FLASH
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Seven short lines are definitely not enough to complete a fantastic story of success and generous investments in Italian football by the Berlusconi family, leaving a unique and unrepeatable legacy.
These seven lines are short, but they have closed a magnificent chapter that has lasted almost 40 years.
Here they are: Fininvest SpA and Beckelt Layne Ventures announce the completion of the first closing of the transaction for the sale of the share capital of AC Monza SpA, previously announced on 1 July 2025.
After completing the necessary regulatory authorizations and fulfilling the conditions set out in the agreement, BVL officially takes control of the club with 80% of the shares.
Fininvest will remain a shareholder in the club with 20% of the shares, which will be sold to BVL by June 2026. To put the words into concrete terms, this is a €45 million sale for a club that had then fallen to Serie B, a transaction that borders on the impossible, according to an industry insider.
If dates have any meaning, we should reconnect the thread of collective memory with February 20, 1986, the day Fininvest took such a step.
Returning from a short break in St. Moritz, Silvio Berlusconi informed his managers that he would enter Italian football by saving Farina's Milan from the brink of bankruptcy.
Thus began the magical adventure that revolutionized Italian and European football and changed the lives of Milan fans, who had since been relegated to Serie B twice.
The story began with the helicopter landing at the Arena, then continued with the meeting at the Pomerio Castle to define the mission ("we have to become the strongest team in the world"), which initially provoked harsh jokes ("they'll have to escape with the helicopters", dared Juventus player Tacconi), which were later forgotten thanks to the rapid triumphs of the Scudetto, the European Cup and the Intercontinental Cup in a space of less than two years.
It was a triumphant journey that lasted 31 extraordinary years during which, despite entering the fray in 1994 after winning the general elections in March of that year, Silvio Berlusconi and his Fininvest devoted vast financial resources and a collection of star players and Ballon d'Or winners to that enterprise, which had become a colossus on the European and world football scene.
In April 2017, the first major resignation took place, the painful sale of AC Milan, explained in a didactic way and entrusted to a Chinese collector who completed the transaction thanks to a large loan from the Elliott fund, which then became the full owner of the club.
However, the famous Berlusconi-Galliani duo remained without a team for just over a year, before a new challenge emerged in September 2018: taking over Monza in Serie C and trying to lead it to Serie A for the first time, a goal they achieved in June 2022. With the sale of Monza, Paolo Berlusconi, honorary president and right-hand man of Mediaset founder Adriano Galliani, until recently CEO of his native club, left the scene.
The symbolic meeting is scheduled for Monday, September 29, Silvio's birthday: the board of directors meeting and the meeting of the new shareholders will complete the formal handover of control. Fininvest will definitively leave football, and Adriano Galliani will be free to "dedicate himself to other activities in which I am involved", which is not only his role as senator for Forza Italia. In fact, he has painfully rejected the offer to remain president of Monza because there is something else in his immediate future. Another journey of Ulysses to Ithaca is approaching, the most anticipated and most enthusiastic on the fan websites and AC Milan chat rooms: his return to AC Milan.
The idea of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, taken up and relaunched by Gerry Cardinale, ready to offer him the position of vice president with specific responsibility for sporting matters, making him the charismatic figure to support Allegri and Tara. With the guaranteed blessing of Silvio.
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