AC Milan are currently locked in negotiations with the entourage of Mike Maignan over a renewal and it will not be an easy agreement to reach, a report claims.
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According to what is being reported by Calciomercato.com, Maignan intends to secure a pay rise with his next contract that reflects his status as one of the best goalkeepers in the world. As a result, his request to Milan exceeds the offer of €4.5m plus bonuses from the club.
Maignan currently gets €2.8m net per season, the figure agreed at the time of his arrival from Lille in 2021. The margins to continue negotiating are there as well as the will of all those present in the negotiation, but the road remains ‘quite uphill’.
The main issue is that Milan are not willing to further raise their €4.5m offer at the moment. The Rossoneri have rather strict parameters when it comes to salaries and do not want to run the risk of a chain effect whereby others come in and ask for a large rise.
In addition to that, this has been a difficult season for Maignan with more goals let in than usual (far from all his fault) and further injury problems. Nonetheless, the Frenchman remains a goalkeeper who makes the difference.
That is why Bayern Munich are interested, even if no official approaches have arrived. For Geoffrey Moncada and Giorgio Furlani it would be less painful and less complicated to sell Maignan than it would Theo Hernández or Rafael Leão.
They would listen to offers in the region of €70m for Maignan, but at the moment the priority remains to try and get a contract extension done.