AC Milan are planning moves to increase the quality of the attacking trident and give Stefano Pioli more options for his 4-2-3-1 system.
La Gazzetta dello Sport write that one of either Junior Messias or Alexis Saelemaekers will leave, with the Brazilian being the most likely to say goodbye. In terms of an arrival, Christian Pulisic is currently the hottest name.
The USA international has a Croatian passport meaning he would not take up a non-EU spot, and he is looking for redemption after an uninspiring season and would reduce his salary in order to wear the red and black shirt.
Then there is the No.10 role, with deep reflections underway after Brahim Diaz’s farewell. The club wanted to sign him permanently but Real Madrid didn’t allow it, so he has instead returned to Spain and will renew his contract.
Charles De Ketelaere remains an uncertainty. The comments about him in the media changed from ‘he will certainly stay with us, next season will be the turning point’ to Pioli speaking of ‘evaluations in progress’ on the Belgian. The sure thing is that the hypothesis of a loan will not be considered.
There are therefore two options: staying at Milanello to try to justify the €35m invested in him, or a permanent sale for no less than €28m in order to avoid capital losses.
Another who should leave is Yacine Adli, who got a paltry 138 minutes in his first season, but it seems unlikely to imagine that both he and De Ketelaere will leave in the same summer.
Then there is Daichi Kamada. The managerial overhaul has removed some names from the list of targets but have kept others, and the Japanese playmaker is one of them.
On the left side, Ante Rebic and Divock Origi could both leave given they are not part of Pioli’s plans while they earn €3.5m and €4m net per season respectively. A replacement would be needed, and Noah Okafor’s name could come back into fashion, though he would cost €20m.
SU! Just accelerate the signing asap.
Houssem Aouar is still available on free and he’d be perfect to step in for Bennacer. Why is he not considered?
He has agreement with Roma already
Though he will cost 20 ? And that 20 is like 100 to them big money oh God save us 💔💔💔
Origi Rebic Messias Saelemaekers Diaz
Vs
Okafor Pulisic Kamada De Ketelaere
Interesting upgrade in my opinion
Trust me, none of them.
Rebic & Origi out and Okafor or Pulisic in. That’s should be the starting point.
Or actually finalizing the Kamada deal should be first as it was practically a done deal earlier and backing out now would f*** things up. Again.
That would actually be an insane upgrade. We might actually start looking like a team with those two plus one or two others that might join.
I don’t really agree to still use 4-2-3-1 because need to fill more quality. But if move to 4-3-1-2, we already had quality, but need adjust the gameplan.
4-3-1-2 : Maignan, Calabria, Tomori, Thiaw, Theo, Tonali, Krunic, Bennacer, CDK (Kamada if deal done), Giroud (Marcus Thuram if deal done), Leao.
Leao is already good to be the most advanced forward, so it’s will be easy for him to move to STCL. And the WB don’t need go mid too often because the wide will be owned by the WB, i am sure Theo & Calabria will enjoy the role to cover all the wide area.
So, just improve the mid : Kamada, and 1 playmaker at mid, because Tonali & Bennacer are good to be more dynamic & go forward. If Tielemans want to ACM, it will be complete, but didn’t.
One problem. We need $$$$ for all of these signings. Pulsic 35-40M; Okafor 20-25M…..backup LB; defensive mid; etc….
35M budget can’t buy all of that. And so far the market feedback from a Rebic sale is 4-5M???? LOLOLOLO. WTF are we going to buy with that? So that’s 40M amd lets add 8M (aid we are lucky) for Origi and 2M for Bali Toure and Messias combined. That’s 50M total.
50M total doesn’t get you Pulsic,, Thuram, Okafor, Scamacca, etc…when factoring their salaries as well. This is all PR Spin by Redbird. Won’t happen unless we start selling off some bigger players like Tomori, Kalulu and who knows who else – CDK for a huge loss?? Sales are coming gents.
Pulisic is an injury prone bottler. He’s the American Rebic.