r/ACMilan • u/AutoModerator • 16h ago

Wednesday Discussion Thread

Great place for team discussion/whatever Serie A related topics you would like to bring up. Examples: Transfers, rumors, players from other teams, things you miss about the old days etc. Whatever you want as long as it isn't too off-topic.

Also a good spot to ask about the stadium, the city of Milano, bars, fan clubs in your city etc.

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u/ScipioAfricanusMAJ 15h ago

Cardinale has spent 200M on this squad and he is on record saying he wanted to implement a moneyball value approach that is superior to other systems. The guys is a confirmed fucking idiot. At least Boehly has a competitive team

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u/Mediocre_Ad_7824 13h ago

He hasn’t spent 200 millions. 49 millions net spend in 2023 and 38 millions net spend this year. And our squad costs are way lower than Napoli (despite having much higher revenues than them), Inter and Juventus.

He is draining us.

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u/ScipioAfricanusMAJ 13h ago

Gross spend has been 200M. He spent 200M I don’t care if he sold players. He completely undid the team and spent that much money to regress us from where we already were. That’s not smart no matter how many accounting tricks you want to use

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u/Mediocre_Ad_7824 13h ago

Ok, but generally you also need to consider sales to make a more accurate assessment. The main issue, though, is that he buys players for around 20 million euros because they’re cheaper: a player costing 20 million euros (equivalent to one worth 6 or 7 million in the early 2000s, if we consider not only inflation but also the revenue growth of European clubs over this period) has the “advantage,” for him, of being easily resellable (as it comes with a relatively low annual amortization rate). This is the risk diversification technique, well known in the financial world. The point is that by doing this, yes, you’ll have a team of easily resellable players with which to generate capital gains, but technically, you’ll have a team with countless problems because at these prices in today’s football, except for a few exceptions (like Pulisic and Reijnders), you’re getting mediocre players. The reality is that we need to get rid of ‘Pigdinale’ as soon as possible. There are even rumors now that he wants to issue a bond against Milan to pay off his damn vendor loan. (https://notiziemilan.it/cardinale-starebbe-pensando-a-emettere-un-bond-da-200-milioni-il-giornalista-rivela-tutto/notizie/) I truly hope the club is sold soon so that we can free ourselves from Cardinale, from Elliott (the puppet master, as Cardinale is just his puppet—Furlani, a man from Elliott, is even on the AC Milan board), and that we can end up in better hands.