Tbh if you look at things OBJECTIVELY you can understand why RedBird want more of a say in the mercato. Last summer, M&M asked for complete autonomy and they completely blew it after RedBird granted their wishes. Here's a few highlights:-
*ZERO sales
*Passed up Dybala for free (26 goal contributions in all comps this season) in order to sign CDK
*Passed up Enzo to sign Sanches but ended up with Vranckx (Benfica sold Enzo for 100m)
*Passed up Muani to sign Origi (EF will collect 90m+ from his sale)
*Spent 35m on CDK, Vranckx + Dest who never play
*Redeemed injury prone Florenzi for 3m and handed him a lucrative 3 year contract with 6m gross wages
*Redeemed fridge delivery driver Messias for 6m
*Handed Origi a lucrative 4 year contract with 5m gross wages
*Renewed Baka for another year with 5m gross wages
*Renewed Ibra for another year with 2m gross wages
Following these disastrous decisions, we limped our way into the top 4 solely due to Juve's points penalty. Therefore, you can't really blame Cardinale for wanting to ensure that history doesn't repeat itself. Also, he recently said that qualifying for the CL was of the utmost importance from a financial perspective which PROVES he's only here to make money.
Having said that, I think letting go of Maldini would be a HUGE mistake simply because he's already proven to be a very capable SD in the past who built a Scudetto winning side on a shoestring budget whilst signing the likes of Maignan, Tomori, Kalulu, Leao, Theo, Tonali, Bennacer etc at reasonable prices in comparison to their market values today. However, Maldini needs to do some serious soul searching and figure out how he went from having the midas touch to getting everything catastrophically wrong last summer (bar Thiaw).
Also, Maldini has created a nice, family environment at the club and is the glue that holds everything together (and an ASSET in transfer negotiations) and if he were to leave then the self-belief the team has built in recent years (which didn't exist before) will be gone too. Therefore, the best approach is to continue together but Maldini also needs to accept that he isn't the one paying the bills and needs some supervision until he can PROVE otherwise.