Charles De Ketelaere has certainly relaunched his career following his move to Atalanta from AC Milan, and he is attracting interest from Arsenal and other Premier League clubs, as per a report.
According to what is being reported by CaughtOffside, Arsenal are one of a number of clubs keeping an eye on De Ketelaere given his rejuvenation since swapping red and black for black and blue last summer.
Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta is ‘a big admirer of De Ketelaere’, while other sides like Manchester City, Tottenham, Newcastle United and West Ham ‘have also been watching the 23-year-old’ during his time with La Dea.
There have not been any approaches made by these clubs yet, but the Gunners will decide internally whether to launch a move for De Ketelaere or Georgiy Sudakov, who is also a target for the creative midfielder role.
West Ham ‘could be a surprise name to watch’ when it comes to the Belgian because they consider him to be a possible replacement for Lucas Paqueta or Mohammed Kudus, if they are forced to sell one or both.
What does it mean for Milan? Well, in addition to seeing a talent blossom that they spent over €30m on, several sources have claimed that the club secured a 10% resale clause meaning they would get that amount of any future proceeds from a sale.
There were, however, also reports which claimed that De Ketelaere’s move hasn’t been made permanent just yet and that it will become one next year due to accounting reasons.
In many ways Maldini & Co were unlucky in the summer 22/23.
The signings they made all made sense.
After winning the Scudetto they signed:
– an up and coming CB, Thiaw, to add to the Kalulu and Tomori Scudetto winning partnership, and Kjaer.
– CDK as cover and eventual replacement for Brahim;
– Premier and Champions League winner Origi who could play across multiple positions upfront.
They also brought in a couple of loanees:
– Dest to cover both sides at FB;
– They took a punt on Vranckx – and this was the big mistake.
They needed to sign a replacement for Kessie. And Vranckx wasn’t that.
But anyway the seasons started well, CDK started well, and we continued our Scudetto winning form until we suffered an unlucky defeat to eventual Scudetto winners, Napoli, and then…..collapsed against Roma in Round 17 and that was when the wheels came off (but we still made it to the semi-finals of the Champions League and finished 4th (FOURTH. FOURTH. FOURTH).
And then…..
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
They freaked out!!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Maldini gone.
Massara gone.
Revenue guy gone.
Tonali gone.
Saelemaekers gone
CDK gone.
A bit of an overreaction?
Curiously not Pioli gone….until the following season when he finished 2nd (SECOND!).
And then
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Vranckx is actually not bad. He gets called up for Belgium all the time and is still young at 22. He’s not a Kessie replacement but he can play the pivot. It was his mistake against Roma that cost him his career at Milan but he was very young. All the purported faith in young players really mean buy for cheap and hope they do well so as to cash in on them later on.
Also, glad you mentioned Origi as people forgot why he was brought. As you said, can play multiple positions and is actually a big game player off the bench. One of the best in the Prem actually off the bench..plus he had experience at a high level in Europe. Were the wages high? Yes. And too bad it didn’t work out but the signings like you said made sense. How to gain players without rocking the boat too much..
It means Pioli is, was and will always be a below average coach. And the current management is a bunch of braindead m0r0ns.
Arteta turns young players into beasts. I mean goddamn, Odegaard has turned into a fre@king monster.. and Pioli, turns GOOD Players into utter garbage.
How many of Pioli’s underperformers overachieved in other clubs ? at least 6. Adli, Saele, CDK, Gabbia, Hakan, Brahim comes to my mind. We can add Hauge to the list now as well.
CDK and Paqueta were the second and third most expensive players in Maldini’s era as a sporting director. Both deals had a veto from the management because they exceeded the ceiling transfer fee set by the strict management’s weather Elliot or Redbird. The two players have huge talent which reflects on the success Paqueta has in the Premier League and CDK form since joining Atlanta. Their unsuccessful spill was mainly due to the failure of Pioli to know how to use them tactically. The management still failed of hiring a proper coach after Pioli’s Sacking which reflected on the poor start of the team this season and the terrible summer mercato.
The clown management has to starting from Cardinale down to Moncada
Funny how the Milan YouTube channel posts videos of past greats like Ronaldinho/Ronaldo/Rui Costa/Shevchenko etc.,
None of those players would be considered for signing per the strategy employed by the current management. We were considered an underdog in the match against Leverkusen. We are the new Leverkusen in the Champions League i.e., a team like Liverpool will call us a strong team in pre match interviews, but they know losing to us is beneath them.
Highly unlikely. DK is clearly below Arsenal’s standards, and it hard to see where he would fit in Arteta’s system.
we got rid of dis guy to make space for ruben loftus cheek. ha!