In the absence of more interesting topics to talk about (the championship challenge is over before it begins), the crisis of the Milanese continues to be one of the hot topics of our football. After all, the pitch and the standings speak for themselves quite clearly: in thirty-one league matches Milan and Inter have collected 85 points together and languish respectively in ninth and tenth place in the standings, between Turin and Palermo.
Il Derby, a few days ago, proved right to the nostalgics of the first hour (those who "once were Maldini and Zanetti, now there are Abate and Frog") with a lackluster scoreless that above all showed the many limits of both teams. A matter of economic power, they say, strong players need money and so on.
All true. After all the fat cows are gone, the times of the patron presidents who could spend and spread without looking, if not at a glance, at the budget. Moratti he is gone and Berlusconi closed the purse strings. This is why the plans to relaunch Milan and Inter pass, and it could not be otherwise, through finance.
For Milan it's a matter of consonants. Bee or Lee. The Thai broker Bee Taechaubol (known as Mister Bee, just to ensure business continuity) or the Hong Kong entrepreneur Richard Lee, who leads a consortium fueled above all by Chinese funds. They are the duelists in the climb to the Rossoneri club.
At the moment he seems to be ahead, at least for a matter of timing, Mister Bee, which has already carried out the analysis of the accounts and which has essentially accepted the valuation given by Silvio Berlusconi to the company: 1 billion and 100 million. At the moment, the idea that is the most popular around Milanello (or perhaps it would be more correct to say at the Fininvest offices) is to initially proceed with the sale of 20%, in order to rapidly inject into the coffers of the Milan the liquidity necessary for the technical relaunch of the team.
In a second moment Bee, or Lee, would proceed with the purchase of a further 45%, thus putting an end to the Berlusconi cycle, one of the most successful, however you look at it, in the history of football.
As for Interhowever, no change of ownership is in sight (after all Thohir has been in the saddle for less than two years), but simply a refinancing operation, through the reopening of the bond launched last May by the Nerazzurri and subscribed by Goldman Sachs.
The US investment bank will have the task of recalling the old issue (a 220 million euro bond) and launching a new one, for a total amount of around 300 million euro. Money that will be used to cover deadlines and to jump on the market in search of the right players for Inter's future. In the hope that, at the next derby, the nostalgics aren't right yet.
