The climate that is breathing around the world of AC Milan is becoming increasingly heated, and it is not just because of results on the field.
Today’s Tuttosport (via MilanPress) speaks of a ‘fan revolt’ at Milan, with the supporters feeling increasingly distant from the club that had reignited enthusiasm in the last few years after difficulties in the 2010s.
The last discordant piece of the season is the fourth shirt, heavily criticised because of the move away from the famous red and black stripes. Throughout the football world the fourth shirt is used as an expression of fashion, but in a period like this there is less tolerance for commercial ventures.
Another sensitive point, the newspaper highlights, is the high cost of tickets. Fans believe that occasional visitors and tourists are preferred to regular fans, with prices that are constantly increasing and – especially in the Champions League – are almost inaccessible.
Those who have supported Milan for a long time – perhaps with a family that has done so for generations – believe that the rising costs of going to games and the extravagant shirts show that those in charge now more focused on tourists.
This perhaps would n’t be such a big problem if the team won, but the Rossoneri were dumped out of the Champions League by Feyenoord and are now ninth in the table. In other words, all of this is funding a declining product on the field.
Good. Stop buying milan merchandise, stop buying tickets until redturd sells. Hit them where it hurts, money. Rather suffer one more year then 5 more years with redturd in charge.
Curva sud out ..this curva sud is destroying the games they asked to buy good players and milan brought them ..they dont have patience with pioli or fonseca and milan obeyed and sacked them not even giving time to adapt with the systems. And now they shouting to sack concieca and voicing for sarri🤣🤣..man sarri was even worser but milan will obey them and further destroy my club..so better curva sud out for 1 season same like in Corona time ..defentily milan will be a mosnter
I don’t get it. Where are they saying anything about the coach? You probably missed the sub you wanted to post this nonsense ragebait comment.
They’re protesting ever increasing ticket costs. Considering many fans follow the team around Italy and Europe to see the games, spend money on season tickets and buy shirt and other merchandise… Actually pay wages to our players and coach, you deem their protest unfair? Spend so much money to watch this mediocre bunch? You who pay for streaming service or even stream on illegal servers? Ok.
Why is it that almost everything that RedBird does at ACM is culturally tone deaf? The sacking of the loyal and iconic Paolo Maldini; the sale of the young Italian star Sandro Tonali; and now the disrespect shown to the club’s traditional red and black striped colors. If the Cardinal thinks he can get away with these foolish decisions, well there eventually comes a reckoning, as is now occuring, when long-suffering fans say “enough is enough” and “get out.”
If ACM were actually winning games, fans might be more tolerant and give the owner some slack off the field. But that’s not so. Our checkered season has spectacularly imploded in just a few weeks – a case of all the chickens coming home to roost.
The problem is not Americans in general – there are other teams in Europe owned by Americans which are successful (e.g. Liverpool) – but this particular American. He’s turning AC Milan into a soulless and sterile fungible with no individuality, displaying no appreciation for its history and unique character. Obviously, there were important things they didn’t teach him and his myopic bean counters at Harvard, Oxford, and in business school.
Berlusconi was a controversial businessman and politician. But he understood Italian football, was a passionate AC Milan fan, and was a populist who had the common touch. That in large part, together with the fact that he was genuinely rich in his own right, explains why his tenure as owner of our club was so successful.
The only good news today is that we’re finally seeing some movement, albeit still at a snail’s pace, on the stadium issue.
Stop buying Jerseys and merchandise.
Then Milan will be forced to sell their stars if a good offer comes in (like Tonali for that sweet 70M), in order to fund purchase of other new players. Tonali sale was a great deal, since he wouldn’t have been able to play last season and we brought in Pulisic and Reijnders for that money.
If this Management refuses to pull money out from their own pockets to fund this club, then at the very least they need to make the club self-reliant enough to earn their Transfer money every year.
They had been doing a decent job up until this past summer.
Don’t know what happened, but thinking Maldini is the solution to our problems is not it.
Last year the team was decently built, so results could come. It also helped that most of our rivals were underperforming badly the entire season.
This year the squad has been horrifically constructed (some squad players sent on loan, some sold, no rotation options, no CDM coverage) and it is showing by the results on the pitch.
Gerry’s lack of hiring footballing brains in squad building positions is the problem, however Maldini is not the only possible solution. He made his mistakes too and was punished for it. If we want to rebuild quickly, we need more experienced SDs. Bringing back Paolo alone would invite another Milan-CDK season.