It was an academic paper and not an “open” interview, which Gerry Cardinale never granted to anyone in the first two years as owner of Milan: this also explains the rigid publication rules and the tone with which the patron Rossonero approached the description of the business model. And it was the beginning of September, not today, when at Casa Milan there could still be the belief that they had set up a competitive sporting project and not a team that will have to sweat to win a place in the next Champions League. She and the owner are at the center of a very tough dispute with an invitation to sell.
In short, it was another world and in today's world it is probable that Cardinale and the others – Furlani, Scaroni, Moncada, Cocirio, Oettle, Stefanelli, Moreno, Pulisic and the inevitable Ibrahimovic – would have chosen different arguments if placed in the climate of a Christmas depressed as rarely in the recent past. End of alibis and explanations. The rest of the content of the 24 pages put on sale by the business school at the price of 11 dollars and 95 cents seems designed to make enemies and create problems and, in a nutshell, to hurt oneself.
Hence the thought shared by millions of AC Milan lovers: could we really not do without it? A lot, if not everything. For example, to magnify the skills of managers in choosing the profiles on which to focus their investments, now that under Casa Milan there is a queue of those who would like to know who decided to invest 15 million euros in Emerson Royal, 19.5 more 9 bonus on Chuckwueze and another 21 on Musah or about fifteen on Okafor. Or cite the New York Yankees as a benchmark, given that they haven't won since 2009.
Or, again, explain that he was convinced to entrust the project to the hands of Giorgio Furlani who is very good, but “where he is lacking is that he is not a CEO”. That is exactly his role at Milan. And for this reason we have created a “CEO office” that may or may not work. Among other things, forgetting to remember how in the process of restructuring the accounts that continued after Elliott's work, a totally anomalous fact in the history of Italian football was crucial and decisive: the penalization of Juventus in 2023 without which the revenues would have disappeared of the Champions League which are one of the cornerstones of everything. And who, incidentally, will also currently be missing next year as Milan are eighth in the standings and need to change pace.
Who made him throw a jab at the Municipality of Milan (“I would like to see the construction of a modern stadium with 70,000 seats, but we are not receiving much help from the Municipality in obtaining planning approvals in our preferred location”) three days after the manager's announcement that the San Siro area is now the preferred option? Or to accuse the newspapers of making it all up? The same ones who published the version on the refinancing of the vendor loan in which no account is taken of what Milan's real valuation has become, certainly much higher than the initial billion and 200 million?
It was really necessary for Ibrahimovic, who also ended up at the center of the controversy, to talk about himself by saying “I am Zlatan and my role is to be Zlatan” arguing that he was “close to the team but not too much”, which is exactly what they accuse him of everyone right now? And so on with a lot of gaffes that would be useful to be repaired not with the usual tissues sent around but by clarifying directly perhaps with colleagues, also made in the USA, of Oaktree (which until proven otherwise is also much bigger than RedBird at the voice heritage).
Cardinale said that he doesn't want to win championships like the last one for Inter who then went bankrupt. Obviously Inter have not failed, they continue to play – even better than Milan – and even improve their balance sheet, simply by using a different strategy to that of Cardinale. The person who didn't repay the debt was Zhang, who is the owner of it, just like Cardinale is of Milan and in turn has a loan in mind which he has postponed to 2028. Nobody dreams of putting it into account at Milan. Beyond the fact that words have weight, how should the Inter managers who work side by side with Scaroni and Furlani in the League or on the stadium dossier should take it, or the Oaktree managers themselves who since 2021 have supported a club which now Has an important American businessman applied (by mistake, let's be clear) the label of failure?
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