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[u/ComradePoula]

Agree with everything you said. Redbird have been pretty much flawless financially speaking and sooner or later that will translate on the pitch with everyone else in the league being handicapped by their finances.

Clashing with Maldini when you have only been in the club for less than a year was dumb, but looking back at it now, it was always inevitable. But other than that, they aren't stubborn and have shown that they'll try to fix their mistakes.

Betting on Fonseca is still their biggest mistake, but I'm still someone that sees the vision behind that decision. Even though I'm Allegri's biggest fan here, as evident by my profile picture, Fonseca's ideas are something that we're gonna have to move to at some point because managers like Allegri are a dying breed nowadays. But hopefully the transition will be smoother at that point.

[u/SignoreLanky11 → u/ComradePoula]

Wow incredible to see some reasonable takes here finally. The majority of this sub fails to recognize the stability Red Bird/Elliot have brought despite some mistakes on the sporting side. We're in a much better position than we were towards the end of the Berlusconi era and the Chinese saga.

[u/Sankaritarina → u/SignoreLanky11]

Some of you seriously need to think about a hobby related to accounting instead of football lol. People here are fans of Milan, not Gerry Cardinale's financial career, they aren't going to spend their time talking about how great our finance reports are after we finished 8th in Italy and got knocked out of Europe by Feyenoord. Levy oversaw arguably the most impressive project in modern football in terms of financial growth, something that RedBird and most other club owners/presidents can only dream of, yet he was still constantly criticised over a lack of trophies. And that's with Tottenham's stature and resources in England being comparably worse than ours in Italy.

So until that mythical future where our fiscal responsibility turns into trophies finally arrives, Milan fans won't be enthusiastic about RedBird's financial achievements.

[u/SignoreLanky11 → u/Sankaritarina]

The fact that you're comparing a Premier League club's situation with ours sums up the general delusion here. How are Tottenham's resources worse? They had revenues of over $500 million last year. Levy's incompetence can't be compared with us. The sooner people realize that we can't compete dollar for dollar with the premier league, the better you'll feel about our situation.

[u/Sankaritarina → u/SignoreLanky11]

Read my comment again, I specifically said that Tottenham's situation is comparably worse than ours (in terms of winning titles) given that they play in England and we play in Italy. So while they might have more resources than us overall, in the context of Serie A and the PL, it is much harder for Spurs to win trophies.