‘Uselessly toxic’ – Ordine not interested in Maldini-Theo and sporting director debates | OneFootball

Franco Ordine believes that the meeting between Paolo Maldini and Theo Hernandez has been blown out of proportion, and isn’t taking sides in the sporting director debate.

Theo and Maldini had a coffee on Monday, and it was quite a long one as per the newspaper reports. They shared one in Ibiza back June 2019, when Maldini basically convinced the Frenchman to move to the Rossoneri, and a lot has happened in six years which meant the recent one made the news.

The former Real Madrid man has been unrecognisable this season and now both he and his idol are waiting to understand what the future holds for them, given that Maldini has been out of work since leaving the Rossoneri.

In the meantime, Milan are trying to figure out their course for the future, with many sporting director and head coach candidates being mentioned in the media over the past few days.

Ordine published his weekly column for MilanNews in which he spoke about the new stadium project and then went on to discuss a couple of other stories from the past few days.

“Theo-Maldini meeting. This news that has been circulating in recent days has also sparked a debate that is as usual uselessly toxic,” he said.

“My reflection is very neutral and is the following: being surprised by the fact that Theo, who arrived at Milan after the famous meeting in Ibiza with Maldini, had a coffee with his mentor, seems to me to be the result of this climate of everyone against everyone that has made the air of the Milan world unbreathable.

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“If Theo needs to ask for advice, talk about his professional future, maybe let off steam, let him do it with Paolo, it must not become a case of internal Rossoneri guerrilla warfare. They did it in public because they have nothing to hide.

“Maldini has always remembered that his greatest work, during the Milanello days, was to ‘support the players’, highlighting another shortcoming of the current management.

“If Theo and Milan have decided (wrongly, from my point of view, in the case of the club) to separate, that meeting is not the cause but the consequence.

“Choice of the sporting director. I am not passionate about it and I have no profiles to prefer or electoral campaigns to participate in.

“I only have two observations: 1) the chosen one must start working, at full capacity, from… yesterday, immediately in short; 2) he must share the club’s guidelines especially in terms of financial constraints.

“All of us journalists will judge him not by personal sympathies but by the results produced. For this reason, siding with one profile or another is another vicious effect of the current state of Milan.”