AC Milan are aiming to secure the renewal of Ismael Bennacer but there are some rather complex elements to the negotiation, a report claims.
La Gazzetta dello Sport starts from the certainty that Milan do not want to lose a key player like Bennacer and they have already been active for months in trying to extend his current contract, which expires in 2024.
At present the Algerian earns just over €1.5m net per season, and the idea of the management is to double his salary, though that may not be enough. His agent Moussa Sissoko is hoping to secure even better terms for his client and wants around €4m, therefore an amount not far from that of Theo Hernandez.
There is therefore an economic issue that must be resolved given that the amount requested is close to the maximum ceiling that ownership have established for the salaries of individual players, so it is possible that bonuses could come into play to find a definitive agreement.
There is another aspect: Bennacer has a release clause of €50m which will be active again next summer. Not only that, but if we were to get to next summer – July 2023 – without a renewal agreement, the temptation to sell would be there to avoid another Franck Kessie situation.
Milan need to figure out who they want to be, they can grow young talent to sell them for profit like Ajax or they actually want to grow players and keep them to win titles… nowdays you can hardly keep any good player and pay less than others… buisness model need to be established. We have few emotionally attached players but the rest in it to make living…
Absolutely right. Milan is behaving like a farm team now. We are just going to sign cheap young players, develop them into great players and then sell them to big clubs. Kind of pathetic for a once great team.
4 mil is perfectly reasonable price for Bennacer. It should be done already.
“Kind of pathetic for a once great team.”
Yeah, follow the Juventus road. They made a Serie A record loss of -250M€ last season. Look what it brought them.
It’s not about “how much money” but how you spend it.
The only guideline is long-term sustainability. Just because some other team can offer one of our players more in salary, doesn’t mean that we “can”.
It’s been crystal clear that we have certain parameters and for the time being we will not step over them until we get to a sustainable model. Even this year, it’s very likely we’ll be losing money 30-50 million.
You can get a player for free in the market at a higher salary (Ramsey, Rabiot, Alexis Sanchez, Donnaruma), but if the performances dip or don’t rise to the level you expected, or the player gets injured, you still have to pay the salary.
That also means us having to lose players to other clubs that can offer more. If a PL team or PSG comes with a large offer, you can rest assured that we’d either need to sell or the player will ask for very high salary when the contract negotiations start.
One can try to pull a Lotito and bench the player that refuses to sign a contract extension or be sold, but that will have negative repercussions on the entire team morale.
I don’t think that’s accurate. Milan posted a profit of 3 milllion thru the first 6 months of this year.
They were prepared to offer Kessie 6 mil ( after lowballing him for months), they didn’t really replace him with anybody, so they should be able to give 4 mil to Bennacer. If he was Italian the deal would be done already. They already renewed Tonali, who is mediocre at best.
Tonali is mediocre??? I hate to see u type seriously. In that case we don’t have any good player in Milan, is that what you are telling me?😭😭
” Just because some other team can offer one of our players more in salary, doesn’t mean that we “can”.”
Cant they really? Juventus with their -250M€ record loss and Inter couldn’t even pay their players’ salaries 1,5 years ago.
*Can they really?
And I’m not saying they’re interested in Milan players but as a general note of the state of the (other) Italian clubs.
Yes. Mediocre by any standards. He was poor his first season, improved last season, and is about the same this season. Despite the media hype trying to make him out to be the next great Italian superstar, he has been an ok player for Milan. Nothing more. He runs hard and is physical but adds little else. Not great offensively, not particularly creative, not a great dribbler or passer.
Not great defensively, often losing his mark. Can’t deliver a decent corner. If you take off the blinders he is mediocre. Milan have many players better than Tonali, and Bennacer is one of them. So is Theo, Leao, Maignan, Tomori, Giroud and Ibra. All more important to the team than Tonali.
and we paid origi 4m ?
It’s really saddening but have to agree with the comments on Tonali, he has to step up to the plate. Thus far he’s ordinary, great players don’t get weighed down by expectations