Paolo Maldini (3) thread

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So pretty much Galliani is a proud and power-hungry man who needs to work with others who are closer to the game but won't. The way forward is to get others on board but that would mean Galliani accepting he is wrong/incapable of doing it alone and in need of help (something a proud person won't do on such a big stage). Pretty much he is saying is if Milan can go forward the only realistic option is Galliani out as he just won't play with others.

I think this will be an essential wedge between Milan and Galliani. I can't remember something like this happening in Milan in the past 15 or so years I have been following them. Someone so public dropping hte hammer on Galliani. Ouch. Time for Berlu to step in. This stuff is just beginning to stain the reputation of Milan worse than our individual play.

Do you guys think Galliani may be the reason Seedorf didn't get to bring along all the players he initially said he was going to like Staam and Crespo to provide coaching to individual units?

This isn't the only time that someone has criticised Galliani so publicly. In the last six months, the guy's been regularly criticised in public. Barbara's comments back before Christmas that almost lead to Galliani quitting, The Curva's recent protest (admittedly they aren't quite the high profile figures otherwise talking, but it was a very high profile protest), Berlusconi's comments yesterday and now Maldini's interview, which is the only one that names him, but to me this is a minor detail (Galliani's all but said Barbara's attack was on him and there's no one else who can be implicated by Silvio's comments).

Quite frankly, it's incredible that Galliani's still at Milan, as his reputation has been dragged through shit by some pretty high profile people, never mind that one of them is his boss who he was saying would be his president for life just a couple of months ago. According to an interview with Gianluca Di Marzio, who was on Beyond the Pitch recently, Galliani actually wants to be a part of the long term future of Milan

About sharing power, I think Galliani's basically been forced (by the Berlusconis) to find a Sporting Director to come into Milan. Here's the ironic thing, the 2 leading candidates so far can't/won't come because of him. Maldini obviously already had his role defined with Barbara, but Galliani threw his toys out of the pram and went out with his public outburst, meaning Maldini is now left out (despite clearly being the first choice of the Berlusconi family, as it's evident that what Barbara wants is what Silvio's listening to).

The next was Sogliano, a person actually apparently chosen by Galliani himself, who rejected the job as he doesn't want to work with Galliani. This is just absurd, as this means people are outright saying no to Galliani after he's offering them a job and is even trying to convince them to come after they reject him and they reject him because he's at the club. You want to look pathetic, this is the way to do it.

Finally there's also Andrea Berti of Atletico Madrid who apparently rejected the role pretty quickly.

Honestly, I have lots of issues with Milan atm, many of which Maldini has quite clearly spoken out about. However, the biggest problem we have, the problem really holding us back from moving forward is Galliani.