“Massara and I without a contract: disrespectful”

Not even the time to digest the hangover of the Scudetto party, which at home Milan an unexpected bomb explodes and surprisingly it is dropped Paolo Maldini during an interview with the Gazzetta dello Sport. The head of the Rossoneri technical area speaks without filters, very direct as is his habit, and spares no criticism: “Massara and I are expiring and have not renewed – He says -. For the path taken and the Rangnick affair I find little respect that the CEO (Gazidisndr) ed Elliott they haven’t even sat down to talk, I just say to talk. Because they might tell us’ Your work was not good enough to continue ‘or it may be that I say’I don’t like your strategy‘. I like to be a sort of guarantee for the AC Milan player. “” I’m not the right person to do a project that doesn’t have a winning idea. I could never do that. The reality is that the owners have never sat down at the table and this is not good. “

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A full blown outburst that follows days in which the clear intention to renew the entire management had filtered from the ownership. The delicate period of transition from Singer to RedBird however, it has evidently led to a slowdown, which Maldini he liked very little. “For months – the Rossoneri flag continues – ci have moved on the market but at the moment we do not have the financial resources for this qualitative leap also because we are in the transition phase “. And again:” Three big names would allow us to open a cycle, with a high-level strategy we can compete big “.

And perhaps this is precisely the gist of the matter. Maldini does not seem to like the line, assumed of continuity, of the fund managed by Gerry Cardinal. He hoped for a change of gear, in the possibility of moving more freely and investing at a high level and, instead, the information received must have convinced him that the work will always be the same: search for young talents to be exploited in the hope of catching the good joker. to compete with the super powers of the Champions League. Jolly, however, which cannot always be found.

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“Today – he explains in fact – with a high-level strategic vision, Milan could compete with the biggest. If, on the contrary, you choose a maintenance vision, without investments, without ideas from Milan, the risk is to remain in limbo. The owner, Elliott or the next one, closes the three-year period and understands the strategy he wants for the future. “In short, the message is very clear and the recipients too. The ball at this point passes into the hands of Elliott, RedBird and Ivan Gazidis, with whom we it will certainly be a confrontation in the next few days. Meanwhile, the contract between Maldini and Massara is not yet on the table and the risk that at this point there may not be – or not be accepted – could become high.

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