Milan fans against property for market choices. Cardinal and Furlani and the strategies of a glorious club that seems to pursue only capital gains and player trading to make profits of budget
Legend has it that in closing the door behind him, receiving communication of dismissal on the trunk from Gerry Cardinal, that June 5, 2023 Paolo Maldini has pronounced an epitaph phrase: “Now command you, but have respect for the history of Milan”. Words reported by the former Rossoneri captain a few months later in one of the few interviews granted after the traumatic farewell to the club.
Since then Milan has conquered an Italian Super Cup, reassembling Inter, but has lost Europe, in the sense that after five years it has missed the qualification for any of the international cups, once the company’s DNA. Has accumulated a virtual detachment of 37 points from the citizens’ rivals (practically a group spread in two seasons) and less also of Atalanta and Juventus, put four coaches on the payroll, mounted and dismantled the management until he returns to the starting point and that is to the surrender in front of the idea that the builder’s duties of a football project must be concentrated in a single figure rather than parcelled in the rain. Perhaps, following the noises that come from Casa Milan at the end of a chaotic and alarming summer.
The new-vecchio Milan has sold everything that could be sold in two months: Kalulu, Reijnders, Theo Hernandez, Emerson Royal, Pellegrino, Pobega, Sportiello, Colombo, Thiaw, Morata and Okaph. It may not have ended here, given that in the list of “outside everything” the names of Musah, Jimenez, Chukwueze and Bennacer still appear and maybe someone else who today looks away from market maneuvers. Let me be clear: he sold well and many of the operations have certainly not weakened the team that must go back from the abyss of an eighth humiliating place for the history of Milan. The problem, however, was born right here and can be declined in four cardinal pointswith the tiny and plural to avoid confusions with cardinal (Gerry), whose last physical presence in Milan dates back to the end of August 2024.
Milan, many sales and few safe investments
Point one: in the face of almost 200 million collected, a little more than half have been reinved. Explanation? Without the Champions League revenues, a diet that pumped resources in the accounts was needed, evidently not wanting to do the property to support the relaunch. The problem is that Almost all the choices were perfect profiles to generate between two or three years new capital gains, less to imagine a competitive team. If you pass from Vlahovic to a young man of beautiful hopes such as Harder, after chasing Hojlund and Boniface (exposed to a bad figure by a amateur management of medical examinations), the strong suspicion is that you are looking for the price and not of the right man. The fans are furious and it is difficult to blame him.
Furlani, Tare and Allegri: who decides at Milan?
Point two: a football club works with a simple and clear control chain, where the technical part is entrusted to the comparison between the coach and sports director who work in a financial framework dictated by the possibilities of the property. If it is true that none (or almost) of Allegri’s indications and Tare has turned into purchaseat most, operations carried out by others have been endorsed, The balance breaks and returns to the errors of the past.
A market to generate future capital gains and cut costs
Point three: in the hours when Milan struggled to close Harder, Napoli made ahead for Hojlund. Which is not Ronaldo of the times gone by, but still represents a more ready profile than the Danesino reserve of Sporting Lisbon. The problem is that one (Hojlund) involves an investment of 90 million in five years, the other (Harder) stops at 45 scarce And he has margins of superior profitability than the first.
Do not download the costs of bankruptcy on the team
Point four: having failed, for his own faults, a season causing the damage not to participate in the Champions League does not automatically mean having to download the weight of the bankruptcy on the future of the team. Translated, legitimate to contain costs and do not overdo the expenses, but the sports projects are reconstructed by putting hand to the wallet. De Laurentiis also did it with Napoli after the tragic post -scudetto. The feeling is that for Redbird and Cardinale Conti only the last line of the budget, which must always be in black even at the cost of being able to live.
Moral, living only in sale does not mean respecting the history of Milan. Precisely because something is still missing at the end of the negotiation session there is time to correct the route, but quickly. If the team serve a center forward and a central defender ready, these must be found on the market without always and in any case between the banks of the Last Minute offers or without having transformed a glorious club, seven times European champion and four in the world into a capital gain factory. The day and time to say that “Maldini was right” is approaching and, when it happens, it will be a sentence impossible to review.
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