AC Milan are looking to add at least one more midfielder ahead of a return to European football, and Nicolo Fagioli is a target.
On paper, Milan’s midfield is arguably among the strongest and deepest in Serie A, boasting Luka Modric, Adrien Rabiot, Youssouf Fofana, Samuele Ricci, Ardon Jashari and Ruben Loftus-Cheek. However, there could be some movement this summer, in incomings and outgoings.
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A Champions League-worthy midfield
There’s no shortage of targets to strengthen the department, with Massimiliano Allegri hopeful of adding some experience. Leon Goretzka seems to be the main candidate to come in and support Rabiot and hopefully Modric if he renews, but he is not the only one.
Tuttosport (via MilanPress) claim that Allegri would like to reunite with Nicolo Fagioli, who has performed well in a struggling Fiorentina side this season. The two have known each other since their Juventus days and the coach clearly thinks he could be a good fit for his three-man midfield.
The negotiations, however, appear very complicated. Fiorentina director Fabio Paratici values the Italian highly and understands how crucial he is to the team. Other players are more likely to be sacrificed, which means Milan would have to submit an irresistible offer.
That’s unlikely to happen, especially if the reports are true that the Rossoneri directors have a limited summer budget to work with. That being said, the sales of players like Fofana and/or Loftus-Cheek could provide the funds as well as freeing up wages and a squad spot.
RLC out and Fagioli in. I don’t think any Milan fan would object.
how do we still have no money???
75M in from sales, excluding Musah and Bennacer. on top of that Estupinan and RLC tbd sales. so 75M guaranteed, around 20M from sales of the 2 previously mentioned and another 25M if we manage to sell Musah. (Benny most likely termination is the only solution left.)
we are in UCL so no need to sell the stars, 95M guranteed and potentially another 25M to come… we were the ideal financial boy-scouts for the past 5-6 years… how the f are we still broke?
I don’t buy it either.
CL qualification in itself should fetch us 30 mil + minimum 4 home matches with a full stadium probably equating to 4x 8-10 mil. Then we can add the price money for how we are placed in the league which probably equates to something in the vicinity of 10 mil. Add guaranteed loaned out outgoing players I will say add maybe 70-75mil. Add Nkunku, RLC, Leao ? and any other potential sales we should be more than good.
From my standpoint but I might obviously be wrong we should be guaranteed above 150 mil to spend.
30 mil would be a kick in the groin so they better come up with something far better than that.
Roma, Fiorentina, Lazio, Atalanta, Bologna should all be raided for good deals.
Kone, Fortini, Fagioli, Kean, Gila, Rovella, Ahanor, Palestra, Bellanova, Zalewski, Ederson, Lucumi, Lewis Ferguson, Castro
Making profit from sales does not mean the Gerry will release all of it for transfer… most every season sales money are being reinvested into mercato, and he will only award 40-50m as budget
why are you having a meltdown when transfer window isnt even open? Take your pills
I wouldn’t mind if midfield for next season would be Modric, Rabiot, Goretzka, Fagioli, Kone and Ricci. Fagioli also counts as association developed so another plus for CL squad
I would keep Jashari and go for Ederson instead. He’s in his final year, Atletico almost signed him for 35M, while Roma asked Inter 60M for Kone.
Rabiot (Jashari) – Ederson (Ricci, Goretzka)
Modric (Fagioli)
Goretzka is not signing for a club at 31 to be a backup. So I don’t think it is realistic. For Jashari, I don’t think he is for sale but if someone offer 30-35M he’s probably gone. I also don’t think Milan will have 7 senior midfielders. Maybe if someone like Zerolli or Comotto eventually as the 7th…
It would be a pure and textbook suicide not to have at least seven senior midfielders even if it means that we must rely on Bondo, Bennacer or Musah for the role of the seventh MC in rotation. The season is long, we shall have one more front, Modric is in his 40’s, one more MC is a must have.
For what? Allegri plays the same players, he always did that. How many minutes did RLC, Ricci and Jashari have this season? 6 is more than enough to cover additional 6 or 8 games next season. + maybe a youngster that will learn from them. You are talking like CL is another 30 games.
Ardon was injured for a considerable part of the season, RLC was sidelined too for a while but he was more out last season due to injuries since he’s prone to them. Six to eight matches more? It’s 8 matches only in the group phase, I don’t expect us to be eliminated so early and so soon in the process. Also, we shouldn’t rule out the idea of winning the Coppa Italia which means few more games, especially in comparison to this season and our defeat to Lazio in the very early stage of CI. I thought you were serious…
Yeah 10 games, my bad. Let’s even say 15. You are even helping my case as “ Ardon was injured for a considerable part of the season, RLC was sidelined too for a while ” so with fit players you don’t need 7 midfielders? 😂 If Milan could do with 4 this season and 2 that were injured a lot, 6 fit players will do for extra 15 games. You don’t expect someone to break their leg again and be out for effectively 6 months? It is self explanatory.
I feel like we are lacking a creative forward thinking midfielder there. Someone who is fast, can dribble and open up defenses. Paqueta or Szobozlai. That type of player.
Modric has some of this, but he is more of a regista these days.
Fagioli. I really like him as that creative player. I don’t think dribbling is key but that key pass (“pre assist”) that only Modric has this season.
Fagioli would be more useful than Ricci at this point, either as a back up to or a starter at 6. Id try to swap them.