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.