🚨 The 2026/27 Serie A calendar:

Matchday 1: Torino - Milan Matchday 2: Milan - Venezia

🗣️ Paolo Maldini to @repubblica: “Why did I remain silent for 6 months? Time allows you to have serenity. There are people who pass through,m without real respect for the identity and history of Milan. And there are others linked to their ideals, it would be better to keep them close.”
Maldini: “Was I expecting my departure? If the club was sold for 1.2 billion and the new owners want to change, they have the right. But people and roles must be respected. I had to find an agreement for my rights, my love for Milan remains unconditional.”

🗣️ Cardinale to @Corriere: “When I was at Piazza Duomo last year during the Sassuolo game we had already defined everything [the acquisition of Milan], but we had decided not to make it public before the last game so as not to interfere.” Cardinale: “There is a background that no one knows: my dad used to send me to Italy when I was a child. I was here in 1982 when the Azzurri won the World Cup: I was watching Franco Baresi, Daniele Massaro, Paolo Rossi, I had their poster in my room, I'll have to talk to Franco and Daniele about it!”

🗣️ Pioli to @SkySport: “I want a happy Milan in 2023/24 season. I have a goal, and I told everyone: to be happy and coach happy players. Happy to play together, play a certain type of football and to wear such a prestigious shirt.” Pioli: “There is enthusiasm and emotions as normal for it to be at the beginning of the season. We are Milan and 2023/24 will have to be important. We're approaching the season with changes but I see everyone motivated.”

🚨 The departures of Maldini and Massara had the effect of a real shock wave in Milan’s offices and in the regional press that follows the club. Cardinale expressed his desire to establish an American-style sports culture by investing more in marketing, infrastructure and… https://t.co/wIjj3bHVCntwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🚨 Cardinale intends to rely on several American experts, including Billy Beane (former baseball player and executive) and Luke Bornn (creator of Zelus Analytics), using the analysis of advanced data and statistics as much as possible. A Silicon Valley atmosphere could invade the… https://t.co/MSfZvX17yQtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

🗣️ Paolo Scaroni: “Where do I start from? From the fact that all of us, and particularly me, have always had an excellent relationship with Paolo Maldini, who is a gentleman. He is a person attached to Milan and who did well at Milan. However, we follow a bit innovative model, at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Scaroni: “It is an organizational model that is very dear to our shareholder [Cardinale] who, let us remember, is a sports specialist who boasts success in his activities. When he suggests something to us we pay great attention, because we think it brings innovations.”

🚨 Giorgio Furlani to @Gazzetta_it: “First thing I would like to say thank you to Paolo [Maldini] and Ricky [Massara] and express my gratitude to all the Milan employees for all their contributions at the club in these years.” Furlani: “Paolo was one of the best players of all time and as a director, together with Massara, has played an important role to bring our 19th Scudetto. There is sorrow to see them leave.”

📸 | Milan training 5-7-2022 📸 | Milan training 5-7-2022

🚨 Pioli: “Our strength has been to continue to believe in our qualities, our players and the way we play. These are characteristics that we must maintain and improve, always questioning ourselves.” Pioli: “I know you [journalists] will ask me a lot of market questions but in all cases I'm sure none of our players have reached their full potential.”

Calhanoglu: “Ibrahimovic should have written about me in his book because if he didn't, his book would be empty.” Calhanoglu: “Ibrahimovic is 40 years old, I wouldn't do that [his antics] if I were 40. You are not 18 years old. He likes to attract attention, he is living with them now. He had no contribution this year, he did not play at all.”

🚨 Scaroni: “The ownership change created some complexities that weren’t there and delayed several things. I am not concerned about Maldini and Massara’s issue, I have no doubt that an agreement will be reached for this duo that was so important in making us win the Scudetto.” Scaroni: “My dream? Doing well in the Champions League. Last year we were eliminated in the group stages and this year we aim to do better and bring Milan back to compete as they have done so much in the past.”

🚨 Maldini to @Gazzetta_it: “This Scudetto was a masterpiece. It’s the victory of ideas, of the desire and the spirit of the group. We stayed at the top for two years managing to do something great against the odds.” Maldini: “It’s not trivial that in the last 20 years we just won two scudetti. That’s why it gives us much pride.”

🚨 Giroud to @lequipe: “The celebrations reflected the expectations of the club and the fans. Everything has been exceptional since the end of the match in Sassuolo. There were more than 18,000 supporters there. It was as if we were playing at home.“ Giroud: “We had a great party in the locker room. We all blew the cigar! But only Zlatan came out with it for the night. presentation of the trophy. Only he could do that.”

Kjær to TV2 Sport: “In the last four weeks, my schedule has been organized according to how the weekend game went. What does that mean? It means that I was prepared to play against Sassuolo.” Kjær: “I don't think the doctors thought the same way as me. Fortunately for them no one was injured or quarantined. I would have said that obviously I was ready to play. I feel fine.”

🚨 Ivan Gazidis to @BBCSport: “Milan was built on success in Europe so that is a really important part of our DNA. For us, that is our next step, to become more competitive on the European front.” Gazidis: “Tomori has been extraordinary throughout the season. He is absolutely a pillar of this team. He is one of the players we would like to build our team around - and he has been a fantastic addition on and off the field."

🚨 Tonali to @Gazzetta_it: “When win changes everything, if possible the attachment to the shirt increases. I was a child on the street in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, a Milanese town, for the celebrations as a fan.” Tonali: “In Reggio Emilia it was crazy, but I realized what we did only once we got back to Casa Milan. I saw the emotions in the eyes of the people around us, hallucinating.”

🚨 Theo Hernandez interview with @TheAthletic in the coming thread 👇 Theo Hernandez: “When I was growing up, I watched Paolo Maldini. I have a very close relationship with Maldini, from the first time we saw each other in Ibiza he set things straight.”

📸 | Milan training 19-1-2021 📸 | Milan training 19-1-2021

🚨 Maldini to DAZN: “We can't think of Berlusconi's Milan. He signed the best players in the world, don't expect transfer market hits worth several million. We try to be sustainable, that's our ownership’s mission.” Maldini: “Botman? He is a very good player, he is owned by Lille with a contract until 2024. He is not the only good player, there are others too. But it [the defender] is a necessity.”

🚨 in light of the COVID-19 outbreak in several teams, an extraordinary meeting for Lega Serie A council has just started 🚨 Serie A could approve UEFA’s COVID-19 protocol for which a team is capable of playing a game if they have 13 players available

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🚨 Pioli: “We have recovered several players who are not yet at their 100% but soon they will be. None of them have 90 minutes in their legs and they need to play for some minutes in games to be fully fit.” 🚨 Pioli: “Transfer market? The ideas are clear and mutual. Kjaer's injury forces us to keep an eye on defense. I have not made any other requests because I think the team is complete the way it is.”