[Rossoneri7]

Current AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi revealed that one of his two sons will become the new president of the club, but he has not yet decided who the heir apparent will be.


Berlusconi has officially announced that one of two sons will take over from him as Milan president.

"Milan is an extension of our family," declared Berlusconi on 'Italia 7 Gold'. "I hope that my son becomes president, even though we must decide which one."

With regards to the team, Berlusconi's plan is that of rejuvenating the squad.

"Our project is that of gradually renewing the squad with the purchase of young talents," he explained.

"I think that next year we shall have to make purchases in defence, since Paolo Maldini and Cafu will hang up their boots.

"In midfield and in attack we're fine."

"I once said that Gourcuff is the new Zidane. I hope I wasn't wrong," concluded Berlusconi.

Goal.com



I see this as real good news, the club should remain within the Berlusconi family, instead of going up in the air to the highest bidder. Who could all together be the cause of the clubs downfall.

Then on the future transfer(s) ... It is inevitable that they will bring some fresh new blood. That was never in question!

I think the last part, the one about Gourcuff, I think what he's trying to say is we expected a lot from Gourcuff.

This post has been edited by Rossoneri7: Dec 18 2007, 11:22 AM

[dst]

Don't get me wrong...I'm not some kind of a male feminist I just think....why not?

I did not say a woman can't do it, I said I'd prefer a man. I believe, no woman could ever reach the level of understanding for his players and influence on the them that Silvio Berlusconi has because a president of a football club has to do solely with men so a male president has an advantage over a female one. Marina maybe understands football better than any other man and she probably is a successful businesswomen but she still does not share the same mentality as her employees and that is very important in football more than in any other kind of business.

Yes hanna, she did intervene. After all, she heads the company that owns AC Milan and is looking after her families investment in Milan. I mean, if at the 4QR the books don't add up, (which there was talk about it, and AC Milan's stocks weren't doing so well in the Italian Borsa at the time ..) she made sure all is well before they closed off that quarter.

Milan are the only team in Europe to declare a profit so I'm assuming the books were quite alright! The thing is, Silvio Berlusconi has never been cold before (winning means no buying) so I guess Marina (or Pier Silvio) have something to do with it.

That's exactly what football is not, a business that should be run just like any other. A winning formula is related to a billion things and the rule that says you don't change a winning formula (in this case, a winning team) does not apply in football because there are numerous imponderable factors to be considered. And because of the same factors, buying the best will also not guarantee you success... This is where the president has to intervene and locate the problem and, in my view, because of the fact that he shares the same mentality as his footballers and rest of the staff, a male president has a non-negligible advantage... Berlusconi talked Ronaldo into letting his hair grow and you might think "so what?" but in reality that's just where it all starts. Berlusconi could even persuade a vegetarian to eat meat! If someone between Marina and and Pier Silvio can reach that level with of communication with the players of the club then that's the latter in my opinion (I explained why above) and that's why I'd prefer him.

Just like Porty said, Rosella Sensi can run a business too but I don't like her style and I wouldn't want Milan to be run that way.

[Rossoneri7]

Milan are the only team in Europe to declare a profit so I'm assuming the books were quite alright! The thing is, Silvio Berlusconi has never been cold before (winning means no buying) so I guess Marina (or Pier Silvio) have something to do with it.

I don't know about that dst. I mean, it ain't 1+1=2 when it comes to finance (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Well, this is the situation at the time:

Fininvest (at every quarter, as any company on the stock market) has to produce financial data to the stock exchange for revision. This data is used to regulate the price of the stock and to keep the common shareholders aware of the situation with the company(s) and it's performances.

At the time, AC Milan had declared it had X number of profit, but when that quarter came to a close, Fininvest noticed that AC Milan didn't make the profit, rather it was unrealized profit (i.e. profit that still hasn't been made, not solid), which is ok, except AC Milan wasn't clear with Fininvest about this particular piece of detail. Thus Marina on the back of Fininvest intervened ( the details of what happened later on are not available anywhere about what exactly happened). The matter was then resolved, Fininvest produced the interim report for that quarter and everything went back to normal.

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Thus, it had nothing to do with Milan's transfer(s).

U know, I just went through their annual report and, f2ck me !!! AC Milan is running as a liability for Fininvest (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) So whoever says its a business is clearly unaware of how critical it's financial situation is !!!


I mean Fininvest has three flagship companies: Mediaset (as we all know, which is a television holding company), Mediolanum (which is a holding company within itself for an insurance and banca mediolanum) and Mondadori (A publishing company that's scale treads over Italy's publishing business and into the marketing segments of Europe as a whole). Of course there are other companies within Fininvest, but the three that I mentioned are her flagship companies.


Mediaset alone, produced a 1,104M operating profit at the end of last fiscal yr.

Now where does AC Milan stand in this mammoth of a company ?!

It is more of a liability than a company. Hence, if u think Milan is being run as a business ?? U are wrong. Milan is more a Silvio hobby than anything else, u know like a Billionaires toy (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) I mean, it is one of the reasons why Silvio got into parliament, is it not dst (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Explanation ? It is owned 100% by Fininvest, meaning they aren't producing any common stocks for the common people (u or me), which decreases the profitability of a company 'business'. It's income is generated by itself. Thus any loss would be a heavy blow to the company, where as dividing the stock between other parties would decrease the impact of such a loss.


So, AC Milan is not a business. And neither is it run as a business. It takes more from Fininvest than it gives in return.



Clubs in the EPL are run as businesses. Because they get income from Barclay's Bank (EPL sponsor) and have their clubs listed on the stock exchange (which allows it to generate profit as a business), etc etc etc ..



p.s. Milan, isn't a business. It is more of 'the football club' that you preach for dst ... So rest assured (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

EDIT:

Sources: http://www.fininvest.it http://www.borsaitaliana.it/homepage/homepage.en.htm

This post has been edited by Rossoneri7: Dec 19 2007, 11:19 PM