Zachary Athekame started for Young Boys last night against Basel, but that was always the plan and a move to AC Milan remains close.
After signing Ardon Jashari to complete the midfield and with the striker pursuit not gaining much ground, Igli Tare and co. are hoping to finish the defence first. After countless links, it seems Athekame is the target that is moving closer to joining.
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In fact, a report from Blick.ch – a Swiss source – confirmed yesterday that the 20-year-old should head to Milan before the weekend to complete a move in the region of €9m. This is despite the fact he was named in the starting XI for Young Boys last night.
At the final stages
Now, Fabrizio Romano has provided an update, stating: “Zachary Athekame starts for Young Boys today as always planned… and from tomorrow will ask the president to join AC Milan. €8m plus add-ons bid on the table from AC Milan, deal at final stages.”
It is worth noting, Matteo Moretto previously stated that Young Boys wanted to focus 100% on the match against Basel scheduled for Wednesday evening. Thus, they were always going to wait for this games before giving the green light to Athekame’s move to Milan. However, it is ‘almost done’.
So much for the Italian revolution at Milan.
They did ship out a few Italian youngsters so I guess that counts as one, eh? The Italian revolution where the outcome is “no more Italians left”.
The Italian revolution should begin with the National team who couldn’t earn a direct world cup qualification.
Maybe if the NT was doing well, we can make a case to identify individual talents.
Dodo/Vanderson was too much too ask for, heck even Savona is an interesting profile…
hopefully, when Tomiyasu bounces back from his surgery we can sign him for free
The budget wouldn’t let us get Dodo and especially Anderson after Jashari
yeah cause loan+obligation isn’t a thing
Please Milan no need dodo / Vanderson again. Actually Milan have good memories with Brazilian players but these day maybe Tare switch to different methods. The last sector maybe hojlund will joint Milan with formula loan + option to buy. Too much to ask + drama for vlahovic. The last task for Tare to sell another deadwood like adli, bennacer + finalize thiaw to Newcastle ( he already agreed with salary )
Carlo Ancelotti thinks otherwise about the RBs…
Papa Carlo >>> You
Next swiss player. Maybe okafor will play better… 😀
So that’s the reason he play badly in his last friendlies. He dont want to get injured or something
Within Milan budget
He is a bad player for milan, one of the worst signing in years, speaking of football quality 🙂
O gini kwa?