AC Milan have now announced the signing of Emerson Royal from Tottenham Hotspur, but it is a deal that was a long time in the making with suggestions that it may never happen.
As reported by Gianluca Di Marzio to Il Giornale (via Milan News), there are a number of reasons why it has taken until the day before Milan’s final pre-season friendly for Emerson to become their latest new signing.
As Di Marzio explains, the broadest reason for the slow negotiation is that both clubs can drive a very hard bargain in the transfer window and do not like to be pushed around.
Daniel Levy is known for being very hard to negotiate with, whilst Milan have become astute at securing good deals for players and are not afraid to walk away if the situation goes beyond their limits.
There was a big gap in valuation between Tottenham and Milan at one stage, but they both stuck with it and have met somewhere in the middle to ensure that the former Barcelona man gets the move that he wants.
Emerson has signed a contract until 2028 with Milan and there will also be an option for him to stay for another year beyond that.
« Milan have become astute at securing good deals for players and are not afraid to walk away if the situation goes beyond their limits. »
That’s one way to say they’re cheap I guess.
Its just the management and owner principle… i am a fan of the principle but non of we fans can inject our money to fund the club transfer market.
Bro, we as fans fund the transfer market through our spending on the club via jerseys, merch, subscriptions to watch the games, attend games etc
If you think that fans spending is enough to fund the club, you would probably have to settle with Serie C players.
Of course we’re not funding the ENTIRE club sheesh. Do I have to write that out???
But we as fans are contributing a significant chunk. Based on 22/23 figures, out of the 400m in revenues, i’ll put gate receipts as the most direct (70m), next broadcasting (subscriptions to Serie A, UCL etc, at 170m), and commercial at 45m. That’s about three quarters of the club’s revenue.
Maybe you dont buy stuff but alot of ppl do. How do u think the club makes money? They rely on fans Lol 😂
The “Cheap” argument is getting old, B.
These guys have their parameters and won’t step outside of them. Its respectable. We may not like it when it doesn’t work out for a player we want brought in. But it’s a sensible approach.
We can’t spend like Chelsea. Or like the Chinese did before the Americans without getting in trouble. That’s our reality.
And whether you like it or not, they have brought in good players on their own terms.
Milan could spend better and wiser if the front staff was not made of business bankers and a video scout and Milan could raise this stupid salary cap preventing the club to go after top targets, even when they’re free agents. The cheap argument is not getting old, it’s the policy and it’s here to last it seems. I was waiting this summer to see how the clowns would act on the market to understand if they’re really ambitious on the sporting side but it’s been very insightful to witness the waiting game and bargain bonanza for the second summer in a row.
That struck me too. How astute have we become? All of a sudden? Because we don’t have as much money this year from player sales? Or we’re not as willing to spend because they realize from last year that spending 28m on a player in his final year of contract was a terrible idea? LMAO 😂 don’t make me laugh.
We spent 20m once more on a player (Pav) from a lower league and not sure how he’ll turn out and likely a backup in an area where we could use some experience instead (many freebies available). Spent 18m on RLC and even we don’t know where he fits in the team, both last year and this year smh. Same for Musah. Just spent 15+m on our 35th right back? 🤷♂️ How are those good deals again? Lol I swear I must living in an alternate reality.
(To be fair the one clearly “decent” deal this year was Morata from price value ratio, and Jovic last year free)
@Barth…. For me, I wouldn’t call it “being cheap.” It’s about the management having a budget, a target, and not going beyond it.
You can spend lavishly like Chelsea and still go TROPHYless.
Exactly!! Over a billion dollars spent on transfers under their American owner and they haven’t even sniffed a champions league berth. Ours is a system that should be lauded and more clubs should be doing it to be honest. Everyone agrees at this point that most transfer fees these days are outrageous. Glad we’re doing things our way and not getting pushed around.
That’s a fallacious argument. Yeah Chelsea or Manchester United spent a lot and win nothing, like 99% of English clubs because they can afford it. But 100% of the winning teams in top European leagues spend money.
As fans we should be disappointed by a season that we finished at 2nd and eliminated from every competition but nothing has been done to upgrade the team. Morata is another Giroud, Pavlovic is here to fill in for Kjaer and we have no idea yet if he will be good, Emerson is another Florenzi and might even be a downgrade. And Fonseca is absolutely no upgrade over Pioli. Now I’m just waiting for the stadium theme park and Camarda to grow facial hair so we can buy Mbappé and win the third star that Zlatan spoke about in press conference.
If you´re that pessimistic, wouldn´t it be better to just leave Milan alone and go support PSG (the ones that can´t win the CL) or Man City. Both should be punished by UEFA many times for breaking financial fair play rules, but they never are. It´s just a big fun spending spree every year. Unfortunatly for PSG, it hasn´t led to a CL trophy yet so their fans are fed up as well. So it´s Man City as a best option for you.
Should have paid 30 million instead of waiting to pay 18 million.
Some here have stunning logic. Lol
Honestly, most fans logic irritates