AC Milan

[Bojan]

What's the current financial state of AC Milan and is Silvio still considering selling it?

Looking at the names it's still an ageing team but I always had sympathy towards their experience and particularly like the fact they are playing so many Italians in their first 11.

[Valon]

Never liked them. They're second on the hate list after Scumdrid.

[Super Pippo]

I don't have the exact figures to hand, so I can't say how much Milan has in cash.

But I can tell you why our financial model has shifted in previous years. Berlusconi has always been a passionate president, and funded Milan with the best facilities, coaching and made the players very generously. He did of course fund big transfers, though in the late 80's and 90's market, we have never really gone in for the exorbitant fee's that other top clubs pay.

However his willingness to fund the club so well has declined in recent years, partly due to the lessening profitability of his others businesses and Milan's parent company. Also due to the increasing power of his children in the family business - who have little interest in investing in Milan. This coupled with years of poor financial health in Serie A as a whole means Milan is no longer in the same financial strength as the top clubs of England and Spain.

For a few years now there has been a cost cutting exercise, principally reducing the transfer budget. More recently still the club accepted big money bids for a couple of key players. And at present is trying to reduce the wage bill by renegotiating the deals of top earners. Rino accepted, there are still negotiations with Pirlo and Inzaghi.

The club is in no financial danger I must stress, but the money it can spend is leaner. Silvio does step in on a last minute whim and buy players though - Ronaldinho and Huntelaar are more recent examples. But its an extravagance he increasingly cannot afford and causes much annoyance to his successors. There were strong rumours he wanted to sell, in truth HE doesn't, he's too proud for that. But his family certainly wants him to, and with expensive trials coming up and a deep recession, he may finally be forced to.

[Beast]

though in the late 80's and 90's market, we have never really gone in for the exorbitant fee's that other top clubs pay.

Lantini

[Lemmi]

Lentini?

[Beast]

Lentini?

Once was the most expensive player in the world in the early 90's by Milan
and the most expensive flop @ that time

[Super Pippo]

*Lentini, broke the transfer record of the day, but even with inflation, nothing like the transfer fee's paid today.

[Beast]

*Lentini, broke the transfer record of the day, but even with inflation, nothing like the transfer fee's paid today.

not really , the buying power equals it today ...

however i was just commenting on "we never went on for big buys like other clubs " as that's not true...

[Super Pippo]

Inflation did not cause the value of money to drop by 2 thirds in 7 years, Gio.

[Gnegneri]

If he was the world's most expensive footballer at one point so Milan did pay an exorbitant fee at that moment. Hence, your sentence was not true.


/discussion.

[Beast]

Inflation did not cause the value of money to drop by 2 thirds in 7 years, Gio.

what 7 years ? you bought him for an equivalent of 13 Million Pounds in 1992 .. that's 18 years ago

I don't know why you chose to change facts...
didn't Silvio B. in 1993 put down the biggest transfer budget at the time for Milan (34 Million Pounds ) ? some teams (and big ones like Pool ) don't even have that amount in transfers now ?

you bought Lentini ,Papin,Boban..etc

[Super Pippo]

Perhaps I need to make myself clearer in my point then (though it's not particularly relevant to what was being discussed).

YES he spent top dollar on players relative to the value of players in the transfer market of the day, he did break the record on 3 occasions. But that wasn't my point.

NO he has never paid the highest transfers fee's since the value of players sky rocketed well beyond inflation in the age of international TV deals, mass media and big sponsorship.

For example he was richer at the time of the big fee's for Crespo, Zidane, Figo but didn't pay fee's of those magnitude. The exception being Nesta of course, but he was always going to be a long term signing.

[Super Pippo]

what 7 years ? you bought him for an equivalent of 13 Million Pounds in 1992 .. that's 18 years ago

I don't know why you chose to change facts...
didn't Silvio B. in 1993 put down the biggest transfer budget at the time for Milan (34 Million Pounds ) ? some teams (and big ones like Pool ) don't even have that amount in transfers now ?

you bought Lentini ,Papin,Boban..etc

Between the time of Lentini and Vieri, Gio. The cost of top players trebled in that time, well beyond inflation.

Anyway Gio, you have your own opinion on Milan + Silvio finances that you talked with me on before, surely you have an opinion on Bojans question.

P.S. Why are you using GB pound?

[Beast]

Well compared that Man Utd paid Leeds united (the league champions ) 1.2 Million Pound for Eric Cantona around the same period do the math .

However it makes your initial claim about Milan hardly paid top dollars in the 80's early 90's totally wrong u spent money right & left
18 years later Liverpool budget is 15 Mil ... you paid 13 for a fringe player.. so no by early 90's standards that's a lot

[Beast]

P.S. Why are you using GB pound?

the other option is good old solid Italian lira arty00231: