AC Milan could add a winger to the squad in January and Maghnes Akliouche, who plays for Monaco, has been mentioned as a target. However, being just 22 years old, it’s understandable that Rossoneri fans know little about him.
The links first emerged yesterday as Gazzetta dello Sport spoke about Milan’s interest, stating that one of Samuel Chukwueze and Noah Okafor could leave to make space. To many of the fans, however, Maghnes Akliouche is just a name.
So, as the pink newspaper highlights today, who is Akliouche? How good is he? Can he make a difference in Italy? The first two questions can be answered, while we would need a crystal ball for the third one.
In any case, Akliouche was born in 2002 and has Algerian origins like his idol: Zinedine Zidane. He grew up in the suburbs of Paris, he played at Torcy just like Paul Pogba and joined Monaco at 15 years old. A chance for him to grow and perhaps even get playing time against adults.
He ended up making his debut for the first team in October 2021, when he was just 19 years old, and first started getting regular playing time in the 2023-24 season. On the pitch, he has an aesthetic sense and it’s clear that Zidane has been an idol of his.
Andres Iniesta is another player he fell in love with, while Cesc Fabregas – who played at Monaco when Maghnes was moving from the youth sector to the first team – was also a great reference…
“He’s the player who impressed me the most. He played walking, he saw everything and, with two touches, he put the ball where he wanted. He often told me to play simple, that you have to be free in your head and not put unnecessary pressure on yourself,” Akliouche said about the Spaniard.
The winger certainly knows the art of dribbling but he has other qualities as well: he’s 10th for progressive passes and 5th for expected assists in Ligue 1.
Another Arsenal and Barcelona phenomenon, namely Thierry Henry, called him up for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. He played all the time, coming in and out of the starting lineup, and he scored a goal in the only game he lost (the final, which ended 5-3 for Spain in extra time).
Last season, he scored seven goals in Ligue 1 and one in the French Cup. This season, he has two in tLigue 1 and two in the Champions League, including a celebration against Barcelona, one of his favorite clubs.
The rest can also be seen in the highlights: he has great ball control, he carries the ball around with his left foot and finds solutions starting from the wing or the center. He’s not a finished player, he’s not yet decisive but he has great potential. Milan, at the right price, might accept the challenge.
Would love to sign alhoukhi but on another note why don’t we try to sign Jonathan tah in the summer or January for a pre-contract. It’s possible we could convince him, he’s even come out and stated he’s a Milan fan because of his wife
Meanwhile Conceicao is doing great in Juve. Might be the best RW in Seria A right now. But he wasn’t good enough for woke Milan. Juve got him for some 20mil.
Got him for some 20m?
He is on a dry 1 season loan for which Juventus had to pay 10 mil. But don’t let that stop you from lying.
Nope it will be a permanent deal that’s why the high loan fee of 7mil. Basically its a work around to pay for him in instalments cause they spend everything on Kombiners and Luiz in the summer. He was avaliable for 22mil in the summer when they got him.
Best rw in serie a is pulisic and we definitely didn’t need to sign a rw this summer.
We need better RW , upgrade to Chuk who need to be sold…. and if they want to save this season, definitely need experienced player from Seria A , no young “promising” player again from France or Germany… buy Berardi , his price is ideal for Cardinale ( less then 10m) and he can definitely help Milan to reach Cl spot and practically save this terrible season.. Young foreigners don’t help in this moment…
Same in DM position
If we wanted a Berardi type of winger we already had CDK. Who is superb in Atalanta right now in that position.
If Benny stays healthy, Puli will be our RW. RW will probably be upgraded in the summer.
I think its better if Milan focus on DM right now. With a good DM Reijndiers can move in the AM position and Leao and Pulisic on the wings will be good enough. For winger i will only bring Salamakers back as a back up.
This is also good idea.. Reijndees need to be our AM and Pulisic is great on RW position.. but still we need better bench options , and Salamakers is good but not enough..
They need to sell RLC and Chuk and buy better options
But different is Berardi play only in Seria A and CDK was lost in his first season in Seria A … but yes now he is good. But we don’t buy him back for 50m€..
Even if he did join Milan, his first season would go learning the league and new environment and by the time he’d start making progress he would be sold for peanuts (to make his breakthrough in the new club).
We have Scotti. This guy isn’t needed. If Bonera wasn’t as useless at coaching as he was at playing, some of our younger players would be coming through to the first team.