AC Milan are planning an ambitious summer transfer window that should see them make signings in each department, and they have a plan to help finance the incoming operations too.
According to this morning’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below), Milan will invest a large part of their budget on a new striker but they will also sign adefensive midfielder and a full-back, with two names are circled on their wish list: Emerson Royal and Youssouf Fofana.
The Spurs defender and the Monaco midfielder would cost around €50m in transfer fees (€30m and €20m respectively), and that remains a significant sum for Milan who look for value in every signing that they make.
Thus, it will require in-depth evaluations especially since the Rossoneri plan to invest more or less the same amount for the new centre-forward, which makes the summer spending potentially around €100m before any other signings have been taken into consideration.
However, an assist can come from Charles De Ketelaere and Alexis Saelemaekers. Atalanta and Bologna will exercise their option to buy clauses and they should bring in around €32m combines.
The other road leads to a Tonali-style signing, i.e. a star player sold for a monstrous sum. This scenario is not in Milan’s plans, but it can never be ruled out while there is interest from top clubs.
David 50m
Calafiori 50m
Buongiorno 50m
Emerson 30m
Total: 180m
Budget 50m
Selling CDK and Saladamaker 32m
Total : 82m
We will need fresh fund about 90m-100m to go signing great players.
There is also Daniel Maldini for around 5M I think and perhaps a selling this summer.
Also I don’t think we will purchase all of the players above if any. Emerson isn’t needed since that position is full and Buongiorno is not a priority.
We wont sign calafiori , he is juve main target . Also JD not 50m euro only around 30m euro because his contract 1 years left & he reject lille new contract offer. Bungiorno opsional maybe come ,maybe not depend on torino asking price . DMF will coming but just with price 20-25m euro ( management refuse if 30m euro ++ DMF )
Jd is defimetly will not join milan. If he refuse the renewall, its a sign of marotta work.
There are many players to sell to raise funds
CDK and Alexis
Krunic
Messias
Ballo Toure
Pobega
Romero
Pellegrino
Origi can hopefully leave for free
Really no necessity to sell a star player.
Add 50m usual budget to about 60m from the above = 110
Then we have 50m for a striker
20 -30m for DM like Hojbjerg or Amrabat
Leaving 30 to 40 for perhaps a CB or other tweaks
The problem is convincing the big boys to stay
CDK and Alexis will give us around 35M total.
Maldini around 5M.
Krunic is already sold for 3,5M.
That’s 40-45M.
That leaves Messias, Touré, Origi,… who would be hard to offload.
Even thought I don’t necessarly want it, but Maignan would probably be sold.
There doesn’t seem to be an offer for Leao so far, so keeping him might be easier.
The big problem is keeping Theo, which is a must.
Take into consideration also salaries of these guys that will be off the books.
messias conditional buy clause was triggered in january or february so he is already owned by genoa.
Focus on a DM and CF, and then if we have the cash an AM.
Cannot understand why we need a CB.
Yeah I think Thiaw, Kalulu, Tomori, gabbia and Simic would be fine.
Though Kalulu is likely to play more on the right.
The sooner we have a manager lined up, the sooner we can plan formation and that is essential before making purchases.
If we play 433, there is no need for AM
The fact that Kalulu can play RB and CB (and LB?) is a huge asset as it means we can rotate using the same players and it keeps things really tight.
Stone plays CB, RB and DM for Man City. Most of the really top sides
By ‘AM’ I mean a midfielder who will create and score goals and open up other teams whether it’s in a 433 or 4231 or whatever.
And we desperately need someone who can score a free kick, or at least back one of the current players. We don’t seem to have any consistent dead ball specialists (albeit it doesn’t seem to have impacted our corners this season).
Pulisic can play as AM and he is definetly creative and can score goals. Aside from him, Bennacer and Reijnders can do it provided you give them a DM who can cover them defensively.
The set pieces seem to be a problem in our team. The (new?) coach needs to work extra hard or that or the “algorithm” needs to take that into account when looking for new players. But it doesn’t necessarly need to be a midfielder.
Having watched our season, you still don’t understand why we need another/better CB?
To back up that perception a bit, I also think that having a defensive midfielder and/or a midfielder who is good at defending + a tactical system that is more oriented towards zonal defending and that doesn’t expose us when we lose possession will already do wonders to help us improve defensively. Some of the best “defenses” in the world or even in history didn’t necessarly have a back made entierly of world-class defenders.
Now I’m not against a guy like Scalvini, Calafiori or Buorgiorno but I think the priority is a striker and a defensive midfielder.
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We are lucky if can get rid origi,ballo toure,florenzi salary from ACM account. Origi get 4m euro nett . Caldara will be out too at the end of season ( 2,5m euro nett salary) .
Here we go….all 43 (excluding some real randomers):
Mike Maignan
Marco Sportiello
Lapo Nava LOAN
Antonio Mirante
Devis Vásquez SELL
Marco Pellegrino SELL
Davide Calabria
Fodé Ballo-Touré SELL
Davide Bartesaghi
Théo Hernandez
Pierre Kalulu
Fikayo Tomori
Simon Kjær KEEP FOR EXPERIENCE AND LEADERSHIP
Malick Thiaw
Mattia Caldara RELEASE
Filippo Terracciano LOAN
Alessandro Florenzi
Matteo Gabbia
Álex Jiménez SEND BACK TO REAL
Jan-Carlo Simić LOAN
Ismaël Bennacer
Rade Krunić SORRY SELL
Yacine Adli SELL PLEASE
Ruben Loftus-Cheek
Tijjani Reijnders
Tommaso Pobega SORRY SELL
Yunus Musah LAST CHANCE
Olivier Giroud THANK FOR EVERYTHING
Rafael Leão
Christian Pulisic
Luka Jović
Noah Okafor
Samuel Chukwueze
Daniel Maldini SELL
Junior Messias SELL
Charles De Ketelaere SELL
Marko Lazetić SELL
Alexis Saelemaekers SELL
Lorenzo Colombo SELL
Divock Origi SELL
Emil Roback SELL
Luka Romero SELL
Chaka Traorè SELL
That would give us a squad of about 24 (excluding youth players) if we added a DM, AM and CF:
Mike Maignan
Marco Sportiello
Antonio Mirante
Davide Bartesaghi
Davide Calabria
Théo Hernandez
Pierre Kalulu
Fikayo Tomori
Simon Kjær
Malick Thiaw
Alessandro Florenzi
Matteo Gabbia
Ismaël Bennacer
DM
Ruben Loftus-Cheek
Tijjani Reijnders
Yunus Musah
AM
Rafael Leão
Christian Pulisic
Noah Okafor
Samuel Chukwueze
CF
Luka Jović
I’ll leave it to the money people and the scouts to find out who to sign!
You wanted last of maldini to be sold, being Maldini’s heir.
There’s no space.
We need to get the squad down to a manageable level if the next Maldini is to stand a chance.
We could let Jovic go and bring back Maldini or he could be our answer to the AM position in a 4231.
Yeah monza will sign him anyway, we can only work on resale clause.
Adli will stay
One can only hope.
We need a DM so there’s no space.
I thought u didn’t like transfers??
This is so weird from you 🤯
I don’t like “excessive, stupid and pointless transfers” and I hate having a ridiculously massive squad!
30M for Emerson, it’s a joke, isn’t it?
Great news, now lets buy mbappe!!
Joke of d highest order… Emerson royal is not better than any of d 3 RB we have…. It’s a waste of funds….