CM: Moncada still strongly pursuing Spurs defender – demands could be lowered

AC Milan remain in talks with Spurs over the potential signing of Emerson Royal and hope to find a meeting point soon, according to a report.

According to Calciomercato.com, contacts between Milan and Tottenham for Emerson Royal have not stopped and now the London club are internally evaluating the possibility of lowering their €20m demands.

It is not yet a clear opening but there is more optimism, and the will of the right-back is clear: he wants to move to Milan, with whom he has a verbal agreement over personal terms. At the beginning of next week Geoffrey Moncada will try to seal the arrival of ‘one of his real obsessions’.

However, if he were to join then it would raise questions about the number of right-backs in the squad, given Davide Calabria, Alessandro Florenzi, Pierre Kalulu and Filippo Terracciano can all play there.

Enquiries about Terracciano have arrived in the last month and Florenzi suffered a knee injury last night that is being assessed, but it seems as though Moncada and Fonseca have decided that the right defensive lane needed to be improved.

In the meantime, talks are continuing over Youssouf Fofana, Strahinja Pavlovic, Lazar Samardzic and Niclas Fullkrug.