Lorenzo Colombo spent last season on loan at Lecce but is now back at AC Milan for pre-season preparations. The forward has been linked with another loan move but could end up staying, a report claims.
Colombo is currently with the Milan squad in the United States for the pre-season tour and he has featured in both games so far. However, it’s clear that he’s behind both Olivier Giroud and Noah Okafor in the pecking order.
According to Calciomercato.com, Atalanta have enquired about the 21-year-old on a permanent basis. However, Milan immediately rejected this approach and haven’t even decided if Colombo should leave on loan or not this summer.
As things stand, the striker will remain at the club as Pioli appreciates his qualities. Cagliari are looming in the background, though, and are ready to pounce should Milan decide to open up the loan hypothesis again. The coming weeks will be decisive in that respect.
So what happen to Lazetic
Hope, he must go on loan.
They already bought their next striker tho
Keep him as third choice center forward. Okafor can be both Leao and Girona immediate backup while there’s Pulisic too who can play LW. It’s said that Okafor doesn’t score much but I was looking at his goal stats and were close to a goal every other match ,at least in the CL. He’s a modern attacker who should be fine as a center forward with the right tactics especially in European matches. Team have tricky attackers. Pioli probably want a bit striker – a Giroud type – only for long ball tactics which I don’t fancy. Let Colombo grow with us. He’s good enough as third choice striker. He’s a powerful shoot on his left foot. Don’t overgrowd the attack for Piolis foolishness. Man city’s squad have 2 center forwards.
Obviously depending on if they make any more moves and the fact that i would like us to buy veliz but colombo played roughly 1600 minutes (17.42 full matches in 34 different appearances) last season and scored 6 goals and made 2 assists for a team like lecce with basically a goal or an assist every second match id say we at minimum should keep control of him but i certainly wouldnt oppose that we keep him for a season but a loan might also excell his progress but it would also be good keeping him for homegrown quota and whose to say that he cant surpass the others if he do effeciently good as he did in lecce., He did have a dip at lecce but thats a different club fighting for survival milan will most likely fight for the scudetto.
His record for Italy at youth level is poor. That’s not a good sign, especially as Italy’s youth teams have made 2 major finals this summer, losing the U20 World Cup and winning the U19 Euros. He’s too slow and his movement isn’t very good. He’s the new Petagna.
He’s not that slow and he’s a deadly left foot. At least he’s still one of the best at his age in Italy if still relys on him
There are so many promising players ta youth levels that can even hendle serie b so im a bit hesitant to judge players on that merrit but at least colombo has done well at senior level and his soring and assist tally there looks fairly promising for a badly equipped team that was bound to get relegated,
–promising players ta youth levels that cant even hendle serie b ….
Exactly, about half of his appearances were as sub and also he almost never ended the ones started. Tho that Veliz boy sounds exciting even tho I don’t know him. Perhaps buy and let him there for a year on loan while Colombo who’s already more familiar with the atmosphere stays. I mean you have give them a chance not sending them out on load until they’re 25! And not just that, I genuinely believe that a Colombo is good enough as third choice. He still may not have that much playing time seeing every position only really need 2 player.
Im all for keeping him as a thrid chouce but wouldnt oppose a loan either but i do believe he could do fine with us and okafor might need a bit of adjustment so in that sense it wouldnt hurt either keeping him and he has proven fairly effective as i see it.
This is good.
If any side has a good eye for young talent it’s Atalanta.
They have a history of having a great academy and finding and developing youth.
If we’re serious about developing this guy then we wouldn’t be signing another striker for a few seasons.
I can’t see that happening since clubs have to sign strikers every transfer window or else there will be uproar from the media and fans.
So that being the case we should just put him out of his misery now and send him to a club where he might have a slim chance of making it (if that other club could just stop signing strikers for a few seasons).
So you’d pass on signing a talent like Alejo Veliz for a hopeful longshot like Colombo? Oh and Giroud is 37 years old. He isn’t getting any younger.
If Colombo is to have any chance.
Frankly if any striker is to have any chance.
We’ve signed a new striker every season for at least 13 seasons now (That’s just me going back to 2010 but I wouldn’t surprised if it’s been like that since 1990s).
There was a period where we sold our leading goalscorer from the previous season in the very next transfer window. We sold Balotelli after he was our leading goalscorer and did the same with Menez, Bacca and Cutrone.
It’s madness.
And who cares? What is madness is wanting someone like Cutrone to stay. This is a top level team. Not Genoa or some low ranked feeder club. Get with the program.
The point is we have no idea what ability these players have because of the turnover.
It doesn’t concern you at all that we have signed players for the same position every year now for at least 13 years?
What business would survive if it changed its sales director every single year or sometimes twice a year?
You’re out of your mind. You’re naming a bunch of players that should have never stepped foot in Milan. Including Luiz Adriano, Cutrone, etc. You’re on a mindless rampage and you don’t even see the problem.
We were in terrible form because some of these players were just bad. They should have never been signed in the first place.
Not that i doesnt want to keep colombo but as ive mentioned to you in a recent reply from you, neither cutrone or menez left us after a season as top scorers. cutrone made 3 in his last serie a season and meneze 2 in his last season with us.
Any ways i think it clearly would make sense keeping him or at the very minimum loaning him out for a season.
My bad about Cutrone and Menez but we did sell Bacca and Balotelli when they were our leading goalscorers.
Had we held onto any of those (including Balotelli) then they could’ve solved a striker problem for 4-5 years and allowed us to develop youth players. But we just kept signing new strikers.
Every striker on the planet except Messi (but including Ronaldo when he was at Man Utd) has had bad seasons.
Shevchenko scored 10 goals in 39 appearances in 02/03 and then scored 29 in 45 the next season.
In Benzema’s 14 seasons at Real (can you imagine any player staying a club for that long now) there were seasons he didn’t get into double figures.
It happens. But if you keep changing strikers every season then those strikers will never be given time to settle and hit form.
Oh you nut. Many of the signings you are even bringing up went bad even after having a ton of chances here. Bacca and Balotelli left when Berlusconi was in financial decline and was hit with fines at the time. In 2013, Fininvest was hit with a 494 million Euro fine by regulators. This left Milan in a financial state that led to an entire era of near non-investment.
I expect you’re just way too young to remember that.
You’re too ignorant and you don’t even bother looking up what was happening to management. Then our team was sold to a new owner (Li Yonghong) who was nothing more than a scammer.
I know I need to educate you on history as you seem very young. But do you recall what happened after Fininvest was hit with that nearly 500 million Euro fine? I doubt it.
Correction: Fininvest was hit by a 494 million euro fine by a court. Not regulators.
Maldinis heir even though i wasnt particular happy about either balotelli or bacca i understand your sentiments of conherency and consistency because having a group of tight nit players does make the difference in the greater scheme. I dont expect this ownership and management to buy as many players as they have done this year in the following years obviously depenmding on ammount of sales but i suspect that they will in the future buy maybe 3 players a year or something and then promote a few youths as well pr year, That would make sense from my view point but overall im nevertheless excited about those moves done this summer.
I’m be just done a quick scan of our transfers since 2010 and we’ve signed at least one new striker every single season and sometimes we signed strikers in both transfer windows in a single season.
And I don’t see that changing any time soon without intervention.
There’s no universe where a youth player can make it when we keep signing a new striker every single season. Even if they do score in the first team they’ll still be sold like Cutrone was.
We need to stop signing strikers that don’t have chance like Origi and stop dreaming that we have the next Luca Toni or whatever in some youth striker. Really the only one we made a mistake on was Aubameyang.
Oh and Cutrone’s form collapsed. And now he’s a nobody. Again, we’re not a feeder club.
We need to go for a talent that matches this team’s caliber.
Those signings included Balotelli, Bacca, Luis Adriano, Piatek, Higuain (HIGUAIN! He’d scored at every club he’s played at until he came to Milan), Silva, Kalinic….
Cutrone broke records at every level of youth and was our most successful striker in a season where we signed two others.
We simply don’t know what would’ve happened had he stayed and been backed by the club and played alongside players he’d played with for years at youth level. Messi struggled to adapt to PSG.
These are human beings not some computer game.
And the conditions required for success are actually very specific. That is why the vast majority of transfers result in players not producing the same or better form at their new clubs.
Chelsea went from 1st to 10th to 1st in three seasons with basically the same squad. When Mourinho criticised the physio and lost the dressing room that was enough for the team to collapse, and Mourinho has struggled to recover his mojo ever since.
We hang onto success by a thread.
Bacca was with us for two seasons. Luiz Adriano was rubbish. Piatek was mediocre.
Higuain was in a clear decline, and that could be noticed in his last season at Juventus (don’t be delusional!). His last season with Juventus he scored 8 goals. In other words, should have NOT been signed, but that was on the management at the time.
Cutrone was nothing more than mediocrity and lasted a half season. We don’t know what would’ve happened? Of course, he would be scoring single digits every season.
Silva and Kalinic weren’t any good either. Especially Kalinic.
You’re on a mindless rampage and you don’t even know what you’re saying at this point.
And you’re nastiness all because Maldini GOT FIRED AND CANNED, is evident on here. You’re just bitter he’s gone. You don’t care about anything besides that. You’re on here bashing on the signings every single day and say the same nonsense.
Also you forgot to name Matri. Another useless clown that should have not been signed.
In September of 2013, Fininvest was hit with a 494 million euro fine for irregularities. This particularly hit Milan very hard as suddenly the owner was in trouble financially. Milan went onto struggle financially and had to sell assets to even stay afloat. This is why Ibrahimovic, Balotelli and Thiago Silva essentially left, though Fininvest was in financial trouble prior to that fine.
As time went on, Berlusconi desperately tried to find new ownership and we ended up in a real mess with Li Yonghong.
It was that transfer of ownership that allowed rubbish like Kalinic to join Milan.
We’re not in that mess anymore.
Correction: The Fine was because of a court case.
We spent more money selling players and buying new ones.
We spent a fortune over the last 13 years and a huge number of players who have passed through the revolving door are still active, some playing for teams that finished ABOVE us in the table. (inter have four of our former players).
I criticised Maldini (sometimes even more because he should’ve known better). But he got carried away with the transfer market like everyone else.
This is a problem across football and is particularly bad in Italy which has the highest turnover. And it’s driven by agents, the media, fans, directors, managers and players – everybody. To the point that you actually think I’m barking mad for pointing this out. But this doesn’t happen in any other sport.
PS We’ll see what happens this season with these new signings but if we are in the same position next summer I hope you’ll start to reassess the situation. I, of course, will the opposite happens and we’re successful.
You’re absolutely brain dead and I really don’t have anything further to say. What happened under Berlusconi aftet 2012 was virtually no spending. And I was old enough to remember that.
Your blabbering like a toddler about turnover is immaterial when all but three of the players you named were worth anything. Ibrahimovic, Thiago Silva and Balotelli were sold because of Fininvest’s problems.
I’m not reassessing sh*t. And you don’t get to dictate anything, Mr crystal ball.
Nobody is getting carried away with anything here. Who is being signed has a calculated reason. Players with high resale value if it comes to it. No more Messias, Ballo-Toures or Caldaras.
Why are you so aggressive?
Do you do this if you go to the pub or is it just online?
We spent EUR1.5 billion on signings since the 90s and have won 3 Scudetti…,
https://www.goal.com/en-au/lists/ac-milan-most-expensive-signings-spent-over-1-5-billion-incoming-transfers/blt524bba3a6b7b9cbb#csc0f6546a5e01f35a
We’ve spent another load of cash this summer and we’ve no idea how any of them will perform. Me this out is the opposite of me claiming to have a crystal ball.
Me then saying that I will reassess my views if the season turns out differently is also the opposite of me claiming to have a crystal ball.
You making bold calls about how these players will perform and indeed their resale values is the definition of claiming to have a crystal ball.
You being hilariously aggressive and refusing to change your views even if the facts proven you are wrong just makes you, well, barking mad!
Nobody cares. Nobody really cares on bit. If it was up to you, we would still be playing with Cutrone in the Conference League if we’re lucky.
You’re already insulting the new signings, who are qualitatively some of the better players that we’ve signed in many years.
You’re an absolute clown and you insist these players will fail. I am stating a reality and why it’s different.
You want them to fail and you predict failure. That’s your own crystal ball. All so that you can come back on here and say I told you so.
You won’t be afforded the opportunity because your doom and gloom prediction will fail. So cry more.
He stay or go on loan it is up to club but we still need to sign 1 striker like alejo velis that strong on aerial duel
I’ve a feeling Pioli won’t give Veliz enough minutes for his proper development. He’ll play Giroud way too much. We can sign the boy and leave him there on loan. Giroud will be like 38 next year and Pioli would perhaps consider other options better. If Veliz manages another good season his standard will be even higher. I doubt a few appearances at Milan will help his growth that much. Meanwhile Colombo could be happy with the that role and more determined to prove something
I wonder if some are being honest here and if they are really Milan fans. Some want these new signings to fail so they can prove their own point and inflated egos.
This doesn’t sound like a Milan fan to me. And I will reiterate, I was and still am upset that Tonali left, but at the same I will back these new players, who are qualitatively some of the better players we’ve signed in years.
And I can say they are qualitatively better. I’ve been watching this team since the days of George Weah and Oliver Bierhoff. I state by observation. And are these signings better than 2017? By miles. And are these signings better than what Maldini did? Yes.
With all due respect giancarlo its still too early to say that they are better than maldinis because under him we also got leao, theo, tommori, kalulu bennacer with less cash and from what i can see with less room in the wage department.
When that is said im pretty confident that we will have a great season ahead of us and fight for the scudetto but in my view especially players like reijnders and chukwueze stands out as very exciting moves done by the current management. Overall i think we have done well in our aquisitions but thats basically on paper as that will be decided by how they actually perform this season but that also comes down to how well pioli utilizes them,
maignan as well and propably forgot some other ones as well,
The f**k have Higuain and Cutrone got to do with whether Colombo is any good??? 😂.
He is. I say keep him.