When former owner Silvio Berlusconi sold AC Milan to Yonghong Li he promised the club would be in safe hands. Two years latter, the Rossoneri are banned from Europa League.
And they all lived happily ever after. After the formalization of AC Milan’s ban from the next edition of Europa League, everyone seems to be satisfied. Well, except for the fans who can’t imagine Milan, the most decorated Italian club, outside Europe. Just think of the huge outcry it would have caused had it happened to Barcelona, Bayern Munich or Liverpool.
AC Milan’s second consecutive ban from Europe (the first was overturned by CAS) represents one of the darkest and most humiliating moments of the century-old Rossoneri history. And for all this we can thank the last years of the infamous management of former owner Silvio Berlusconi, his daughter Barbara and CEO Adriano Galliani.
First of all for having dug a crater in the budget of the club during the aforementioned period, then for having sold AC Milan to that mythological character of which we now struggle even to remember the face and who answers to the name of Yonghong Li. The fans should be furious with Mr. Li who brought the club to the lowest point after many years, but Berlusconi, who sold the most glorious Italian club to the anonymous and bankrupted Chinese “businessman”, had the moral obligation to deliver Milan to a figure that could make it grow even more.