What I meant to say, it’s that not only Milan, but ALL Italian clubs are falling in second tier, because they can’t economically compete with other Nations. A multibillionaire like Mansour or Abramovich probably will never come in Italy, as it is not profitable, especially in such economic time in Italy. This summer transfer market was the proof of this, with almost all the biggest players and the hottest prospects of Serie A going abroad. The times when Milan could buy a Balon d’Or like Papin and kept him on the bench are over.

The need to rebuild will come if Milan will fail to qualify for Champion’s League next year, like it happened this year at Inter (they sold a good lot of the treble protagonists) and happened before at Juventus (two years ago there were still players who were there before Calciopoli, not to mention all the bidoni bought by Secco). Milan is just going to a familiar path that both Juventus and Inter experienced in the recent past (in addition, Inter last year was playing in the CL and they went out after two horrible matches with Marseille in the round of sixteen). And rebuilt is not anymore buying at the most expensive price, but buying bargain players and hot prospects. Not like Milan did this summer.

Milan surely has been among the best teams in the world and its role in the game is a big one, none it’s denying it. I’m pleased that they managed to qualify for the next CL even before Juventus, but before yesterday (and I wrote this piece last weekend) they were risking, in a frankly easy group. So no need of being nasty :)

First off, Inter is no big team at the moment. Sure they’ve done better than the disaster last season, but during their “disaster period” they weren’t in the CL like Milan is.
Juve was relegated during their disaster period, and even then only improved after a long 2-3 seasons.

So you’re telling me, that a club with the history of AC Milan, the second best club in the world in that respect, is going to all of a sudden become second tier? What proof do you have of that? How come clubs which have been second tier throughout history (Juve and Inter in terms of Europe, Napoli, Udinese in Serie a) have managed to recover from hard periods, but Milan, THE Italian club, will have to fall second tier? Your reasoning as I stated is silly, since they’ve had one half bad season, which is nothing compared to what the above clubs went through.

AC Milan have always drawn investors and always had success. You forget that for a season it finished outside CL qualifying and lost to Werder Bremen in the Euro cup. This is when they had the “old backbone” and Kaka. Clearly, they recovered from that, and they’ll do it again.

Give it a season, a big investor to replace our now troubled Berlusconi, and Milan will be a club teams fear again. Anyone who closely follows the politics of Milan should know this.

In fact, they already got qualified to CL play-off while Juventus hasn’t yet, you Mr Know It All.
Keep talking …