Youssouf Fofana is now ‘one step away’ from joining AC Milan and the management hope to get him in before they leave for the United States, a report claims.
This morning’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) reports that this could be the decisive week for the Fofana deal. There is already an agreement in place with the player over personal terms, and now a final push is needed with Monaco.
In the last few hours there has been talk of interest from Manchester United and Atletico Madrid for Fofana and it is true that both clubs have asked for information. This news has seen Milan accelerate in the last few hours to try find an agreement with Monaco.
According to what the paper writes, there were positive talks over the phone between the two managements yesterday and an agreement has been found on the fixed part which stands at around €14m.
In the next round of talks an agreement on bonuses will be sought and then Fofana will finally be able to consider himself a new Rossoneri player. La Gazzetta continues by underlining that in the next 48-72 hours things could conclude positively, and that he is one step away.
Once the final issues between the two clubs have been resolved, the 25-year-old will be able to sign a four-year contract worth €3m net per season including bonuses which is double what he gets in the Principality.
Furthermore, at Milan, Fofana would meet his national teammates Mike Maignan and Theo Hernandez, as well as a large Francophone contingent. Curiously, the player has already been in Italy in the past few hours as his friend Moussa Diaby got married in Florence. It could be his next home.
