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Mihajlovic: ‘Berlusconi didn’t want to give Donnarumma his senior debut’
“The week before Donnarumma’s debut, Berlusconi came to Milanello twice to convince me to play Diego Lopez instead. I told him that if he wanted Diego Lopez to play he should have sacked me; otherwise I’d have started Donnarumma. He decided to keep him and he made the right decision.”
“Berlusconi was a great president for 29 years out of 30 and I was at the club in his 30th year of presidency.” Mihajlovic, however, doesn’t just blame Berlusconi just for his choices on Donnarumma and confirms that he used to have a massive influence on the manager’s decisions.
“We played the first 7-8 games with a 4-3-1-2 system, like Berlusconi wanted”, Mihajlovic has told the Italian paper.
“It wasn’t the right formation for us and after the Napoli game I told myself that if I had to die, I should have done it with my ideas. We had better results after that.”
“Romagnoli would not be at AC Milan without me. Nobody wanted to invest € 25 million. Berluconi insisted that he was too expensive. He was, but it was a good investment too. I told Berlusconi that I would have paid the difference if he’d sold him for less than € 25 million.”
“Niang was supposed to go to Leicester last January, but I wanted him to stay giving him a chance in the starting XI and playing him on a regular basis. AC Milan would be weaker and poorer without me today.”
