Jacobone: Italian defender offered to Milan after difficult start at Brighton – the details

AC Milan are looking to strengthen their rearguard in the January window, and a journalist has claimed that a Brighton defender has been offered.

At present, Milan have Strahinja Pavlovic, Matteo Gabbia and Fikayo Tomori as the established starting trio in the three-man defence. Koni De Winter is the back-up in all three positions it seems, with the young David Odogu destined for a loan having featured just once.

Coppola offered

Thus, there are widespread rumours doing the rounds claiming that Milan are looking for another centre-back option in view of the winter mercato. Various names have been linked, from Joe Gomez and Kim Min-jae to veterans like Sergio Ramos and Thiago Silva.

Now, Alessandro Jacobone has reported the following: “To the profiles recently proposed to the Rossoneri, here’s the addition of former Verona player, now at Brighton, Diego Coppola. The central defender, right-footed, born in 2003, has been pitched to the Rossoneri, just as to Atalanta.”

Milan were actually linked with Coppola when he was at Hellas Verona, but in June the Italian signed for Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion for a reported fee of £9.4m (around €10.7m) on a five-year deal.

However, he has just 17 minutes of Premier League playing time to his name, having found himself behind the likes of Adam Webset, Jan Paul van Hecke and the captain Lewis Dunk in the pecking order.