Charles De Ketelaere is very close to becoming a new Milan player as Club Brugge are ready to accept the latest offer, according to a report.
According to what Calciomercato.com are reporting, Paolo Maldini and Ricky Massara have raised the offer to €32m fixed plus €3m bonuses. The Belgian club – which until yesterday was asking for €35m guaranteed – now seem to be ready to change their minds and accept the Rossoneri’s proposal.
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The deal should therefore close between today and tomorrow and Stefano Pioli – who will return to Italy with the team tonight after the friendly against Wolfsberger – could have the Belgian at his disposal from Friday.
It comes after were reported yesterday that Maldini and Massara were expected to speak to CEO Ivan Gazidis in order to update the owners Elliott Management and ask for a possible further economic effort to conclude the deal, and it seems it has been forthcoming.
I’ve been reading the text for the third time and I still don’t believe my eyes !
I hear y’a, still have my fingers crossed. Next deal, a defender I figure, but does anyone feel we need a forward considering we only have Giroud healthy?
Next deal we need a homegrown player.
CdK is fortunately still U21, so he doesn’t take the slot of the 25 players list in CL.
However, looking at the current state of the squad, we still have 18* non-homegrown players who are above 21 years old, only 17 of them can be registered at CL squad, we have to remove one (probably Bakayoko or Balo-Toure) and sign homegrown replacement.
*if Bennacer is considered as homegrown player which is likely as he was 19 years old when he joined Empoli, which means he played at Italy as 19, 20, and 21 years old at the start of the season.
And you shouldn’t believe anything that you read if you’re eyes see the words “CalcioMercato” in it.
There is also a report from Belgium.
Reports from Belgium is the deal hasnt been accepted.
The report in Belgium said Brugge want to convert some of the bonus into fixed part.
Gazzetta dello Sport gave the news before Calciomercaro.
@JPMZ : Belotti is still available on a free. Given how injury prone our forwards are including Origi, I’d sign him if we have the wage budget
@Yelnats24: unfortunately I believe Bennacer could have been an Arsenal academy homegrown player but not serie A. I thought maybe Kalulu would become a homegrown player for us but I think we got him 1 year too late for the criteria.
Bennacer only spent 2 seasons as U21 with Arsenal, he actually spent 3 seasons as U21 in Italy, 2 seasons with Empoli and 1 season with Milan.
I DONT BELEIVE THIS I ONLY TRUST FABRIZIO ROMANO
They said this last friday
Until I hear from Gianluca Di Marzio, the most trusted sports Journalist I wouldn’t take this news serious