You need to factor in several issues, first is that we manage to get into the top 2, which based on last year's standings was a race between Roma and Juve, with no one else coming close to them at all. Even with our investments, there's no assured 2nd place in this league, because teams around us have also managed to strengthen and evolve. m
Just getting to a CL playoff spot doesn't guarantee CL football, you might still end up in the playoffs against teams like Arsenal, Chelsea, Leverkusen, Schalke, Valencia, Dortmund and the like. We haven't been playing CL in 2 years, and coefficients for seeding regard our last European record for the last 5 years only. There are plenty of uncertainties regarding just getting into the CL proper alone for us.
Getting into the CL group stages ensures us 30M in revenues, but even if we were to make it there next year, we won't be seeing any money from UEFA until 2 years down the road.
With all those uncertainties of the above, does it make sense that Berlu should risk spending +80M of his own money, given the chance that Bee may have pulled out from the deal, and get nothing in return for the next 2 years?
Take a look at our finances. Even with a plan to build a stadium, we are still paying rent to the government of Milan for the San Siro, along with maintenance costs and all that, for the next 3-4 years at least. Even with full-house ticket sales (which won't happen), we still won't be making much money from there.
We were in the red up till 3 years back when we sold off Ibra and Thiago. Then we spent 3 years doing shitty accounting maneuvers to acquire players (paid up in 4-5 year installments, meaning we are STILL paying for some players transfer fees up until this day, even if said player has already been thrown away or loaned out by us). Just how much money do you really think Berlu has in his coffers that he would want to spend on a club that's been slowly bleeding money?
Why do you think that he would willingly spend so much this summer and not in the previous 3? Obviously its because he wants to make the investment of Milan look good to a potential buyer, given that there actually IS one right now. And we are talking about 485M Euros, which is no small sum of money.
However, once there are uncertainties in the market, leading to a very real risk that NO investments would come into the club (as there was once the crisis hit), then he had to stop all projects and rethink his strategy.
I don't know if I explained it sufficiently, but of course there are also many other factors that would have stopped Berlu's investing spree.
Running and financing a club, and all the external factors affecting it, is more complex than just taking a hundred million euros and spending it, especially in this day and age.
Just getting to a CL playoff spot doesn't guarantee CL football, you might still end up in the playoffs against teams like Arsenal, Chelsea, Leverkusen, Schalke, Valencia, Dortmund and the like. We haven't been playing CL in 2 years, and coefficients for seeding regard our last European record for the last 5 years only. There are plenty of uncertainties regarding just getting into the CL proper alone for us.
Getting into the CL group stages ensures us 30M in revenues, but even if we were to make it there next year, we won't be seeing any money from UEFA until 2 years down the road.
With all those uncertainties of the above, does it make sense that Berlu should risk spending +80M of his own money, given the chance that Bee may have pulled out from the deal, and get nothing in return for the next 2 years?
Take a look at our finances. Even with a plan to build a stadium, we are still paying rent to the government of Milan for the San Siro, along with maintenance costs and all that, for the next 3-4 years at least. Even with full-house ticket sales (which won't happen), we still won't be making much money from there.
We were in the red up till 3 years back when we sold off Ibra and Thiago. Then we spent 3 years doing shitty accounting maneuvers to acquire players (paid up in 4-5 year installments, meaning we are STILL paying for some players transfer fees up until this day, even if said player has already been thrown away or loaned out by us). Just how much money do you really think Berlu has in his coffers that he would want to spend on a club that's been slowly bleeding money?
Why do you think that he would willingly spend so much this summer and not in the previous 3? Obviously its because he wants to make the investment of Milan look good to a potential buyer, given that there actually IS one right now. And we are talking about 485M Euros, which is no small sum of money.
However, once there are uncertainties in the market, leading to a very real risk that NO investments would come into the club (as there was once the crisis hit), then he had to stop all projects and rethink his strategy.
I don't know if I explained it sufficiently, but of course there are also many other factors that would have stopped Berlu's investing spree.
Running and financing a club, and all the external factors affecting it, is more complex than just taking a hundred million euros and spending it, especially in this day and age.
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