Newcastle United have raised their bid for Sandro Tonali and are close to an agreement with AC Milan, according to a report.
The Athletic are reporting that Newcastle bid €50m for Tonali on Tuesday but that was not enough for Milan to consider selling, so they have now gone back in with an offer worth €70m and ‘the situation has progressed’ after face-to-face talks today.
Tonali is a ‘key target’ for the Magpies as Eddie Howe wants two midfielders to help them compete in their return to Champions League football next season and it could end up being a record signing for Newcastle.
There is no mention in the article about what Tonali’s own stance on the potential move is, given that Milan are his boyhood club and he feels a strong attachment to the shirt.
However, with Newcastle’s ability to offer a huge transfer fee also comes the resources to give Tonali a massive pay rise, something which may make the Italy international reflect.
Is this another BS? Or is it mutual agreement? Another Kaka, Zlatan, Sheva, Thiago Silva case
Well well well, the destruction of the team finally comes and for a mere £70mil.. if Tonali can leave then Theo is next and this team is a real moneyball, but for the owners. If sold, Milan is officially a cash-cow.
Yeah man, every rumor is now true.
“a mere £70mil”? LOL. I like Tonali, and I think he’s got some room to improve, but he’s not worth 70m. Didn’t even make Italy’s Nations League squad and is forced to play with the U-21s at age 23. This is almost an offer you can’t refuse. Sorry.
STFU PLS BRO LEAVE THE SITE SUPPORT JNTER OR JUVE
Never trust Americans. We will fund their takeover with our best players.
Watch our team go down the shathole folks. Told you these new owners would be our undoing. 120 million in extra income and we are selling a player in a critical position we are weak in that cost us a CL spot this year. Complete disater on the horizon.
Seems like another 21.12.2012 all over again.
Hope you people will survive it
#doomsday
Number 1 sold shirt in this current team is Tonali’s. If they don’t respect the fans one bit then go ahead sell Tonali. But a team without fans is nothing.
These American Jokers will burn ACM to the ground…..
Here we go again. Another Leao case. Just raise the bid to €80M plus a players like Alexander Isak, Bruno Guimarães, Sven Botman, Joelinton. They will accept it, maybe..
Won’t happen, Barella has already turned them down and so will Sandro. They will need to look elsewhere. Those guys represent Milan, both the Black and Blue and the Red and Black sides. Don’t understand why they haven’t picked up Maddison. At the end of the day Sandro will turn it down, he has already proven that money isn’t as important to him as the Milan shirt. It’s all speculation and until Fabrizio confirms it, I consider all this British “journalism” a bunch of nonsense.
The Athletic is far more reliable than the likes of the usual British press and the CalcioMercato, Tuttosport, GdS sources. They’re not in the business of making things up.
It doesn’t mean he’s moved yet (and personally I think 70m is quite low for him in the current market) but these discussions are definitely happening.
Tonali is the heart and soul of this team. If he goes, that will be the beginning of the dominos falling. I have been supporting this team through thick and thin since 1994 but if this deal goes through I don’t think that I can anymore. Because it is no longer about being a team and winning trophies – it is merely about business and becoming a feeder club.
Man, this is gathering A LOT of steam…. This is gonna cause an uproar… Inter took a hard NO on Barella, whereas Milan is apparently entertaining this.
Financially speaking this is a huge return on the investment. But the non-tangibles will tear what relationship/trust there’s left between ownership and fan base.
Still trust these owners? People weren’t on them for the sake of complaining man. They refused to spend 15 million on a player to help us secure Champion’s League football in January. The player we passed on is gathering interest for 45 million from our direct rivals 6 months later. These people are not interested in securing results or taking risks. They want to get real estate deals to do what Americans did in UK and Germany, that is build stadiums. This guy will earn money for his buddies on the contracts to build the stadium. Sell the club for a profit and be out. He will take the money in liquidity for the debts he creates for our company and go out off in the sunset not havong spent a dine to make us any better. These are not club owners or people interested in our team, nor sport, they are venture capitalists.
Do it. We can get a far better midfielder for that money. If he wasn’t Italian he’d be getting criticized for his poor perfomances this season. Let him go.
Fund plus players from Alexander Isak, Bruno Guimarães, Sven Botman, Joelinton will fix almost the line except RW thing.
I mean, those are key players to them and they’re each being paid a fortune more than Milan would be able to pay them. There’s no-one from Newcastle that would be coming the other way here.
Who exactly is that better midfield ? You people just talk without thinking. Rodri from ManCity as a DMF 4 goals 7assists. Enzo Fernandez as a DMF 4 goals and 9 assists (Most of those are in Portugal, in England he only has 2 assists). Tonali as a DMF 2 goals and 10 assists. So who exactly is that better mid? When Tonali is up there with the best of the best in his position. Not to mention that he plays for lower salary and loves the team.
Irreplaceable. It took us more than a decade to replace Thiago, can say we never did abd we needed Ibra to come back so we could secure Champions League with another Scudetto. These people don’t understand, character and chemistry in a team is not purchased. This kid did everything he could to be with us and help us win. If he wants to leave, wouldn’t blame him. That being said, it is a path of no return. Once that goes down, this ownership group is dead in the water. No one will trust them. They are begging to be boycotted.
legacies are not built from nothing, they are learned and passed down. These idiot Americans don’t understand sports culture and the human side of this game, it shows they are greedy and incompetent. Psychologically this sends all the wromg messages to the team and the fans. If anyone had doubts before I didn’t, I could tell this group were corporate douchebags suits with no respect, or integrity, this will be the all telling proof, the sign of their stupidity.
Our midfield was our biggest weakness this season, getting bossed by even bottom table teams. Tonali was a big part of that as numerous times failing to track back and mark his man costing several important goals. He’s a DMF without the D, and he doesn’t offer much going forward either. We need someone who can do what Kessie did for this team.
How many times he was rested for UCL when Milan face bottom teams?
Nooo Sandrino 🙁
#CardinaleOut
If Tonali is sold against his will, I’m out until Red Bird leaves. That will be the last straw. Tonali is the heart and soul of this team. He embodies this great club.
same here, I am so done with them already, this is the last straw, I will never support that ownership group. They spit all over our club and disrespected our culture one time too many. I love this team, this isn’t our club under them and they made that obvious. One has to be a dull, blinded moron to ignore that.