How come this doesn't get mentioned more often? Barca was managed by Johan Cruyff at the time and the squad included Pep Guardiola, Ronald Koeman, Romario, Hristo Stoichkov, and Carles Busquets (father of Sergio).
>silvio>Milan's 5th trophy in that competition so not unexpected>italian football had been dominant for several decades by that point anyway (most transfer fee records from 1950 to 2000 were set by italian clubs)
>>157988723Silvio Berlusconi is an honest European businessman who invested in his country's football. It's not the same as what PSG or Man City and other clubs these days do.
>>157988723It's the scoreline and dominance Milan showed in that game which made it notable.
>>157988732>honestAnyway, you’re from New Jersey, broThey’re not your people
>>157988737Cruyff was always overrated as a manager. His Barca only dominated La Liga when the league was extremely weak and they only won the UCL in 1993 because they got a lucky bracket throughout and faced Sampdoria in the final.
>>157988712This happened before most anons were even born
>>157988732>>157988736merely offering reasons, the silvio one is definitely the case still a lot of lingering distrust.
FORZA MILAN
>>157988732In January 1997, the "Mani Pulite" investigation on Italian politics certified a transfer of 22 billion lire of slush funds from Fininvest's secret safe owned by Silvio Berlusconi and called "All Iberian" to a foreign account held by politician Bettino Craxi. This discovery caused a widening of the investigation that brought to light, after a series of rogatory letters, a system of pyramid transfers of illegal money in favor of AC Milan players: as much as 122.5 billion lire (61 million Euros) passed into the current accounts located in several tax havens of some Rossoneri players in the 1991-1994 periodThe total of slush funds rose to 190 billion lire (95 million Euros), considering the years up to 1997. In summary, for the three Scudetto seasons of Capello's Milan, 20 million Euros were annually paid out illegally as extra salaries to Milan's players: all, of course, tax-free. The cover is one of Fininvest's countless fake companies, the "News and Sport Time", that was supposed to take care of the players' image rights, but it never happenedMoney was paid to the players but the puppet companies did not then "use" the players for advertising means. That money, which went out the door, would come back in the window to the athletes' account, as additional but "tax-free" compensation. Fun fact: the names on the slush funds list would be coded using the last two letters of the players' first and last name. Stefano Eranio for example would thus become "Noio."Ranking of emoluments paid to Milan players through slush funds: Van Basten 42.645 billion lire, Gullit 18.271 billion, Lentini 25.880 billion, Rijkaard 8 billion, Papin 4.889 billion, Baresi 4.500 billion, Maldini 4.355 billion, De Napoli 1.297 billion, Panucci 1.177 billion, Eranio 760 million, Tassotti 520 million, Savicevic 441 million.The All Iberian trial ended on 22 November 2000, when Corte di Cassazione declared Silvio Berlusconi's acquittal due to the statute of limitations of the offense.
>>157988712Happened right when I started watching football but was barely aware the champions league existed. I remember that Milan team from football Italian though. I liked Savicevic.
>>157991114How come every team that dominates is accused of "cheating"?
>>157991114>bbilan was the man shitty of the 90'sNo it wasn't. Milan is a proper club with an actual history.
>>157988712kek Barcelona got smoked
