The financial troubles that exist in Italian football have been well documented in recent years. With the bursting of the housing ‘bubble’ in the US last October things have only got worse for everyone including Italian football that was already on the decline.

Yet, there are a number of reasons why Milan should not be in such a financial predicament that Silvio and Adriano claim the club to be in.

The annual financial reports conducted by Deloitte on all the top clubs in the world ranked Milan 8th last year. This was the worst ranking achieved by Milan in the last decade as the club has normally floated around the 5th or 6th mark.

Milan are also the most successful Italian club of the decade having won a Scudetto and winning the champions league twice as well as being runners up on one other occasion.

The milan shirt this decade has been adorned by some of the greatest players in modern football, Maldini, Shevchenko, Kaka, Pirlo and Rivaldo to name a few.

Yet, for all the successes of the last decade, Milan still found itself in the red that was until the sale of Kaka.

Most perplexing is that the man supposedly behind Milan, Silvio Berlusconi, is arguably the richest and most powerful man in Italy. A man, who has legislated laws that let him extend his stay as the Prime Minister, who has brought in other numerous laws that have only extended his power, a man who effectively holds a stranglehold over the whole of Italy yet despite all this, AC Milan before the sale of Kaka was in the red.

It does not add up and furthermore, it is hard to explain. Credit to Silvio must be given for in his time as Milan President Milan have won five European cups and a host of other trophies. He has in his time helped Milan become the number one club in the world. In short, in his time as President, Milan have enjoyed the most successful period ever in its illustrious history.

But times have changed, Milan are no longer the force they once were, our best players are leaving being replaced by less able others if replaced at all. Financially the club is reeling and the squad has been crying out for new and young blood. If it were not for Kaka’s heroics in the 2007 Champions League, the cracks that have appeared this last year would have appeared earlier.

This transfer season has brought great change to Milan. Gone is our beloved captain Maldini, our gifted Brazilian maestro Kaka and our two-time winning Champions League coach Carletto.

So far no one has replaced these surely to be missed stars and as for the new coaching appointment in Leonardo, whilst I am hopeful that he will be a success, he comes in with no experience and a team shaken by the loss of key players. Leonardo has the job of rebuilding a squad that is in need of new blood all over the park, and making them a team competitive enough to fight for the all the honours a team like AC Milan should always be fighting for.

In Berlusconi, fans of Milan would have thought that for all his power and riches that Milan would never be in the situation it finds itself in now. Indeed, the only explanation sufficient is that Silvio has simply lost interest. Perhaps enjoying himself and the presence much younger ladies is what tinkles his fancy more now that does Calcio.

My point is that Silvio has given Milan much in his time, everything in fact. It is understandable that having won everything with Milan that his interest is on the wane, perhaps he is due for a fresh challenge.

If this is the case, Berlusconi should do what is right in the interests of the club and move on. By this he would pave the way for a new president with a new enthusiasm and dedication (and lots of money) to making Milan great again. With a new president may come a new management team that Milan are sorely in need of as Adriano, for whatever reason, has clearly been failing of late. He has not only shown up short this current transfer season but much the financial plight of Milan he surely must be blamed for to an extent.

This is what happens just like when private companies start losing money, new management is introduced. All external factors set aside as they should be, when an organisation starts to perform below par, heads must role.

So in the case of Milan, Galliani and co must go. Silvio, for all his capability, is no longer interested in the success of AC Milan and he therefore must go too.