Dani Olmo has the chance to lift his first major trophy with the Spanish national team in Sunday’s final against England, and he could have been doing so as an AC Milan player.
Calciomercato.com provide some background on Olmo ahead of the showpiece game in Berlin. Back in July 2014, after having been at La Masia (Barcelona’s famous academy) since he was nine years old, he courageously decided to move to Dinamo Zagreb in search of playing time to aid his development.
His choice has paid off, becoming a starter at the age of 16. He began to draw the eyes of many top clubs and his desire to remain a key player at whatever team he went to next led him to accept RB Leipzig over many other clubs, including Milan where his compatriot Zvonimir Boban was working.
Tuttosport reported that in 2020 that Elliott Management in fact decided that the commissions requested by the player’s entourage (€7m), the transfer fee and bonuses would have far exceeded the €20m put on the table by Milan.
Juanma Lopez – Olmo’s agent – spoke to Di Marzio a few months after the aforementioned report and confirmed that the Rossoneri made a concrete attempt to buy his client.
“How close was he to Milan? Very. Boban liked him a lot, he tried for weeks, we even met in Milan, I was in the company of his dad and Andy Bara. But in the end he chose the player he preferred to continue his growth path in the Bundesliga,” he said (via MilanLive).
After getting an assist against Albania in the group stage, Olmo got a goal against Georgia in the round of 16, a goal and an assist against Germany in the quarter-finals and then another goal against France in the semis.
At 26 years of age there is a chance that the attacking midfielder might move on, especially given that he has a €60m release clause. Chelsea are strong contenders, Liverpool and Manchester City have expressed interest without going further, and a return to Barcelona cannot be ruled out.
Since we are buying Morata for 13 million why can’t we also buy Olmo? Add to that Fofana and I’m happy with the transfer window.
Because the ownership don’t want to spend money, they just want to tread water and go nowhere, so long as the books look good
Somebody with a brain
All available funds are going to cb, rb, st, dm… for this mercato at least but would love to see him in red and black in the future, although it’ll probably never happen – especially after he destroys England on Sunday.
His release clause is 60M euros which is about 4x more. Lumping the two together makes no sense.
Now I would sell Bennacer at clause value 50M to Al Ettifaq and pay the 10M difference for this guy in a heartbeat. But I am not the management.
Oh ya like that has a real chance of actually happening lol. Unfortunately we are owned by Redbird my friend so this will happen when pigs learn to fly
Another uneducated fool, what kind of fans do we have.
Instead of insulting ppl on the site try to make actual points. All u do is disparage
Boban has such a good eye for finding attackers.
Bring him back…sorry we have Forlani
Ahhh…the dreaded commissions!! LOLOLO
Wait wait, you mean to tell me that our refusal to pay Olmo’s agent’s commission didn’t change the agent landscape and set a new standard that all clubs would follow – zero commission’s given??????? Hahahahahahahahaha!
Such embarrassing and short-sighted thinking.
Well at least we have our pride?😂🤡🤣
What pride ? We develop players for Real Madrid 😆😆
What a dumb comment, I guess we develop players for Arsenal, Juventus, Barcelona and Chelsea as well considering we let Vieira, Reiziger, Davids and Desailly go. Or for Valencia seeing as we sold Ayala to them who would go on to be the best CB in La Liga for a while. Pirla
You’re talking about a time when we had other stellar names in the team.
He choose German for playing time and development. Doesn’t matter if we paid commission or not