Sandro Tonali was sold to Newcastle in the summer and as a result, AC Milan were able to invest a hefty amount on ten signings. Another ‘star exit’ cannot be excluded for the upcoming summer and there are three main suspects, a report claims.
Milan received around €70-80m from the sale of Tonali and used that money to sign a total of ten players. Their budget increased significantly, in other words, and they ended up spending a total of €134m including bonuses.
According to Calciomercato.com, Giorgio Furlani’s words in a recent interview – refusing to rule out another star sale – has sparked speculation on social media. Which will be the next star exit? There are three main suspects.
The first is Mike Maignan, whose contract with the club will expire in 2026. An important offer is being prepared for a contract renewal, but an agreement is not a certainty at the moment. Therefore, without a renewal before the summer, he could be sold for at least €60m.
The other two suspects are, of course, Theo Hernandez and Rafael Leao. Both have ended up on the radar of Paris Saint-Germain. The Portuguese winger has a release clause of €175m, but an offer over €100m could perhaps be enough to convince the Rossoneri.
For now, however, the players and the management are fully focused on the current campaign and achieving success.
Achieving success ?
If only someone could’ve predicted this earlier… lol
Lord Cardinale
Lord Furlani
If they need to sell they will sell. Its not like Milan didnt sell before. (sheva, kaka, Thiago Silva, Ibra comes to mind). We should probably be happy people want our players after that glorious decade of banter
Agree with your perspective. Serie A is a feeder league now – I am Ok with it.
Even if we are having our struggles now, the Tonali sale enabled getting many of the new players. I am sure few would question Pulisic, Loftus and Tiji now. I like how the new managent runs the team, not perfect but very mid/long term focused. If Theo left, for example, I am sure they would strengthen other areas we are not good at (money ball type thinking) vs just a player for player replacement.
I would. Pulisic has been good against small teams, invisible against top clubs. Loftus-Cheek is usually solid and he had one incredible game against PSG. But they are both injury-plagued. Reijnders is average, has little impact on the game and clearly needs to improve.
Reijnders is average????
Jesus… Who even allows to ppl like u to have accounts!??? Stupidity is contagious,there should be a law against it!
Before you call someone stupid, so far as Tijjani shown the class of RLC or Pulisic to suggest he has not been average.
KEYWORD SO FAR….
What do you mean? I think if you check the injury record of Pulisic and RLC, it shows they are missing just about the same as they always did. You can’t really have those players as someone to rely for the whole season because you won’t get anywhere. They both have at least 3 minor injuries every single season. Yes, Pulisic scored some goals and is doing good, RLC did good in 5 games, but you don’t win titles with players like that. They can’t hold the whole season, both of them show it year after year. Tijani what? Dude has been beyond bad in over 50% of the matches he played, completely useless. The first 2 were way better than him and are way better signings even with their constant injury issues.
I agree with both of you on the injury worries, but that’s why the team paid $40M and $8M in salary pre tax for both.
I think Tiji is class so I disagree there!
Bar a few important mental collapses (this also happened under Ancelotti) and some bad luck (like Newcastle) this team is much better than last season’s and is worth more on the balance sheet.
Going for Chuky and not Taremi was a bad move. I was on the wrong side of that argument.
Are you going to maintain the team is better than last season even if we finish in a worst position?
I’m curious what are you basing your opinions off?
Most of our signings have achieved less than the players they replaced. We replaced verifiable Scudetto winners and champions league semi-finalists with in some cases players who had played for mid-table teams in other leagues and the Europa Conference League.
Yet most people seem convince that these new players are somehow better.
If results on the pitch are not the measure, what is?
We should figure this out soon as we’re about to sell another scudetto winner and replace him with another 4 randomers in January. That’ll be 14 new signings this season…..
We don’t need to be a feeder anything.
We just need to get off the ridiculous transfer market merry-go-round and start taking a far strategic approach to building a sustainable, long term TEAM.
I think the team right now is not that bad as many are saying there has been many changes with new arrivals and departures some players are getting use to the playing style of pioli lately milan are facing a lot off injuries.i think there must be more willingness determination on the part of the players we must not rely only on some players to give us result the hole team need to step up and do there part above all they are humans not robots in any teams some players form drop for a while humans ,winning and loosing form part in every sport, sometimes the way milan loose and draw is hard to accept.8 points behind inter’ with team like juventus AtaLanta lazio Florentina napoli ,milan must start to get result no matter how they play all we need is 3point we could have win against Napoli lecce juventus Udiness by now we could have been first with the rest chasing us it’s the past,milan is in a very uncertain situation to qualified in champions league they have to fight until the end to qualified it will be very difficult but I know milan have the quality and fight spirit to achieve the good result.lastly milan need a good striker girou alone will not be able to get us more goal.i will continue to support milan it been a long time since I have been a faithful supporter in the time of BARESI,MALDINI.BOBAN.DIDA CADU ALBERTINI PAPIN VAN BASTEN GULLIT RIKAARD DESSAILLE WEAH SAVISEVIC PIRLO SHEVCHENKO SEEDORF GATTUSO LEONARDO RUI COSTA And many more.I still remember when milan beat the team full off super star BARCELONA 4 -0 In a champions league final what a stunning goal by savicivic..milan forever. Let us stay unite..milan in my heart ❤️ and blood..forza MILAN.
It’s not about the players but the TEAM.
And a TEAM takes YEARS to build.
It’s not just something you can pull together with some wheeling and dealing on the transfer market. Even Man City have taken YEARS to arrive at where they are at, and might not have got there without Guardiola.
A manager is a huge part of it and Pioli, who is the best manager we’ve had since Allegri, is not at that level.
Many of the names you’ve mentioned would’ve failed in the current Milan. The turmoil and lack of direction, and inevitable transfers, would have stunted their growth and prevented them reaching the levels they reached.
That’s what’s changed. Not the DNA of Italians that we randomly can’t produce decent players any more.
@James ” I am sure few would question Pulisic, Loftus and Tiji now.” Really? I bet alot would question them..matter of fact many of us question it in summer. Both RLC and Puli for their injury record. Great when they’re fit but thats exactly the issue….WHEN they’re fit.
We only need to sell we because we waste so much money on pointless signings (e.g. 3 identical midfielders and 3 RWs).
Our best signings in the past decade were free – Kjaer and Ibra.
Maldini showed how to do it – you just need to be smart.
PS The main issue in the ‘banter era’ was player turnover and the fact we didn’t have a decent manager (or indeed in some cases qualified coaches). The ‘banter era’ produced sone of our best primavera players but many of them now play for our direct rivals.
We never recovered from selling Ibra and Silva until he came back. His returm coincides with our recent success. Certain players can’t be replaced with better or equivalent ones.
Selling many of our best players, in close interfvals, without potential replacements in the squad to gamble isn’t a good strategy either.
Yes Ibra and Thiago were big losses but we still finished third the next season and picked up the same number of points as Juve during our comeback in the second half of the season.
That squad was relatively young including the front three of Niang, Balotelli and El Shaaraway.
ALL of them ended up as varying degrees of failures. Not just ONE, ALL of them. Nearly that entire squad including De Sciglio, Cristante and even Montolivo who was inexplicably frozen out by an amateur coach in Gattuso.
And then every player we signed or produced became a failure.
Endless failures.
If every single player is failing then that points to the system not the players.
The truth is we have no idea of the quality of the players in that period because it was chaos. And this summer brought more chaos.
Did you have amnesia or something?
After we sold Sheva, Kaka, Ibra, and Thiago without getting replacement with the same quality, we became weaker and weaker and stuck in the dark age for YEARS. And now you want that to happen again?!
Also. You said oh we should be happy that other clubs wants our top players. But you’re one of the first who got angry like a madman when our top players absent for important match. SMH 🙄
We have no idea what quality we had because after we sacked Allegri we hired Seedorf and that pattern continued.
Now I know that most people believe that being a football manager is like the easiest thing in the world and you can hire any old novice, but maybe just maybe that had an impact on the teams performance over the next few seasons.
And then when we did hire a qualified manager in Pioli, remarkably the ‘banter era’ came to an end….
jesus. Pioli a qualified maanger? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk NO! You do know Milan invested over 250M€ in players before Pioli came, right? And after he was here another 80M. Banter came to an end when muricans came and started running the club in a more healthy way
I know that is only a third of the reason why Milan went down in the previous decade. And yes i want that to happen again. I love seeing Milan fighting for 7th place. Its spectacular. SMH
So after selling what happens next?? Back to banter era 😂😂😂😂 like what happened when we sold ibra and thiago silva..?? Smh
You do know Milan was struggling AF even before they sold those 2, right? I mean that is why they sold them.. But since b&g had no idea what to do with that money they did that what made Milan a struggling club to begin with. The only quality player they bought that window was De jong and he was less than 4M. 60M wasted on rejects. The next transfer window was even worse. The whole Rami disgrace. Cringe
@Milan4lyf haha this is fine let’s sell Leao and Théo to buy 20 players
Yes, it will be Leao for 120M and they will buy 6x20M wanabee player and hope 2 are good. That is the issue. Even Leao cost almost 40M, as a talent.
Three good 40mil players (not names David) would do this squad a LOT OF GOOD.
Spelar ingen roll vad dom gör. För pioli kan inte få ut max av spelarna eller motiverad till match.
Why is Leao’s RC set at 175mil if 100mil is enough to let him go? 🤣
Theo’s departure doesn’t seem likely to me given his baby mama is Italian and owns a tattoo shop in Milan.
Maignan? Maybe, but I’m hoping we Tuesday him down to another renewal period before letting him go.
So that leaves us with Leao? 100mil+ offers? Suitable replacement?
His replacements?
I think there are some good options.
-Amine Adli
-Antonio Nusa
-Nico Williams
-Adeyemi
-Ansu Fati (might not leave Barça)
And Pioli will remain as Head coach for a team with little ambition to win throphies… welcome to the new Milan.
In that case Pioli will be one of the few Scudetto winners left…
And quite literally one of the ones we don’t want to be left out…
Pioli’s position has been solidified…
I think Tiani can be a great player with good advice his trying to do too much without accuracy in front of goal and lack the killer pass, if selling Theo leao and maigna will solve this current problem I think we are good but I will advise for the management to keep at least leao or maigna Theo can go any day anytime anywhere I love him but we won’t miss him I swear
Not only to finance new acquisitions. Don’t forget Cardinale took high interest loan from Elliott and probably has other investors that gave him money to buy the club and now expect return on investment. This transfer campaign for now turned out to be 6/10
This is sad.
We’re still not yet have a solid DM after Kessie and Tonali left. Now this mfker Furlani wants to sell our top players again?! 🙄
Not to mention new players like Chuk, Romero, that amateur kid Pellegrino, and Jovic are still useless af.
I take issue with the statement that Pulisic doesn’t score in big games. His play (score and assist) got Chelsea through the semifinal against Real in their Championship win a few years ago. Further, he scored impressive goals against Man City and Liverpool.
As to injury, his style of play can lead to injury. The game against Porta in Chelsea’s Championship run, he was fouled 11 times. In the USA’s World Cup game against Iran, he gave his body up to score the winning goal in a collision with the keeper and was immediately taken to the hospital, but still was able to play their next game against the Netherlands.
Bro his goals / assists vs Real are important that I will agree. But before and after that what exactly did he do? Nothing! He wasnt effective in the final and not against Porto. Any defensively sound team he struggles. That season he only scored 2 goals in the UCL…one against Real and the other against Krasnsdor or something like that.
His goals vs City and Liverpool? Are you making stuff up? He scored 1 goal vs City fours years ago and in 10 appearances against them. He scored twice against Pool, one in a 5-3 loss against Them and the other a draw. His best opponent is Burnley at 5 goals. Let’s not hype him up here because he had that one good round in the UCL.
This is what happen when Milan sold to poor bussinessman