AC Milan remain convinced by the idea of investing in Jonathan David as they hope to reverse a negative trend from recent years in terms of striker signings.
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport (as seen in the photo below), Milan believe that David is a ‘safe investment’ despite the fact he has just two goals in the league so far this season after netting 23 times last season.
Geoffrey Moncada and his team are sure that David has already proven his worth in Europe and with his national team. He was a protagonist in the victory of the 2020-21 league title win with Lille, along with Mike Maignan, and with his goals in the qualifiers he dragged Canada to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
He has the qualities and experience needed to complete the Rossoneri attack, and it must be said that the club have often had to sacrifice on one of those two things.
In recent years, players who have arrived at Milanello have either been too young (André Silva, Marko Lazetic, Pietro Pellegri among others) or did not have the right motivations (Gonzalo Higuain, Mario Mandzukic, Divock Origi among them).
Milan are aiming for a low-risk investment that can further enhance the squad. David would cost dearly, but the goals would repay the cost.
Thats the same guy who thought that Morata is the answer. Same guy who eventually, panicked bought jovic. Lolz. Doesn’t seem to me he has an eye for strikers, he better stick to his low purchase cbs ala kalulu, thiaw
@flyingturtle, I wonder how well you would do when they tell you that Taremi isn’t arrive and there are 24 hours left in the transfer window. Jovic cost like 2m anyway, so price-wise I don’t see that as a big deal. He is terrible though.
Speaking of actual wasteful transfers, it still boggles my mind that we paid 38m for Andre Silva.
You keep origi.. DUH…
Lol. I think Origi was gone by that point. Even Colombo had been released to Monza the day before. It’s tough to find anything noteworthy in the last 24 hours of a window unless big money is involved. Either way, it would be disingenuous to portray this striker issue as anything less than a fail for Furlani/Moncada this past summer.
Nah, he was still there. The whole terami fiasco makes me cringe. Wasnt really someone I’d want but better than other fools they “courted”.
Should’ve just hired igli tari for the job imao
“He has the qualities and experience needed to complete the Rossoneri attack”
Last week I saw a guy smoking crack in the street in Milan and I start to wonder if he was Moncada.
Ha ha @Bartolomeo, are u sure it wasn’t Maldini? I mean, after all, Maldini has nothing to do since he got fired.
Moncada, on the other hand, is too busy searching for players like he did when he found Theo, Leao, Kalulu, Thiaw, Maignan, etc, the players that people like you praised Maldini for.
Hopefully, one of these clubs around the world will be stupid enough to hire Maldini so you can move on to supporting that club.
Why are you making excuses?
Is this how low the fan base have reached (saw your comment the other day!
This is a serious business. You don’t leave decisions to the last minute. You plan properly and preferably get your business done by the beginning of preseason instead of wheeling and dealing in the last minute.
You FOCUS. Instead of signing 10 players to achieve very little, you FOCUS on quality over quantity.
All Milan had to do this summer was consolidate a winning squad. But instead we had ourselves a revolution.
@rossonero bro Maldini is long gone. I praised Moncada for the players he brought to the club, but after a scudetto and UCL semis I wasn’t expecting the next step to be a step back at finding young gems to develop instead of established players to strengthen the core, as some fans were expecting the salto in qualità.
Anyway, with the hectic mercato this summer and all the names we hear these days for the next one, I wonder if Moncada (and maybe other executives) doesn’t have a commission on every transfer. It’s quite common in French clubs, and leads to conflits of interest.
Yeah, someone had to name-drop Maldini in this article. Man, respect your greatest ever player. You can’t even understand sarcasm, duh.
@Bartholomeo Agreed.
@flyingturtle I completely agree with you. There are many things to consider before deciding which striker we should buy.
1. If your manager wants to work with him. You said Morata here, look how well he is performing this season. Diego Simeone has created a system that revolves around Griezmann and Morata. It allows them to use their strengths and get into goal scoring opportunities.
2. We need to figure out our future. Like if Pioli is the man, we should keep to main-man this project. Consult with your manager what you desire and get his preferred striker at your given budget, This all needs to planned beforehand.
3. For Jonathan David to perform well, you need him to linkup with a second striker like Okafor and Thuram (Inter).
I don’t really know if Pioli really has a say in what players he would want to work with.
The problem is the blinkers the decisions makers wear, their extremely narrow focus.
I am yet to see our scouting deliver anything that wasn’t obvious. Am I supposed to be impressed with signing depth players from Chelsea? Look at Thiaw, mentioned above. He was the U21 captain of Germany, we bought him on a total deal worth about 10m, FFS. He is spoken about like he was a diamond in the rough. He was an obvious investment for the future.
This narrow focus is significant because of the budgetary constraints.
We don’t sign players with Serie A experience despite the reality that we play in the League and need to win enough games in it to qualify for the UCL, which is clearly what Milan wants to be known for (more than winning the league).
Califiori, Cambiasso, Scalvini, Scamacca are the most obvious examples of missed opportunities in
the last 18 months in positions that we are still scrambling to try to cover. Scamacca, in particular is just unforgivable because of the need for a #9 and the number of things which had to be ignored to not prioritise a deal which would always have commenced with a loan: the reality that Giroud works for himself and nothing else (his hold up play means he is not a functional players other than finishing which is a big problem if you look at our build-up), the 16 Serie A goals in his first full season as a 22/23 yo, the quality of his build up play, distribution and ball striking.
Why didn’t we sign Kristovic at Lecce? What about Festy at Udinese, we need another right back and are now looking for a reinforcement. Why was it Salernitana that signed Ederson before Atalanta paid serious money for him?
That’s just 3 more guys, not Italian, who are doing well in the league, in positions of real need. 6.5m is the biggest transfer fee paid. These guys are not arriving from fashionable destinations, and in the case of Kristovic and Ederson they’re 22 years old. To me, this is what it looks like when the scouts are really earning their keep.
It’s always funny hearing the mess on here, considering we have a terrible coach, and made some questionable signings and still made 2nd, Scudetto, and a Champions League Semi-Final I should state that our core is enough. Especially with the return of Bennacer we can finally be rid of the Bosnian who’s been stinking up the midfield, but we still need a proper backup and at this point we might as well get someone from Serie B, I would’ve stated my favourite Serie B whipping boys Andrea Zanchetta and Filippo Carrobio but they’re old and retired…patience get rid of the dead wood like Krunic and maybe Pobega unless he shows growth, he was good in Torino, and with a better coach I believe there’s a good player in there. Krunic on the other hand is 30 and is still a Serie B level player.
@flyingturtle well said.
We need GUARANTEES not more GAMBLES on project players that may or may not develop or adapt to Serie A. All these players that we have been linked to in January are one year wonders. 40M for David??? That’s a joke. For one good season in France and now he can’t score???
Seems the only players we will ever sign are discounts and players that MAY contribute. We don’t seem to be interested in ESTABLISHED players. We need a striker can that guarantee us 20-25 goals a season. Not always these projects. Moncada and Furlani screwed up this summer by not getting s true #9 when opportunities existed and now we are again reaching for unproven players in January where choice is limited. Terrible
@flyingturtle “Thats the same guy who thought that Morata is the answer”. To be fair Morata has been in the form of his life 😁 but i get what you’re saying
Before we went our way to buy a striker, I’m just wondering if the coach’s input is taken into account here?
Does Pioli have a say if he wants to work with David or whether he prefers another type of players? If Pioli is going to get the axe next season, shouldn’t we avoid getting a little hasty in identifying the striker that might be ideal for the next coach?
Or do we just jump all-in for David because his ‘normal’ price is 60M and we are poised to get a ~20M discount, who cares if he is wanted by the coach or not?
Everywhere there’s written “Moncada likes him” or “Moncada follows him” for each and every player we’re linked to. It looks as if Pioli really doesn’t have a word in transfer dealings. David would be nothing but marketing buy targeting Canadian market. It’s the murican way of doing business and with this model we’re on the path of Arsenal’s eternal 4th
Morata is in form. At pathetico in an attacking duo. 352 baby.. If he was here i dare say he’d had maybe 3 goals. Hope they buy David, looks like they need a ST that isnt an old Morata