AC Milan are giving serious thought to selling Matteo Pessina, and they reportedly have a cunning plan in mind to avoid handing half of the fee over to AC Milan.
Calciomercato.com report how the presence of Koopmeiners, Pasalic and Malinovskyi in the squad means that offers of €15m or more for Pessina would be evaluated. Adriano Galliani wants to bring the Italy international to Monza and just a week ago he had a dinner with Atalanta CEO Luca Percassi to discuss a possible deal.
At the moment €15m seems too much to Monza, but there is another factor at play. A clause in Pessina’s contract signed when he joined Atalanta dictates that they must pay 50% of the proceeds from a future resale to the Rossoneri.
However, that will expire after 100 appearances for the midfielder with La Dea and given that he is on 96 games at the moment, he could be sold on deadline day which means they would only owe Milan €3m, which is less than half of the €7.5m that would be due to their Lombardy rivals now.
Right, they’re going to specifically play a player for 4 games in order to drop the clause and Monza will happily wait an extra month for the player whilst still paying the same money.
Seems incredibly unlikely, but if they were to do that fair enough, that’s how the contract is written.
Adriano Galliani was always known to wait until 31st of August to conclude transfer deals, especially if he can get a discount
It’s simple, Galliani will end up buying him for 12million, then Atalanta gives Milan 3million and they will amass 9million compared to the 7.5million they would’ve amassed from 15million!