Deadline day always brings some surprises, and Ismael Bennacer appears to be the subject of a transfer battle between two clubs abroad.
According to the latest from La Gazzetta dello Sport, Atletico Madrid and Marseille are interested in signing Bennacer before the window closes at midnight tonight CEST, and they want a season-long loan deal.
Both clubs have made an approach in the last few hours, while Bennacer and Luka Jovic left Milanello after training and will not travel with the team towards the capital for tomorrow’s match against Lazio, though the club’s official line is physical problems for both.
The most likely destination seemed to be Saudi Arabia, but at a certain point Al-Qadsiah announced that they had run out of slots for signings from abroad. It then seemed that the Algerian was destined to remain with the Rossoneri, until the news from Madrid came.
Dialogues are underway to verify the feasibility of the operation. If the deal were to come to fruition, Milan – having lost Manu Koné, who is going to Roma – would accelerate for Adrien Rabiot.
He is available as a free agent having still not signed with another club following his exit from Juventus, but at the moment the obstacle to overcome is his salary demands.
If they let Bennacer leave on a loan on deadline day im officialy done with this joke of a mamagment. Even if they manage to sign Rabiot(which they probably wont cause they’ll offer 4 mil max salary in hope he accept it cause he is desparate) selling the only natural DM is jokes. Cant wait for Inter,Juve, Napoli, Sassuolo….. to whipe a floor with us
why would you want the club you support to be demolished in their head-to-head games against the best teams.
Drop the saltiness and acknowledge that Milan wouldn’t be able to rely on Bennacer for an entire season, he has lost some of his bite.
Rabiot is being offered a 5 mil a year contract, not the 7 he is asking for. If he signs up, he is a good option if you want him to play a deeper role.
The overall team isn’t bad, they dropped the ball in a major way by not getting Zerkzee, but they got in reasonable players to cover for the time being. It is annoying that it is still a position that hasn’t been addressed for years. But Morata and Tammy are good options.
I think Fofana and Paplovic are excellent players. They showed their class in the Parma game. I think Emerson is a toss-up. But overall a 7 out of 10 transfer window, even if they do not get Rabiot.
It is a 7 for three reasons – decent players but the coach is not the right person IMO. I think by December he will be out. Then the management took forever to get Fofana through the door and they did not get a long term striker who is 24 years old.
Who doesn’t like Isma? He’s a nice guy and we all remember him fondly from when he was good and in match form. However, let’s also acknowledge that he’s been a shadow of his former self, with injury after injury and long stretches trying to recover match fitness. Currently he is fat and slow. Then he spends time with AFCON and comes back injured again. He’s got the second biggest salary at Milan. And finally, he doesn’t want to stay. It’s time to let him go.
Milan reportedly are offering 6 M Euro to Rabiot and the player and his mother/agent are tempted.
At this time I think Rabiot will do more for us than Bennacer. I hope both moves come through. There are just a few hours left, but let’s hope.
“Lost his bite?” Says who?! You clowns on the forum?!
What this embarrassment of the management is doing shouldn’t be welcomed by fans or even ignored and if anyone lost his bite is the joke of a striker that they call a signing. Hasn’t played in 2 season…
Americans fold easy when it’s about money. Give them 2 options “lose money” and make the team stronger or just lose money… if we call ourselves fans boycotting on X is easiest to make Cardinale lose money… when stocks will go down even his pet Ibra will allow to spend…
Ricci?
Go doing that now , why bother comment in here if you can do boycotting in X. Another option you go buying ACM so you can signed your beloved ricci from torino.
Benny & Rabiot in this Milan, who goes on 1st 11…
Some people are not milan fan here,pls join another team and leave us, see nonsense statement wishing our team bad,so if dey beat Milan what is your gain???
Perhaps sometimes you need to destroy in order to elevate
Bennacer is not a natural DM. That’s why he was benched during teh Scudetto season and Adli was thrown into the fire last season too. Bennacer lacks physicality and speed, which leaves out midfield wide open too often.
Bennacer is not a natural DM and you sound like a devoted fan! Glad to have the likes of you along for the ride, Mr. Sunshine …
They are acting like Benny is the second coming of Busquets lol
In this unbalanced team, forcing a sale of your top 5 biggest name says all the ambition this team has…
If you still believe that Benny is one of the top 5 players on this team, then you probably haven’t seen him play in the last season.
Maignan
Theo
Leao
Pulisic
Tomori
Reindeer
RLC
All of them have performed better than Bennacer. The main issue with Benny is that, based on his performance since returning, he’s more of a rotation player in this midfield. It’s a bit sad considering that our midfield isn’t that strong lol
Conveniently talking about last season when benacer was out for what? 3/4 of the season.. yes players that were injured 3/4 of a season generally have a poor season.
And tomori has no bussing on this random list of yours. He wasn’t any better last season..
Who wants a player who is likely to miss a lot of game time? That is not a player you can depend on. So, if a suitable offer arrives, we should let him go.
With all the reports, I’m not sure if the management wants him gone or if he wants to go himself.
Tomori played, and while he is not exactly world-class, he is one of the better defensive options on the team.
I mean. Leao or ruben played a lot of games and they aren’t dependable either. Mike is injured all the time and his form goes up and down.
But people only care about benacer and his for and how we need to sell him. It’s the agenda of the summer. Sell calabria, sell pobega and sell benacer.
Rossonery Sassuolo is in Serie B.
Good luck 👍 for your next adventure Bennacer 🤞 Keith 🇲🇹
Does anyone know what formation we will play?
If it is 4231 then Fofana and potentially Rabiot are the only 2 midfielders for 2 places, no backup.
If it is 433 who will be the back up to Fofana at DM?
Perhaps Silvano Vos
This is not anymore about selling Bennacer to S. Arabia to squeeze some cash out of them. This is now about getting rid of him at any cost.
Poor Fofana, he’s left to hold this midfield on his own while others run around headlessly. Sorry, vertically.
Might see more of Vos I think.
Imagine if fofana gets injury , we won’t have no one even close to DM position
So you think that Bennacer is someone you can rely upon to be available in case Fofana gets injured?
Bennacer is injury prone player.
The man is already unavailable because of a fat tummy ache.
No,we can rely on musah ,he showed us how good and reliable he is ,who needs benacer
At least .usah will be available.
You said if Fofana gets Injured, we’ll have no one even close to play the DM position.
If Bennacer stays, and Fofana gets injured, he’d probably join Bennacer in the recovery room because Bennacer will be already in there, as he is right now.
“At least .usah will be available.”
With the level he is showing so far, it’s almost as if he is not available.
But I think the deputy DM is gonna be Silvano Vos.
He is not injured right now and u know it very well,don’t pretend to be a smartass. Everything you talk is based on your assumption that he will be injured all the time. In fact i dont care what are u saying,if you are ready to talk about benacer in that way,you will probably talk about musah even worse things as soon as u realize with ur little brain how bad he is
LOL. Is that your argument?
Well at least Musah will be available?
Availability is the ambition we set for this club now?
So to hell with quality – let’s just sign players who are “available”
So why did we just sign Tammy???
Check Bennacer injury record.
Check RLC and Abraham injury history
Selling him if they did not wanted him,would make sence if they put him on market at the start of the summer.That would mean they have a clear plan for the team.
They got idea of selling him in last week of transfer period ..and looking for his replacement in last day of transfer period.they just doesn’t have any idea what they wanna do
Why offload Bennacer when Kone is not coming? Even Fofana could not do much in the middle against Parma. Rabiot plays more like Reijnders, so, selling Bennacer means our midfield is not covered. He may not be at his best, but, using him with Fofana certainly would shore up our midfield. I don’t understand the thinking at all.
So the genius plan is to sell Benny the last few hours of the window WITHOUT having a replacement with Konè gone to Roma (shocking 😂)??? LOLOLOLO fkn 🤡 show.
So we are down to 4 mids? Fofana, Reindjers, Musah and RLC?? That’s it?? LOL. None are DM. One who plays like a chicken w his head cut off (Musah). Oh wait we have the magical Vos!?!? Now we are saved lol.
OH damn! my bad – I totally forgot. We are going to convince the black widow herself Mamma Rabiot to waive all her COMMISSIONS and have her son sign for FREE AND on a bargin salary of 5M. Should be pretty straightforward
What a fkn 💩 show
Oh Zlatan – where are you sir?? Still climbing the Alps??