AC Milan may look to bring Lille defender Tiago Santos to the club at the same time as signing Paulo Fonseca from the French club as head coach.
As reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Rossoneri may not just take one element from Lille this summer as they are showing serious interest in the Portuguese defender, Santos.
Santos has followed a very similar career path to Rafael Leao, growing up in the Sporting CP academy before making the move to Lille, via Estoril. He has scored three goals in 43 games this season and could be a new right-back option for Milan next season.
Santos is viewed as a player that Fonseca has developed a lot last season and someone he would happily continue working with if the opportunity arose. Milan want a player who can provide competition for Davide Calabria and perhaps even replace the Italian in the future.
At just 21 years old, Santos has an impressive amount of experience and has the time to develop into a key player.
As well as his three goals, he also got two assists and was hailed as one of the best wide players in Ligue 1, someone that Fonseca would like to continue coaching.
Take Fonseca, David and this guy.
Lol I see we are making some big upgrades
Lille 2.0 here we go
Well…. we got Leao that way. I’m fine with that. Portuguese Manager, Portuguese Player incoming… are we trying to appeal to Leao? Looks like it.
I was reacting in general to all those links to players from Lille (especially Yazici).
As for Santos, he seems to be a better option than Emerson Royal for sure, but we already have like 5 right backs and no defensive midfielder. I prefer that we focus on the striker and defensive midfielder then decide what to do about the defense if it’s needed.
None of our RBs are anything to write home about. We’ve had problems in that position with Calabria often being very inconsistent. Florenzi is not a long term option. Na. We need an upgrade there and fast.
We have also Kalulu who can play there and we just barely brought Jimenez and Terraciano. What are we supposed to do with 5 RBs ? The urgent positions are the CF and DM. A RB can always wait the winter or next summer.
Tiago Santos is a far better option than Emerson Royal.