AC Milan have absolutely no intention of letting Christian Pulisic leave despite the advances from New York, a report claims.
Earlier in the week, speculation started swirling about a big-money approach from New York City FC for Pulisic. They apparently offered the winger a deal worth €50m over five years, which would be a big pay rise compared to what he gets at Milan.
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Milan put up a wall
According to Corriere dello Sport, New York City are convinced internally that they could seriously tempt Pulisic with a super offer of $10m per season for five years. However, the DIavolo don’t want to sell the player for various reasons.
In addition to being a key player that Ruben Amorim wants to build around, he is also one of the faces of Milan especially in America, which the owner Gerry Cardinale sees as an important area to try and grow the club’s brand.
The American owners of NYCFC are keen to have a player as well-known in his homeland as Pulisic in their squad, while they will soon move to a new stadium and want marquee signings to celebrate it.
In the meantime, there have been no contacts to extend Pulisic’s contract so far. As a reminder, his current deal is set to expire in 2027, though Milan do have a one-year option.
It’s right not to sell him. He and Zaniolo behind Ramos could be amazing!
Have you watched Zaniolo play? Not a great player. Did not fulfil his potential
Still better than Nkunku. Puli can help him a lot. Heck, I remember Nocerino scoring 10 goals with proper support. Just my opinion. Who knows what will happen at the end.
Nocerino scored 10 goals with Zlatan there and only once in his career. Like catching a lightning in the bottle.
Man city thought they wanted reinjders but they really needed pulisic. Nyfc is owned by man city and sponsored by an entire terrorist country btw
Only 18%, the rest belongs to Arabs and Chinese.
At least someone has said it, he’s there mainly for marketing purposes. To “grow the brand”.
Annoying side effect that he’s the best player in the squad.
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Wow you’re dense. Do teams market their best players?…answer yes. Over the past 3 seasons was Pulisic not one of the best players? We can check the stats if you want. Maybe it’s time to put aside your American bias and call a spade a spade. Is he the face of American football…yes. Tell me if you were running the business would you market one of your best players to an emerging and potentially huge market?
He’s not sellable until he is sold. No one with any smarts ( yeah, I know I’m pushing that with ACM) starts a negotiation for an asset by saying they want to sell that asset.