Hitman, I understand what you are saying, but that's gotta be your hope talking. Gigio has had a full month to come out and talk....instead he was in Montecarlo meeting with the Raiolas and taking pictures with them like they've been best friends their whole life. He's also had an entire day after everything to come out and clarify the situation...instead his family is coming out and spitting bullshit out at every corner. Screw them! You are right, this can't be undone and I don't feel one bit bad about it.
Gigio loved Milan? How? How do we know that? All we know right now is that he promised to sign with Inter and than the next day his family and him made their way to sign for Milan. That is shit behavior, and behavior that's clearly not changed. This was one of the most publicized and drawn out contract negotiations I remember in a while at Milan. Gigio never, NEVER, did anything to make things easier. His comments of "we'll see" after he was asked about the renewal, and the "I love Milan, but my interests have to be met", followed by "My family, Raiola, and myself are one tight unit" are worthy of a bitchslap themselves. One tight unit??? What about Milan and the fans? What about the team the groomed him since he was 14, the team that gave him the opportunity and TRUST to be a starter at 16, what about the club that believes in him enough at the age of 18 to make him the 4th highest paid GK in world? Does any of that not count for him? Fuck him man! Let's once and for all stop blaming Raiola. Yes, he is to blame. But we all know how these things work. If Donna wanted to renew, he would have. Period!
He benefitted big time from being a GK at Milan. Him and Raiola used than and now they screwed us. If he was a GK at Udinese for example, no matter how impressive, he would have still been making 500k a year and his transfer fee would have probably been at most 10mil. But this is Milan, and if you start here, everything is doubled, tripled, quadrupled....
Where I agree with you is the fact that this is likely not about money. There is a "political" division here between the management and Raiola ever since Galliani was cast aside. Mino has been talking shit about Milan and the new owners since Galliani was thrown out the door like the piece of shit that he is. So yes, undoubtedly this is not about money. There were 2 sides in this war....and for some reason Gigio chose the side of Raiola. Whether that was Mino feeding him shit, the family feeding him shit, or whatever else...we might never know. But these are the facts and he is just as much to blame.
The right thing would have been to repay the trust that the club showed in him. He should have signed the contract and than if in a couple of years the club showed no signs of coming back to the glory days, he could have asked to be sold. Nobody would have had these reactions at that point. Yes, people would have still been upset, but not like this. This is just the dirtiest and sickest way to treat "the club of your dreams"...who by the way in no way, shape, or form tried to shortchange you. As a matter of fact, it attempted to give you the world in your hands.
Gigio loved Milan? How? How do we know that? All we know right now is that he promised to sign with Inter and than the next day his family and him made their way to sign for Milan. That is shit behavior, and behavior that's clearly not changed. This was one of the most publicized and drawn out contract negotiations I remember in a while at Milan. Gigio never, NEVER, did anything to make things easier. His comments of "we'll see" after he was asked about the renewal, and the "I love Milan, but my interests have to be met", followed by "My family, Raiola, and myself are one tight unit" are worthy of a bitchslap themselves. One tight unit??? What about Milan and the fans? What about the team the groomed him since he was 14, the team that gave him the opportunity and TRUST to be a starter at 16, what about the club that believes in him enough at the age of 18 to make him the 4th highest paid GK in world? Does any of that not count for him? Fuck him man! Let's once and for all stop blaming Raiola. Yes, he is to blame. But we all know how these things work. If Donna wanted to renew, he would have. Period!
He benefitted big time from being a GK at Milan. Him and Raiola used than and now they screwed us. If he was a GK at Udinese for example, no matter how impressive, he would have still been making 500k a year and his transfer fee would have probably been at most 10mil. But this is Milan, and if you start here, everything is doubled, tripled, quadrupled....
Where I agree with you is the fact that this is likely not about money. There is a "political" division here between the management and Raiola ever since Galliani was cast aside. Mino has been talking shit about Milan and the new owners since Galliani was thrown out the door like the piece of shit that he is. So yes, undoubtedly this is not about money. There were 2 sides in this war....and for some reason Gigio chose the side of Raiola. Whether that was Mino feeding him shit, the family feeding him shit, or whatever else...we might never know. But these are the facts and he is just as much to blame.
The right thing would have been to repay the trust that the club showed in him. He should have signed the contract and than if in a couple of years the club showed no signs of coming back to the glory days, he could have asked to be sold. Nobody would have had these reactions at that point. Yes, people would have still been upset, but not like this. This is just the dirtiest and sickest way to treat "the club of your dreams"...who by the way in no way, shape, or form tried to shortchange you. As a matter of fact, it attempted to give you the world in your hands.