Maldini Monday

By: Gianfranco | June 9th, 2008

Another glorious year…


Paolo Maldini has officially extended his Milan career until June 30, 2009, announced the club.

The 40-year-old captain had originally stated he would retire at the end of the 2007-08 campaign, but reconsidered despite injury problems.

This evening the Rossoneri released an official statement confirming that Maldini had put pen to paper on a new contract “until June 30, 2009.”

It was not an entirely unexpected decision, as earlier today general manager Adriano Galliani had hinted a deal was in the offing.

“I hope Paolo will accept the club’s proposal. I sponsored him to continue playing. It all depends on Paolo, the decision is down to him.”

The new contract extends a glorious career that has seen Maldini notch up over 1,000 official games between Milan and Italy.

He made his Serie A debut as a 16-year-old in the 1-1 draw away to Udinese on January 20, 1985.

By the time this new deal expires, Maldini will be aged 41 with 25 top flight campaigns under his belt.

Great piece courtesy of the folks at Calcio Italia.

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• Ro |  June 9th, 2008 at 8:20 am

  
  
  

  I am so so so very happy that he extended his contract…but sad at the way it went down…I’m still in shock that milan…our milan handled things the way they did.
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  what happened to the family part of the club?
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  I guess now where money is involved it’s everyone for themselves.

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• Gianfranco |  June 9th, 2008 at 8:40 am

  
  
  

  I agree Ro!

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• Hana |  June 9th, 2008 at 10:18 am

  
  
  

  I second your sentiments Ro. Embarrassing it all was really…

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• Gareth |  June 10th, 2008 at 6:16 am

  
  
  

  i dont understand, why was it embarrasing? I think i have missed something here, no?

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• Ro |  June 10th, 2008 at 9:21 am

  
  
  

  Gareth they were offering Maldini a contract of 1.5 million he already took a pay cut last year and now was supposed to take another one…we he would make in a year others make in a month or two.
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  He said that he wouldn’t sign again because of how much they were offering him…and I agree that was stupid to only offer such a great player that have given so much that amount.
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  But in the end they talked it through and he signed with the 1.5 million contract, but there is supposed to be incentives

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