If there were a Nuremberg trial for the managers of football clubs, there is no doubt that Adriano Galliani would sit in the dock. As in the original, which is brought back to us from old black and white films, we seem to see him there, behind a long counter, looking frightened, his head bowed by an enormous antediluvian cap from which flows the translation of the questions of the Allied judges, who ask the Milan CEO to account for the crimes committed in the 2013-14 season. We are able to accurately report the interrogation.
1. Mr. Galliani, for what reasons – and despite the contrary opinion of Berlusconi himself, as well as of the AC Milan fans – did you defend a coach like Allegri tooth and nail, clearly inadequate and with obvious personality problems, as demonstrated the ethnic cleansing in the locker room of those players of personality (last in order of time Ambrosini) who had been the strength of Milan?
2. Because with the same stubborn obstinacy he waged an all-out war against Seedorf, who will have numerous defects but has undoubtedly proved to be better than his predecessor (it was not difficult anyway), thereby destabilizing the red and black environment and making the run-up to the Europa league fail?
3. On the basis of which elements last summer, after the transfer campaign was underway, did he declare "Carlitos will not betray me" with reference to the signing of the Argentine player Tevez, who later ended up at Juventus for the incredibly low figure of 9 million euros ?
4. For what mysterious technical qualities did the player decide, a few days after the setback suffered against Tevez, to buy the center forward Matri from Juventus itself for the incredibly high sum of 12 million euros? A bin that reminded older fans of the negative legend of Milan's attack, Egidio Calloni ("the wretched Egidio", Gianni Brera dixit). Loaned out of desperation to Fiorentina, Matri is struggling today to find a place in the team even with Giuseppe Rossi, Gomez and Cuadrado in the infirmary plus the disqualified Joaquin. The only satisfaction is that we conquered Florence also thanks to three goals into empty nets missed by Matri himself. He will return to Milan and will stay there, being unsellable. Congratulations.
5. For what other mysterious technical reasons did you say, at the start of the season, that "the Zapata-Mexes pair of power plants is the strongest in the league"? A couple who then made a fool of themselves on all the Italian fields, to the point that Zapata was locked up in some Milanello locker and we lost track of him.
6. Tell us now, Mr. Galliani, who threatened you and your family, because only under terrible pressure can you sign a former player like Essien, and make him take the field against Atletico Madrid, or swap for a player of Honda football, which should be used in the final ten minutes and once the result is acquired, just to sell some Rossoneri shirts to the Japanese.
7. You know, Mr. Galliani, that between one hearing and another of the trial you will stay in the Nuremberg prison, nearby. And this is also for his personal safety, because there are rumors that gangs of ill-intentioned Rossoneri fans are roaming the city. Given your unpopularity, Mr. Galliani, because in the phases of greatest tension in relations with the other managing director, Barbara Berlusconi, you let circulate without denying rumors of your sensational resignation, accompanied by huge liquidations (from 50 to 130 million )? Even 28 years of militancy as managing director do not justify such high figures, especially in the light of the latest sporting performances.
8. But not just sports. The management philosophy in recent years has been based, as is known, on the signing of players on free transfers. This philosophy is both presumptuous and suicidal at the same time. Presumptuous because it assumes that other companies are in the hands of incompetent people. Sometimes it's true (we had a great wedding with Moratti's Inter), but in general nobody leaves a star player free from his contract, so the risk of taking home some cans is high. Furthermore, to entice the player, it is necessary to promise him a stellar engagement, and this explains the 4,5 million net that was paid to Flamini and which Mexes still collects. Suicidal because this strategy (a) makes the player base completely rigid, who in fact are now about forty, about double what would be necessary for a club that will not have cups next season, but which for the above reasons are unsellable (for how long has Milan been trying to get rid of Robinho?); (b) it explodes management costs, and in fact the total wages today pass 100 million euros, higher than all the teams that precede Milan in Serie A, with the exception of Juve, and 50% higher than that of Atletico Madrid, who eliminated the Rossoneri in the Champions League.
9. We already know your line of defense, Mr. Galliani: the era of fat cows is over, the best go elsewhere, much more turnover is needed, and so on. We should re-found starting from young people, they say. For this reason, the Rossoneri fans have been waiting for a harsh denial by the club to the rumors that the various Balotelli and De Sciglio are leaving for the sole purpose of raising cash, leaving all the caryatids who will fight next year at Milanello (so to speak) not to backtrack. To find young talents, then, we need talented scouts, and we had one, that Leonardo who brought Kaka', Pato, Thiago Silva to the team. But he was fired without being replaced and today Milan is a land of raids for some of the most greedy and unscrupulous prosecutors.
10. Milan ended up being victims of the free transfer. In fact, the greatest Italian midfielder of his generation was sold at zero, that is, for free, that Andrea Pirlo who has been admired every Sunday for three years with the Juve shirt. Because it would already have been serious to sell him abroad, but to the class enemy, to the one who robbed Milan (Milan, not Inter) of at least five scudetti from the XNUMXs to today, well, it's really too much . We are therefore at the conclusions, Mr. Galliani. No one forgets the years of great successes that made Milan by far the most famous team in Italian football. Successes obtained thanks to Berlusconi's money and personal commitment, but which nonetheless lead this Court to recognize them as extenuating circumstances. We will not confront you with the alternative reserved for Goering, whether to swallow a cyanide pill in the confines of your cell or hang yourself at dawn tomorrow. We will leave you free, but in the name of the god of football, you disappear from the eyes of the humiliated and offended Rossoneri fans.
