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Tonight, I graduate from my fellowship training in Neuro-critical care. I started this fellowship in 2020, when COVID was at it's worst. I've had many ups and downs, wintnessed more deaths than anyone should see in a lifetime, and have learned so much about life and grown as a person as a result.

Last year was an especially challenging but rewarding year, which culminated with an important personal milestone, as well as my beloved team winning their first Serie A in 11 years. So, treated myself and bought the special edition 9th scudetto watch to remember that time. I have nicer watches, but this will be the watch I wear for my graduation.

It says a lot when despite a crazy few years with many ups and downs, that our 19th scudetto was still one of the major highlights of my life.
Them tiny hands are yours?
 
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Starred this because it was so obvious Adli was purchased before so that is a glaring issue with that narrative of freezing out players he didnt want.
Idk who said Pioli froze out players he didn’t want, I just thought it did seem there was a change in approach to the transfer market. Which seems obvious now. And then in hindsight that change didn’t seem to work really.

Adli is not some I told you so because he isn’t the only player they signed before the summer of 2022 to not work out.
 

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RedBird isn’t here for sporting success, so they don’t care about building a top team for any reason other than the fact that our revenue will grow substantially as a result. Look at the report earlier that Milan’s brand increased dramatically in the last year.

Unlike Elliott, RedBird doesn’t have the capital to make Milan a top side with experienced signings like Maldini wanted. They have to invest smarter, utilizing a combination of operating profits and sales to achieve that goal.

You’ve got to accept that fact, man. It is what it is. Maldini couldn’t accept it and it got him killed.

Yeah it seems like that. Basically under Redshit it might not happen for Milan to be a top team. In terms of capital, most of it is covered by the revenues. They would just have to put in a little more for the next 2 years to make it to next level. But it seems they are too risk averse and miserly. Now, the main hope is that a stadium projects is approved which increases the value for potential buyers and RedShit sell the club in a year or two. As long as the stadium project is started, that should be a good enough for a buyer, they don't have to wait for it to be finished.
 

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It could also show how miserly Cuntinale and Redshit are. They could have gotten Furlani to buy a player in winter and make him available for Pioli.
Lol you're being way too LENIENT on Maldini who put together a 50m horror show just as appalling as Mirabellend's 250m one from a few years ago and we're LUCKY that he wasn't given more money to blow as he clearly had a losing hand.
 
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Oh shit is Chuk link for real? Isn’t he a dawg? Also wouldn’t he cost a fuck ton lmao
 

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He's got two years left on his deal...I wonder if Moncada promotes him to the first team this summer as a show of faith (like Daniel) to see whether he can get some minutes and be convinced to renew.
Hopefully during this upcoming summer tour some of the more promising primavera players are given a shot.
 
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Idk who said Pioli froze out players he didn’t want, I just thought it did seem there was a change in approach to the transfer market. Which seems obvious now. And then in hindsight that change didn’t seem to work really.

Adli is not some I told you so because he isn’t the only player they signed before the summer of 2022 to not work out.
Right, Pioli was handed a slew of turds:
Origi
CDK
Dest
Pobega
Messias
Sael
Florenzi

But Adli!
 

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DiMarzio - Chukwueze comes with a heavy pricetag, but Milan are all in, and want to him him one their first arrivals.
 
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15M for Samuel will be enough. He is on last year of his contract
 

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Messias reportedly deleted Ac Milan from his profil description on Instagram, bye bye
Lol I just checked and I confirm that he does not have AC Milan on there
 
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I like all of the young RWs we've been linked too lately...Chukwueze, Zhegrova, Bouanani + Reiss are all very promising talents.

Just waiting for a link to Johan Bakayoko (new Madueke) who I PERSONALLY scouted :proud:
 
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Idk who said Pioli froze out players he didn’t want, I just thought it did seem there was a change in approach to the transfer market. Which seems obvious now. And then in hindsight that change didn’t seem to work really.

Adli is not some I told you so because he isn’t the only player they signed before the summer of 2022 to not work out.
It wasnt in response to you but that narrative seems to have been swirling in here (dont know if on other platforms as well) but I have only said he failed to get players such as Adli and CDK to work.

People have been tagging Maldini with every miss and the notion has risen that Pioli had decided to exclude some because they werent what he wanted, that his hand was forced to play CDK at the start only because of the transfer fee etc.
 
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Yeah it seems like that. Basically under Redshit it might not happen for Milan to be a top team. In terms of capital, most of it is covered by the revenues. They would just have to put in a little more for the next 2 years to make it to next level. But it seems they are too risk averse and miserly. Now, the main hope is that a stadium projects is approved which increases the value for potential buyers and RedShit sell the club in a year or two. As long as the stadium project is started, that should be a good enough for a buyer, they don't have to wait for it to be finished.
I don’t think they are miserly, they just literally don’t have that kind of fuck you money.

We can 100% build a top team if we keep our core and add great prospects to it. We have world class players already (Leao, Theo, and Maignan), just need to add stronger depth and uncover a couple more stars, which is doable. We have a lengthy window to win right now, so there’s time to build on the very solid foundation Maldini, Massara, Boban, Moncada, and Pioli built.
 

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Chukuweze is non EU as far as I know. So we can only get two from him, Kamada or RLC.
 

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Lol you're being way too LENIENT on Maldini who put together a 50m horror show just as appalling as Mirabellend's 250m one from a few years ago and we're LUCKY that he wasn't given more money to blow as he clearly had a losing hand.

I'm really not!! I'm actually fine about Moncada taking over. I think he really might be better at choosing players than Maldini. But i don't like the Redshit BS 35-50 million mercato crap. Now they have gotten rid of Maldini, they have their chosen guy as SD, they have money from CL semis, 3rd straight CL, much higher sponsorship level than when Eliott was in charge and doing 70 mil mercatos. So now what's their excuse??
 
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I'm really not!! I'm actually fine about Moncada taking over. I think he really might be better at choosing players than Maldini. But i don't like the Redshit BS 35-50 million mercato crap. Now they have gotten rid of Maldini, they have their chosen guy as SD, they have money from CL semis, 3rd straight CL, much higher sponsorship level than when Eliott was in charge and doing 70 mil mercatos. So now what's their excuse??
RedBird: We don’t have that kind of money.
 

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I don’t think they are miserly, they just literally don’t have that kind of fuck you money.

We can 100% build a top team if we keep our core and add great prospects to it. We have world class players already (Leao, Theo, and Maignan), just need to add stronger depth and uncover a couple more stars, which is doable. We have a lengthy window to win right now, so there’s time to build on the very solid foundation Maldini, Massara, Boban, Moncada, and Pioli built.

How did they build the core? Leao cost 30 mil, Theo was 22 mil. Tomori was 28 mil. Now suddenly you can consistently find Leao and Theo like players with a 35 mil mercato?? The other clubs spending 200 plus million have ******s in charge? Even if your management people are smarter, how much more smarter could they possibly be?
 
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