Lazar Samardzic is waiting and hoping that AC Milan will agree a deal with Udinese, a report claims, and he has rejected two other clubs in the meantime.
According to Calciomercato.com, Milan have identified Samardzic as the ideal playmaker to fill the ‘tactical and conceptual needs’ of Paulo Fonseca, offering him more solutions and a more technical player between the lines.
The operation has only just got underway and will proceed slowly because the negotiation has several points to resolve, but it is still very much possible and even probable considering that both Udinese and the Serbian talent want to reach the finish line with the Rossoneri.
Samardzic, since he learned of Milan’s new interest, has been pushing hard both with his entourage and with Udinese to go to a club that he had already come close to in the past. In fact, he has already turned down Lazio and Fenerbahçe.
That is because he would like to be sure of playing in the Champions League next season and doing so at San Siro is an opportunity he does not went to let slip by. Contacts between Geoffrey Moncada, his father-agent and the TDS agency have been positive.
The commissions and salary are not a problem and the plan is to give the Serbian a deal which would increase season after season (five years in total). Udinese are also aware that holding on to the 22-year-old doesn’t give them many benefits either.
However, the chances of a deal being done quickly are slim. Milan would first like to sell a midfielder such as Yacine Adli or Ismael Bennacer, and define other more urgent operations such as those for Monaco’s Youssouf Fofana and Red Bull Salzburg’s Strahinja Pavlovic
In the talks with Udinese, Moncada took note the request of €25m and the difficulties in identifying a possible counterpart. The parties are in contact but everything suggests that this negotiation will only get going starting next week.