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This is just another case of a club owner who thinks he knows everything about football and wants things to go his way at all times, AC Milan has former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as the club owner. Every time a decision is made in the club, he always wants to give feedback that helps the team. But his decisions ceased having any value a long time ago, he did call good shots a decade ago but now things are different.
That's why he nearly was responsible for Gianluigi Donnarumma's exit from the club a couple years ago, but fortunately the manager back then didn't listen to Berlusconi's demands. For Silvio, trying to debut a young goalkeeper and play him over Spaniard Diego Lopez was considered suicide. But Sinisa Mihajlovic who was the manager at the time knew what a unique talent Donnarumma was and decided to ignore Berlusconi's warnings.
Talking to Corriere della Sera, Sinisa said: "Everybody was questioning my decision to play Donnarumma because we also had Diego Lopez and Gianluigi was only 16. But he is now part of the national team and is priceless. Giving him his debut will always be something I am proud about. Did I take a risk by playing him? When I played Donnarumma, Berlusconi came to Milanello twice to tell me that I had to play Diego Lopez. I told him that he had two options. One option was to fire me and put Diego Lopez back in the team, the other was to keep me and see Donnarumma play. He decided to keep me, fortunately.
"My time at Milan was difficult right from the start. We had lost some valuable time early in the season because president Berlusconi wanted us to play in a 4-3-1-2 formation, even if it was clear that formation was wrong for us. I had had enough after the game against Napoli and decided that if I was going to lose my job, I might as well go out on my own conditions and playing philosophy. And then the results slowly started to come. It was an honour to get to know Berlusconi and I will always be grateful to him. He was the best president out there for 29 years of his 30 years at the club. The 30th year was when I was there..."
Photo credit: AC Milan
