Paolo Maldini will be Milan’s technical manager for another two years and Ricky Massara will continue to be at his side. Paolo wanted Elliott-Redbird to commit to them for 3 years, a reasonably useful time to close a project with a Champions League goal (victory, not participation), but there was no way and he only ticked one option. for the third season.
Gerry Cardinale’s proposal arrived over the weekend, also accompanied by the size of the budget available for the current market session: 45 million euros, not much in fact, with the possibility of raising the current total salary by 15/20% overall, no more. Renewals included. Milan too, like Inter Milan, will have to rely on creativity to reinforce the organic champion of Italy.
Only Botman and Renato Sanches, with the agreements already reached and never formalized with Lille and the two players, would absorb the entire budget available to M&M. Provided that there are no insertions like the one, hypothesized in France, by PSG on RSanches. The rest will eventually be loans and zero parameters.
Maldini is not happy, but he will accept. He has faith in his and Massara’s work, he has faith in Pioli, he has faith in the group that won the Scudetto and above all he hopes that after a first summer – so to speak – of insertion, Gerry Cardinale (currently busy raking in the world markets the money needed to purchase the club) may raise the investment bar in the future.
Obviously Elliott has not yet answered our 7 questions, first of all the one in which we asked why we arrived 10 days after the contract expired, without Maldini having yet signed the renewal. Because we never doubted that he signed it, only that it seemed to us and even now it seems very strange that he does it so close to the deadline. We know that every question will be reflected in the facts: time will tell who will be the new (?) President, the new CEO, what will be Elliott’s weight in the new company, questions that perhaps interest Milan fans little. For them, it is more important to know how much and how the team will strengthen. If anyone wants to give them an answer too, the question is the last of 7. Thanks anyway.
- Why have Paolo Maldini and the rest of the management not yet signed the renewal of the contract expiring in 11 days?
- Has a formal proposal been made to him or is everything stopped at the 3-hour meeting between Maldini and Gerry Cardinale?
- Who should propose the renewal to Maldini & C: the current CEO Gazidis, who represents Elliott, or Gerry Cardinale, owner of RedBird?
- How many Elliott’s men will be in the next AC Milan board: 5 as the team wrote or 2 how did you find out about Calcio e Finanza from “sources informed on the matter”?
- Is it true that Giorgio Furlani, Elliott’s current portfolio manager, is the main candidate to replace Ivan Gazidis as Milan CEO?
- Is it true that Paolo Scaroni, current AC Milan president, will also be reconfirmed in the role by the new owner?
- Is there a budget to strengthen the team and aim to win the championship and make a good impression in the Champions League?
