Paolo Maldini did not always fully listen to Geoffrey Moncada’s ideas when it came to players that he suggested signing, it is claimed.
Through a statement on their official website earlier today Milan confirmed Maldini’s departure and one is expected to follow for Ricky Massara too, meaning the club are now without a technical director and a sporting director.
One man who does seem nailed on to stay is chief scout Geoffrey Moncada, and it is expected that the Frenchman will get even more responsibility than he had before as part of the new-look management.
According to what MilanNews journalist Antonio Vitiello said on a Twitch stream (via Universo AC Milan), Moncada ‘was not listened to much’ by Maldini every time he proposed names to strengthen the squad.
Now, the head of the scouting will have more prominence in the recruitment process and therefore the names he puts forward are much more likely to be listened to, if Vitiello is correct.
CDK over Enzo Fernandez…
If CdK performed, no one will ever remember about Enzo. And actually no, the choice is not between CdK or Enzo.
There’s never a certainty at the market. Thats how it is. It’s easy for us to say this and that after the math.
Maldini before cdk wanted Botman who surprisingly became a key factor to Newcastle we Maldini choosed renato instead of Enzo there was lot of quality players available either free or with little money do to contrat expiringbut we choose to loose them over a player that preferd PSG
Stop in the Name of God calling CDK the faillire of Maldini in fact with Thiaw he is the inly good think that happened.Yeah CDK didn’t make a kava season a player that we were montoring him with lokogna of Napoli but like Tonali your love ,Leao,diaz and more need to adjust with a new country and with a coach thatcneed u to change instead of taking advantage of ur talent like de Zerbi is doing the guy is young and actually should have made 6 assit if only Theo,Tonaly brahim leao with some opprenent saving scrwed for him and that impacted him mentally If u want to blame maldini mercato don’t blame him over CDK blame him over renato overEnzo etc..Origi ,over belloti ,lacazette,Auba,depay,etc.. Dest over clause with Marseille ex Lens
Why is everyone here are hell bent on Enzo really?
Have ANY Of you seen him play? Dude is Average. Krunic is 10x better than this overrated Argentinian. I am glad we didn’t get Enzo. Only Chelsea and Boehly knows what kind of a $hithole they have dug themselves after paying a whooping 120 mil for this average player.
I beg to differ! If you don’t like Enzo, that’s all right.. But please, don’t be too naive.. Enzo won the World Cup, with Argentina! And he did well in the tournament.. Saying that Krunic, is better than him, is a broad claim..
The World Cup was bought for Messi so it’s a non-factor
That’s a lame excuse..
Don’t be stupid. They won it fair and square on the pitch.
Theo, Tonali, Thiaw, etc. must be Maldini’s choice, right?!
Btw, Moncada followed CDK for a long time, and was convinced about him.
CdK was from Moncada scouting.
Enzo joined Benfica before Maldini received transfer budget from Cardinale.
Hindsight is 20/20 lol. What about Maldini wanting to sign Manu Konè; Botman, W Fofana, etc…but wasn’t given the $$$ – Redbird homers conveniently forget those players. How much is each worth now??? Stop w the references to Enzo like he is a solid font spectacular) player that Chelsea grossly overpaid for. Thiaw for 6M; Mike for 13M; Theo for 20M; Leao for 28M; Benny for 14M; Tonali for 15M; Giroud for 3M etc… easily make up for 10 Enzo’s buddy
No surprise there.
Shut up you are from America no job commenting about footbal
No, no. This is unacceptable. Just because someone is from a particular place doesn’t mean that A. They can’t comment; B. They don’t know football.
Also, while I don’t agree with Poli that everything is Maldini’s fault I will give him props for sticking to his guns in the face of EVERYONE ganging up on him.
Giving him props for something trolls do best? lol
I’m not saying he’s a troll, but your praise seems rather out of place.
Tons of people troll on both side of the argument. So I agree that trolling is dumb, but he’s hardly alone, nor is a defense of one’s position trolling. He did not like Maldini’s work, and has taken the position that his dismissal is a good thing. I disagree with him, but that’s his prerogative. I haven’t seen a comment from Poli insulting Maldini as a person or the player that he was. He just really wanted him out of there as a director, just like some people really want Redbird/Cardinale out. Being a “club legend” and a world class footballer does not necessarily translate into being a world class business man or director. So people need to keep perspective. To be clear, I did not want Maldini and Massara fired this summer, but it’s obvious that some things were mishandled, and I thought that if they didn’t nail it this summer that they would not have been renewed in 2024 when their contracts expired. I wanted them to have that chance. In the end the biggest issue for me is how it went down and when it went down, not that it went down.
@Vero Rossonero.
Respect for you sir.
Finally someone who can see past their emotions.
People think just because I criticized his work, that I hated Maldini. He is one of my favorite players and Milan by far biggest legend. But when I analyzed his work I took his past as a player out of it.
If we put everything on the table, the good, the bad and the ugly and analyzed the work of someone who is in charge of the sport department of the club without mentioning his name, most people will say that that person should be fired, but just because he was Paolo Maldini now we should turn a blind eye to his shortcomings.
I said it million times, you can’t have a SD in todays football who can’t generate extra transfer funds from player sales.
How many articles have we read that the owners guaranteed 50 mil PLUS, PLUS, whatever he can get from players sales. As an executive you should cherish that opportunity to accumulate extra funds from your work. He could have gotten at least another 50 million if he was capable of selling players that were not used.
But the guy, just like his fans, was only whining that he didn’t get enough money from the owners instead of looking himself in the mirror.
I said he would get fired for losing our best assets for free.
He became arrogant after Milan won the scudetto and talked too much even though his transfer window was all-time worse. Imagine after he wasted 50 mil last summer to go on TV and say we need more investments. Well, you could say that, if your 50 mil investment brought production but wasn’t enough. His 50 mil brought almost nothing.
Why would I give you more money after you burned the 50 mil I already gave you?
At some point, the owners said enough is enough. You are bad at your job and you don’t hold yourself accountable but you blame everyone else.
If his name wasn’t Maldini people would have called for his firing long time ago, but because he was Maldini people were only looking for excuses to defend his failures.
Milan should have dominated serie A with Inter in financial problems and Juventus in all kind of mess, but instead we had to rely on Juventus penalty just to achieve top 4
Mi friend you are în a big error, you are Ac Milan a club with such a history and fans must buy the best players on the market so to compete with other historical club like Real or Bayern, not to be in the situation of a budget of 50m in the transfer window and bring players that are thrown out by others or cheap young players with the hope that one day can grow, many talk about Dybala but Juventus let go this player because he didnt perform well and is logical to choose a young prospect, in the end a club like milan doesnt needs american owners that looks at even 1usd, and u can see that in other teams with americans owners
@Vero The issue with Poli is not that his arguments weren’t legit. It was the failure to meet in the middle. He’s always out on the limb. The limb that was anti-Maldini. Always Maldini fault when things go bad, never praise when he does something right. That causes ppl to react so far the other way that it makes us look like we’re always defending Maldini. So his way of arguing makes the forum polarized because we expend so much energy in the other direction it’s hard to even pin us who are 50-50 on Maldini’s job performance that’s there’s no way we can seem in the middle of the road. And that’s the problem. We never get to an actual discussion because we’re constantly dealing with his inaccuracies and hatred. It’s tiring and exhausting
100. Many of the so-called Maldini defenders here are willing to admit that he’s not perfect and admit when he made mistakes. Whereas on the other side of equation, all the things went wrong were blatantly directed to Maldini. And never gave slightest credits when good things happened.
That’s not how civilized people argue. You don’t bring a full glass and keep pouring your own water on an argument.
You racist idiot, who told you Americans aren’t qualified to comment on football? A person’s nationality is irrelevant to their opinions.
So all the good choices were indeed Maldini’s, right?
You have to choose: either it’s all (good and bad) on Maldini or not.
Moncada this Moncada that, he was there since time of Eliott what good did her produce 0?
We are constantly being linked to useless French players that he keeps suggesting and leaking to the press.
You can study statistics all you want but it take legends to bring legends to club, which Milan do not have any longer, not having someone who’s lived their glory days there to convince other players to join. The name AC Milan and its history will not be enough for them to join.
The Americans should stick on money making elsewhere cause to them, it’s all about money, while the ones who are the for the love and passion of the game. Well statistically we are no important. Let’s show them by not buying those shirts, by not buying the season tickets. And they will be quick to pack up their bags and leave.
Moncada was hired by Gazidis and Elliott 3 or 4 months after Maldini and Leonardo were hired.
He is one of the best scouts in football. Check his resume of players he has discovered
Please enumerate how many of them are playing at AC MILAN? yeah thought so? If you want a good scouting system look at Borussia Dortmund that’s where all the great scouts are at. My point being that you can DE Visser himself as a scout without the willingness from the top to splash out on these recommendations you will not get anywhere, not to mention Maldini is role model for many players even the new generation look up to him, there is a difference when he enters the room to negotiate, goodluck Furlani. 😛
Now let’s talk about Moncada’s stats, if they are anything to go by Tonalli would of never reached this level so far, stats are there they don’t meant that they are accurate, they are also easily manipulated. Players are different they take time to nurture into something great. Just cause a player doesn’t fit into one system doesn’t mean he won’t fit elsewhere we’ve seen it with Bergkamp we’ve seen it with Pirlo and so many others.
Cardinale shot himself in the foot, the repercussions of his decision will be felt 6-8 months from now judging from a financial perspective. When shirt sales are not as they should be, when seasons tickets are not what they have to be, when sponsors dont come by as easy and refuse to pay the asking price. all these things compile that’s when redbird investors start to ask questions from Cardinale and he starts to regret. We all know Yank investors and what they are like when they start to lose money.
Dude, you can’t have your cake and eat it too. All of those French players we’ve been linked with were during Maldini and Massara’s tenure. You can’t now say it was all Moncada. You can’t say “Maldini brought Maignan, Theo, Giroud” etc., and then then call out Moncada for looking at French players. I think all of them look at players from everywhere.
Did you forget Elliot are also Americans? Man United have spent over a billion on transfers since the Glazers took over. Whose owners are the stingiest in the EPL? Tottenham, who are British owned! This idea that Americans are bad for football is just as stupid as the idea that Arabs are bad for football. It’s not as if Italian owners have covered themselves in glory in recent decades.
Why does anyone think Maldini was going to last under this new ownership. It is clear the ownership group’s ambitions are that of a RB Leipzig. Buy players young or get them on a free transfer (IE Dybala). Mr Maldini needed to be a yes man + buy into this business model. As soon as he said no he was done Plain and simple. Sad but it ithe reality of business. Milan is no longer the Milan we once loved. C’est la vie.
When you as a fan stop giving the new owners what they want, shirt sales, going to watch their games tuning into their matches mind you they are quick to backtrack or run away. That’s when the real stats matter 🙂
CDL is too young for San Siro
Cardinal is idiot
He make sure he don’t come on Italy again
He is using some one else money for success nothing wrong
But to put F Forlani before Maldini
Something will happen
Mocada
That snake should go
Him and Forlany
Well… Let’s just hope this is true and Moncada can find 3-4 superstars this summer. Because that’s what we need to avoid a catastrophic exodus.
If Geoffrey Moncada approved of the CDK buy then he needs to be fired, too. If he was against it then promote him.
Of course Moncada approve it, CDK was from his scouting, Maldini never go scouting, how do he know someone from Belgian league if not from Moncada’s report?
Exactly. Well said. Who do you think scouted CDK??? The head scout of Milan – Moncada. Or Maldini?? Lol. This is the problem. Fools cherry pick to support their argument – Maldini’s fault for CDK BUT doesn’t get credit for Tonali, Theo, Mike etc…ALL Good and bad players were recommendations for the SCOUTING DEPARTMENT. How stupid are some people??? Again it WAS disgraceful the manner in which they dismissed Maldini. That is a FACT. A legend of our club deserved better. Yes Ownership has the right to do what they want. Whether that decision was wise or not time will tell. I disagree with it and agree with @Vero Rossonero – should have given him one more summer then if he failed don’t renew in 2024 graceful exit for a graceful Legend – and – would have kept the cohesiveness of the group together. Now who knows. What we should ALL be upset about is the lack of ambition of RedBird. Maldini was fired because he asked ownership to spend more $$ so we can compete w the elite clubs. That should scare and disappoint all of us fans. I believe Redbird are not interested in being the best club in the world – only the most PROFITABLE. Two vastly different things. I always use Atalanta as an example. One of the most Profitable clubs in the world – but never win anything and are nothing more than a feeder club to bigger teams. Well that is now AC Milan. Get used to it. Sad day for all IMO
That is exactly the reason he got the AXE cause he publically went on AIR and ask for reinforcements and that shed light on the real intentions of REDBIRD, who are not init for the game but rather for the money and they know that this will not bode well with the FANS.
I say it again Moncada and his algorithms and stats have nothing to do with football but money. So he too can go and do one!
Well he got promoted. So there is your answer
the best he can do is make us to be new AS Monco / Dortmund / Atalanta, feeder club at max..
we’re not gonna be a Giant under cardinale..
i love Milan, Maldini will always be a Milan & cardinale is sh!t part of Milan, yes he’s inside but i’ve no respect no support..
This article is stupid, Maldini sign a lot of french speaking players (including CdK) which is a sign that his source is Moncada’s scouting.
Stop bringing Enzo, that dude signed for Benfica before Cardinale gave the transfer budget.