Ajax are currently much closer to signing Arda Guler from Fenerbahce this summer despite the interest from AC Milan in the youngster, a report claims.
As has been reported by Bein Sports (via Calciomercato.com). the Dutch side are trying to act fast and make sure that they are in a position to win back the Eredivisie title from Feyenoord next season.
Guler has been heavily linked with a move to Milan for many months now but the deal for him is another that has stalled following the sacking of Paolo Maldini and Frederic Massara.
It seems that, much like Ruben Loftus-Cheek at Chelsea, Guler could be another player that gets away from Milan because the transfer strategy is still being finalised by those who suddenly have a lot more responsibility.
The player should now be available for a €17.5 million release clause fee after he hit his 1,500-minute target with the Turkish side.
A target for many months? If he was you guys missed the boat in reporting it, or you’re trying to drum up anger with pathetic journalism. Are you not Milan fans? Stop making sh*t up so you can bang out another article.
My friend you have no obligation to come here and read the articles. SM always quotes the original source, here Beinsports from CalcioMercato. They relay the news about Milan, they are not fact checkers, they are not inside Casa Milan.
Only the CM article doesn’t mention “many months” at all, it’s a one liner.
Wow man, you’re wild. Relax. And what Milan fan just blindly supports everything the club does?? If that’s how you think a fan should be then you must have a negative IQ. You chose to come and click, nobody forced you.
You’re too wild bro ,relax.
But I agree with what you say, this Guler kid’s name only coming in last week or so and suddenly the repot saying something like this :
“Guler has been heavily linked with a move to Milan for many months now but the deal for him is another that has stalled following the sacking of Paolo Maldini and Frederic Massara.
It seems that, much like Ruben Loftus-Cheek at Chelsea, Guler could be another player that gets away from Milan because the transfer strategy is still being finalised by those who suddenly have a lot more responsibility.”
I think this is clearly media trying to ramp up views and comment from viewer by blaming the club. Or maybe it’s one of the writer of sempremilan .com that is trying to? Who know, I can’t read Italian so I don’t know.
What they really wanted to say is that Maldini had him already, but since he has been sacked without reason we can’t buy him anymore and we are screwed. They should shut this website down!!!
I don’t read it anymore…
Agree. If there’s nothing to report, report nothing!
LOL. Shocking!!!!!. Wonder why that would be??? Could it be because we have to haggle over his $17.5M release clause and ask for a discount while a MASSIVE club like Ajax can pay the 17.5M outright???? LOLOLOLO. Pick up that red phone Georgio and Stefano – I know a call from you can convince the player and the Turks to sell for cheap!!! 😜😜😜😜
It’s probably because Ajax can point to a long list of talents that they have nurtured, matured and sold on – Milan are starting to develop that brochure, but it’s harder to make a case than it is for the likes of Ajax and Dortmund. Especially to the agents who know they’ll get two sets of commission in three years if they get a deal like Bellingham, Antony, Martinez or Haaland had.
Bro you are the biggest Negative Nancy on these comments, by a mile. I swear. Are you even a fan of the club or do you come here just to vent?
Every speculation, you have something negative to say. There’s therapy available for issues like this. You should look into it.
A nabbed that just popped up over the last week (which we don’t even know if there’s any credibility in it or not) and you are already looking for a way to poke fun of the current management. You don’t even know what they are really planning and not planning to do in the market.
#clown
Right? Just posting the same “LOL Cardinale’s useless LOLOLOLO” cr*p over and over and over….
Hahahahaha!! That’s right your that A$$Clown that said we should have blind faith in following the club and called any fan who disagreed with ownership “fair weather” LOL.
“What you’re describing is a fair-weather fan. If that’s you, then definitely please go support another team. Otherwise support the colors and the badge, through “thick & thin”” – @ACM1899
Nah pal we are just realistic on what we can and can’t do with a pathetic budget of 35M, a wage cap and apparently a policy that if a youth player doesn’t develop in the first year we dump him (most likely for a loss). If your ok with that direction of the club then you are NOT a true fan and are just a BLIND sheep.
IMO it’s right to question ownership – because owners come and go BUT true fans are there forever, like myself.
As a fan, the only thing we can do is hold Ownership accountable when they don’t respect the history of the club and want to run us like a business ONLY for profit instead of winning titles. But your just a little sheep that drinks the Kool Aid.
Enjoy dip$hit
100% agreed. People think being a fan is just giving support blindly even when there’s big issues that have taken place etc. Sorry but if somebody just blindly supports a club then what is actually special about it? Why not just go support a different club per week blindly? It’s right to question the club just as right as it is to back them.
I never said support them blindly. I just said Juro (and the like) are talking Doom & Gloom even before any moves had been made. Give the club a chance then criticize. Learn to read before try to counter.
Hold ownership accountable to what? They haven’t made any moves, Einstein. You’re already talking šhit and they haven’t even pulled the trigger yet. I’m not saying RedBird is God’s gift to Milan – I’m just saying wait to see how the first year of their reign plays out before…. being letting your sparkling personality shine, you Fruit Loop. ( Notice I make no sheep references. Your obsession with sheep is disturbing).
Redbird’s First year? I thought last winter operation was run by Redbird
First year??? LOL. It’s not their first year kid. What you don’t seem to comprehend is Redbird is Elliot – but worse – with LESS $$$. Same policy as Elliot. Same structure. BUT Redbird OWE Elliot 42M in interest payments per year for the 600M they took and Elliot remains a huge (30%) minority owner of the club. So they frugal spending and maximizing profit will not change.
Redbird’s first official transfer window was this past January – and M&M wanted to reasonably add a few players (Aouar, Zaniolo, etc… for example) and Redbird refused to give them a dime. We technically missed out on UCL because of it (5th) -a risk Redbird was comfortable taking – (we only made UCL this season due to Juve’s exclusion) – and were outplayed and out coached in the UCL semi-finals by our rivals. The difference in quality was evident for all to see. Had we signed a few players could we have made it to the finals? I believe so but who knows. Fine.
Now comes this summer and our former director asked to increase the budget – a reasonable request considering we went to the semi finals of UCL and pocketed an extra 120M total. Nobody asked for 150M spend. But a reasonable increase from 50M to say 70-80M seemed very reasonable for todays market and for a club that (allegedly) aspires to return as one of the top clubs in Europe and who just pocketed an extra 120M. Instead our director was fired for asking for more money (fine) and we are now faced with an even smaller budget from last summer (50M vs 35M) and cannot spend over 30M on any player (inclusive of salary). We also being told that players such as SMS (30-35M) are beyond our reach and instead we will continue to go after young relatively inexperienced players and/or free transfers.
Those are the FACTS. If you are comfortable with that and don’t question the direction our club is headed then to me you are not a true fan.
Yes it is still early in the transfer period – but we can only go off the FACTS and given their track record on spend and policies – I do not believe they have EARNED the right to give them the benefit of the doubt to prove all of us wrong and that they will all of a sudden show us they are committed to winning TITLES and are not just here to earn PROFIT. Trust is EARNED. And thus far they have NOT EARNED the trust of the fans especially after the WAY Maldini was fired. That was poorly handled and showed a lack of respect to our history and a club legend. I am not upset THAT Maldini was fired (some will agree or disagree whether he should have been – it doesn’t matter-its an owners right to hire/fire who he chooses) – however the REASON he was fired (asking for more $$) and the MANNER in which it was done – again provide more proof Redbird wish to operate this club as a FOR PROFIT business only. That doesn’t work with football clubs with a history like Milan. AND if your ok with that your not a true fan IMO.
Nothing would make me happier than for Redbird to prove me wrong – and they start spending and closing all these deals for Thuram, Guler, RW from Villareal, Frattesi, SMS, etc…..- I will be the first one to rejoice and offer praise – but thus far I just don’t see it based on the FACTS.
BUT really should we even have to beg to sign these players as a club like Milan? Redbird/Elliot have reduced our fan base to one that expects excellence to one that is just praying for mediocrity. It’s pretty sad right now. Things could change but seeing is believing and Redbird haven’t EARNED that right just yet.
Yeah, he is not a fan and you are because he doesn’t think the same as you? Or dejan the coward? I am still laughing at you to be honest. At the same place you wrote Frattesi is expensive and how Leao and Tonali and Theo were developed by Pioli. All of those players cost a similar amount. They weren’t 5M player that were developed, but 25-40M, each.
Leao Theo and Tonali sure as śhit weren’t developed by Giampaolo….. so that leaves Pioli? Hmmmmm… Weird. They became what they are today under Pioli. What are you confused about?
Confused and angry. All. The. Time… I actually posted a reply to Karen (Martin) but it hasn’t come through and I sure as hell ain’t going to waste more time on him or any of these d*ranged Maldinisti like Zoro Juro Nino etc
This is how we will be linked with different players and at the end we will buy none.
So shameful.
Acmilan wake up to your responsibility buy this guy must we fail to sign player every time
Milan is stuck in a rock and a hard place with the current policy because the history doesn’t reflect the current direction. Milan wants young cheap players with potential for possible sale in the future (or titles, I hv to conclude because no one has really stated what the direction really is). The problem is that there are other clubs with better infrastructure setup and policy for such a thing eg Ajax, Atalanta. It’s incredibly difficult to grow under a big club like Milan in it’s current form (ie won Scudetto and semi UCL). There’s too much pressure due to history and demands from fans. It’s easier as a young player to go to smaller teams to develop, get game time and then make a move to bigger clubs. To try to do that now would take many many years..first to push fans mentality towards a farm club and then to create an atmosphere where kids are going to develop and leave on a consistent basis
This is the question that we should ask ourselves with each one of these kids.
Why is he coming to Milan to play Serie A, off the bench, instead of going to a league and a club that has a rich history of rounding out player development for the big leagues?
Ajax has probably the richest tradition of any club of being a stepping stone into the big time. PSV and Feyenoord are not far behind. The Germans have excelled at it recently as have the French.
Serie A is a proctology examination for attacking players, in particular. Not to mention that Milan wont even show faith in Daniel Maldini who is better than the players sign and who we are trying to sign.
17.5 million is a bargain price if they believe in him. Should they be convinced he is a generational talent, cough the money up, sort the rest out later. He will recoup that fee in no time if he proves to be excellent. Worse case scenario you sell another one of our players further down the line. His price will only go up if he repeats performances in Italy.
back to the investcorp article for exmaple this guy will cost 17.5 mill, they wld have bought him easy, and they wld have given us a 60 to 70 mil transfer budget , we dont need 300 mil per window
He just scored a screamer for national team, we keep waiting and waiting and expecting to get him for 10 mil instead of paying 17 mil and another team will come and take him
It’s Moncada who’s pushing for him
It has nothing to do with Maldini (I guess Paolo would be against this transfer actually)
I guess for young player it always better to move to team like Ajax or Benfica.
And Ajax of course will sell him for 100 mil in 2-3 years
JURO
I can’t post directly to your lengthy reply below, the button isn’t there, so I’ll do it here and honestly I don’t disagree with you on a lot of things you say (when you’re actually stating a point and not just complaining).
1. Maldini was let go because Redbird apparently firmly believes in their vision that they would sack him. Also I think the biggest part of it was the manner in which Maldini went about it: public interview last year after scudetto, and same thing this year after CL exit. That’s just not how you handle business. His points were valid but you have to keep it clean and do that in house. Furthermore, Maldini was given 50mil in the winter mercato and flopped in THEN publicly went asking for more funds. Gerry had enough.
2. I say RedBird’s first year in charge in the sense that when they took over in the winter, the structure was kept the same from Elliott ownership, with Maldini & Co still in charge. This summer is the starting point of RedBird flexing their muscle and sticking to their plans/vision. So to me this is ground zero of RedBird’s reign. We don’t yet know where their direction will take us and until then can’t really judge.
3. EVERY club wants to run FOR PROFIT. No one gets into this business to lose money, even though that’s what often ends up happening. The days of spending “berlusconi” amounts of money on players and long gone and behind us. We need to follow a sustainable model. Because look what a sad situation Berlusconi’s years left us in… It was Elliott that came and cleaned up house. THat’s financial responsibility. We don’t have the swing of the oil money/sponsorships. So it’s pointless to compare ourselves to those clubs. We won’t even spend that much.
4. “True Fan”… I never said you have to blindly follow the club to be a true fan. But you’ve followed Milan through the $hit years at the tail end of Berlusconi’s years without and significant signings or anything worth mention, and continued to support the club right? We are now in such a BETTER place than those years, by a stretch, and still you’re a fan, right? So you support the club through questionable management regardless of how you feel. That’s being a fan of the club, the crest and the colors.
If RedBird eff’s everything up, I’ll be right there with you criticizing them. But until they do, remember that we are in a better place now than we had been since ’11. Benefit of the doubt – no matter how uncomfortable you are with it. Just buckle up homey! Remember, the glass is half full.
FORZA MILAN ⚫️🔴
Just sign him already, he will become one of top players in the world in few seasons to come