Yacine Adli is continuing to impress on loan at Fiorentina, and AC Milan are expecting word from them regarding the buy-out clause as per a report.
As Calciomercato.com recall, Milan allowed nine players to leave on loan last summer: Adli, Vasquez, Saelemaekers, Kalulu, Pobega, Colombo, Romero, Lazetic and Pellegrino. Of these, only the first three are performing above expectations and have seen their value rise.
The hope for the management is that they will have a potential nest egg of almost €60m to use next summer, and some of that will come from Adli who is finding himself at home with La Viola.
“Before joining Milan I left Bordeaux which was in a complicated situation. When I arrived at Milan I had been chosen by the management, it is not always the same as when the coach wants you,” he said in an interview with RMC Sport.
“Now I am at Fiorentina with a coach who wants me and the club was on the same wavelength. In terms of trust it is different. I feel very comfortable on the pitch, I am able to express myself to the best of my ability.”
With the total trust of his new head coach Raffaele Palladino, Adli has netted a goal in the league precisely against his parent club plus another in the Conference League against TNS, and three assists.
After paying around €2.5m for the loan, Fiorentina have already decided to buy Adli from Milan for another €10.5m. The choice will be communicated in the next few days, as per the report.
thank you Palladino. do it quick, while we can still get some money. he doesnt have enough quality for Milan.
20 years ago he wouldve been a world beater.
No he wouldn’t. While he played for us he often couldn’t make a simple pass and looked clumsy in his movement. In fact he wouldn’t even have been invited to play for Milan to begin with 20 years ago or for that matter 30 years ago.
I assume you are referring to players being slower back then or something but do you actually think that players are so much faster than then ? nope they isn’t.
The fact that he has been compared by some people to a player like Zidane is ridiculous and the only thing they basically have in common is an Algerian/French dual passport and some vision. Zidane on the other hand had tenacity, far more elegance and technical skills to utilize his vision than Adli will ever possess.
Very sympathetic guy though that I wish all the best but he isn’t a world beater and neither would have been one 20 or 30 years ago in an alternative reality.
you summarize everything perfectly. Adli always have decent vision but often lacking in technical abilities to execute the pass, and he was prone to mistakes.
can he still improve? probably yes, and I sincerely hope so. but he was not, and still is not, Milan quality.
20 years ago? in an era where Pirlo, Seedorf, Gattuso, Zidane, Lampard, Deco, Kaka, Gerrard, Riquelme, Xavi, Scholes, Keane, Ballack, Juninho, Alonso, Schweinsteiger playing, among others? hell no.
Thanks AR.
I’m sure he can improve but I highly doubt he will ever reach the pinacle of the game as suggested by James Hornby.
Yeah absolutely and that is only a very small section of players he would have to compete with and all of those players you mentioned would still to this day be world class players.
These stories are absolute nonsense. Why would they activate the clause now rather than waiting until the day before the deadline? What if his form dramatically dip, what if he gets a serious injury? There’s literally no reason to communicate a decision until just before they need to (unless there is some clause in the contract that changes that valuation over time).