Paolo Maldini announced with barely an hour to spare that he has signed the new Milan contract. ‘We left it to the last minute, but we did it and are ready to plan a future with even more victories.’
According to multiple sources including the Corriere della Sera and MilanNews.it, Maldini spent several hours in the Milan headquarters with his lawyers today going over the final details of the contract that was only sent over this morning.
He finally emerged at 22.20 local time, so just 100 minutes before the previous contracts officially expired.
“Everything is sorted. We renewed at the last minute, but we did it,” Maldini told reporters.
“We are happy to be here and ready to plan a future with even more victories. There’s time, we started a bit late, but we’ll recover lost time. I am very happy.”
The deal should run to June 2024.
The Rossoneri really let it go down to the wire, not locking down their directors and the architects of the Serie A title victory until the final day of their existing contracts.
Set to expire at midnight tonight, Maldini and Frederic Massara wanted to negotiate the best possible situation for themselves, above all focused on getting more decision-making powers.
It’s a time of flux for the club, as Milan are in the process of a takeover from American investors RedBird, with Elliott Management remaining as minority shareholders, that won’t be complete until September.
Maldini is a club legend who spent his entire playing career with the Diavolo, then arrived as a director of development in 2018 before his promotion to technical director in 2019.
Massara was in Rimini today where the transfer market officially opened and spoke on stage, but did not mention the contract situation.
Paolo #Maldini all’uscita da Casa #Milan: “Abbiamo rinnovato, sono felice anche se non si vede. Siamo un po’ in ritardo, ma in tempo per programmare un futuro vincente” ❤️🖤 (via @antonello_gioia) pic.twitter.com/22gLa2pyKS
— MilanNews.it (@MilanNewsit) June 30, 2022
I’m glad
Me too
The best signing of the marceto
All Milan fans are happy
Great news but it does now take away the uncertainty we are heading into. With Red Bird not being able to formalise the takeover until Sep, the market will be closed and games will be well under way. With only a 50-60 mil budget, it is going to be very hard to retain the crown. Inter have bolstered and are still on the lookout for reinforcements and I am sure Juventus will be more active sooner rather than later.
Measly two Years …What’s that?
Now get bremer Sanches zaniolo ziyech & Bellotti
Where is FERBAN?
Great news no one better
What else was he gonna do?
That’s a sigh of relief.
Regardless, this dosen’t look good for the club or Red Bird Capital. What the hell happened? What were the struggles? How can the Seria A champions loose so much time on something that ought to be a formality.
No point in having a lot of confidence in Red Bird Capital and ask yourselves this; What have RBC bought to the table?
So far only instability.