Cardinale offers message to the fans before Inter-Milan: “It is our duty” | OneFootball

Before the derby, AC Milan’s owner, Gerry Cardinale, spoke to the media, and he offered a message to the AC Milan fanbase about his, and the club’s duty.

In many ways, Cardinale is a controversial figure for Milan. For some, he has taken the club backwards. Others do not see it in the same way. However, the American owner has been on a mission to develop the club in recent years.

The main priority for the RedBird owner is to create a new stadium for Milan, with the goal of ‘doing what the Yankees did‘ – leaving their old, iconic home to a new one with higher revenue opportunities. With the Rossoneri and Inter both deciding against the current San Siro renovation plans, it seems this plan could happen sooner than imagined.

When speaking at the Giornata dello Sport Italiano nel Mondo conference in New York, Cardinale offered a message to the fans, explaining his current aims and an update on how he will communicate.

The fans…

“In America, the person who spends the money to buy the teams is the team owner. In Italy, I think the fans believe that the team is owned by them and we have a job to do to satisfy this concept. But what I’m trying to do, and I’m not getting much help in the Italian ecosystem, is a partnership between all the participants in the value chain: the fans, the local government, the national government, and the capital to build our infrastructure.

“We have the European Championship coming up in 2032. I’m trying to make a stadium in Milan and with that, there should be a wave of improvements throughout Serie A, so that we become more competitive.

A message…

“My message to the fans doesn’t seem to be working, so I would say the message to the fans is that I won’t give you any message until we win. Because I understand that is the only thing you are interested in. But I will do my job and we will do everything we can to win. But win intelligently. And if I do that, we will be long-lived. And we will contribute to the growth of the whole ecosystem, as I believe is our duty.”