Yahoo Sports Inter CEO Marotta blasts ‘confused’ Cardinale: “Out of place, disrespectful statements”
Inter president Beppe Marotta has hit back at Gerry Cardinale’s comments, calling them disrespectful and insisting that they are inaccurate.
Back on December 11 the Harvard Business School released a document containing a very interesting case study on Milan, in which the most influential and important people at the club were interviewed, including Cardinale.
We went through five of his most interesting declarations in a feature that went out last night, but what has made the headlines the most is that he claimed Inter went ‘bankrupt’ after winning the league title, something he would not want Milan to repeat.
Then, a report emerged claiming that the Nerazzurri leadership were far from happy about what he said, and now a more official response has arrived from the club president and CEO.
Marotta spoke to Sky just before Inter took on Como at San Siro last night, a game that they won 2-0, and he was asked for his thoughts on what Cardinale said.
“I didn’t want to talk about it, but I think it’s my duty to respond. I think they are out of place, disrespectful statements, of the prestige and image of our club and I think Cardinale got a bit confused,” he said (via Calciomercato.com).
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“It’s true that in the past years our majority shareholder has experienced a period of economic difficulty. He was immediately joined by Oaktree two years ago and Oaktree itself is now the owner of our club.
“Since then, we have drawn up some guidelines and I remind him that managing Inter is a completely different thing. We respect financial fair play, we have gone from a loss of 240 million to 36 million, achieving the victory of the Scudetto, the Supercup, we have won the second star and we are the only team in Milan that has it.”
