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Blog: Embarrassing Milan

If Milan really are going through the courts to get Luis Fabiano for an insultingly low fee, then Susy Campanale is ashamed

Lord knows the Milan hierarchy have been embarrassing lately, but this really does take the cake. First they declare Luis Fabiano is their only transfer target, then refuse to raise the offer above a pathetic – by today’s standards - £12.5m for the Confederations Cup top scorer and number one Brazil striker. Now it emerges they may well be surreptitiously taking Sevilla to court via Rio, the company that owns 65 per cent of Fabiano’s contract. This is not cool.

When clubs start resorting to such dirty tactics, it feels deeply wrong and what’s more impossible suddenly to decry the behaviour of other sides, as Milan so famously did when Real Madrid tried to tap up Kaka in recent years. It is particularly unforgivable when Luis Fabiano would have been available for around £16m – hardly a huge figure – and the Rossoneri just pocketed £56m for Kaka.

That is money, by the way, that has not been spent at all. Oguchi Onyewu arrived on a free transfer, Thiago Silva was signed in January, while all the other newcomers like Massimo Oddo, Ignazio Abate and Davide Di Gennaro are returning from loan spells. Having lost Kaka, Paolo Maldini, Philippe Senderos and Andriy Shevchenko over the summer, it is no time to be penny-pinching like this. It’s embarrassing for what was once the biggest club in Europe to be massively out-spent by Genoa and Palermo. If they can balance the books, why can’t Milan?

Let us not even get started on the lack of world class reinforcements in defence or the inexplicable presence of Giuseppe Favalli. Adriano Galliani and Silvio Berlusconi aren’t just running this side into the ground, they are sullying its image at home and abroad. I never thought I’d say this, but at the moment I am embarrassed to be a Milanista.

Aly has come out now and hit against Milan. Fabiano has also hit against Milan. We have been embarraced by two average players and being called cheap old useless by the planet. It is truly an embarracing time to be a milanfan.


I personally hope that by next season or the next after that Silvio leaves this club. I do not want him as president anymore or as a symbol of our club. I want us to get rid of him and Galliani and change the entire milan board. If presidents can no longer invest then the money should no longer go to a group of investors. F*ck finnivest.


Lets have elections for president, bring on a younger board and help improve Milan's image slowly and Italian footballs image slowly. We don't need these old farts who are absolutely useless running milan.

silvio doesn't even have to sell the whole club to bring in investment, most recently he turned down sheikh mohamad bin rashid al-maktoum bid for a 40% stake in the club, if silvio won't fund the club he should sell the 40% stake, i'm really not an advocate for spending crazy sums like madrid, chelsea& city can but for a big club to find it difficult to splash a mere 17m on fabiano, 13 on hernanes means they'r prepared to run down the club's status, never mind league positions

Source: Football Italia

The reason why Milan are refusing to raise their £12.5m offer for Luis Fabiano may be a legal clause in his contract freeing him for that sum.

The Rossoneri saw their bid rejected by Sevilla and declared “insulting,” while the player’s agent confessed he was “furious” at the size of the proposal.

However, it is now rumoured that there is method to Milan’s madness, as they held negotiations with Rio – a company that owns 66 per cent of his contract.

The newspapers in Italy suggest that when Sevilla signed Luis Fabiano from Porto in 2005, there was a clause added in that they would have to sell if faced with an offer higher than £9m.

It is believed Rio will now take legal action to push through that clause and ensure the Selecao striker’s move to the more prestigious Milan.

Sevilla would like at least £16m to part with their hitman.

It is known that earlier this week Rossoneri directors met with Rio representatives, but insisted it was "a courtesy meeting."

My first wish would be to sell Seedorf, Kalac and bring some fresh new blood in AC MILAN.