From Harvard with fury. After three months (the event was in September), the summary of the lectio magistralis dedicated to Milan organized by the professor was published on the website of the American university (Harvard Business School where Giorgio Furlani studied). Anita Elberse with interventions by Gerry Cardinale, Giorgio Furlani and Ibra. 24 pages emerged which, when translated, caused a series of controversies, reconstructions and unpublished background stories to bounce around Italy capable of inflaming the debate on Milan, already at the center of the protest of its fans due to the very disappointing recent results in the championship.
What sparked discussion between now and the next few days was the intervention of Gerry Cardinale regarding the Inter model (of Zhang) «which won the scudetto but then went bankrupt», an explicit reference to the former president Inter player who then lost the club to zero due to his inability to repay the loan to Oaktreee who then enforced the pledge and became the new owner (with whom Cardinale discussed the project for the new stadium). “Is this really what we want?” the question on the subject before recalling that as soon as Milan had been purchased, some exponents of American finance «called me crazy, but I think that the club has the potential to become a 5 billion euro company. I'm not trying to Americanize Milan.” Hence the summary of his model: «Winning is important but with intelligence. Building stadiums in Italy is a challenge. But building stadiums in Italy is a challenge, but we are not receiving much help from the Municipality to obtain planning approvals.” But that's not all: «The problem is that most of the other components in the chain make it more difficult for us to offer the best to the fans. Even the government. They recently removed the tax advantages, they should understand that football is one of Italy's biggest exports.”
Among the most interesting passages of Furlani's speech there is, for the first time, the explanation of the divorce from Paolo Maldini: from that moment, in the audience of Rossoneri fans, a fracture has been recorded, now widened by the unsatisfactory results and the choices (Fonseca above all) criticized. CEO Furlani reconstructed: «It was a historic choice for what Paolo meant for the club and for his authority. But if we wanted to realize the vision Gerry had for the club we had to change and move forward.” In moving forward, the critical step was not missed, linked to the sale of Tonali. “On that occasion I received death threats”, Furlani's revelation.
In the 24-page dossier there is also room for Ibra who recounted Furlani's decisive role in convincing RedBird's number 1 to hire the Swede. «Gerry no longer wanted to know about former footballers» explained the interested party who then condensed his role (“my role is to be Zlatan”) with an ego-related formula which the fans don't like.
To complete the far from exciting picture, the curiosity arrived from Moncada, Rossoneri director: «When one was 17 years old and the other was 20 years old respectively, we dealt Vinicius jr and Bellingham but then we couldn't compete with Real Madrid».
