Five years ago he sold the club because it cost him too much. Then he took it into his head to bring the Brianza to Serie A and spared no investments: to read the balance sheets, the pace is that of the Rossoneri times
“Modern football, to compete at the highest European and world levels, requires investments and resources that a single family is no longer able to support”. So in April 2017 Silvio Berlusconi motivated the sale of Milan to Li Yonghong. The entrepreneur who had revolutionized Italian football, between a helicopter blitz at Milanello and break-market purchases (starting with Donadoni, snatched from Juve in 1986 with 10 billion lire), at a certain point had to surrender to the new times, at globalized football, to rich foreign capital. Not that the successor was so wealthy, far from it, but that’s another story … Il Cavaliere remained out of the football scene for a year and a few months, before embarking on an adventure that seemed like a gamble: to take over Monza in C and bring it, for the first time in its history, to Serie A. Now that the feat has been completed, it makes a certain impression to discover the financial aspects: to Berlusconi, Monza is costing almost as much as Milan, obviously in projection. Tired of pumping money continuously in the Rossoneri team, Silvio is repeating the same pattern in Brianza. It is clear that today’s figures have a considerably different weight compared to 20-30 years, but if we look at the total investments, the result is the following.