Federico Chiesa is not considered part of the plans at Juventus and he was offered to AC Milan in recent days, according to a report.
La Gazzetta dello Sport report that Chiesa has been told by both the Juventus management and Thiago Motta to find a new club, but the problem is that there are not exactly clubs lining up to try and land him.
The player’s value is not in question, but the current salary (€5m net per season plus bonuses) and the request from his next club (at least €6m) is proving to be an obstacle for the teams that might think about it.
The forward’s agent Fali Ramadani knocked on the doors of Milan and Roma to test the waters and understand if it was possible to start a negotiation. The Giallorossi – after having purchased Soulé – made it clear they are not interested.
Having moved Christian Pulisic to the position of attacking midfielder, Milan would have the possibility of signing another winger (selling Alexis Saelemaekers), but they are held back by the idea of upsetting the balance of the dressing room with another salary equal to that of Rafael Leao.
Napoli and Lazio have also asked for information on Chiesa but in this case too the salary is an obstacle. There are no irrefutable offers from abroad for now while Juve want €15-20m to sell, even if the fact his deal runs out in 2025 weakens their leverage.
Wow…..I’d take him…..
We’d need to sell a few probably Chuk and Saelemaekers) but he’d be worth it.
Actually maybe Okafor and Saelemaekers.
Leao, Chuk, Pulisic and Chiesa would make a great rotation.
Swap him for Saelemaekers.
Push Okafor up front (suddenly we don’t need another striker and can afford Chiesa’s wages).
Rotate Leao, Chuk, Pulisic and Chiesa.
Far too logical, we’d never do it.
That could work if we sold Jovic.
Saleemaker is not for sale, he is a devoted and dedicated player that can play from right back. I can see some of the flashes connecting well with chuks on the flank, giving the time he would be the time bomb to explode for milan
You’d take him? To our oversized roster? Makes no sense coming from the guy who rants daily about our roster having 10 000 players already. 😀 😀 😀
And you think selling Chuku & Saelamaekers is easy? Well… We’ve still got players we’ve tried to get rid of for years. So… Nope, not going to happen.
Wasn’t Chuk a great signing?
And Saelamaekers seems to have attracted a lot of attention since his Bologna loan.
That’s why I am saying we need to sell players if we sign him.
Please try and follow a basic thread of thought.
Your basic thread of thought, eh? Says the guy who goes on and on and on 24/7 365 days a year about how we have waaaay too many players and now wants to buy a washed up player that nobody wants to play in a position where we have the most options already? Good one. 😀 😀 😀
Can you please stop disrespecting Azzurri legends.
Chiesa is not ‘washed up’.
Now in terms of basic trains of thought, had I said we should sign Chiesa and keep all our other wingers that would been a bit inconsistent, but I specifically said we should sell players to sign Chiesa, and……I have consistently said we should only focus on ‘next level’ signings generally.
It is my OPINION (based on the actual fact that Chiesa helped us win the Euros) that Chiesa is the sort of ‘next level’ player that can actually raise the team, and I am willing sacrifice players who have won NOTHING (except for Saelemaekers LOL) to do that.
Chiesa a legend????????? WOW, you are even more out of your mind than I originally thought. 😀 😀 😀 😀
Are u being sarcastic? 🤔
No.
I would really like to see Chiesa play for Milan.
I am not against signing players if they have the right characteristics.
Chiesa was crucial to Italy’s Euro’s win.
Well then why make all this fuss about transfers? You can’t have it both ways. One minute you’re against the transfer market and the next you’re ok only if it suits your desires.
Can’t sign defenders or attackers because it would disrupt the team but a 7th winger is OK because he was somewhat crucial for Italian win at euros 4 years ago. 4 years ago.
LOL, spot on, IKWYDLS & flyingturtle. 😀 😀 😀
I make a fuss about EXCESSIVE, POINTLESS transfers….
Excessive and pointless until its one of your picks right? Chiesa can be someone else’s pointless and excessive transfer. Btw, speaking of excess, we already have each winger covered by another winger currently. Chiesa would be both excessive and pointless
Touché, IKWYDLS!
Sell Chukwueze for a injury player , you must be a clown 😂😂
i’d rather sell Jovic/ Oka then put 15m + Salad 4 Chiesa,
Chuck slow 2 adapt but he isn’t injury prone like Oka,
or w/ new ST coming we better let Jovic go cz Oka/ Camarda can be 3rd (urgent) ST
Well worth the money they want. He’s better than Chucky and Sally. Is creative and pushes every ounce. One major injury and he’s written off? With a front three of Leao, pulisic and CHIESA on the right. We’d be so well rounded.
6m a season is a lot for +/-20 matches. Go get Berardi as a backup. At least with him we know it’s 10+ goals/assists a season.
Milan doesn’t need injury prone, damaged, finished player with bum knees. That’s what we read under every Tammy Abraham article. Same applies to Chiesa then.
He is even asking for a salary bump. Ha ha ha.
Kudos to Fiorentina. They robbed Juventus in the Bernardeschi, Chiesa and Vlahovic sales.
40m for Berna, 60 mil for Chiesa and 85 mil for Vlahovic. 185 mil for busts.
Giroud who was bought for 3 mil had better goal production than Vlahovic for 85.
Rocco Commisso laughing his arse off.
He’s far from finished. Chiesa was only the bright player when we last faced Juventus. It’s Juve’s Allegri we’re talking about. With all his odd decisions that many Juve fans also couldn’t comprehend.
He only missed 5 league matches last season. So he’s obv getting better after that nasty ACL injury. This is the only chance we get him (or a player in his caliber) in such a low price. And as we know, this current TW is all about seizing opportunity by the Milan management.
Pulisic is injury prone in Chelsea, some said he has finished, and some fans even against him to Milan and nicknamed him “Pulisick”. but we know, he only missed 6 games for us caused by injury last season in all competiotion.
Chiesa was central to Italy winning the Euros therefore for Italy fans he’s a legend and I will gladly take an Azzurri legend.
And, yes, I will apply completely different standards to an Azzurri legend than to Abraham because I have no connection whatsoever to the player and he’s not at such a level that I have much interest in forming one.
Aren’t you the one who is polluting the comment section with the same old story that players need to be given time and not discarded after only 1 season? Yet you jump at the opportunity to ship Okafor out for Chiesa.
Oh, Chiesa is a legend, and he WAS central in Italy winning the Euro? Fabio Cannavaro is a legend and central in Italy winning the WC. Maybe Milan should sign him too.
WAS. As past tense. Something that used to be, but it’s not anymore.
Ill rather keep Okafor, who is younger and has higher ceilings.
I merely call for a reasonably sized squad which seems to trigger people like you…
And I also very rarely speak in absolutes (which…erm…triggers people like you).
Yes, it’d be nice for Okafor to be given more time and space (which is why I want Saelemaekers sold and not to sign a striker) but occasionally an opportunity arises that is too good to miss.
Did you just compare a current Italy international to a player who retired over 14 years ago?
Chiesa has done something that most of our signings haven’t – WON something.
Winning is hard which is why proven winners are always welcome. I made the exact same distinction between Hummels and Pavlović.
WINNERS.
I want WINNERS at Milan.
Is that so hard for you to understand?
I really wonder about people’s reading comprehension skills around here.
“I will apply completely different standards to an Azzurri legend than to Abraham because I have no connection whatsoever to the player and he’s not at such a level that I have much interest in forming one.”
Test your own comprehension skill, maybe you’ll understand the hypocrisy.
Dude talks about having a connection with Chiesa, and he isn’t interested in forming one with Abraham. Ha ha 😂.
What opportunity arise?
No one wants Chiesa. Do you know why no one wants him? Because he isn’t worth the money.
Winning one time doesn’t make you a proven winner. Winning over and over makes you a proven winner. Chiesa hasn’t won jack besides the Euro where Gigio Donnarumma was the best player. How is your connection with him? 😂
Now that’s a proven winner. Because he has won season after season, unlike Chiesa.
But the past matters to you the most, not the present.
It’s called being a ‘fan’.
It’s not always ‘rational’ otherwise why would we support a team that has only won one Scudetto in 10 years?
And Donnarumma is SCUM. He plays for Italy and I have to support him for Italy but I will never forgive him for what he did to Milan because Milan are the club I support.
You really don’t get how this whole fan thing works do you?
As for ‘who is a proven winner’, again I know you like to discount players who actually won things by pretending they didn’t win things (or something) but it is a recorded historic fact that Chiesa won the Euros (and he actually scored some pretty crucial goals in the knock out stages).
No. We need a DM, not another RW.
Don’t need another winger. Also juve rejects don’t really work for us most of the time..
Anyone trying to say otherwise don’t give me examples from 20+ years ago. It’s 2024 not 2004
Pulisic, reject. Tomori, reject. Rlc reject. Jovic, reject. And they have all contributed. Milan aren’t going to sign the most in form big name players. You buy low and hope they figure it out. This isn’t Fifa, it’s the real world.
You’re making stuff up. I wrote JUVE rejects.
But you wanna talk Chiesa? Fine. Dude is asking for 6+M salary, read it just up there. On what planet is that buying low? A? For a position we’re stacked already?
Giving Morata a high salary made sense, we needed a ST. We don’t need a winger and he is asking for more than we gave to Morata.
Figure that out!
I really like Chiesa – one of the few players who actually looked like he wanted to win at the Euros – but with recent highly successful purchases from Juve such as Bonucci, Caldara and Higuain, I’m not so sure.
With Bonucci, Caldara and Higuain Milan and Juve could’ve swapped squads (and literally did swap players) and it would’ve lead to the same results because fundamentally Milan were mismanaged and that is why every single player who played for us struggled (and are ridiculed by fans).
But now Milan are in a better place. Pioli was the best manager we had since Allegri and immediately made a difference. Fonseca seems like a good replacement but time will tell.
If Fonseca struggles we should’t turn on the players. But we should question the management who sacked Pioli.
We’re kinda overcrowded up top atm, but I think if the right opportunity arises, this is quite viable. Unfortunately we might have to make a few sacrifice ie. Okafor/Saele.
However, if Juve is willing to accept 15M (the minimum so they won’t make a loss), it would be a crime not to at least entertain the idea. Leao/Chuk/Puli/Chiesa would be an insane depth and at the same time would be a statement move from the management.
Master u don’t know what u are saying . He is a injury prone player that why he is unwanted in any team he has been offered to
Sell Saelemaekers and get Chiesa. Maybe Motta will take Saelemaekers with him and we do an exchange for Chiesa.
This would be a good deal for Milan.
Motta want Saele, its a good deal to weight down Chiesa price. In other aspect, Milan really need homeground player, so they can sell Calabria
At the price quoted this has to be considered. He is an outstanding player with pace, finishing and two footed.
I’d swap him for Chucky in a heartbeat!
Leao – Pulisic – Chiesa behind the striker would be savage
He will not take any place from the squad list he will be 7th out of 8italians we need.
but actually the problem is his salary, as we are fully covered in attack, he can even play as fluid centre forward.
Good player to add but his salary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If he takes 4-5mil sallary then go for it. Swap him for Salamakers. Simmilar like Pulisich he is a chance to get a good player for cheep. Leao-Pulisic-Chiesa will be very fast explosive trio that can take on any deffence really.
LW : Leao starter / Chiesa Backup
ST : Morata starter / Okafor Backup
RW Chukwueze starter / Saladmacker Backup
This is managable seeing how we get shafted with injuries every year anyway.
Just think about it for a minute… If Juve want to offload Chiesa for 15 millions, that’s means he’s finished player. He will never be what he was. Not worth it in my opinion…not even for free. Better invest into a physically valid young emergent talent.
Juve wants to offload him cause he refused to sign a renewal. So he will be free agent next season.
Honest to God, I am shocked at how many people would want him at Milan. Have you not watched him at all since his ACL?
Or is it the “idea” of having him at Milan that’s appealing? Because he isn’t much of a winger… or a forward… or much of anything really anymore.
The fact that he was the only one willing to take his man on at the EURO’s (unsuccessfully mostly) isn’t a testament to his skill – it’s a testament of awful Italy was.
Who do you field him in place of?
Leao? Chuk? Well, common sense would tell you NO because he isn’t fast anymore.
Striker? Behind the striker? Well, no…. he’s not a good striker or a 10 either judging by what Juve hasn’t been able to get out of him… Nor would he replace Puli/RLC driving forward down the middle.
So you’d be paying 6mil (SIX MIL!) a season for what exactly? Just so you can sleep better at night knowing you have an (finished) Italy international on your team?
Yea, lets see how well that sits with the rest of the team…
Different opinions and all, but it’s just DENSE to want him at Milan. And of all people coming from Maldini’s Heir… LMAO!!!
“I want winners at milan” so I’ll get rid off Chuk who’s faster and seems to be getting better just so I can bring Chiesa in and Sleep better at night…
Chuk faster then Chiesa ? Lol. Chuk is slower then Salamakers. Chuk is mainly a dribbler.
You’re joking right? 🤣🤣🤣
Finally, some sense. He had one good spell against ACM when he came in late in the game with fresh legs. Otherwise he was a disappointment including in the Euro’s.
He is a winger, so he would be competing with Chuk and Leao.
If those 2 get injured then Chiesa could fill in for them. And in general he would be great for rotation.
He is way better than fodders like Salad and Okafor.
You clearly haven’t been watching him play since his ACL. A winger he is NOT anymore.
He is a winger, so he would be competing with Chuk and Leao.
If those 2 get injured then Chiesa could fill in for them. And in general he would be great for rotation.
He is way better than fodders like Salad and Okafor.
I’d take him if we get rid of that useless fodder Salad
I would get rid of these players:
Salad
Calabria
Terracciano
Bennacer
Adli
ASAP
The problem is his wage demands, otherwise at 20 to 25m Chiesa is a steal for any team, even though he only has one year left on his contract.
I wish Milan had an empty space in the squad for him, but we don’t. And it’s not Football Manager, we can’t suddenly decide to offload a couple of players for him.
So forget it.