After building Milan’s glory over three decades and making it one of the most prominent giants of European football before selling it, former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, the businessman returns to Italy’s Serie A football “Serie A” from the gates of a modest Montaza, with the goal not to be content with conflict over surviving among adults, but to compete and win titles.
The 85-year-old billionaire made his goals clear when, immediately after Monta’s promotion to the first division in his story, he said: “You know? We want to win the league title and qualify for the Champions League.”
Of course, it’s too early to talk about the Champions League, but the newcomer should gain experience in senior games and deal with each match separately in his first campaign in the top division, starting with Saturday’s start-up game against Turin.
Montaza, bought by Berlusconi in 2018, moved to the First Division after defeating Pisa in the playoffs and advanced to Serie A.
With a 2–1 home win, Montaza secured his first promotion after a dramatic second leg, which was decided 4–3 after an extension (2–3 after regular time) at the Pisa stadium, in front of Berlusconi. who led Milan to its golden era and led from 1986 to 2017.
“It’s great fun,” Berlusconi told DAZUN. “Monza was founded in 1912 and didn’t get into Serie A.” We succeeded today and Montasa now has the team he deserves and will face the Italian top league next season.”
Berlusconi bought Monza a year after he sold Milan, which has become a national and continental giant in his state, winning the Champions League five times and the national championship eight times.
Finishing fourth in the second division, Monza was in addition to the clubs that finished between third and eighth.
Hanna Galliani-Montaza, who is close to Milan, was still in the third tier when Berlusconi bought him in 2018 for around $3.4 million.
It was promoted to the second division (Serie B) in 2020. He failed to advance to the elite league last year, losing in the playoffs despite a tough contracting policy that included Ghanaian Kevin-Prince Boateng and a troubled striker. Mario Balotelli.
Berlusconi entrusted the management of the club to his right hand during Milan’s success years Adriano Galliani, 77 years old. He signed with coach Giovanni Stropa (54), a former Milan and Monza player who led Crotone to the first division in 2020.
Now, after securing his presence in the senior game, Berlusconi’s return to Serie A coincides with his former club AC Milan winning the title for the first time since 2011 after defeating arch-rival Inter, champions the season before last.
The return to adult play is not limited to sports, but on Wednesday Berlusconi said he hoped to return to the Italian parliament in elections scheduled for next month, nearly a decade after he was forced out of politics by his conviction. for tax fraud.
Berlusconi is still on trial for allegedly paying guests to lie at his sex parties when he was prime minister.
Galliani’s presence at the side of the former premier means there is an experienced man at the club who knows how to secure 11 signings since the team’s promotion to the first division, most notably Matteo Pesina, who will wear his hometown team’s armband once on the pitch . loan from Atalanta.
The new signings also include many with first division experience, such as Gianluca Caprari, who starred last season for Verona, and goalkeeper Alessio Cranio, known for blocking penalty shootouts.
– “How should we compete with Nottingham Forest?” – Galliani also signed former Inter players Stefano Sensi and Andrea Ranocchia, with the aim of adding big stars to the team, albeit excluded, like former Inter and Paris Saint-Germain. striker, the current Argentinean Mauro Icardi.
Galliani and his men will need all the help they can get in their baptism of fire as they face Napoli, Roma, Atalanta and Juventus in the first seven stages of the season.
Galliani said in an interview with Totosport published on Tuesday that “+Siri C+ (third degree) is a game, +Siri B+ (second degree) is a different game, and +Siri A+ (first degree) is a completely different game. the game”. the game.” .
“We bought the club, which until June 2017 was an amateur team. It was clear that the players there would not win the third division, so… we had to replace them,” he said, adding: “Today, in the same context, we need to replace some of those who won the division.” Secondly, many of them will struggle with “Siri A”.
Galliani also drew attention to continental issues, highlighting the need for a European Super League, a breakaway from the traditional Champions League, without English Premier League clubs, to restore the financial balance that had been upset by the vast wealth of the Premier League.
In this regard, he said: “20 English clubs in the elite league earn almost four times what 20 clubs in the Italian league earn”, explaining: “We have won 33 million euros from broadcasting rights, of which three million have been sent to the second tier clubs … a newcomer team in the Premier League receives 160 million euros from television (transmission rights). How should we compete with Nottingham Forest? A newcomer from the second level of the “Championship” to the English Premier League.
