Newcastle United appear to be moving closer to completing the signing of Sandro Tonali as the player has opened to the switch, a report claims.
According to Calciomercato.com, Newcastle have raised their offer from the previous €60m to around €70m but it is still not enough because the Rossoneri continue to ask for €80m to close the operation.
Tonali will captain Italy in the U21 European Championships starting tomorrow, and he has been offered a base salary of €6.5m net per season which can reach €7.5m, which is three times the current €2.5m he earns.
The report adds that the former Brescia man has expressed a willingness to accept the Magpies’ proposal, which could well mean that the final obstacle has been removed and things could be quickly completed.
Itwould be the most profitable sale ever for Milan, even higher than the approximately €67m paid by Real Madrid in the summer of 2009 for the purchase of the Brazilian forward Kakà.
€80m and some add-ons based on their top-4 finishes and UCL progression and I think it’s sadly time to part ways, if he wants to go. I hope it doesn’t happen, but up to Sandro I guess.
ask for player replacement if he really depart. Player For Player right
Jeff Hendrick is included
An italian side instead of building something good, they are selling their best italian players. Well done guys, keep up the brilliant work!
They are the richest club ask for atleast f*cking 100 milion.
It means we have already become a sellier clubs than aiming for a cups.
2weeks of Maldini sacking and everything has changed
True, if it was Maldini we would’ve lost them for free
LOL. Gotta love people here. First everyone is hating Maldini for not selling anyone and now that the club is making a great deal and huge profit everyone is bashing them for selling a player.
Bring out the popcorn, eh?! 😀
Hahahaha, I can’t stop laughing. He is going to leave if we get 80 mil by the looks of things. When he goes, Milan will have to actually have to build a wining double pivot in 2-3 weeks. This is hilarious 😂😂, Bennacer is out for 6 months, krunic is 30, then Pobega. I can’t stop laughing, I mean that. I love this club, but I really want to see Tonali go, so that I can see who the management buys.
Serious point to make here. Why buy the club if you don’t have the money to support a really big club like AC Milan. It is both funny and stupid business.
inflation of kakas sale was different so my guess is that the 67 mil back then is worth more than the 80 mil now but i could be wrong though.
checked it 67 euroes in 2009 would be 90,87 euros in 2023 so kakas transfer with nowadays inflation would be worth 90,87 mil euros
True, but prime Kaka obviously was some levels above current Tonali, so still good business.
sure kaka was a better player but if we sell tonali it might be good financial business but i doubt it will benefit the team coherency as tonali is one to keep and i doubt all the money would be reinvested again.
Too many hypotheticals Martin with team cohesiveness and whether the money will be reinvested. These people are professionals, and many have already moved a couple of times in their careers. Team cohesiveness will improve if selling Tonali results in the needed reinforcements at CM and RW. The money from selling that one player can get us three we need.
Just look at what you yourself wrote. 90m for Kaka in today’s money vs. 80m for Tonali. Kaka was a Ballon D’or winner who almost singlehandedly won the 2007 CL for us. Tonali is, as of right now at least, “just” an above average player with room to improve. So 80m for Tonali is a no-brainer.
i understand that argument and i can even agree to some degree but that depends if all the cash is reinvested in 3 good or poetntally great players then sure it could improve the squad.
You are missing a point here 80 mil in nowadays wlll be like something lower than the 67 as well.
Sure if we have been offered 80 its financially a good offer but not everything is about finances but as i said in a different thread im pretty confiendet that when renegotiated the tonali deal with brescia they also had a 30% resale of the price coming their way so in the end we will only see 50 some mil for a deal of a sale at 80 mil.
Doesnt sound to good to me in the end.
Here’s what I’m thinking…
1. Sandro doesn’t like what’s happening at Milan and is open to move. Which is a worrying sign.
2. Furlani is told that the Mercator must be self sustained on top of the 35 mil figure that has been circulating.
3. The return on Sandro’s investment is too big to deny for Furlani/Management. And Sandro’s agent is painting a pretty picture of playing in the most exciting league. Who knows….
4. If we sell Tonali but reinvest into SMS and Fratesi……..? Big if. The club would still be competitive. That’s a huge move for Furlani.
5. Will this cause too big of a rift between fans, Curva and management with this move if Milan is still competitive but unrecognizable?
5. It will also cause rift in the squad. What would Maignan, Theo, and Leao think if one of the key players is sold just few weeks after Maldini’s sacking? Even Thuram might think Milan lack ambition and reject the offer.
I think if Tonali goes, then Mike goes too (or at least that’s what I would do as a don’t give an f director)..
Just simply due to contract length and his injury issues
LOL.
Too many emotional children being emotional right now.
1. Irrelevant what Sandro feels. He has a contract and is a professional. Also, it’s waaaay too early to draw conclusions about what direction will take when the market hasn’t even opened yet.
2. Why would this be so strange? Only two clubs on the planet can spend more than they make. People just don’t get this. Somehow people think other clubs just print money in the basement.
3. 80m for Tonali? That’s a massive piece of business. Which leads us to….
4. SMS and Frattesi. SMS/Frattesi/Bennacer is wildly superior to Tonali/Bennacer/Krunic. If 80m for Tonali makes that happen then its a no-brainer. Frattesi will cost 30m, SMS 20m and that ALSO leaves 30m for something else like….Chukwueze.
5. No, because the club will never be unrecognizable if it is competitive. This is what makes it a big club. Being competitive.
“What would Maignan, Theo, and Leao think if one of the key players is sold just few weeks after Maldini’s sacking?”
They probably think the most evident thing: The club has sold one for huge profit so there is no need to sell anyone else so the rest are safe.
It also means that today one has been sold, tomorrow another can be sold to maintain positive revenue.
So what has changed? Every club in the world sells their players. The players know that. Part of the game. There’s not tottis or maldinis anymore.
Fabrizio has not said a word about this.. Until i see ‘here we go’ its all hogwash to me.
Calciomercato? really?
Yes, Calciomercato, the one with bad track record.
He said on Facebook the clubs agreed at 70 mil, sadly he will be sold then Theo,leao and mike
£80m is a lot of money for a player who is still unproven at the top level, really. But he could still be a “bandiera”…. Milan need to think carefully about what sort of club they want to be. And Tonali needs to think carefully about how important money is to him.
Probably all bs. A player who takes a pay cut to a stay at his boyhood club doesn’t strike as the kind of guy who’ll pack it all in to go play for a scrappy club in rainy England. But the girls do wear very short skirts there in all weather so who knows?
Unless he doesn’t like what’s going on in the club and around him. Which is a terrible sign. If he leaves then its time to worry.
Premier league is way better than crappy serie A. Know where I’d rather play. And it’s in front of 52000 Geordies
And we’re not a scrappy club. We finished 4th and are on the rise
#CardinaleOut
I’m really starting to hate these owners. If you’re only planning on signing free and cheap, painfully average players.Then to have any chance of being competitive you need to keep the good players you already have. They aren’t even doing that.
Well boys this club is now all business and no heart. But I’m sure this is what we all enjoyed about supporting milan right??? People watch for the business aspect and not the passion right?? So dumb. I hate this and hope it’s not true.
Use the money to buy SMS & Frattesi and the roster is stronger than before. That’s what I’d call good business.
That would also mean there is no need to sell Theo, Maignan or Leao anymore.
Tonali is a bandiera material, I view him as one of the unsellable. But of course, it’s gonna be a mighty hard task to refuse 80M in this kind of economic situation.
Personally, if Tonali go, I don’t think any of us here will begrudge him. The boy took a pay cut to force a move to his beloved club. So, if he’s gonna be leaving, I hope he really earn some bags. However, it might also be a sign of trouble as some of the posters have pointed out. If the kid who is self-proclaimed to be Milan fan (and had done lots of things to validate that) didn’t wanna be a part of this team, this is rather alarming.
The value of Declan Rice is over £90 million pounds and it’s a shame Milan are asking for €80 million Euro Tonali.
The real shame is this moneyball club listening to offers in the first place and not giving tonali the full backing of the club. Way to create a nice atmosphere of building a project redturd… oh wait…
That is the way to build club.
For $80mill we can actually buy 20 to 30 players from Indonesia, Pakistan and India
Way to go
Hahahah right? It’s the moneyball way get rid of all the people who make the club what it ism just have some robots playing the game but make it profitable… great… sounds like something I want to watch…
I think it would be crazy to let tonali go ,but that’s crazy football business at the moment ,yes crazy money been paid ,,,sadly football is not progressing at all .Yes of course if any team can buy any player ,then they can of course win many trophies..But surly this is not what we want ? A scheme has to be implemented to limit monies any club can spend each season on players .Tonali is a great player ,and sadly the only Italian in our side ,,and now he probably will go .AC Milan have done so well in the last couple of seasons on a limited budget ,that to me is real success.