AC Milan have strengthened their wings this summer with the signings they have made, but there is still a major doubt that exists.
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La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) writes how Milan have signed Samuel Chukwueze as the new starter for the right side. If the Nigerian is devastating, as Stefano Pioli hopes, Rafael Leao will find more space on the opposite wing.
From the two flanks crosses will rain down which will hopefully provide for Olivier Giroud and box runners like Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Tijjani Reijnders.
Noah Okafor also strengthens the department, but he is more of an alternative to Leao than to Giroud. There is one problem: a physical and technical deputy to the Frenchman is missing, in the centre of the area.
Lorenzo Colombo is not enough. A club of Milan’s level and ambitions must have a solid and complete back-up No.9, with the names like Gianluca Scamacca and Mehdi Taremi linked but perhaps destined to end up with rivals.
The 19-year-old Argentine Alejo Veliz was a target but he has gone to Tottenham for the same amount as Okafor. Mateo Retegui took 30 seconds to score for Genoa in the Coppa Italia – Pioli needs a penalty box tradesman like this.
