During the usual appointment with Sky Football Club, Fabio Caressa talked about Milan having his say on the statements released by RedBird's number 1 Gerry Cardinale all’Harvard Business School e non solo.
They are Fonseca and Jimenez: “Every time he's on the brink he always wins. He won a complicated match in Verona with four full-backs on the pitch: one in midfield and one who in my opinion, among other things, we will hear about. I liked Jimenez a lot in these two games he played, he played in three different positions in two games. Think that Jimenez was the first in the offensive phase for: touches in the area, passes in the attacking third, crosses, progressive leadership. In the defensive phase he played and won more duels than anyone else and recovered more balls than anyone else and applied more pressure than anyone else. He starts on the left, but also touches the ball in the middle: it's a great invention from Fonseca.”
Studio Harvard: “An interesting study makes it clear what the relationship is between American investors, who have a concept of sport and sports business that is very different from the European one, and Europe itself. The study was carried out in this light, also to make the United States understand what it means to invest in Italy and Europe in a sector such as sports and football. The two sentences that have caused the most discussion are one from Cardinale “Inter won the scudetto, then went bankrupt…”. Extrapolated like this, it is stronger than what he meant, he was talking about a sustainable one, the importance of having a sustainable society over time. It is more important to be fighting for the scudetto and the Champions League every year rather than winning once and then not. But it is inelegant to talk about the situation of others. He was wrong to mention Inter, but the concept was the same: we must not go into financial difficulty and always remain at high levels. Then Furlani declared: “Maldini's farewell? Letting him go was a historic decision for what it meant. But if we wanted to realize Gerry's vision we had to change.”
Maldini removed: “They say it's not important to win once, but it's important to be sustainable. Sustainability is important in football, but emotion cannot go into business because it must be sustainable to create a productive future. Furlani, based on this vision, says that they had to change Maldini, you can sense between the lines that he would have put a little too much emotion into the corporate discourse with requests…”.
Ideological differences: “On the one hand there is the fact that in my opinion many American properties arrive here and don't make an effort to understand what area they work in, that also counts: we come from a different culture, a different area. But let's also remember that our way of doing business, the European one, hasn't worked: it has led to unsustainable football, as we've been saying for years. We need to look for a meeting point between the two things. At this moment there is a cultural comparison: we were used to doing a sports business in a certain way, foreign properties have arrived who are doing a sports business in another way: it is not necessarily the case that theirs is more wrong than ours, which has so far failed. But I divide between vision and execution. If you have the right vision and then you get the men wrong… What is missing is territoriality, you cannot arrive in Italy and arrive at a cultural clash. We must understand them and they must understand us. We are in a moment in which these two great cultural forces must find a meeting point.”
