AC Milan have made a decision regarding the future of Lorenzo Colombo after his season out on loan at Lecce, according to a report.
According to today’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport (via SempreMilan.it), the Milan management has decided to exercise the €3m buy-back to bring Colombo back to the Rossoneri in the summer.
The striker, who came through the Milan youth sector, enjoyed a positive season with Lecce which culminated with the penalty that in the final minutes of their win against Monza which allowed the Giallorossi to preserve their Serie A status.
It is a strategic choice by Milan who, by bringing Colombo back to base, will be able to decide his fate more calmly. They could either choose to rely on him in the role of third-choice striker, loan him out again in Serie A or try to use him as a bargaining chip for other potential signings.
Hes rare left footed striker. Should give more chance and more pressure to get some the best from him.
Very good move to bring him back…let him now have some game time if not more.
Yeah, loan him again and pay another 3 mil to bring him back…
I don’t know if I buy this. It seems too absurd to pay for your own player. I can’t think of a reason for allowing such a clause.
“Yeah, loan him again and pay another 3 mil to bring him back…
– Nope. Lecce would pay the 2,5M€ fee to Milan and then need to pay 3M€ to get him back. Simple math says 3-2,5 = 0,5M€. Not 3M€.
“I don’t know if I buy this. It seems too absurd to pay for your own player. I can’t think of a reason for allowing such a clause.”
– Just highlights the fact you don’t have any business sense in football world. That’s actually a very good deal to all parties:
1) It motivates the new club to get the player on loan as if he is a success, they have the option of buying him. And if the owning club wants him back, they need to pay. So Lecce in this case gets compensation to “sparring” the player and not getting him to join them permanently.
2) The player gets to play and showcase himself instead of sitting on the bench.
3) The parent club gets to see if the player has it what it takes to make it. If he’s decent but still not good enough for them, they can make a profit of selling him. But if he does well enough for the parent club to think they’d be better off with him, they can buy him back. So the risk of actually losing “a gem” for a minimal fee gets reduced to minimal.
Like said, all parties win.
Where does it say anything in the article about Lecce paying 2.5 mil? Of course it makes sense it that’s the case, but then the article becomes misleading.
Just say: “Milan will exercise the option to buy him back which will cost them 0.5 mil”.
Then you lack common sense as lecce has loaned the player and has the option to buy at 2 mil and milan has the buyback clause set at 3 mil and the players value now exceeds 3 mil and if we wanted to sell him now propably could bring in ten mil or something.
Milan basicaly has paid lecce to further develope the player and the fee involved gave better guarantees that he would get more consistent minutes,
Yeah…
The guy above said lecce has an option for 2.5 mil, you say 2 mil, the article doesn’t even mention it…
So allow me to have my doubts.
https://sempremilan.com/lecce-expected-to-exercise-colombo-option
even better then if thats the case but still even at 2 mil and 3 mil buyback clause it would still make sense as his value exceeds the fees involved.
bb hadnt posted when i started writing my comment but its been public knowledge all season that they had a buy clause set at 2 mil and that we had a buyback clause set at 3 mil so whether people are aware of that or not is not really the question here, The question is why wouldnt milan buy him back when he is a young talented player who we also would be able to sell for more cash than the 3 mil we would have to pay for him.
Exactly. 2 mil or 2,5 mil? Makes no difference. The main thing is that Milan wouldn’t lose a promising lad just to regret it later. Plenty of examples of those too…
If we get an elite striker this summer and Giroud to support him, I would be happy having Colombo as a 3rd choice striker.
Would he accept such a role might be in question since I think he might be looking for as much playing time as possible
If Colombo comes back, It will be as 2nd choice. Giroud can’t run anymore, he should be the 3rd choice. We need energy up front
And yet he scored 18 times this year. Running around like a headless chicken does not make one a good striker.
The “elite” striker we are getting this summer is Arnautovic LOL. So don’t hold your breath brother. We have little money yet again this summer thanks to our wonderful Ownership. Arnautovic Giroud and Columbo – that is who we will be left with.
You’re becoming obsessed with this stand of yours that you bring up ownership conversation in every given topic, you gotta rest man.
Considering the financial situation at the club, a €70m transfer budget plus add ons from player sales €30-40m.
I don’t know what planet you’re, but €100m is a decent amount to make adequate signings if the management is creative enough.
Paying for “elite” players in instalments should be an option to be exploited if we want to maximise our transfer funds.
“… enjoyed a positive season with Lecce which culminated with a penalty in the last minute… which allowed the Gialorossi to preserve their Serie A status…”
Don’t get me wrong, that’s all cool, especially for Lecce! Now, for our team…?!?!? I wouldn’t be able to say that things look so positive (regarding our Primavera squad), given when was the last time we actually gotten a reliable & perspective youth into the 1st team, that will CONTINUE to develop and prosper. Who was one such?! Gabbia? (young) Maldini?…
I’m sorry my dear Milan co-supporters! Thus far (looking back several years) our Primavera team doesn’t deliver! We can’t even produce a player that’ll be sold for a profit that matters the least (don’t count 3, 4 million… last profitable Primavera sell was.. God, i can’t remember his name at this moment to even save my life! You know him – we all do – played number 9, very energetic & positive, but very trivial at best…) we sold him in EPL for 20 million (later he played for Fiorentina as well).
Now, that’s THE LEAST one could do with selling Primavera player and make a clean profit. But ever since then, we haven’t done a thjng worth mentioning!
In the mean time, see the list of names Inter Primavera has produced, regardless whether they sold them (good or bad) or they’re trying to enter the 1st team!
Have any of you guys seen Casadei, especially these days, during the World Cup U-23?!?!
The boy is perspective gold! Only in Chelsea hands!
The point is, Milan Primavera isn’t doing so well, as expected, as IT SHOULD DO!
Yes, we’ve all heard about that wonder boy-striker (Camara?!?) who already, at 13, or 14, has around 500 goals. And boy, do I hope he turns into a goal machine in 2, 3, 4 years, when he’ll get to an age to play in Milan 1st team! But till then, and in the mean time (also afterwards), are we gonna put our hopes in one kid in every 5 years (God knows when did Calabria & Locatelli entered for the first time)?!
I mean, I believe you get my point (pretty simple & straight forward) WE NEED QUALITY PRIMAVERA squad, that’ll give us players for free, so we can concentrate spending those money for better wages than transfers!
LOVE YOU MY MILAN, ever since I was 10, 11-yr-old boy and it hasn’t stopped for 30+ years! I hope this summer will be positive one on the market – and that bulletin we’ve heard yesterday about Maldini & Massara leaving after a huge fight with Cardinale… cuz if they go, I hate to even think how many transfers will go down the water hole and turn into. nothing!