Monza president Berlusconi: Palladino deserved chance; I still love AC Milan | OneFootball

Monza president Silvio Berlusconi was delighted with victory over Juventus on Sunday.

Berlusconi fired coach Giovanni Stroppa and replaced him with Raffaele Palladino last week and was rewarded with a stunning win.

“Taking Monza into Serie A after 110 years gave me more joy than winning the Champions League," Berlusconi told Telelombardia.

“I will intervene directly with advice, just as I did with all my coaches at Milan. Palladino is a coach I know well from his time with the Monza youth academy and I decided, along with Adriano Galliani, to put the team in his hands because in our view he really deserves it.

“There is at the same time no doubt that I will deal with the situation directly because I have proved that in football I know how to achieve the objectives that I set."

On former club AC Milan, he also said: “I was a Milan fan my whole life and still support them now, Milan are forever in my heart. Today I deal with Monza, with nostalgia for the past, but for obvious reasons I will abstain from getting into matters to do with Milan.

“I view the new owners with great respect and as a Milanista hope they can lead the club to new great success."