A battle between English and Italian sources may well be emerging over the current state of play in negotiations over Sandro Tonali.
According to the latest from Gianluca Di Marzio, there was a day of meetings for the Milan management today in which they spoke to several agents including Giuseppe Riso, who is the representative of Tonali.
Contrary to other reports, no concrete offer has arrived for the midfielder from Newcastle and the meeting today simply served to outline how to act in the event that the interest of Newcastle and even Chelsea becomes more concrete.
It has been decided that Milan will listen to the offers that arrive and that only then will the various options be offered to the player. Stefano Pioli himself was not informed of a hypothetical sale of the player.
In fact, the player has asked his entourage to be left calm at this moment, because he is involved with the Italy U21 side as captain at the European Championships.
Therefore he will be presented with a possible offer only if it becomes really concrete and formal. But to date there are no formal offers to evaluate.
The Athletic are reporting that Newcastle bid €50m for Tonali on Tuesday but that was not enough for Milan to consider selling, so they have now gone back in with an offer worth €70m and ‘the situation has progressed’.
Pioli not informed? What happen to the plan to make him involved in mercato?
Moncada wanted full powers over transfers so that’s why he’s leaving Pioli out. It came about when he first put on that pesky ring they gave him from the Maldini sacking. So as to not be consumed with such power, now he has to travel to Mordor and throw it in the giant fire.
Dude, READ: “Contrary to other reports, no concrete offer has arrived for the midfielder from Newcastle and the meeting today simply served to outline how to act in the event that the interest of Newcastle and even Chelsea becomes more concrete….Stefano Pioli himself was not informed of a hypothetical sale of the player”. No actual offers have arrived. Why would you waste the coaches time with HYPOTHETICAL offers?
If Pioli truly has manager role like Sir Alex, he would have been involved even in hypothetical offer.
You are going far by calling retired Sir Alex, there are managers like Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho, Klopp, Ancelotti etc who are more involved in transfers.
The article that made the claim last week used Sir Alex as example.
People here would rather trust unrealiable English sources and say all Italian sources are fake right? LOL
It’s all British media BS, they already went for Barella too and nothing came of that, Tonali is out there enjoying his tournament and all these newspapers are talking a bunch of trash. Tonali has already showed us the type of Milanista he is.
I heard he is sold already and took a pay cut to play for newcastle.. he just hates what Milan has became in this month
Beppe Riso is also Frattesi’s agent, so there’s a very good reason he was spotted there. Might be Frattesi incoming.
Well the newcastle sporting director is rumored to be in Milan so who knows
Or maybe it is D. Maldini’s future.
I would sell D. Maldini for 50M in a hearbeat. haha
#CardinaleOut
Inter took a firm stance with Barella. He’s their guy and they have confidence in him to be an Interista. Milan have the opportunity to do the same and gain respect with the fans yet we now entertain the prospect of selling our only top quality Italian player who is a childhood Milan fan. This ownership is a cancer to this clubs soul.
I think unless Romano comes out and says something, its all speculation. Even Dimarzio is denying it.
David Orenstein of the Athletic is a huge reliable source. AND Romano just posted it. 70M plus add ons – and Milan are open to the transfer. More than doubles Tonali’s salary.
Up to Sandro now. I think he declines it. BUT what does that say to the fans that the CLUB was willing to accept???? The Project is dead. Atalanta here we come! Only a matter of time gents…this is the Redbird way. If it’s not Sandro it will be the next – Theo, Mike Leao – PROFIT!
All the Redbird lovers must be happy right?????? This is what you wanted
This is why I only comment on the gossip on reliable sources only and the Athletic isn’t bad. They’re very good with basketball and baseball and recently Prem news. It seems they’re also expanding their football/soccer reach too
“BUT what does that say to the fans that the CLUB was willing to accept???? The Project is dead. ”
LOL. Anyone NOT selling Tonali for 75-80M€ would be insane! Project is dead? Far from it. Now there is no need to sell Maignan, Theo or Leao. Tonali is nowhere near worth 80M€ but if Milan can get that kind of money for him, go for it and RUN!!! That money buys 2-3 Tonali-level players or even better. This is what is needed to improve the squad and take it to the next level.
I think Newcastle is trying to get Inter to accept their bid by “moving on” to Tonali. Inter need to raise funds, we don’t.
” Inter need to raise funds, we don’t.”
To improve our squad we do.
That’s a very plausible theory
If he really wants to leave there is nothing we can or should do. The capital gain would be nice but of course loosing our best and most functional midfielder would be a serious blow.
Well we’ll well….those donkeys on this site that rejoiced when Maldini was sacked are now seeing the consequences of that callous decision. This gave the players a reason to start questioning the direction of the club and the project that Maldini helped sell these young players on. Uncertainty creates opportunity for others to sneak in and that is what is now happening. Maldini was the glue that kept the team together – convincing these young lads to take less to stay with Milan – now that he is gone – doubt creeps in and Redbird have done nothing to assure the fans or players things will stay the same – in fact seems worse when you come out and say our budget dropped from last season. Players are not stupid. When your initially are after respected players like SMS and Berardi then shift to 18 year olds – they see the writing on the wall. Those that want to win won’t put up with it for long. And if you think we are really going to invest ALL of the money from a Tonali sale back into the team I would think again. More young cheaper and inexperienced players are set to come – players with low wages and upside that we will sell in a few years. And the cycle continues.
So Now it begins. The Redbird way. PROFIT over Titles. Next up: Mike, Theo and Leao.
Enjoy all you Redbird lovers. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Sad
No player is bigger than the club, if that is enough for them to leave than good riddance. There are many other players out there.
Yes they are but that doesn’t mean we will get them with these owners. And it’s NOT fair to just blame the player. It’s the CLUB that is entertaining the transfer. They could easily say he’s “not for sale” – he has a contract and we don’t want to sell him. BUT they have NOT. So it is the CLUB that is GREEDY NOT the player. The Club is saying to Tonali we are good with letting you leave. So as a player then you have to look around. Tonali didn’t ask to leave. The Club put him UP FOR SALE. Stop blaming the player and protecting the Club that WANTS to sell for PROFIT and will likely not reinvest all of that $$ into the team. Wake up brother.
LOL. First people are dissing Maldini for not selling anyone but now that Milan are actually selling someone for a huuuuge profit to make funds available for improving the squad the crying begins because Milan sells its players. 😀 😀 😀
Think of it this way: If Milan needed to sell a key player to get reinforcements, wouldn’t it be best to sell Tonali and not Theo, Leao or Maignan? Tonali is easily replaced. The others are not.
I think you miss the bigger picture here…the ruthlessness of the ownership. Tonali was captain elect, following from Baresi, Paolo, Rino, Zlatan…he’s a born Milanista…that means something. He’s also developed into one of the best midfielders in Europe over the past 2 years…and your ok with selling that?
So many years buried in the sand…still money all will save us. Some ridiculous stats based algorithm will pluck some average unheard of player out of the bundesliga…
I grew up in an era where clubs had identity, the modern generation seem happy with this mercenary ideology
” He’s also developed into one of the best midfielders in Europe”
LOL. Nope. Dear god no. Over half of the people on this site complain week after week how Tonali is overrated and not good enough. What changed?
Saying Tonali isn’t one of the best young midfielders in Europe is Moronic. Totti said a few seasons back he’d go on to be one of the best. He was the only player who rolled his sleeves up against inter then the sh!t hit the fan…you can’t put a value on that. He tried to single handedly get us back into that game.
Still..nobody is bigger than the club…moneyball, bla bla bla
Once again your version of reality seems
Misconstrued….Maldini and the wider management failed to sell players in their final year or two of contract who clearly wanted to go .you also have to factor in vile agents like Raiola who was in Dollarumma’s head since 2017-18…pushing the move….Hakan wanted out too. Pretty sure none of those apply to Tonali, so when we have what is virtually extinct in the modem game, that is a loyal player who supports the club, we sell him to the highest bidder and dismantle what was the only world class area of our team (the double pivot)
Anyone who thinks this is a football decision is beyond moronic
“Saying Tonali isn’t one of the best young midfielders in Europe is Moronic.”
First you were saying he “one of the best midfielders in Europe”. Now you’re moving the goalposts as you said “one of the best YOUNG midfielders in Europe”. There’s a huge difference there with that one word.
“I grew up in an era where clubs had identity, the modern generation seem happy with this mercenary ideology”
So did I. The world has changed since though.
I stand by either statement, Tonali is one of the best midfielders in Europe. I’d be interested to hear your counter arguments to those of Francesco Totti….personally I can’t think of many better in that position. I have said for years he was the hybrid of Pirlo and Rino
More importantly he was a pure Milanista, a concept people like you seem to hbe unsubscribed from!
Just because the world has changed does that mean you have to accept it? Sounds like a cop out to me
Agree with you 100% mate. They will all be crying when Mike, Theo, Leao are requesting transfers. But don’t worry…nobody is bigger than the club…
The Athletic is a pretty good source but Di Marzio has better inside info. I’m trusting DM a little more on this one though but As I said earlier, this development is quite interesting 🤔
Anyone supporting Cardinale is not a true Milan fan…I’m sorry, all this cr@p about money, and we can sign X and Y…you really think Gerry is going to go and spend 80m on players like SMS and Frattesi. He stated nobody was unsellable and people clapped like seals saying ‘nobody is bigger than the club’ which is true to a point, but the club is the sum of the parts of the current players, Tonali is Milanista, he loves he club and would die for it, and we just go and whore him out for money. This is not Milan, this is now a PLc run by a greedy clueless moron who will get more and more money hungry the More offers they come in. We will wind up with Rebic and Origi next season, but no Tonali at this rate. The pr!ck Cardinale is going to ruin this club, it’ll be Theo next, then Mike and then Leao. Nobody seems to understand the long term implications here…..two years ago we won the league with a strong young squad that had a decade together to evolve…now we are selling them off in the Cardinale fire sale…