to start them that’s fine but at least their experience will come in handy when we need to rotate and rest the starters between UCL games.
Exactly the reason why we’d still need to be chasing SMS & Berardi. Not every players needs to be generate profit when sold. There are other ways to compare players influence to the club than transfer value. Just look at what Zlatan & Kjaer did to the team when arriving. Neither of them generated any profit when leaving (Kjaer won’t be sold either) but the impact they had to the team? Priceless! Absolutely priceless!
Unfortunately that is our policy. Players who will generate profit from a sale. If we were interested in wining titles then yes SMS and Berardi are exaclty the players we need. But Redbird is not. PROFIT is all that matters
Even the other team and player lack confidence on the project
Just a year ago I was against Berardi and hoping for Milan to sign Pulisic (before Milan sign CdK) but as a year has passed, I have doubt regarding Pulisic as he can’t even establish himself at club that finish outside of top 10 in EPL.
Christian Pulisic is the right one over Berardi
But Wahi is the best if avoidable.
Pulisic has the mental strength of a 9 year old child. Fail.
Won’t Pulisic cost the same amount as Berardi?
The EPL-fiat-we stole Abramovich’s money inflation?
He’s got some good numbers. 1 goal from 24 appearances, for a start. I can see why we’re interested.
I suspect the spotlight on Moncada will not be favourable. It’s very easy to like every high profile kid in Europe and have the PR machine report that you get every decision right. It’s much harder to sign the players everyone else likes.
Why does the world know who a scout likes anyway?
“Won’t Pulisic cost the same amount as Berardi?”
It’s all about the market value now. Berardi is older and after a couple of years from now his value as a sellable asset will go down while Pulisic is only 24 and is more probable to gain more value during his stay in Milan. That’s why we won’t be getting Berardi – even if all the stats and other moneyball-algorithms (except for the market value) would suggest he’d be a better fit for the team.
I’m not 100% convinced by Pulisic but thank god the lumbering tank Berardi’s not coming.
“CEO Giorgio Furlani and chief scout Geoffrey Moncada have chosen Christian Pulisic to reinforce the attacking department. The Chelsea winger has a contract expiring in June 2024 and for this reason the cost of the operation should be affordable.”
Ya cause Chelsea will just give him away for peanuts LOL. And I don’t know Pulsic makes like 12-15M/season. I’m sure he will take a below market deal at 4M to sign with us when many other clubs will pay him double that and when that little man Furlani calls him up and tries to convince him to sign for us LOL. Maldini calls u or Furlani?? Hmmmm. Ya I’m sure this will work out well.