Tuttosport: Tickets, shirts and results – why Milan are faced with a ‘fan revolt’ | OneFootball

The climate that is breathing around the world of AC Milan is becoming increasingly heated, and it is not just because of results on the field.

Today’s Tuttosport (via MilanPress) speaks of a ‘fan revolt’ at Milan, with the supporters feeling increasingly distant from the club that had reignited enthusiasm in the last few years after difficulties in the 2010s.

The last discordant piece of the season is the fourth shirt, heavily criticised because of the move away from the famous red and black stripes. Throughout the football world the fourth shirt is used as an expression of fashion, but in a period like this there is less tolerance for commercial ventures.

Another sensitive point, the newspaper highlights, is the high cost of tickets. Fans believe that occasional visitors and tourists are preferred to regular fans, with prices that are constantly increasing and – especially in the Champions League – are almost inaccessible.

Those who have supported Milan for a long time – perhaps with a family that has done so for generations – believe that the rising costs of going to games and the extravagant shirts show that those in charge now more focused on tourists.

This perhaps would n’t be such a big problem if the team won, but the Rossoneri were dumped out of the Champions League by Feyenoord and are now ninth in the table. In other words, all of this is funding a declining product on the field.