The CEO of Monza: “The conflicts within the system arose and worsened when 4 big names thought that the format of Serie A could be changed by abolishing the right of agreement between the Federation and the League”
Adriano Galliani, CEO of Monza and a great former AC Milan player, attacks his former team and the other big names who tried to push through the reduction of Serie A to 18 teams from the current 20. “I fully agree with President Gravina’s report. We need to think about what to do. The conflicts within the system arose and worsened when four big names, Milan, Inter, Juventus and Roma, thought that through the abolition of the right of agreement between the Federation and League could change the format of Serie A from 20 to 18 – said Galliani during the hearings before the Senate Culture and Education Commission on the “Prospects for the reform of Italian football” – So the belief was born in the majority of clubs, later proved to be incorrect, that the federal president agreed with this position”.
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“I can’t ask questions, I’m the legal representative of a Serie A team and therefore I struggle to be impartial” added Galliani. When asked by Albertini what he would have done if he had still been manager of Milan, Galliani replied: “I would have attempted a less crude maneuver, I would have moved in a different way. You can also go from 20 to 18 teams, but with resources and percentages of revenues to those who are relegated. At the moment an incredible gap is being created between the top ones in Italy, which have a turnover of 500 million, and the last ones which have a turnover of 50 million. This was not the case in the past”, concluded Galliani.
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