Fabio Paratici seemed destined to become AC Milan’s new sporting director, then everything fell through. A report has revealed the background story.
Corriere dello Sport speak this morning of ‘federal pressure’ being the reason that Paratici did not arrive at Milan, as clarified by the reconstruction of some background confirmed by federal sources that the paper have been able to corroborate.
The first factor
First clue: at the beginning of April, while he was busy in Belgrade with the works of the UEFA congress that then elected him vice-president to Aleksander Čeferin, Gabriele Gravina received a phone call from Paolo Scaroni.
The president of Milan asked him for a preventive opinion on the regulatory issue related to Paratici’s sporting ban, expiring on July 20th. Gravina repeated, on that occasion, the same statement he had made officially on Wednesday morning in Milan, speaking at a conference on youth football:
“Paratici can be contracted by Milan, but he can only operate from July 21st,” As if to say: if you move, I’ll strike you down. From here, the alarm went off at Milan and it was decided to interrupt the negotiations, which had reached a very advanced stage.
The drafting of the contracts had been completed and sent to the respective lawyers for approval, showing how far things had pushed ahead.
