Sandro Tonali is not the only AC Milan player in Newcastle’s sights as they are now interested in signing Theo Hernandez too, a report claims.
Gianluca Di Marzio writes that after finding an agreement for Tonali, Newcastle want to go shopping again in Italy and the two names that have ended up in the sights of the Magpies are Theo Hernandez and Federico Chiesa.
As far as the Milan full-back is concerned, they know that the operation is extremely complicated also given the interest from Atletico Madrid, plus the price tag which would be over €100m.
Theo played 45 games for Milan last season across all competitions, racking up four goals and five assists and continuing to be virtually undroppable.
Regarding Chiesa, Newcastle asked Juventus for information on him moreso than Dusan Vlahovic, but Aston Villa are also keen on the former Fiorentina man and would be willing to pay €60m to sign him.
To be honest, 100 million for Theo and they can have him. I love Theo and his crazy runs but he does that only in like 12-15 games max per season. The rest of the games he is no where to be seen and defending skills are average. Just my opinion
Get straight to the point.
Are you calling Theo a flop or not?
So the guy wrote 2 sentences and youre asking for a tldr ?
And maybe you should leave it like that, as your opinion, because you don’t make any sense talking like that about Theo, he is the backbone of the team
They don’t even have the transfer budget.
Slowly removing any and all heart from this team. Disgusting.. such an American business thing to do..
Inter sold hakimi and lukaku in peak forms and cashed out to balance the book. You should understand that owning a club is a business, and at the end of the day, If you are not making money from winning trophies, you should be making profit from player sale’s especially the ones bought on a cheap..
“If you are not making money from winning trophies”
Milan actually get profit and clear its debt this season because of deep run in the UCL.
‘Balance the book’. In case you don’t know, we are in green
Another Opportunity Arrives if exercised
Never loose this Lucarative Oppotunity that will never Come back abd Sell him with more rhan 100 or Ecqual
jesus.. FFP nowhere in sight
Okay let’s discuss.
Do we need to sell Theo after Tonali? Isn’t the money generated enough? How much money do we need to raise? 100M? 200M? 300M? 1B??? What are we going to do now? Sell everyone to the highest bidder, fill the coffers and farm bunch of 18yos and have another harvest in 5-6 years time?
I think 100M is rather fair for one of the best LB in the world, of course if the offer arrives and it’s accepted, logically, it would be understandable. BUT, can you find a suitable replacement? Say, we sold Theo too, and then a ridiculous offer for Maignan and Leao comes, do we sell them too?
Some posters pointed out that Napoli got rid of their leaders and won Scudetto. Okay, but this is not the norm. The season was weird with World Cup slotting in between and sapped the energy of our French contingent. Maignan was also unavailable for half of the season. Not to mention that every other teams not named Napoli continued to take turns in shooting their foot needlessly. Sure, Napoli played a fantastic football and deservedly won the Scudetto, but it is very seldom that a team that got rid of most of their players in one go, could suddenly win title on the very next season.
I personally think that Tonali sale should be enough. This is already a record breaking sale for Italian player, how much more do we need? Time to use the money to reinforce the team. If we have to sell another star, do it the next windows or so. We don’t need a complete overhaul.
Just my 2c.
And who will replace him? Federico Dimarco?
We only need to sell both Tonali and Theo if we want to buy Mbappe.
Stadiums are expensive… I think it’d very clear that for the management it’s not about building a team, but about building the infrastructure financed by the team. Players are merely assets that have to be capitalized on. It’s sad, soulless, but maybe some day Milan can be a team built to win.
“Stadiums are expensive…”
And they’re NEVER paid with cash. There’s always a loan that covers the expenses.
Napoli’s case is very different my friend. They were a complete dysfunctional team, internal clashes, bad footballs, ego in dressing room and so on. They were way past their primes. Most of their main players left on free transfers.. Insigne, mertens etc. They completely overhauled the team. Even after winning Scudetto, they will never be considered a top team. A feeder club will always be a feeder club. They are pretty much emptying their whole team again.
The only reason Napoli won and did so well, was Osimhen as for Milan, it was Leao. The moment Osimhen got injured.. they got kicked out of UCL by us as Leao carried Milan. Remove Leao from Milan and Osimhen from Napoli, neither of these clubs make it to the top 7. We would be lucky if made to top 10.
Tonali is young, his value is rising every week, his form is getting better and better… becoming a true leader.. Tonali shouldn’t even be on the transfer list. An Ambitious club won’t listen to ANY offer for him because Tonali will be pivotal for us to win. As much as we shouldn’t listen to ANY offers for Theo, Mike and Leao. No amount would be enough for us to sell them IF we wanted to win unless a replacement of their Caliber is in our sights. But apparently, we do not have neither ambition nor replacement and just went for a sale because someone offered money.
Tomori should be the one to sell because the CB is deteriorating insanely. Tomori’s sale should’ve been enough along with Messias, Rebic, Origi and the likes to fund everything we want this summer.
instead, we are just letting a tapeworm fck us in the ar$e by selling the best players and in fact cheering for it.
“Tonali shouldn’t even be on the transfer list. ”
He wasn’t. Newcastle made an offer and Milan reflected and started negotiating. No one is untouchable even if they’re not on the transfer list.
Same goes for any team in the world. No one is off limits when the right offer comes.
Who could have resisted an offer to sell an Italian for the biggest figure EVER?! I can name 50 Italian players who are/were better than Tonali but none of them were sold for these kinds of sums. 😀
Funny….Inter rejected the advances for Barella…yet nobody is off the transfer list….apparently
Allegedly inter are worse off financially but they saw the benefit of keeping a top player
“Funny….Inter rejected the advances for Barella…yet nobody is off the transfer list….apparently ”
Offer them 125M€ for Barella and see them signing the deal faster you can type “Inter merda”.
Inter rejected the advances for Barella…. because Newcastle weren’t willing to raise their offer. You think Inter would have turned it down if they’d come back with 80-100m?
Tonali is more use to them anyway, because he’s an upgrade on Sean Longstaff whereas Barella’s skillset would have been directly clashing with Guimares.
@R
No. Inter simply told Newcastle to go F themselves. No counter offer was made to give Newcastle the idea that Barella was for sale while we were sucking Newcastle’s d1ck like a whor3 to sell Tonali with counter offers.
“No. Inter simply told Newcastle to go F themselves. ”
Sure, sure. If you say so. 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
Every news outlet reported so. lol Do you ever read ‘ANYTHING’ bb? lmfao
@bb
“He wasn’t. Newcastle made an offer and Milan reflected and started negotiating. ”
that’s the whole point. Waddle a stack of cash in front of Cardinale and he will sell his own mother.
“No one is untouchable even if they’re not on the transfer list.”
And you just agreed, we have become a feeder club. Thank you.
“Same goes for any team in the world. No one is off limits when the right offer comes.”
Not really. THAT is feeder club mentality. No club makes an offer for Virgil Van Dijk even though Liverpool is not doing well. Neuer isn’t for sell in bayern no matter how much one offers. 250 mil wasn’t enough for PSG to let Mbappe go. They just aren’t for sell no matter how much money is offered. Period. A winner club won’t sell their best players. Feeder clubs will.
“I can name 50 Italian players who are/were better than Tonali ”
Apparently, all scouts, investors and club management in Newcastle are dumba$$es but the great bb is the allknowing. Go for it. not 50, try naming 5. Lets see what you come up with. I will be wanting to see this. lol
““No one is untouchable even if they’re not on the transfer list.”
And you just agreed, we have become a feeder club. Thank you. ”
So basically any team who has sold a player is a feeder club. That means every club is a feeder club. Thank you for clarifying this. 🙂
“250 mil wasn’t enough for PSG to let Mbappe go. ”
Offer them 500M€ and see him gone. There is a price for everything.
“Apparently, all scouts, investors and club management in Newcastle are dumba$$es but the great bb is the allknowing.”
Thanks. Really appreciate this. Your words mean a lot me.
“So basically any team who has sold a player is a feeder club. That means every club is a feeder club. Thank you for clarifying this.”
Any team that sells players for NO other reason but to make Money is a feeder club. Period. The fact that I have to clarify this is sad.
“Thanks. Really appreciate this. Your words mean a lot me.”
You can’t name even 5 players better than Tonali then? lol
“Offer them 500M€ and see him gone. There is a price for everything.”
if 250 couldn’t sway them.. 500 wouldn’t either. Contrary to your believe.. not every one who does business are $tupid.
“Offer them 500M€ and see him gone. There is a price for everything.”
if 250 couldn’t sway them.. 500 wouldn’t either. Contrary to your believe.. not every one who does business are $tupid.”
Stupid would be not to accept 500M€ so you’re contradicting yourself.
“You can’t name even 5 players better than Tonali then? lol”
Why would I waste time with you? Got better things to do, believe it or not. 🙂
“$tupid would be not to accept 500M€ so you’re contradicting yourself.”
$tupid would be.. here it comes… Offering 500mil in the first place. lol
“Why would I waste time with you? Got better things to do, believe it or not. 🙂”
A simply ‘I can’t’ would suffice lol
“Why would I waste time with you? Got better things to do, believe it or not. 🙂”
A simply ‘I can’t’ would suffice lol”
OK then. I’ll start with a couple of our own. Pirlo. Albertini. Gattuso. De Rossi. Barella. Unfortunately.
Wow. It took me like 24 hours to come up with these. Impossible task, right?
“Why would I waste time with you? Got better things to do, believe it or not. 🙂”
A simply ‘I can’t’ would suffice lol”
OK then. I’ll start with a couple of our own. Pirlo. Albertini. Gattuso. De Rossi. Barella. Unfortunately.
Wow. It took me like 24 hours to come up with these. Impossible task, right?
And I only chose players who play/played as midfielders. Don’t get me started on defenders and/or strikers. 😀
“OK then. I’ll start with a couple of our own. Pirlo. Albertini. Gattuso. De Rossi. Barella. Unfortunately.”
LMFAO Oh YES. WELL DONE BB. lmfao I wonder why Newcastle spent 80 mil for Tonali instead of Buying Pirlo. Albertini. Gattuso. De Rossi. AND Barella. They wouldn’t be worth 80 mil in 2023 right? LMFAO
BTW, simone uses Barella as an advanced midfielder. Not defensive.
Name 5 midfielders better than Tonali now in that DLP role? Not players from the last 25 years
Inter refused to negotiate with Newcastle hence they switched to Tonali who was clearly there second choice for the position..so logically you’re saying they wouldn’t spend 80m on their primary target, but they would on Tonali….😂 I do love how you unpick your own arguments…
Feeder club – if you’re the Milan fan you claim to be you will never accept Milan selling off their best young talents when they don’t need to. Even when the prem was way behind Serie A financially, Man United never entertained huge bids for Giggs from inter just as liveroool did for Owen from Lazio…why because they had plans to keep these players.
I can continue ripping your nonsense apart all day long L, you just propagate absolutes to try and vindicate your position. 500m for Mbappe…you use extremes to try and is tidy selling one of our best players when across the city inter said no thanks
I think you will learn to appreciate how lost that guy is. I laugh at him daily.
I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN! 😀 😀 😀
I say:
“I can name 50 Italian players who are/were better than Tonali but none of them were sold for these kinds of sums. 😀”
And there comes the “Name 5 midfielders better than Tonali now in that DLP role? Not players from the last 25 years” requests…
I will do that once you’ve named 25 best tennis players who don’t have any vowels in their names and have blue eyes. And list them in height order, tallest first.
bb, just admit you don’t know anything about football. If you did this would be easy…
“I personally think that Tonali sale should be enough. This is already a record breaking sale for Italian player, how much more do we need?”
Exactly. No huge sale is practically done. Tonali will provide the funds to the reinforcements this summer. Absolutely no need to sell Theo. Focus on getting rid of Origi, Rebic & Ballo-Tourette.
This is the ultimate test now. If the club even considers selling Theo, they wouldn’t hesitate to sell them all this summer. One big sale per year should be enough. Emphasis on should.
So you’re now advocating Milan selling off one big player every season? You’re perpetuating a downward spiral that sees us regress from the scudetto win. Man you have a very distorted view. Redbird balanced the books so why are we not moving forwards now?
All we needed was a young striker (Thuram for free) a right wing, and an attacking
Infielder. That could be done quite easily with the peanuts from Gerry plus the money from sales of CDK, Rebic, Origi. Now of course we have to address those three areas plus find a Tonali replacement, so we aren’t making 80m for reinforcements are we, Frattesi will cost at least 40m…
With FFP you can run losses for 5 years, and I’m not talking big losses here, if we had kept Tonali, we’d need a CF, Thuram for free, a quality CAM which Milinkovic Savic would have been at 35m, then we are looking at a RW
The game is rigged man. You can’t compete with EPL and oil money unless you sell players for big sums and reinvest it wisely.
Nobody likes seeing Tonali go but it’s the sad reality. We need money for plugging the holes in the squad. Youre donwnplaying how much investment this team needs. We also need starter quality CDM (with Bennacer injured) and backup LW, LB. CF, RB/CB. Even if Cardinale wanted to pump money into the club, UEFA would not allow it.
You can call it a downward spiral, but that’s just a strategy to compete with clubs that can easily outspend us every year. You sell one player when he’s value is inflated and reinvest in 2-3 good prospects. Rinse and repeat.
On CDK and Rebic we will barely generate any plusvalenza, and Origi is 5M max (and most likely he will stay at least one more year). The whole notion that we can generate money our our dead weight players is just not realistic.
Yep. Your words of wisdom goes to waste here though as some people here will never understand it.
@kilroy
We already did compete with EPL and oil money and WON. We were in UCL Semi’s while oil money of PSG and ALL THE EPL Clubs have failed.. except mancity but they deserved it. And we did all that by KEEPING our best players. We generated money by sporting success, tournaments like UCL and the audience of Milan that the success has pulled. A club’s goal should be winning instead of making OIL Money style revenue. No matter how much we feed other clubs.. we won’t make that much money. EVER. Without sporting success. And feeding won’t achieve that success.
@Milan4lyf
Won what? My goal is being competitive with top European clubs and getting the #8, not reaching the semis once in a blue moon when the draw is favourable.
Scudetto and Reaching UCL semis isn’t competitive enough for ya? lol DAMN. Good luck bro, godspeed Lmfao
Nope, I want more in the future. I want Milan to be able to compete with the top in europe. You think we are there?
More.. ? Like Milan winning some intergalactic tournament against… Mars or Saturn? LOL
The ONLY metric to compete with rich clubs is via sporting success.. aka, winning league and Going far in UCL/winning it. We won Scudetto and went to UCL Semi’s. We already beat most of these ‘rich’ clubs.
We are never gonna measure up to those rich clubs financially, not under the tapeworm Cardinale my friend. No matter HOW many players we sell. These clubs can inject 500 mili a season without FFP issues. You think we can raise 500 mil without selling every player in the squad? No. So no, not sure what else you want us to ‘compete’ in with those rich clubs. lol
Intergalactic? WTF? Do you not understand the word FUTURE?
Just answear the question instead of deflecting. Do you think that we are there yet? In terms of sporting level. Prior to selling Tona. Is the level of Milan from this season the TOP of your ambitions for this club?
It will be a time waste,such transfer are usually done at the end of market window,(very low profile)
What happened to the 120M we received from UCL this past season??? Couldn’t that money be used to “fund transfers” or some of it???? It’s a question. Where did that money go? Books were already balanced for fiscal year end of 2022. So where is that $$
Some conveniently forget that and have bought the Resbird PR SPIN that the “ONLY” way to “fund transfers” is through players sales. That is not true. However that is now our model. What we achieve via sporting results is irrelevant. Budget is the same each season at 30-35M AND if we want to buy over that amount a player must be sold.
Theo, Mike or Leao are next. Seems like it’s only a matter of time. So we are a feeder. IMO is you are ok with that your not a true fan – because your saying we are no better than Atalanta. Real Madrid fans would never accept such. If you want to run a football club solely as a business go buy Atalanta – you don’t buy clubs like Milan, Juve, Madrid Bayern Liverpool etc…Gerry knows this. He was a co-owner in the Boston Red Sox. You cannot operate the Siox as only a business the fans will destroy you. Same with the Lakers, Dallas Cowboys, Yankees etc…- iconic American sports teams. Same with European football clubs. BUT the only difference is Gerry doesn’t care about the history of our club. He seems to think he purchased another Toulouse. He seems ignorant of our history.
To pay for the bank interest
Not how it works, unless they take dividends from the club (which we’d know about) like the Glazer’s do at Manchester United.
More likely, some of the money from a good UCL run is being stored away because there’s no guarantee of getting anywhere near there next year.
And it looks like some of it is being assigned to paying free agent salaries, commissions etc.
“What happened to the 120M we received from UCL this past season??? Couldn’t that money be used to “fund transfers” or some of it???? It’s a question. Where did that money go? Books were already balanced for fiscal year end of 2022. So where is that $$”
That thought doesn’t occur in Cardinale bootlickers’ minds my friend. Tonali is sold for $$$ so these merry band of Cardinale’s bootlickers convinced themselves their new Jesus has sold Tonali FOR the club as if WIthout selling Tonali we would have suffocated to death. We could’ve easily used those winnings to fun ALL the transfers we had in mind for this season. But hey, their Tapeworm Jesus said Tonali theo and Mike needs to be sold beacuse apparently, ‘milan’ needs exactly 550 mil, soon, but not Cardinale. LMFAO
They still owe a lot of money to Elliott, which is why Elliott sold it to them in the first place. So either that and/or saving for the stadium.
The team need refreshment anyway
It really doesn’t…..!
Maignan – world class
Theo – world class
Tomori – very good, might be world class
Thiaw – very good prospect
Tomali – bordering on world class..very good
Bennacer – world class
Leao – world class
CAM – required
RW – required
CF – required although Giroud is still damn good
What we need to relapse is that we aren’t going to be competing for the CL. That was the mistake this season, focused on the wrong goal. The project to these players should be we will compete for the CL in 3 plus years, the squad was young and exciting. A good run in the CL should be the goal, that can be QF which should be achievable
The one thing people don’t seem to want to address is perhaps the coach is the problem….but he won’t be sacked because he’s a yea man and uncle Gerry likes yes men….
100 M for hernandez
thats a good sell to be honest
BUT
who will we replace with
good left wing back has always been a problem to get
We don’t have the players to replace them. At Brighton or Dortmund, they at least keep their stars until they actually have a replacement…..
Dortmund star LB just walked for free to Bayern and they spent 20M to replace him with a downgrade. Dont know if tahts the best model to follow.
I think we could find a good replacement under 30m for lb and a back up too. Parisi is a good option. What about the Spanish benfica lb? With remaining money we can get a good striker too – hojlund?
We can basically get a lot of positions filled with quality players with 180 million from Theo and Tonali.
I.e. if Redbird is going to use all that money for transfers.
We already have 115 (35 from the initial budget), and that should be enough to build a team without sacrificing more of our key players.
Most of the people commenting are not true fans , how could be losing your best players and u re happy about it , barca and Madrid dont sell their stars, can any team match their achievements, I really don’t understand honestly.. u call yourself a passionate fan and you want all your best players to be sold.. so disgusting reading some comments here honestly
“barca and Madrid dont sell their stars”
They will sell if someone offers enough money.
Would they have sold Xavi, Iniesta or Messi aged 23? No because they he a plan
Man, you keep writing random lies and thinking people will buy it. Madrid was offered big money for Valverde, they said no. Asensio had a similar offer 4 seasons ago, they have declined. Madrid hasn’tsold a young player they consider a player for the first team for decades basically. Name one if you can. Just lies.
” Madrid was offered big money for Valverde, they said no. Asensio had a similar offer 4 seasons ago, they have declined. ”
They weren’t offered enough. If someone had come with 500M€ in a bag and said “One Valverde, please” they would have sold him. Everything has it’s price.
They had offers that were bigger than for Tonali, they do not sell their first team players just like that. The end. In your mind, of course everything is for sale. You will never understand becase you don’t have that integrity inside of you, you never will. Good luck!
P.S. You will enjoy this new Milan, you can justify the sales like a little fanboy and copy paste people comments and your stupid replies as real fans of Milan are not happy. You sound happy.
“u call yourself a passionate fan and you want all your best players to be sold”
Who here has said such things? No one.
Real Madrid sold Ronaldo to Juventus..
Barcelona sold Neymar to PSG..
They sold them, at their prime years.. Not when, they were past their prime..
What? Barcelona did not sell Neymar, but PSG activated his release clause. Big difference. And Real sold Ronaldo when he was 33. Another liar.
“What? Barcelona did not sell Neymar, but PSG activated his release clause. Big difference. ”
Again Karen is trying to move the goalposts! 😀 😀 😀 😀
So Barca didn’t sell Neymar? Wow. You really live in our own world, don’t you? So, where did the money go PSG paid? Not to Barca? Where? If Barca gave up the player, Neymar moved to Paris to play for PSG and Barca got money from PSG, what do you call it if it’s not a sale? 😀 😀 😀
You are definitely something else. 😀 😀 😀
Yes, exactly what I wrote. And just proves my point you don’t understand anything. Selling a player is one thing, the club agrees on a fee. Someone buying out his contract is definitely not the same, had nothing to do with Barcelona. Nobody asked them anything. You’re a joke, keep writing. 😀
@Martin Do you know? When Ronaldo was, sold to Juventus in 2018, he had a release clause of €1bn? But he was, sold for €100m.. Which is lower than his release clause! If release clause, is non negotiable then, why did Real Madrid sell him for less than his release clause?
What are you talking about “Milan fan”? Dude you don’t understand anything, just read that nonsense you are writing now. The release clause was activated for Neymar. You don’t even know how to read with basic understanding and you want to explain something to me?
They sold Ronaldo because he was 33. And they got 100M for a 33 year old player.
Barcelona sold Neymar for 222M which was his release clause and PSG did not negotiate with Barcelona, they just paid that fee. How is that not clear?
You lied that you know what a release clause is, you obviously have no idea. Release clause is non negotiable, it is a clause in the players contract. Transfer fee is not a contractual clause. That is so simple I think you should really stop embarrassing yourself with your complete lack of any knowledge.
Anyway, write again, ask the same thing. I think you need 4 times, not 3. This is the 3rd time I am writing the same thing and you still did won’t understand.
No need to sell. Therefor at least 125M€ should be offered.
What people seem to forget as well so that when you identify a replacement no matter how good, it doesn’t always work. We brought in Rivaldo, arguably the worlds best player in 2002 and it stank for various reasons. You can also cite Veron to Man Utd, Shevchenko to Chelsea and more.
Tonali worked, he was a success for us, growing year on year, he formed an excellent partnership with Bennacer, he was a true milanista, the like we haven’t really seen since Ambrosini, Paolo and Franco. He was a proven success. Frattesi may stink the place out. I’ve heard moronic talk like ‘frattesi is keeping Tonali out of the national side’….completely irrelevant. John Barnes was world class for Liverpool but not for England and others kept him out. It’s about the system, the national manager etc.
Selling your best players doesn’t just affect that position, it has wider implications, the relationship in the double pivot with Bennacer, the forwards and how they are come to expect passes from midfield and how the Pioli system works. Andy Cole was a 30 goal a season striker at Newcastle and went from that to 20 or less at Man Utd, because of the way Ferguson played, Ferguson was about crosses where Newcastle utilised his pace and balls over the top.
Crazy that people cannot see this….
Still…..moneyball will save us
“the relationship in the double pivot with Bennacer, the forwards and how they are come to expect passes from midfield and how the Pioli system works.”
Well… Milan’s midfield was unable to create anything. More than half of the goals scored came from left flank with the two speedsters running up the pitch and doing their magic. When did we create anything from the midfield? I think a decade ago when Pirlo played. Benny, Krunic & Tonali might have done a decent job defensively (although most people here say Kessie was the glue that kept the defense intact) but let’s be honest, their contribution to playmaking was abysmal.
If we can replace Tonali with a creative midfielder who can actually feed the offensive quartet, we’ve upgraded the team considerably.
@bb
Prime Andrea Pirlo, IN best team in the world.. 2007… 3 goals 7 assists
23 y/o Tonali, broken Milan team of Pioli… 2023.. 2 goals 7 assists.
your entire argument is BULL$HIT.
“Prime Andrea Pirlo, IN best team in the world.. 2007… 3 goals 7 assists
23 y/o Tonali, broken Milan team of Pioli… 2023.. 2 goals 7 assists. ”
In the 2007 Milan there were 10 players on the pitch who could deliver assists so they were divided to multiple players. No matter to whom Pirlo passed the ball to, he could create something and they scored goals. Give the ball to Saelemaekers or Krunic and see the ball going back to Maignan.
10 players who also could assist doesn’t mean that Pirlo assisted less that season because of other legends’ skills. It simply means the no of team goals were higher that season thanks to others as well.
The fact that Tonali had the same assists in a broken team as Pirlo in that legendary team only means the assist count would go even higher for Tonali if we had a competent finisher/RW/CAM in the team my friend. It is no fluke that Tonali is the only CDM with that many goal contributions in the world this season.
You’re talking to a complete clown bb that doesn’t really understand football. Would love to hear from where that guy is, I think he didn’t grow up with it. Anyhow, Tonali was only the player with most created chances AND most tackles in the whole Milan team in last season. Let’s repeat, top in created chances and tackles. I just pulled the 2 most important stats, there is much more to that. Horrible midfilder, that is why there is a club offering that money for him, because he is bad and he won’t improve even more.
You shouldn’t be bothered by this redibird fanboy, when they sell Theo next week he will make stuff up to justify that. Just wait for it.
P.S. His whole existence is bs, he can’t do better.
@martin, bb sure does have some weird reasoning, that much is for sure lol But anyone who thinks feeding other clubs is a sign of a good thing for Milan is delusional. people here are all so high on the copium that they believe we NEEDED to sell Tonali to fund the transfers after player UCL Semi. Milan didn’t. That tapeworm Cardinale probably needed it. It’s hard to see that some fans are so hell bent in accepting and justifying mediocrity while we are turning into a sad ambitionless feeder club.
Oh, and don’t worry, he won’t reply here anymore. He is that type of a coward. When you give him facts he gets chicken legs and never replies or replies with random babbling that doesn’t talk about anything relevant that was written. I love the guy, idiots like him are always best to laugh at.
“Oh, and don’t worry, he won’t reply here anymore”
Maaan, you are right about everything these days.
Dude, I literally wrote this after what you copy pasted and you did exactly that “…or replies with random babbling that doesn’t talk about anything relevant that was written”
I mean you’re even more stupid than I thought. Hahahahahahahah. Are you from the USA? Please tell us. Hahahahah
But you wrote that Milan midfield could not create anything and Tonali had the most chances created out of all Milan players. That is the part you should be talking about, but you are avoiding it with your childish idiocy, like every time. You write lies and when people give you facts you’re gone. Coward.
Have you ever played football? You seek to have a very black and white view of how it’s played. The reason the attack was so poor was that he no10 and RW…
He does not really understand it. I am telling you people not to bother with someone that is probably from USA, that is his level of knowledge of “soccer”.
#moneyball 😂😂
First kicking away maldini and massara …. then tonali … and now apparently considering selling theo …..
Enough is enough …. milan fans should unite and agree to stay away from san siro (soon to be renamed san zero).
Bring the money and come for him. Everyone is up for sale says the Management. We’re clearing the warehouse at Milan.
Sales ! Sales ! Sales !
Newcastle dont have budget anymore if buy theo , dont worry they wont buy theo . AC Milan already have transfer budget 120m euro ( 70m euro cash from tonali not counting add on/bonus + basic budget 50m euro ) it is already enough to buy one RW & 2 CMF or DMF . ACM can use new RW & CDK for RW , kamada & adili for AmF , Leao & Chaka traore for LW , Marcus & giroud & colombo for CF , for double pivot bennacer,krunic,pobega and 2 new player. The rest budget can be used to find youngster with hot prospect like arda guler example. We dont need to sell theo unless he want to leave
Yes they do, just watch. You idiot wrote to me a couple of days ago that Newcastle has only 65M budget and look how Arabs can’t spend also. Well they paid more than that for Tonali only. You’re a joke, remember that. And you will be even a bigger one in 10 days when Newcastle spends over 150M already. Just watch how much you do not know.
Yea, because they can run losses for 5 years and as Ashley left them debt free they can plan ahead. They are spending now to buy grest young players so they can guarantee CL each season and balance the books. Some people don’t understand that here. You don’t have to hand in your income and expenditure at the end of each year….it can be done over a 5 year period
Plus when the big hitters like United and City get wind Milan is up for sale, you’ll be getting 100m bid for Maignan, Theo and Leao….the BB will be coming here spouting his nonsense about everyone has a price and nobody is bigger than the club…while we languish in 10th position and the tej years of failure that we just got back up of thanks to clever investment in good young players comes back to bite us
Yeah, unfortunately Newcastle won’t just buy Milan so we can end this nightmare. At least a nightmare for us fans of Milan, there is some people that are enjoying this for some weird twisted reasons…
“us fans of Milan”
You a fan? LOL.
No no, you are. The redbird fanboy. Share with us, are you from the US?
People that have no integrity in their life will justify them selling anyone. The best part is – Milan is missing 5 first team players at the moment. Literally 5 starters, including all 3 midfielders.
Now you’re just thinking too logically and like a rational person 😂
What could be better than starting the season with a completely new double pivot..midfield is the most important part of the pitch and we will have no experience there….you can’t make this nonsense up
The economic argument is non existent, as I said in the 90s Ferguson rejected huge bids for Giggs, plenty of prem teams retained their top stars in the face of Serie A mega money
Sandro was one of us and this hurts! I said here back when Paolo got fired that there was a sinister motive behind his sacking. I said back then it was to clear the path of resistance so Gerry can cash in. None of these players would leave with Maldini here as he was the counter weight to the moneyball Moron….he’d always have more sway and that’s why he had to go..
Moneyball theory? Sell all your best players and recreate them by signing a bunch of sub-standard ones?
That’s it in a nutshell….and pocket the change. It’s all based around stats which we know are just easily manipulated
Selling Theo for 80 to 100m makes much more sense to me.
It will cost 20m to sign Carlos Augusto at Monza. He is not a long way behind Theo as a player.
No “need” to sell, just as technically there was no “need” to sell Tonali either – but they did. Fine. So will see if now we sell Theo – I think they will. We shall see.
And if they do sell him or Mike or Leao this window what are your thoughts then??? Good or bad
What if they don’t reinvest ALL of the transfer money from a player sale back into the team – is that ok?
Let’s face it we are a Feeder club. If right offer comes in we will sell. We will not turn down 100M plus for any player. We are not Madrid, Bayern, that will say a player is untouchable. We used to be but not anymore.
We are open for business and for the right price Gerry will sell. This is the new Milan. Gerry believes everyone is replaceable. And everyone at some point will be. We have sold star players before – but never in their prime and if we did it was out of necessity to save the club from financial ruin. We are not in financial ruin. In fact we made a profit last year. We made an additional 120M from UCL but yet not a dollar has been spent as of yet.
Redbird claims we “needed to sell to fund transfers” – that is a lie. It’s ownerships prerogative to do what they please – but that doesn’t make what they said true. Redbird are excellent at media and PR – and they have managed to change the narrative from “who are we going to buy with the UCL money” to owe need to sell core players to fund our transfers” – Fkn BRILLIANT. Some fans have bought into that narrative, other smarter ones see through it.
Ok so we sold one star player for big $$. Question is who is next. It’s a great business model (buy cheap develop then sell) – However that mindset doesn’t win you titles. It makes you PROFITABLE but doesn’t make you win consistently. We have seen it with Dortmund. They consistently sell all their stars just when they are on the brink of violins an amazing team capable of rivaling Bayern and other of Europes elite teams. They are always a solid team but rarely win the league and have won UCL once back in the 1990s if I am not mistaken. But for Gerry that is ok. That is what he wants. This is the Redbird model. Be competitive enough to compete and qualify for UCL – but will not do enough to build a consistent winner because soon as we get close (like Dortmund) we will sell a star for PROFIT. And the cycle starts over again. Dortmund fans are ok with that – why shouldn’t they be – they do not have the history Milan does. That’s what Gerry wants for Milan – but I actually think it’s worse than Dortmund – I think he’s ok with the Atalanta model – qualifying for Europe and top 6 finish in league is good enough – and like the Atalanta model he is not willing to put a dime in of the club money that we do not get from a transfer fee.
This is the new Milan and the Redbird way.
Milan won’t get itself rid of that US turd stench for decades.