The temptation to remain silent on the market until August 31st would be strong, but it is nothing more than an impulse: we cannot stay here 67 days talking about nothing. So, let’s talk a little about nothing before going into the merits. Calhanoglu, for example, 5 months and a segment of the 2021 second round at a good level in 4 years of the Rossoneri. A European less than anonymous, let’s say disastrous. Despite this, Milan had practically offered him a double salary, instead for a handful of lentils (he must have been certain that they pay their salaries regularly as happens here) he went to Inter. We will survive.
After a plebiscite in favor of Paolo Maldini on the handling of the Donnarumma case, now the sky is covered with a few cirrus clouds for the second that goes away on a free transfer in a few weeks: “They moved late”. Dance. They had made the offer to the Turk for a year and he was beating around the bush: the offer was maximum. The Turk chooses to leave, why keep him at 12 million gross a year? Raiola a year ago, waiting to know if Milan would return to the Champions League as a primary condition, had only opened for the renewal of one year (1921-22) for 10 million with a clause of 30. So if you give another 16 (or 20) million gross to Donnarumma and 10 in commissions to Raiola, if you resell it at 30 you have practically lost it to zero. How it happened. Quick accounting.
Now I won’t necessarily say that losing 2 starters is still a good thing. They must be replaced with players who are up to it. Maignan is strong but in my opinion Donnarumma is stronger: it was not possible to do otherwise, we must take note of this. If Calhanoglu were the one in 2020, there would be regret, but we have also seen it in 2018, 2019 and 2021 and at the European Championships and in these situations the regrets are zero. Another one will come. As I said a week ago, the market is not simply an offer and an answer, the twists and turns and problems are many, starting with keeping the accounts in order.
And it doesn’t matter if Mirabelli continues to speak, judge, sentence: he did it even when he was sports director 3 years ago (and he is still without a club), he already had this vocation as a commentator. “With Donnarumma and Calhanoglu Milan lost 150 million”, says Mirabelli. Who knows according to which formulas and which algorithms … Chattering. The facts, on the other hand, say that, apart from Kessie, there is no trace left of her purchasing campaign and formal things. The rest are, in fact, just opinions. Numbers thrown at random. Talk, again.
On social media, in the midst of many algae and tons of fertilizer, there is also something good (even not necessarily about calcium). In recent days I have read on the Facebook page “I casciavit” (as the Rossoneri fans are nicknamed in Milan, the screwdrivers) some interesting ideas. The screwdrivers write: “(…) Giving 5 million to Calhanoglu means having to give 8 million to Kessie, 7 to Theo and Bennacer (…). Now at Inter he gets 5 + 1: their problems since Lukaku takes only 1.5 more, Barella takes 2.5, Brozovic 3.5, Lautaro 2.5, Skriniar 3 (…). Milan has been studying alternative names for months (…). They have been spent – and we are only in June – 40 million cash. There is no shortage of money and not even the will to invest it, but in the correct way. Investing is one thing, throwing away is another (…). Do not forget that Elliott in less than 3 years has injected 700 million in capital increases: raising a club reduced to rubble is a long and tortuous process (…) “.
It continues and concludes with other outbursts of confidence and optimism, for what has been done and for what will be done. Nothing to add: congratulations. We think and live it the same, me and the screwdrivers.
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