AC Milan are expected to have a large budget for the summer transfer window to try and strengthen the team, according to a report.
This morning’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport (via PianetaMilan) reports that Milan could invest €100m to strengthen Stefano Pioli’s team, which would come from the budget set aside plus the sum of savings on the salaries of players who will leave and the transfer fees they bring in.
There will not be a huge overhaul in the summer and the 13/14 players who have shown themselves to be of Milan calibre will be built around, with ‘restructuring interventions’ to be carried out so that the reserves offer more guarantees.
For example, Milan are paying out €5.2m gross for Divock Origi’s salary and they believe they could sell him for €7-8m, which would help top up the budget. Sergino Dest and Tiémoué Bakayoko (€5.2m and €4.6m in salaries respectively) will not be bought permanently.
Ante Rebić (€4.5m salary) can leave for around €4-5m in transfer fee. Furthermore, it is unlikely that Aster Vranckx will be bought permanently from Wolfsburg so his €1.9m salary will be saved.
The departures of Ciprian Tătărușanu, Antonio Mirante, Fodé Ballo-Touré, Yacine Adli and Zlatan Ibrahimović are expected too, creating further wiggle room, with Adli expected to depart on loan or even permanently if a big enough bid arrives.
Those outgoing players would result in a saving of about €28m in salaries and another €20m could come from player sales, to which €50m must be added that was going to be made available for the budget regardless.
So, the budget is gonna be 50m (again!), plus sales/departures…
Great…
Well why don’t you open your own wallet and pay for the transfers yourself rather than demanding that other people do?
That’s just a ridiculous comment, that makes no sense on any level
What doesn’t make sense?
Do you understand that money is a finite thing for football clubs?
What doesn’t make sense is telling a Milan fan who is commenting on a fans forum that they should be financing the club!
Milan is a sporting club and a business, so like every other entity in the world, they pay their own bills and make their own investments.
I’m surprised I have to explain this.
It’s just a ridiculous comment, the type a child would make when losing an argument.
I believe you can do better
Mate, what sort of argument is this?
Really?…
Dude, you stole my name.
True am feed up with this Milan way of transfer
Stop complaining before it even begins, is your life that miserable?
Those are very small fee that Milan is requesting for sales of Rebic, Origi, Ballo Toure and Adli. Messias price also would be low?
Difference is players salaries. Compared to our best players, Origi and Rebic are far overpaid players.
So we will be working in the dark again. Wait for sales to determine the actual budget before spending. By then all the good ones are gone, unless Maldini and Massara target the good freebies first whilst we resolve this budget thing.
How do you normally pay for stuff?
If we have 10m or 100m we need to use that sign a max of 1-2 players.
It’s not about the money, it’s about the focus.
The other priority is that we need to get the squad down to a manageable size. 30 is way too many. We need a core of 16-17 and a max size of 23 to include Maldini and Colombo.
@Maldini’s heir focus on what ? Milan squad lack quality in almost all positions. and we know how Pioli likes to rotate, signing just two players won’t be enough. The free players that are good must be signed ASAP. then CDK must be sold, if Maldini truly wants to build Milan team. Reiss Nelson of Asernal is free, likewise kamada , Rashica is good and won’t cost much. Maldini needs to spend wisely this time!!!
Is this the squad that won the title last season, reached the semi-finals of the champion league this, and, most importantly, the squad that I support?
It’s not a lack of quality – you could’ve said the same about Napoli last season – it’s the players not reaching their potential. Part of the reason has been injuries or players not settling in, but the main reason for me is the lack of playing time or inconsistency due to the squad being too big.
The focus I think needs to be in midfield where we’ve struggled. There’s also been a few examples of teams coming together over the years with midfield signings:
– Man Utd when they signed Roy Keane
– Chelsea when they signed Makélélé,
– Juve when they signed Pirlo,
– Man Utd when they signed Carrick….
Midfield is a key position as it’s where teams control the game.
No this is not the squad that won the league last year, it is weaker and older.
There is a massive lack of quality.
Everyone including Maldini (see his latest comments) has acknowledged that.
There is no hiding from the fact we are desperate for a backup Keeper, LB, at least 1 more midfielder a RW a Striker etc etc.
Finally it is the Club that fans support, not the squad.
“Older”?
The average age is in the early 20s so it’s a good thing they’re older!
Maldini is unfortunately typical of a modern football director who can’t see past the transfer market. The great sides he played in had players like Rossi, Galli, Tassotti, Evani, and Massaro – who were mostly pretty average but just played under great managers and alongside great players. Nowadays most of these would struggle to make Serie B after being loaned for 10 years.
You can’t support the club without supporting the players who play for the club. The two are inseparable. Modern fans don’t seem to understand that.
@Maldinis Heir
I thought it was obvious who I was referring to by “older”
Obviously I mean the likes of Giroud and Zlatan and Kjaer etc.
The great team of the past you reference was during a time when Serie A was the richest and most powerful league. Milan were the biggest spenders of that era and added the very best players in the world each year to some very high class home grown players. Also this era was a period where the national team was very strong.
@Maldini’s heir focus on what ? Milan squad lack quality in almost all positions. and we know how Pioli likes to rotate, signing just two players won’t be enough. The free players that are good must be signed ASAP. then CDK must be sold, if Maldini truly wants to build Milan team. Reiss Nelson of Asernal is free, likewise kamada , Rashica is good and won’t cost much. Maldini needs to spend wisely this time!!!
Neither of those players is ‘free’, they’ll both command a higher wage than they would do if they’d been under contract plus they’ll want a sizeable signing on fee. I would be surprised if an operation for either doesn’t cost ~10 million+ for the first year.
Lol.here we go again
Pulling fictitious transfer kittys out of the blue .
Just my personal opinion if this is true 100m euro budget ( of course it is hard to imagine RedBird willing to give 100m euro budget ) . My wish list player for AC Milan next season ( with 100m euro budget ) :
CF – Jonathan David ( 50-55m euro) or Dusan vlahovic ( 50-55m euro )
AMF : Kamada free transfer
CB : Ndicka Free transfer
DMF : Amrabat ( 40m euro)
I dont know about Brahim or adili future so i dont include Brahim cost in there , if we are to sign Brahim for 22m euro then i will switch striker target to balogun 30m euro or boniface 15-20m euro or loan scamacca from westham
With this we dont need to make overhaul and we can move kalulu to compete with calabria for RB spot. If Tomori go to EPL club for 50-60m euro then i would gladly swap CDK with scalvini ( CB from atalanta and italian )
Just my personal opinion if this is true 100m euro budget ( of course it is hard to imagine RedBird willing to give 100m euro budget ) . My wish list player for AC Milan next season ( with 100m euro budget ) :
CF – Jonathan David ( 50-55m euro) or Dusan vlahovic ( 50-55m euro )
AMF : Kamada free transfer
CB : Ndicka Free transfer
DMF : Amrabat ( 40m euro) or SMS ( 40m euro )
I dont know about Brahim or adili future so i dont include Brahim cost in there , if we are to sign Brahim for 22m euro then i will switch striker target to balogun 30m euro or boniface 15-20m euro or loan scamacca from westham
With this we dont need to make overhaul and we can move kalulu to compete with calabria for RB spot. If Tomori go to EPL club for 50-60m euro then i would gladly swap CDK with scalvini ( CB from atalanta and italian )
If you read the article, it’s 98m (“100m”) because it’s 50m + 28m in saved gross salaries + 20m in sales.
50m + sales, it’s the usual budget, but I think we can manage. We need to make all of the cuts mentioned in the article, plus Messias and Diaz (the article forgets he’s on loan and is either going to leave or have to be bought), and then bring in THREE players: A striker, a right-winger and a playmaker to replace Diaz. The playmaker could be Kamada, so that’s no transfer fee. The striker could be Firmino, so that’s no transfer fee. Then ALL IN on the best RW that our transfer budget can buy. If we have another Leao on the right it will be difficult to stop us. It’s tough to double team one player, impossible to double team two. Then call up Bozzolan as Theo backup and Chaka Traore as Leao backup. IF there is any money left (assuming with the sales plus 50m that it will be more like 70m, not 98m as the quoted article is being ambitious) then it should be spent on a physical defensive central mid to add meat to that department (aka the famous “Kessie replacement”). To be clear, this isn’t my “dream” transfer scenario, but one based on our capabilities. I think Firmino would be a good fit, and we can push back getting a “good young striker” for a season or two as we figure out the balance of the squad.
Where is the Champions League money then? To greedy Cardinale’s pocket?
Maybe going towards building a 800m euro stadium? They don’t give those out free. We are still in the red financially as well.
For everyone who is saying Milan lacks Qualities, I highly doubt that. We do have quality. The players we are rejecting definitely has qualities.. they are just not improving.. THAT is the problem. you think Adli isn’t talented? or Vrankxx? Or Balo toure?
Monza Lacks Qualities as well, if we play Monza now, we will lose at least by 2 goals with a certainty. Yes.. they are playing that good. Question is how are they playing a better football than us? Did they have a better summer Tx than us? Do they have better quality than we do? Definitely no.
The difference .. is the coach. Plan and simple. Pioli has ZERO tactical sense or game reading ability while Palladino has the natural italian coaching skills with a masterclass in both tactical and game reading ability.
Budget won’t CHANGE A THING in this team. No matter who we buy or how much we spend, next season will be just as pathetic to watch as this one as long as Pioli doesn’t improve his tactics and game reading, both of which in insanely unlikely.
This is just my opinion btw, not facts. Mostly speculation from my part deduced from what I saw this season and the last. I firmly believe we didn’t win Scudetto because of Pioli, rather it was Zlatan’s mentality and inspiration that spread through the team.
Forza Milan.