AC Milan are continuing to think about making another investment in the midfield department and their scouts have highlighted Richard Rios of Palmeiras as a candidate, a report claims.
As Calciomercato.com recall, Rios rose to stardom during the Copa America over the summer. He started out as a Futsal player, playing in his homeland for Alianza Platanera – a Colombian five-a-side football team – before a turning point came in 2019 with the call from Flamengo.
After a series of loan experiences, Palmeiras arrived and convinced him to join. Rios repaid the trust with high-level performances in the Copa Libertadores and the Brasilerao (league), impressing with his grit but also technique and reading of the game.
Several teams from the Premier League and LaLiga asked Palmeiras for information on Rios in the summer, while Milan were also linked, but the Brazilian club did not want to open negotiations for the sale of the Colombian international.
The plan was clear: keep him for another season with a possible sale scheduled only in the summer of 2025. Milan will certainly be one of the teams interested in the next developments because they have been scouting him for ‘at least four months’ and relations ‘have always been very positive’.
Rios can be sold from next summer, but not at a low price. There is a release clause of around €60m in his contract with Palmeiras but Milan have no intention of exercising it and will try to negotiate with the Brazilian side.
Lol. Even if we get a 50% discount it’s 30M and there is no way we’re paying 30M for a player who has not even set foot in Europe yet. Just go the extra mile and pay Cairo 40M for Ricci.
and 40M is such an overestimation, this contract runs until 2026, he’ll sell him for 25+M… but Cairo is Cairo…
How would Rios fit into this system? He doesn’t.
What system ? We don’t have a team for any system and our best combination so far (4-4-2) was something that Fonseca cooked and we don’t have enough players to rotate it.
He seems pretty similar to Reijnders. We need another quality DM to rotate with Fofana. Doesn’t make sense.
the system itself… doesn’t exist..
Strategy is beg all summer and then go for option 4
We need pure DM to move fofana his natural position to attack more not this rubbish arrogant
Is this who we need?
Milan could perhaps buy a 1/4 of the player but that’s not enough to get him to play for the club though.