Samuele Ricci to AC Milan is a done deal, as a transfer fee has been agreed with Torino, while the medical tests will take place next week.
It was confirmed by Fabrizio Romano and Matteo Moretto earlier this afternoon that Milan have reached an agreement with Torino for Ricci’s transfer. The Rossoneri will pay €23m, plus an additional €2m in bonuses, and the medical tests are scheduled for next week.
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The 23-year-old is a player that Milan have wanted for a long time, viewing him as the perfect solution for the midfield even before Igli Tare and Max Allegri joined. To get the deal over the line at such good figures is thus great news.
Reasonable salary expected
As reported by Calciomercato.com, Ricci’s salary will be well within Milan’s parameters as he should earn around €2.5m plus bonuses per year. The transfer fee, meanwhile, will be spread out over a five-year contract.
As for the midfielder’s role in the team, the report states that Allegri sees him as a classic No.6 in a three-man midfield. He has the defensive instincts that Milan lacked this past season, as shown at Torino, and his passing ability is impressive too.
Ricci is currently on vacation but will return to Italy for the medical tests. He should thus become the Rossoneri’s first signing of the summer, as Luka Modric has decided to complete the Club World Cup before undergoing his medical tests.
The news we’ve all been waiting for since last summer. Let’s see how Allegri uses him. I feel he is a positional defensive talent with the ability to read the game.
I am shocked by the transfer fee. If anyone knows Cairo, he would usually demand a lot more. This is a fantastic piece of business. There aren’t many Italian players I think that are quality enough, but Ricci has been long been one.
Looks like a fantastic price for the potential. Seems like a perfect fit for Allegri. He should be able to help with the biggest complaints from players saying they don’t know when to attack or defend. Ricci can better dictate the proper pace.
I have a feeling that Cairo and Ricci had a gentleman’s agreement that Ricci would not push for a transfer last summer, if Cairo allowed him to leave for a reasonable transfer fee to a team he wanted to go to this summer. It’s the only thing I can come up with, because he does have three years left on his contract, so Torino are under no pressure to sell this summer.
It must be a gentleman’s agreement. This was reported in the media last summer, and many of us made fun of it. It seems it was true and Cairo kept his word.
Yea seems like it. Ricci extended his contract recently like a year ago or so. So he could’ve went away for free then, but it seems he deceided to give Torino something too.
Dollarumma apprently had a choice…
We don’t need him. We have Terracciano the legend.
What exactly are you high on?
I guess sarcasm is not your thing.
Great signing, but what is this nonsense about paying the fee in 5 parts? I thought Milan has money to spend? 🤣 Man Utd did the same and now they have 350M€ pending in past transfer fees. Bad transfers, but it shouldn’t be allowed for new staff to create future transfer expenses.
If you know anything about financial models, this is the best type of transfer modelling we can adopt.
I have been clamouring for this style adoption, I believe they read our comments here too.
With this model, we can sign anyone, Osimhen.
I don’t want want to go all academic about this anymore, with long write ups, but believe me buddy, this style could greatly open up our transfer efficiencies.
Man Utd have the best transfer modelling in the whole of Europe. Where they lack is price negotiation as they seem to overpay for players.
Ricci 25m payment structure was installment in 5 years. Wow that sounds good. But the revolution models was in Barcelona. They have huge debt but to registration new players + the salary, they used progressive models with start from their lowest salary. The difference is they have their own stadium with 90.000 capacity, that why they can make it. Seri A ? Could be a long and winding road 😄😂🙏
I understand your point though but I don’t think it was a different approach from what we did to clear our debts.
You wrote so much nonsense in a few sentences that it is hard to reply. Man Utd best model, with 350M owed for past transfers. 🤣🤣🤣
The £350m you see can easily be cleared by their annual transfer budget which is around £300m.
We used our entire transfer budget to purchase CDK, imagine if we had just made a down payment of 1/5 of that sum while still having transfer budget to strengthen other departments. Imagine if were able to sell him off to Atalanta without actually stretching our finances to make a full payment in one transfer window.
Man United financial model is executed by astute financial professionals, they have effectively utilised instalmental payments to close big deals while not overstretching their annual budgets.
For instance, they signed Ugarte for £50m, if it were your club, they would cough out the money and pay at once, but no Man Utd spread the payment over 5 years, that means they would only have to pay £10m in a single season. Same goes for Zirkzee and every other big deal they have executed, they spread their deals, in fact, they never pay more than £15m per player in a year. That is financial strategy.
In 2024 alone, they concluded deals worth almost £250m, but those deals were spread for 3 to 5 years, they paid only £60m for contracts made in the year while adding other instalmental payments from previous years the amounts would then get up to around £150m.
This is how they spend within transfer budget.
So the £154m they have to pay within a year would be effectively taken care of within the transfer budget which is around £200m without spreading false narratives of the club being on the verge of bankruptcy.
I have done some extensive write ups on this topic before, but honestly right now I’ve got an assignment at hand and I would not have that time for lengthy posts at this time. But you can do some research and if your mind is open, you will understand.
Imagine us signing Osimhen and Rodrygo using this model, they instantly raise our squad value by €200m worth and also the quality and marketability, but we just have to pay €20m for each player instalmentally for 5 years. This doesn’t stretch our annual transfer budget, yet we have signed players which our budget would never have accommodated. This is what Man Utd have effectively done over the years.
Aint this standard practice for all transfers ever? The 25m fee is spread over the contract length. If you pay 100Mill, you dont write 100mill minus in your financial books, you write 20mill for year 1, 20mill for year 2, until you reach the 5th year. Sounds like normal accounting practice to me. Let me know if I’ve completely misunderstood what the article said.
Yeah, they’re just amortizing it over the length of the contract. That’s why Chelsea was giving out 8 year deals. It’s accounting 101…
Oh oh, I hope we’re talking about the same thing here though.
Ain’t talking about amortisation, of course all the clubs amortise player contracts, it is not a transfer model, it is just an accounting treatment technique.
But, Man Utd apart from the amortisation and the accounting treatment, they actually spread those payments in instalments over those years in the contract.
That’s some genius move to deferre payments, and hold funds for bigger market operations.
What is genius about paying later? The best clubs on the planet are stupid? 🤣🤣
In truth, your question was answered by Albert Einstein when he said “The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple”.
But I tell you, the definition of genius is in using the simple things effectively in solving complex situations.
Ok. Why don’t best ran clubs do it? Why doesn’t Real Madrid pay fees in 7 instalments? It is accounting 101 when you have no money and you don’t care what will be in 5 years. Probably none of those people will be at Milan…
“It is accounting 101 when you have no money and you don’t care what will be in 5 years.”
You see this 👆👆👆 quote up here, is why we do payments in instalments, because when we are broke, we don’t know if we will ever be able to afford Osimhen, but we know that no matter how broke we get we will have as a barest minimum a transfer budget between €30-50m annually, so if a financial obligation of €40m annually can get us Osimhen and Rodrygo, then why not.
Now, this is not Accounting 101, this is Business Administration 101, survival, this is how to make smart deals even when broke.
Real Madrid is Real Madrid, they don’t have that peculiarities at the moment and it will be absolute foolishness if we try to emulate Real Madrid’s business model when we don’t have money.
Man Utd financial mangers had to develop this simple but effective strategy in order to save itself from the reckless spending and funds mismanagement by the Glazers family ownership.
That is the kind of strategy that can help us grow fast while steadying the ship.
He not good more then 15m maximum,i dont see how we play better with him. He still not good for club if we want play champions league with this guy we not have chaince there
Good deal
Can’t say I’ve seen much of Ricci, but if he’s anywhere as good Tonali and Barella, He will be a good addition to the team.
So gooood news. This is what as a fan, I waiting.
Lets bring another good and prospect players.
Good job management.
Thanks Milan
Rovella next
Lucca
Cambiaso or nuno travrez or Fabian parisi
Fazzini
Chiesa
Leoni
With this am good to go