AC Milan are preparing a new offer for AS Monaco midfielder Youssouf Fofana which would include the French side getting a percentage of any future sale.
As reported by Il Giornale (via Milan News), the Rossoneri will be making a fresh offer for the French midfielder next week and they are willing to try and sweeten the deal with a special clause.
The new offer from Milan is expected to be €20m, but it would also allow Monaco to collect 10% of any fee that Milan then sell him for in the future.
Considering Fofana will be leaving Monaco for less than his market value due to having one year left on his contract, and that he is 25 years old, Milan could well end up selling him for more than €20m in the future if he performs well.
Monaco reportedly want €30m for Fofana so this bid still may not be enough to please them, but the two clubs would be closer in valuation than they were before.
West Ham offered €30m but Fofana is only interested in joining Milan right now. He already has an agreement with the Rossoneri on a four-year contract worth €3m per season, so the problem is only with Monaco rather than the player.
He wants only us and we want him. I think Monaco will come down because 20 million is the best they can hope for a player in their last year.
If another team was going to pay 30-35 million they would have done so already
Supposedly West Ham did already made such offer but Fofana wants Milan. This article is a bit BS because many other sources reported that Monaco wants 35mil and not 30…
What they want is irrelevant for a player in their last year. If they sell in the winter, they would get half of what is being offered. 10-15 million then.
If Milan had come up with 20million earlier on,this would have saved them a lot. Now the have to include give some percentage for future sell that of Monaco accept the offer.
You know, if Chelsea can ask for 40m€ for Calagher who was too last year contract, they can ask same prize, but yea, this is his value when he has more year of contract, not one last year…on last year it is same like Pavlovic, when we buy him for 18m and not 30 , what is his price
Offer them Adli as a counter part in the deal.
Udinese didn’t want him, maybe Monaco will.
Adli will most probably stay as ultimately he wants to do so. He already showed he is very patient and will work for his place as long as he needs to. He is not a star player, but it’s good to have such people in the team. Also, we have to wait and see how the new Milan will look in a month or two – with the new vision of Fonseca he might flourish, who knows…
Dear lord. Hope he’s worth allt his hassle. Ball carrier #4 for this team (y)
He’s decent defensively and is pretty strong, so maybe he can develop into a defensive midfielder ?
Kessie was also used as an 8 with us before Pioli.
Kessie was younger, more modlable, and a natural midfield engine…
This guy? I was never sure of it and still aren’t.
Best shot at a DM so far.
This is not false.
If with 20 Million and some resale clause Monaco didn’t accept it, so that’s a good move from management. We will not as dumb as United. Just search for another target
So the spending frenzy from last summer was due to huge revenues from UCL and the sale of a cornerstone player. After wasting that money to build some useless depth, leading to poor results and low revenues from competitions, this summer it’s crafting and bargain and begging for discounts. Such a disruptive vision from the management…
Lmao not even close. We still finished 2nd and still had revenues from the CL. And the issue is we have a somewhat bloated squad.
Begging for discounts? Rich. You don’t pay 30 million for a player in his last year. And 20 million is the number that is suitable for any player in their last year.
I’m so glad you’re not in charge of anything. Easy to spend someone else’s money. And who cares if we save money on a player? Pavlovic coming for 18 million was a genius move. It allows us to move for other players.
“You don’t pay 30 million for a player in his last year. And 20 million is the number that is suitable for any player in their last year. I’m so glad you’re not in charge of anything.”
Which is it? Is it that you don’t pay 30m for a player in his last year of contract but somehow 20m is also fine??? How did u come up with the number that’s ok and the other is not?
Also isn’t this a bit hypocritical? You’re telling ppl here that ur glad other ppl don’t manage the club’s money based on the irrationality of overspending on a player’s final year of contract. Yet for all, we spent nearly the same 30m on a player’s final year of contract with Chukwueze and that somehow is fine. Am I to as.sume you don’t like how the current management is handling our finances based on your logic or that last summer it was ok to do so but this summer not so much? Which is it?
“Which is it? Is it that you don’t pay 30m for a player in his last year of contract but somehow 20m is also fine??? ”
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“we spent nearly the same 30m on a player’s final year of contract with Chukwueze and that somehow is fine”
You do know that the value/price differs for every player? Seems you don’t.
Last year it was piolis mercato, all the players bought were wanted by pioli because they fit his system.
This season fonseca is in charge of the type of players that are coming in, the handling of some the transfer is frustrating everyone but i will wait till the end of august to see if management are worthy of being called incompetent.
It’s easy to criticize when the bargaining doesn’t work out in our favor.
What about when we sign Pavlo 5mil under ask?
Juste et objectif!
I think Bartholomeo makes good points. He’s also been clear that there can be more than 1 vision from what fans want or expect from this team. He wants Milan to be what it represents historically, and is already past his banter era trauma.
I am a fan that started in the late Savicevic days and I am also not going anywhere. I also dream of Milan going back to meaning what it did. I also happen to think that, while this management is far from perfect and I wanted to eat my pillow when they fired Maldini, I generally agree that today one needs to build a good team from a solid commercial foundation. More so in a league that struggles with revenues, and makes 10x less than the EPL. Where we compete on transfers with West Ham and Everton (and lets be serious – we aren’t even that competitive there). I think this management isn’t too dissimilar to Maldini in that the best ideas, not money, need to be what wins. We can disagree on what the ideas and the ways are, but we all want our club to do well in this and years to come. I think haggling for a mill here and a mill there even if you lose a player is not a bad idea (now), because it affirms your structure, which we had none. I think moneyball in the sense that football as a market is very sensitive, and its best to think about getting the best player for what your plan is, is a smart move in general. We can’t give Mbappe a contract for 200M. And while there is a chasm between 1-3M on a transfer fee or a salary (except Theo who should get a pay bump), it does set the club for long term success.
Salud to disagreeing
Totally incorrect. The signings were mostly a success and added depth. There’s a reason Pioli was fired. Complaining about player sales is stupid, Real Madrid, Man City and Chelsea have taken in over a billion in sales in the past 4 seasons, that’s why they’re able to spend.
I agree more with this viewpoint since it strikes me as the closest thing to reality.
I’d like to ask how well do you manage your own business, how knowledgeable are you in terms of negotiations. Everybody got an opinion when they’re not at the helm of affairs.. God luck to what you know.. if you’re positive you’d understand that Milan is recuperating in terms of status and finance and this process can’t be rushed.
I really hope we get him!!! That would be a huge signing imo