RATIONALITY AND EMOTION
6/4/2009 5:52:00 PM
Silvio Berlusconi speaks: 'Me and Kaká will speak on Monday. Not everything has been decided yet, inside of me I still hope for a surprise. But football has never been centered on this or that player.'
MILAN - Silvio Berlusconi speaks. The Milan president talked about the current topics at Milan: here are his main declarations of today to Mediaset's microphones.
"Football should be rationality and emotion. You can't take a decision only with reasoning, also because as you know I follow Erasmus of Rotterdam who said that the most right decisions are not the ones that come from intelligence, but those that come from a kind of visionary madness.'
'The Kaká case is quite complicated. Reason goes in one direction, sentiment goes the other way. Then there's Kaká's interest, as with Shevchenko, who was and still is a good friend of mine. When they offered him a bigger fee, I decided I could not oppose myself. We could not raise his salary the way Chelsea would with their offer, because by law we would have had to raise the salaries of all our players and this would have brought Milan to suffer heavy losses or to go bankrupt.
Already today we presented a balance with heavy losses over the years, because petrol dollars have entered football and some Russian personalities too. Going on like this there won't be a chance to have balanced accounts. We have to say stop to craziness and work by staying careful of the balances. We will reason on this. If aside from this, Kaká made it clear that they would pay him better we would leave it up to him. Me and Kaká have made an appointment for a long phone call on Monday. Not everything has been decided yet, inside of me I still hope for a surprise. Inside of me I hope.
'I don't want to hear talk of a redimensioned Milan, which is still the most winning club in the world. It's unthinkable that we would have to give up on our mission of being in command of the pitch and of the football. The mission will not change. Football has never been centered on this or that player. There are many good players. Milan will have to look for a true striker who would make us improve in quality going forward. I won't name names, or else the prices will increase...'
'Only Kaká is currently uncertain of staying, Pato, Seedorf and Pirlo are unsellable. We will renew Ambrosini's contract and he'll be our captain.'
'Ancelotti? There are cycles, then you have to change. There are some seasons where you have to say 'stop' and change. Leonardo will repeat the journey of Fabio Capello. I had seen excellent qualities in Capello as a manager, as a man and as a motivator. We made him start as a manager, then he went to coach youths, and then in the end, when we felt he was ready, we made him the coach, with the results we all know. The new coach will bring new ambition and excitement to Milan, we will aim for new targets with him. Carlo Ancelotti will do fine at Chelsea.'
'I told Cristiano Ronaldo that I would like to see him as a Rossonero and he looked at me... Who doesn't like Milan? All players would like to come to Milan.'
