AC Milan must now look ahead to the future after deciding to part ways with Paolo Maldini and Ricky Massara, and some transfer targets are beginning to emerge.
This morning’s La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) writes that head coach Stefano Pioli will now be increasingly involved in the recruitment process, giving his thoughts on roles to strengthen and the targets that come forward.
The paper claims that Milan are after Christian Pulisic of Chelsea, who has struggled with the London club having scored just once this season. His contract runs out in a year, so there is not much leverage to negotiate a huge fee and Milan sense an opportunity.
Even though he was born in Hersey (Pennsylvania), Pulisic has a Croatian passport and can therefore be registered as an EU player, while the fact he is a USA international has connotations from a brand exposure point of view.
Then there is Marcus Thuram, who is leaving Borussia Mönchengladbach on a free transfer after a season in which he scored 16 goals in 32 games across all competitions. Milan need a striker, but they will have to beat the competition from PSG for the Frenchman.
20% of the goals are against a 5th tier German club at DFB-Pokal.
You think we can win the race of thuram against psg? And how we know pulisic will be good if he didn’t play enough in this year ?
Did you watch the World Cup? He’s creative, physically strong, and has a great shot. Better than both our current RW options by a large margin.
Did you watch Dest at World Cup? Some claimed he is the best performer at USA team.
And that is relevant to Pulisic how?
Because that means performance for USA at WC does not necessarily translate to performance for Milan.
@Yelnats. That’s sort of a ridiculous statement. You can apply that to any player. Does any player’s performance anywhere mean they’ll perform for Milan? Might as well start drawing names out of a hat then. Just fire Moncada and everyone else.
@Vero: ridiculous or not, it’s still the truth, just as you said, it apply to other players too.
World Cup is not a good indicator, the opponent levels vary wildly and motivation usually higher as they are representing their nation at world stage.
I doubt Pulisic is in Moncada’s scouting book, he is not young.
With what money ?
his wage demands has for a long time been rumored to be 7 mil a year so good luck with that deal + him and his agent propably allso will demand some extra mil on top of a potential deal, so think its highly unlikely to happen considering our wage cap imposed by cardinale. With psg in the run he will propably get a salary excceeding that as well.
Agree , we dont have chance compete with PSG in salary for Marcus. For Pulisic , he is now flop and im doubt he want to accept salary 4m euro nett ( salary cap from RedBird)
Pulisic flopped at chelsea, but so did many other players. (Salah, KDB and basically every player right now). Pulisic has shown talent, but there are two big IFs for me.
1. Can he stay healthy?
2. Can you take a pay cut (of more than 50%) .
If so, come on in.
I would say all depending ton he fee demanded for him and his salary of course as well but as i see it we could do better but also a lott worse but as i see it the pulisic idea is a ploy to increase rmore evenue in usa.
The moment PSG entered the conversation Thuram dream was over for Milan.
Pulisic has 1 year left on his contract. He can slot in that RW position. His injury history is worrisome.
If they can get him for no more than 20 mil, go for it. He’ll be a massive upgrade on whatever we have now. Still only 24 btw
Don’t you just love the logic of the transfer market/gossip!
“The paper claims that Milan are after Christian Pulisic of Chelsea, who has struggled with the London club having scored just once this season”
So apparently Origi or whoever is a FAILURE for only scoring 2 goals and Messias and Saelemaekers were NOT GOOD ENOUGH for only scoring 4 and 6 respectively but Pulisic is the ANSWER with only 1 goal all season!
Now of course Pulisic could’ve a better season next season but SO COULD ALL THE EXISTING PLAYERS!
But benefit of the doubt is only reserved for new signings. This ensures maximum turnover.
You are absolutely right.
Remember when 20 years ago Costacurta played as a left back.
I think, instead of buying a proper right winger,we should just play Ballo Toure on the RW position, and save money. I mean he has 1 goal this season, just like Pulisic.
Right?
Lol. Ballo-Toure was made for right-wing, the coaches have just been playing him out of position all this time. Also, perhaps we can solve the striker problem by giving Pobega a chance up top? Remember when NOCERINO was our basicslly our top scorer one season?
I’m sure people would take me more seriously if I started randomly naming players who don’t play for us as solutions to our problems.
Well done for missing just about every point.
It’s not a joke. We have a whopping 35 million at our disposal! I can’t wait for the transfers. We’re probably going to get into a fight with clubs from england’s second division for the players we’re interested in. For these two, along with our budget, we would need a lot of strong magic.🎎🎆
No no guys. Let’s give support to the team on the market. I’m sure they’ll nail their preferred targets
pfffttt yeaah right,with only 35 M euros and salary cap? oh maybe the genius poli will come and put his own money for Milan lol wkwkwk
Pulisic would be a great buy. He’s made for serie A.
@Yelnats. That’s sort of a ridiculous statement. You can apply that to any player. Does any player’s performance anywhere mean they’ll perform for Milan? Might as well start drawing names out of a hat then. Just fire Moncada and everyone else.
So the brilliant management team that are so much better than Maldini, since they got rid of him, think they can convince these players to join us with their financially prohibitive offers, during their peak years as athletes and their best moment to secure a payout that will be the basis of their financial reality, in all likelihood for the rest of their lives? See this stupidity and lack of understanding of how players understand their roles for themselves and employers is what is leading this management to waste our time and these player’s time by pursuing unfathomable targets. They are completely diluted and delusional. You just sacked the man voted as the best manager in your league and the living embodiment of your club, it’s symbol. Do you think athletes believe you will respect them after the way you treated him? The butterfly effects of that decision will send a wake up call to these morons.
I truly love the last 3 lines of your post, absolutely brilliantly witten.
Besides of that agree fully with your post.
Neither is happening.
Thuram definitely not. Cardinale doesn’t have a big enough Pipi to stand up to Maldini, you think he is anywhere close to Khelaifi who can BUY multiple Cardinale’s just for breakfast? Suuure little Gerry. Dream on.
Pulisic maybe a possibility. But will he take a 3 mil wage cut? I doubt that.