AC Milan will play Bologna at San Siro tonight hoping to win their fifth straight league game, and the summer signings will once again be asked for contributions.
As La Gazzetta dello Sport recalls, it was Ruben Loftus-Cheek who opened the scoring against Udinese one week ago before Luka Jovic and Noah Okafor came off the bench to engineer a late comeback. Three goals for Milan, three goals for the new signings and three points.
Of the 51 goals that Milan have scored across all competitions this season so far, the new signings have scored 24 of them, and in the league they have 19 out of 41. In practice, half of the total contribution. To be precise, 47 and 46.3 percent respectively.
The assist chapter should also not be underestimated either because 13 out of 38 in total came from new players, with 11 out of 31 in the league.
There are several factors behind this: the qualities of the individuals, the roles of the players and of course Stefano Pioli’s ability to exploit the resources at his disposal.
The report recalls that Milan spent €113.5m in transfer fees, excluding bonuses, on a total of 10 signings. Therefore, many expected the additions to contribute.
The comparison with the performance of the 2022 summer transfer window is merciless: throughout last season the seven new arrivals – Thiaw, Dest, Pobega, Adli, Vranckx, De Ketelaere, Origi – amassed five goals and two assists.
Really bad article, and a clear PR piece for current management. Those statistics are very superficial.
How much was spent last year? Dest, Vranckx came with loans, Pobega and Adli came back from loans, Origi was a free transfer.
If De Keetelare takes a year to get going, is no different from first year of Leao.
Let’s wait the end of season before we sum everything and start beating the chest
Better signings this year.
We also had more money for this transfer rather than for the 2022 summer.
Also the current signings are playing more often and some of them are regular starters, while some of the 2022 signings barely played last season if not at all and most of them already left.
That’s more reason for the more successful transfer window than last though?
More money -> mostly because Tonali money, shrewd business.
The new players playing more often and some regular starters -> then the transfers are successful though? It just means that 2022 transfer are worse they can’t play regularly.
The 2022 transfer barely played and most already left -> so they are not good enough. Good riddance for most of them.
Really can’t see what your complain/argument about. All those you said only pointed that 2022 transfer were mostly failures and last summer was successful.
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What you say is absolutely true, don’t consider this a criticism, but the article COULD have just as easily pointed-out that the entire lot of last year’s signees managed 5 goals and 2 assists, while Pulisic, alone, has 6 goals and 5 assists (I believe, plus another goal and assist between the UCL and the Coppa) in HALF a season.
In the end, I believe that comparing this year’s transfers to last year’s is lazy, because the bar is SO LOW. I’d compare this year’s transfer results to that of other clubs that “the experts” feel had good transfer windows. We’re not competing against last year’s Milan; we’re competing with Inter, Juventus, Liverpool, et al.
Best regards!
Facts