He actually started as a security provider for them, which put him in the inner circle of a bunch of oligarchs, then at some point he realized that he could just take over the companies himself and they wouldn’t be able to stop him lol

I also don’t think prosperity is the right word, but the point remains that Milan is the bigger city of the two

Liverpool has around 500K population, while Milan is almost triple that, and around a 3.5M metropolitan area around it, and with several global brands headquartered there etc etc