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For many AC Milan fans, the return of Paolo Maldini is a necessity, but there is no movement being made towards it happening.
When someone like Maldini is attached to your club, fans will always welcome their return, from a footballing point of view. Players like the defender are impossible to find, and when you stumble across one, the bond does not leave easily.
So, when considering that the Italian also built a squad that won the Scudetto and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League. That bond grows stronger, and continues to do so whilst nothing around the club gets much better.
Maldini’s return possible?
There have been wholesale changes this summer. However, the final memories from last season are not positive, and are largely influenced by protests outside the Rossoneri headquarters, where one man’s name was repeatedly mentioned, Maldini.
In the past few days, talks about a new ownership have emerged once again, and today, Luca Serafini has written an editorial for MilanNews on what it could mean for Paolo’s return.
Galliani’s homecoming…
“It’s only suggestive as far as I’m concerned, because I haven’t understood how the management ladder and relationships work. He’ll be the one to decide: if they give him an important role, he’ll succeed because he’s capable, but balance matters. If only they knew how to listen…”
Maldini’s return?
“Just like when I told some members of the Curva that the chant “Cardinal, you must sell” made them smile, first because they couldn’t hear it since they were never there, and second because we can’t sell something that isn’t ours, I respond in the same way to those who ask what I think of a possible Steinbrenner acquisition of AC Milan.
“It would be a sub-lease, a participation, a sale of shares. AC Milan belongs to Elliott; only that fund can sell it. Paolo Maldini won’t return even with Galliani, not with this structure, but only under new ownership, in the future. Or as a new owner.”
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