If I had a nickel for every journalist, opposition fan, or
especially Milan fan that talks about Milan changing coaches again, or
financial problems, or whatever, I could afford to buy all of the news outlets
and hire some respectable people to report the actual truth. Or maybe at least
fire the idiots that keep giving Silvio and Yellow Tie’s comments any air
time. Their comments only add to the pile of lies that are being perpetuated. People
have some random disconnect between the Glory Days of Milan and now, as if Silvio
still owned the club. In fact, he seems to think he does, too. But this is NOT
your pedophile’s Milan.
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| Shut up and take it, Silvio |
People, especially Silvio, seem to have forgotten some very
basic facts:
1) Silvio is a convicted sex offender, let’s just put
that out there
Berlusconi
was convicted of having sex with a minor, one of many, many, many, many
other criminal charges against him, most of which he ran into the ground with
expensive lawyers and the statute of limitations. Galliani
was also guilty of Article 6 violations during Calciopoli, which cost
Milan points deductions in 2005-06 and 2006-07, amongst other charges. They are
both criminals.
2) Berlusconi and Galliani ran Milan into the ground
because they couldn’t keep up with the changes in football, including FFP
From the day Berlusconi bought Milan to use as a political
platform, he invested heavily during campaigns and ignored the club when he was
not running. Galliani
spent the money gleefully but often unwisely, paying his friends way
too much for players, amongst other things. His infamous “free” transfers were
anything but free, costing the club massively in agent fees and long-term contracts
with exorbitant and unsustainable wages. The reason Milan “had” to sell Ibrahimovic
and Thiago Silva in 2012 wasn’t because Berlusconi was no longer investing money,
it was because Galliani had signed players to contracts we couldn’t afford.
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| "I work alone... wait, where did everyone go?" |
Worse still, as Galliani carefully pushed everyone else out
of the club beneath him so he could control everything, he overlooked one tiny
little area of the club: income. Milan’s income stopped growing years ago
because Berlusconi and Galliani couldn’t stop bragging about themselves long
enough to see that football was changing. Or do their actual jobs. Not just the
reality checks of FFP, but costs were growing, and Milan’s income was not. That
is one of the biggest reason’s that Berlusconi needed to sell the club.
3) Silvio sold Milan to a fraud, who defaulted on his
loan, resulting in three ownership changes in less than two years
So everyone knows that Berlusconi sold the club to Yonghong
Li. And in the true Italian way, the man is finally being investigated after
defaulting on his hedge fund loan, which was supposed to have been investigated
up front. I expect them to figure it all out in about 30 years. Meanwhile, UEFA
punished Milan because of the risk of falling into the hands of a hedge fund,
while finally brokering a deal with said hedge fund this year to wipe our FFP
slate clean so the club could even function.
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| From the pedophile to the charlatan to... well almost to bankruptcy |
This brings us to today, when Milan is owned by the Elliott
Fund, which has owned the club now for 15 months. The original person they
named as Director of Football was Leonardo, who left like a toddler that didn’t
get his sippy cup when they wouldn’t give him autonomy. Now that position
belongs to club legend Paolo Maldini, who, along with fellow Milan legend
Zvonimir Boban, has been running the club for a total of four months. Four
months.
So when people talk about changing coaches again or another
failed mercato or players that are not living up to their potential, or
whatever idiotic conversations you people are having, remember that it
has been four months. These people are not responsible
for all of the many failures of the club under the Pedophile and Uncle Fester.
These people did not sell the club to a charlatan, nor did they hire
the circus duo of Fassone and Mirabelli to just throw money around without a
comprehensive long-term plan for our team. They did not burn through
eight coaches in five years.
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| This is Milan. Now. And future. |
What this new management have done is lower the wage bill by
a whopping €25million in one transfer window. They cut the fat and lowered the
squad size. They brought in younger, more talented players, and signed them all
to low wage contracts. They have an actual plan to rebuild this team, they told
us it would take patience, but they are sticking to it. They are working
closely with Inter to build a stadium, and have gotten farther along than even
Barbara did before Daddy cut off the money supply to build. This infant,
four-month-old management has done more in four months than Galliani did in his
last ten years to improve the team and make it sustainable. They negotiated
with UEFA to clean up the FFP messes of past years, and are carefully moving
forward on every level to rebuild a Milan team that is both successful and
sustainable. But it will take time.
As for the coaching situation, after Gattuso left on his own
terms, they took
a chance on Giampaolo, a gamble that didn’t work out. So they
hired Pioli, which is a sound decision for all concerned. Particularly
when considering
their project, the available coaches, and FFP limitations. So they made
one mistake. But the same people who think it’s the end of the world that Milan
changed coaches, after freaking out they did not fire Giampaolo sooner, are the
same people who believed Giampaolo was the second coming of Sacchi. I think you
people may need therapy, none of that even makes any kind of sense.
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| Not criminals. Not pedophiles. Not to blame for Milan's past. |
People have some seriously short-term and selective
memories. None so much as the pedophile, Silvio Berlusconi, who forgets that
without Elliott’s intervention, Milan would have been bankrupt
and gone to Serie D because he sold the club to a charlatan. He
even went so far as to claim that Milan would only be successful if they handed
the club back to him. He forgets that Milan’s Glory Days were bought, something
that can’t even be done anymore (as if he’d spend a dime, anyway.) He forgets that
he destroyed the club for nearly as long as he bought that success. Because he and
Fester never realized that football has changed, and they are both living in their
sad, delusional little world. A world some of you people seem to live in, too.
Everyone needs to wake up and see that this is not your pedophile’s Milan.
This post
inspired by the music of Alanis Morrissette’ “You Oughta Know”
Our next match is
Serie A Week 8
Milan vs. Lecce
Sunday, October 20
• 20:45 CEST (2:45pm EDT)