Mercato

Footmercato: Ballo-Toure’s proposed Saint-Etienne move collpases – the reason

It seems as though Fodé Ballo-Touré’s move to Saint-Etienne is at risk of falling apart because he cannot find an agreement with them over salary, a report claims.

Having signed Youssouf Fofana from AS Monaco to make it four new additions for the summer, Milan are now looking at trimming the squad by offloading players that are not deemed a part of Paulo Fonseca’s plans, and Ballo-Toure certainly falls into that category.

The former Monaco defender has already said no to joining Besiktas this summer, but a return to France was reported to be on the cards when Saint-Etienne came forward and made an offer Milan were happy with, while the player gave the green light too.

According to what FootMercato are reporting, Ballo-Toure’s move back to Ligue 1 will now not be happening because he and Saint-Etienne couldn’t find a meeting point on the wages that he would receive.

The distance between the parties is too great and therefore the deal can be considered off after the two clubs had already found an agreement based around bonuses rather than an up front transfer fee, for an amount less than €1m.

The tweet also mentions that Saint-Étienne have already moved on and have found an agreement with Maccabi Haifa for another left-back in Pierre Cornud.

Tags AC Milan Fode Ballo-Toure

36 Comments

  2. What a surprise…🤣🤣
    I told you…this guy will move just for more money and a pair league with Serie A. He will stay and grab the wages whiteout playing because he has no shame, no dignity, no desire to performe. Grazie Maldini…

    2. Or maybe he has financial commitments based on his earnings, maybe he has a family to provide for….. don’t blame the player for the contract Milan offered him, it’s not like he’s out there badmouthing the club or it’s fans – he’s been a model pro, just deemed not good enough for the first team.

    3. ya ya ya.. it’s also because of Maldini we’ve got only 5 CL in his era, if he’s not our defender we’ll got 20 more.
      Maldini wanted Italian (Calafiori/ Cambiaso), Moncada wanted anyone from France background (Ballo-Toure) rest is just story

      1. Ah so Moncada is the director and Maldini is his secretary in the past? Since he only sign what Moncada told him by your logic. No wonder they sacked him because why they need to pay him just to do what Moncada told him

        1. that’s right mr. genius!
          do u think no higher authority than Maldini who put strick budget, salary cap & non-Italian player priority (growth-decree)?
          Maldini don’t have choice not to accept what moncada get (players w/ those criteria) &
          when cardinale coming, MnM, furlani & moncada is in same position (noone higher/lower) cz it’s new management.
          Maldini isn’t perfect but if anyone bashing him, they bashing Milan, they bashing Me, so fx0f

      2. What a new story. So Maldini want Calfiori in the past but ended up signing Ballo Toure? Nice made up story. You should be fictional writer

    4. the mercenaries gone free cz of Maldini, Gigio want rise his 10m Chinese salary cz of Maldini,
      Hakan & Kessie got salary cap cz of Maldini,
      now we can’t sell this cheap non-Italian players (furlani & moncada’s kind of players) also cz of Maldini?

    5. Your opinion is stupid. Why he need left his job and go somewhere for small salary? For some loser like you want him left? Comon man its not reality,Milan gave salary not him,so let them all finished and go free and you can ask from our idiots owners to spend little their money,not only money from club.

  4. If he doesnt get sold then bring him back into the team because we have nobody to replace theo. And he was never as bad as others when playing the position, although not great either.

    1. Exactly. Trying to play a right footed attacker instead of a true LB is insane. Thos coach has plenty of work to do, and if i see another lineup like that im out until he gets fired.

    3. Yep, if he stays he might as well get a chance. He was never terrible and new management might be all it takes to make him serviceable cover…

      …I doubt it, but might as well try.

      1. If he is not going to be registered at squad list he wont be able to play at all in the official match. So thats almost impossible.

    4. I would agree but who do we take out to register him? Adli’s already out to fit Fofana and Kalulu is out to register Royal and it can’t be anyone Italian.

      1. Yep. Idea: Get Biraghi from Fiorentina. They have Parisi who they will want to develop. His contract expires in 2025, he’s got loads of Serie A experience and has 16 caps. Perfect for our bench.

  6. You fools advocating him to come back into squad.. have u ever heard of squad lists and restrictions? Even adli as things stand currently , cannot be registered to play in Serie A or CL. Even Kalulu couldn’t hence he was shipped off.

    Anyways this Fodder ballo toure leech isn’t good enough to get games in Serie b clubs let alone as backup to Theo.

    He shouldn’t be allowed to train even , maybe give him cleaning duty at San Siro.

  9. We cannot register him, Origi, and Adli for Serie A and the Champions League. There are regulations on how many foreign players you can register in a team. Without the regulations we would have been 100% international by now.

  11. Mutual termination of the contract. Give them some of their remaining salary and get them off the books. Better than having them on the books till the end of their contracts. Few clubs look at them and then there will never be an agreement on wages because they have huge contracts here despite being terrible players.. There’s no other choice.

Comments are closed

Serie A Standings

Live football scores . Current table, fixtures & results.