Berlusconi's friend and AC Milan's CEO is going to leave the club, as he has been turfed out by Barbara Berlusconi

Friday, 29 November 2013. AC Milan's vice president and CEO Adriano Galliani leaves the football team owned by Silvio Berlusconi, due to Barbara Berlusconi harsh criticism.

“I suffered a serious damage”, said Adriano Galliani, good old friend and business partner of Silvio Berlusconi, saying that the “generational replacement” within the team AC Milan should be done, but it has been carried out without the “duly elegance”.

Adriano Galliani and Barbara Berlusconi, at a football match

His problem is none the less than Berlusconi daughter, Barbara Berlusconi, even though her name is not on the lips of the visibly cross manager. “I went to Madrid this summer to take Kaka without an appointment” said Galliani in an interview today, “and as I went in August 2010 to take Ibrahimovic Barcelona president Rosell returned from vacation he had planned on purpose, with his whole family.”.

Nobody understands why such an internationally admired manager has been being treated in this way, is the point. Even Chelsea manager (an former Inter Milan's coach) Jose Mourinho said that “Galliani is the most important manager of AC Milan”.


Things were never idyllic between the 29-year-old Barbara and the bald manager who will turn 70 next year, but it was in the beginning of November 2013 that Barbara Berlusconi started to openly criticise Galliani. Rumour had it that she asked her father to fire him, but the young woman and member of the board of directors of the soccer club has always denied having asked for the Galliani's head.

Despite the tormented vicissitude, Galliani said he still loves Silvio Berlusconi, who had been busy with his own problems – as his ousting from Italy's Senate was in the offing  – and apparently isn't directly responsible for the turfing out of AC Milan's CEO.

Galliani said he might wait until AC Milan plays Ajax in the UEFA Champions' League tournament, on December 11, before saying goodbye to the team he somehow managed since 1986.

When asked what he will do, the reply was that he will get a bit of rest. He might manage a new football club, though, on PS4.

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