Milan ultras demand Galliani exit

By Football Italia staff

Milan ultras announce a protest for tonight’s game with Empoli, demanding CEO Adriano Galliani’s dismissal.

The Rossoneri brought in a series of top players this summer, including Carlos Bacca, Luiz Adriano, Andrea Bertolacci and Alessio Romagnoli.

However, after a 2-0 opening round defeat to Fiorentina, the fans promised another protest against the club during tonight’s game with Empoli.

“The real transfer coup we are all waiting for is the removal, voluntary or not, of our CEO Adriano Galliani,” read a statement by the Curva Sud ultras group.

“Once again he proved his incompetence on the market and if there were any more doubts he showed his real interests by negotiating for players with his usual agents (above all Mino Raiola) or doing moves with Genoa and his friend Enrico Preziosi.

“Any eventual fireworks on transfer deadline day certainly won’t change our opinion. Unlike in the past, the club gave Galliani the necessary liquidity to sign top players.

“As of today, we can see that the same transfer approach has been taken. There are numerous ambiguous moves, such as signing players at a far higher rate than the prices we’ve seen circulating recently.

“Anyone can get a player by paying the buy-out clause, but the real market guru is able to find talents and get them before the rest. This hasn’t happened at Milan for a long time.

“We used to get relative unknowns from South America or Eastern Europe (such as Thiago Silva, Kaka and Andriy Shevchenko).

“Ariedo Braida was released as director of sport in 2013, almost as if his role was futile, but we see now how he’s doing at Barcelona. Perhaps a figure like him is uncomfortable for the famed Condor (Galliani’s nickname, ndr), who evidently decided to take sole control to further enrich his power in the world of football.

“We’ll ignore the embarrassing early market announcements for Jackson Martinez and Geoffrey Kondogbia to the Carlo Ancelotti soap opera.

“The market made up of free agents is shelved, at which point the true incompetence of Galliani finally became obvious.

“We therefore hope that those in charge of the club can take action against someone who over the last few years has thought only of his own interests, putting aside what is best for AC Milan, and in any other club he’d have already been sacked a long time ago.”

There was also a message welcoming new Coach Sinisa Mihajlovic, albeit with a warning.

“We appreciated your attempts to protect every member of the squad after the Coppa Italia game, but it is your job and that of every player to turn jeers into applause with hard work and performances up to the task.

“The fans are still scarred by the lack of effort and embarrassing performances from last season of some players who are still in the squad.”

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