The first shock wave caused by the departures of Paolo Maldini and Ricky Massara from the club has passed. What is left after that wave was not exactly a fairy-tale situation, as the leading people of Red Bird, the company that manages Milan, tried to present. In addition to the quiet dissatisfaction among the most important players (Leao, Magnian, Hernandez), and the unexpected sale of Sandro Tonali to Newcastle, there is considerable confusion in the sports sector.According to some insider information, the representative of the American owners – Gerry Cardinale, underestimated the weight that Paolo Maldini has in the football world, primarily his good connections with agents, other clubs and players, and the club with San Siro came to a situation where many of his negotiations reached a dead end.From red-and-black to blue-and-black: Inter stealing Thuram from MilanAC Milan are still far from realizing any of the negotiations they started, and the unreasonable offer to Marcus Thuram – not to say crazy – (improved amounting to 5,000,000 euros net per season) only confirms that the Rossoneri giving off panic vibes in the market. Should we really mention that it would be the second-highest salary in the club, above Hernandez and Magnian, and how it would all affect the hierarchy in the locker room?But Cardinale is not too burdened by it right now. The same source states that he is rapidly working on the complete restructuring of the entire club, which, according to him, should start functioning on the model of NBA franchises. To that end, Cardinale’s plan relies on the knowledge and experience of several American experts, including, among others, Billy Beane (former baseball player, now businessman, minority owner of Barnsley, AZ Alkmaar and Oakland Athletics, a member of the MLB) and Luke Bourne, a from the founder of Zelus Analytics, which clearly shows what type of business the Rossoneri will strive for in the future, i.e. how dedicated they will be to advanced statistics and innovations in sports analytics.”Cardinale is determined to establish American sports culture and plans to achieve this by investing more in marketing, infrastructure, technology, both sports and medical. It is a business model dominant in American professional sports,” it is further stated.##NAJAVA_MECA_7340259##The final goal is to make AC Milan a club that will have stable self-financing and be able to make a profit from year to year through the ‘low-risk economy’.”This change of course causes great concern among the new leaders in the sports sector – Giorgio Furlani and Geoffrey Moncada, who prefer to use traditional means in business, especially when selecting players,” says an insider close to the club.A reminder – the Red Bird consortium bought AC Milan from the Elliott Group last year for the sum of 1.2 billion euros. The new bosses and the people gathered around them control Liverpool, the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox, the Pittsburgh Penguins… Among those people is the famous NBA basketball player LeBron James.Tears that prove that Americans know absolutely nothing about football
