Milan market, no to the Saudis: Paolo Maldini Rossoneri or nothing

Anglo Milan soccer club: in his very long Rossoneri tenure, Paolo Maldini collected victories and trophies as a player and also as a manager. Despite this, his figure has become incredibly divisive in the eyes of fans over the years, ever since his controversial farewell with controversy with the curve at his last match in 2009. He then returned in 2018 as director of strategic development of the club&#8217s sports area, then celebrated the 2022 Scudetto in the club. A year later, another departure then materialized, also splitting public opinion. That, however, did not change the ideas of the person concerned.

Marco Enzo Venturini

Factored free of managerial commitments since the now rather distant June 6, 2023, Maldini has since then always stressed that he did not want to get back into the game at clubs other than his Milan club. An intent confirmed by some rumors that emerged during December, which has since been given space ‘Il Giornale’. According to the Milanese daily, in fact, especially in Saudi Arabia there have been numerous football clubs that have tried to contact him to offer him a job. Each of them, however, has since been rejected at the sender. In other words, the historic Rossoneri captain is aiming to sit solely and exclusively on the desk of the club whose history he has so overwhelmingly helped write.

After all, in the past two years there has been no shortage of options even in Italy for Maldini, who, however, has always remained granitic in his “no”. The most recent case is a month old, when there had been talk of a’Fiorentina hypothesis. “I got a call from my cousin who lives here– he said on the’occasion, from Viareggio, in an’interview for ‘Tuttomercatoweb’ -. I told him I didn&#8217t know anything about it. For me in Italy there&#8217s only one team and that” will be that way. Instead, in the spring of 2024, rumors spread of his possible move to Bergamo, where his son Daniel has since established himself as a player. Even the Atalanta suggestion, however, never materialized.

“Maldini is a person of the highest level and great prestige – said on the ’occasion Luca Percassi, interviewed by ‘Sky Sport’ on the sidelines of a Europa League match between Atalanta and Sporting Lisbon -. Despite this, however, the fact that he may join our club is totally fake news”.

Percassi, who of Atalanta is managing director, then explained what the club&#8217s corporate organization would be in the times to come. “We have a sports director like D’Amico, who quietly is doing a great job for the club. So the’Maldini hypothesis represents completely unfounded news” said the son of the Nerazzurri president in that March 2024.