Galatasaray were linked with a move for Davide Calabria during the summer transfer window and they are reportedly expected to go back in for him in January.
Fanatik recalls that after failing to sign French right-back Guela Doue, Galatasaray decided to sign Elias Jelert from FC Copenhagen in the summer on a five-year deal, but in nine games in all competitions he has struggled to hit the ground running.
The report states that Galatasaray technical director Okan Buruk has ‘given up hope on Elias Jelert’ and as a result he will be allowed to leave the Turkish giants during the January transfer window, but that means they will look to sign a replacement.
The Istanbul club are preparing a move to sign Calabria, who has seemingly lost his starting spot at Milan to Emerson Royal and is also on a contract which is set to expire at the end of the current season.
Despite the fact that the 27-year-old is a club captain and has been a regular starter to this point, there have been several reports claiming that his future is ‘up in the air’. As a result, Galatasaray will ‘knock on AC Milan’s door in January’ and try their luck.
YES PLEASE. A bag of raw peanuts will do!
Well hashish is quite a strong psychoactive substance..
No it isn’t, Ecstacy, Blotters, Mushrooms or Salvia divinorum is though 😛
Kidding aside Jellert is actually a great prospect at 21 so I would be quite surprised if they want to offload him at this early point of time.
Personally I’d keep Calabria but as time passes it seems more unlikely to happen but I suspect one of the top 5 teams in Serie A will pick him up on a free transfer next summer.
Kayode incoming?
Offload Davide, promote Jimenez. I’m all for it. Winter, summer, whenever. Surely Jimenez is better than Neverson.
I don’t understand why we want to sell an academy player. Don’t we need ppl for lists? It’s not like we can replace him with a player outside the league 🤷♂️. Even if we use him a a sub or for specific games like against Napoli and PSG l lol he’s still decent.
The logic baffles me.
Couldn’t agree more. If calabria accepts a reasonable contract, he’ll likely accept a rotation role, and that’s fantastic for squad harmony + UEFA lists. It’s a bit baffling in our quest to seemingly sign only non-Italians we overlook the squad quotas imposed for European competitions
Correct. We should keep him until the summer until his contract expires. We can address “list issues” then.
A lot of comments are always sell, sell. Don’t forget, to compete we need 23 players, so unless we have a suitable replacement we shouldn’t be selling carelessly.
And most solid RBs won’t be sold in January.
That being said, Calabria should work on his game.
On thing that irks me about him is that when something goes wrong he is always pointing fingers at his teammates – even when he is the one out of position.
There is a reason why top contenders for Calabria’s candidacy is Strasbourg & Galatasaray.
Is there any point to AC Milan in 2024?
What are we?
We’re not a top team.
We’re not even a competitive team.
We’re really just a team of nobody’s.
And we have no soul.
We have no club captain who is respected. And we haven’t had a club who was respected since Maldini over 15 years ago.
People like to pretend that Ambrosini was respected but he wasn’t at the time. People used to insult him as well. And then he was forced out.
That move undermined the next victim, Montolivo. It’s all speculation of course h he had Ambrosini remained at the club for another season and passed the baton to Montolivo in an orderly fashion then the latter would’ve transitioned into the role more effectively. But instead the club pushed out Ambrosini and replaced him with…….Poli.
Romagnoli was given crazy levels of responsibility that could only be justified for a player signed from another club. There’s no way one of our own youth players would’ve been given that much support. Romagnoli so carried himself well. But I do question how good a defender he was. He looked the part but I’m not sure he was the part.
After a short interlude where Bonucci became a Milan player and played like a Milan player and wore the armband, Romagnoli returned to the captaincy before being quietly moved on after he was dropped in favour of our Scudetto winning CB partnership (which is now no more).
It was Calabria’s turn to take on the poisoned chalice. Fans have openly mocked him ever since he broke into the side. Even his biggest supporters always have a ‘but’ to add.
Who is next?
Who cares?
Who cares about any of this.
Maybe make Reijnders captain.
His pointlessness sums up where we are as a club.
“People like to pretend that Ambrosini was respected but he wasn’t at the time. People used to insult him as well. And then he was forced out.”
I’m glad you pointed this out. It seems ppls memory here is either shoddy or they’ve never were a fan back then so they go by what others are saying. I don’t understand how Ambro became this mythical former captain that was well loved..maybe time and lack of current quality makes ppl more appreciative of the past. But I do recall fans not like having Gattuso as well as Ambrosini as captains as they were deemed inadequate. Especially after a captain like Maldini and then the subsequent drop in the quality of players.
Ambro didn’t even get a proper sendoff (can’t recall if it was due to injuries or Allegri not playing him, I want to think the latter). It was only until he went to Fiorentina and their game at the San Siro where he got a warm send off. However he was injured at the time and he did everything he could to play that game even if for a few minutes when he subbed off early to the applause of the fans.
Yep.
And then the treatment of Montolivo (by Gattuso) was a disgrace.
All of this set in motion a situation where Milan have been without leadership.
The natural transition of Ambrosini to Montolivo to Cristante (who’d be club captain by now and actually solve the massive hole in our midfield) was interrupted because the club couldn’t focus.
We just had to keep signing more midfielders:
Poli for Ambrosini
Essien came in to undermine Cristante
Locatelli broke in and then Biglia was signed
on and on and on until we finally sign Tonali and….nope need to change it up again.
Meanwhile the top European sides have played together for decades with one captain.
People question why I have such an issue with Reijnders.
I mostly have an issue with him as a player. He can’t defend, doesn’t control midfield, has poor movement on and off the ball.
But he also undermines the players around him. One of those is Calabria.
Last season Pioli played Calabria as an inverted full back. He spent more time in midfield than at RB. Now it will always be a mystery how the concept of inverted full backs ever came to be, but my theory is that it became apparent to Pioli last season that he had no midfielders. So Calabria was given the job to do that Reijnders couldn’t.
But it wasn’t just this that undermined Calabria and other Milan players, Reijnders lack of defensive contribution left our defence exposed, his lack of midfield contribution left our defence with fewer options to pass to, and his lack of useful runs forward gave our players fewer options to pin the other side back in their half.
One of Calabria’s many strengths is his passes down the channel. Really I’d expect a player like Reijnders to make a run into the channels (RLC does) but instead he does his floaty thing between midfield and the opposition defence somewhere in the middle.
And then I have to sit here and read the same people who worship Reijnders insult Calabria.
We’re really going nowhere as a club.
Nevermind. You are going to Galatasaray with your homie soon
I am more likely to start supporting Como.
Once the Saudi’s take over or if we lose any more of our soul I am out.
Sell calabria and bring ivana fresendu