In an interview with So footballAriedo Braida summed up the current crisis that Milan is going through (of which he was director in the past, at the time of the Golden couple formed by the president of the time Silvio Berlusconi and the managing director of the time Adriano Galliani), who occupies 9th place in the championship and was prematurely released in barrage in the Champions League in recent weeks. He notably confused Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the Redbird sports advisor:
“”The players are responsible, but it is difficult to perform in a club without identity. What is missing is a leader, a strong man as was Berlusconi. There was a guiding principle between him and Galliani. Screening Maldini was a serious mistake, and throwing it out in this inexcusable way. Maldini is a legend who worked very well and represented the institution to his best. Ibrahimovic is not a reference, a strong man. Ibrahimovic does not yet have skills and experience to be a strong man, capable of managing a club, he is only a communicator»»