Milan replace Maldini with artificial intelligence, but football is not baseball

Milan thinks of an American model after cutting Paolo Maldini. Today’s edition of Repubblica writes that criticizes the choice of the club: “Yet the symbolic champion, who became a successful executive, felt so involved in the relaunch of Milan that he sent Cardinale a detailed strategy and development document two months ago, a three-year and sustainable project which however remained without any response. The Americans have launched another one: they put artificial intelligence, algorithms and data applied to the transfer market and governed by Billy Beane, 61, baseball guru with the Oakland Athletics, subject of book and film (Moneyball) played by Brad Pitt.

On Monday, after Maldini’s farewell, Cardinale met CEO Giorgio Furlani Beane in person: the meeting became the first formal act of the new AC Milan market consultant. In American sport victories and defeats have a different weight and in football the most striking examples of the use of algorithms (Midtjylland, Brentford, Brighton) are on a smaller scale: the unknowns are many.