AC Milan have had to walk away from the Joe Gomez deal with Liverpool’s approval not having arrived, and they have turned to an alternative.
Heading into deadline day, it seemed that all the conditions were there for Gomez to fly in for a medical. Marc Guehi appeared to be Liverpool-bound, freeing the Englishman to make the switch to San Siro, but now everything has fallen apart on deadline day.
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According to Luca Bendoni of Sky, Milan have chosen to walk away from the Gomez deal as they have not received authorisation for him to travel yet. An agreement was in place and the centre-back was ready to join, but the deal is ‘now off’.
Meanwhile, the management have closed the operation for the alternative as David Odogu will arrive at Linate airport at 14:30 CEST, as per MilanNews. He is certainly a more raw profile at the age of 18 and with just three senior league appearances to his name.
There has even been some talk that Odogu could start with Milan Futuro given his lack of experience, so it seems Massimiliano Allegri will not get the more experienced central defender he wants, one that can push for a starting spot immediately.
A strong ball-playing CB is the most important signing. Not completing such a signing would mean a complete failure of the management. Gomes is inury prone, but compared to our current CB is like
signing Paolo Maldini.
Another trash player
Bring baschiroto. He is good player
This mercato was meant go down the drain
Can we get Akanji? We have Akanji at home…
Those players bought and placed in the Futuro have turned out very successful, right? Vos for example. I guess the same applies to players such as Lazetic who were bought before we had the Serie C… Eh, Serie D farm team. 😀
Time to head to the Chelsea gift shop
With all the money brought in we could easily have afforded Leoni. What a tragedy.
And if we paid €30 million for a green kid, we’d get screwed over on transfer fees by every Italian club. He hasn’t even played a single minute for Liverpool.
A single minute? He just joined. You think Liverpool will drop him into the first team in the first game since transfer? He maybe speaks the language, doesn’t know how they play, their style, what the coach wants from him? He won’t play another minute for a month probably, until he is fully settled. They are a proper club, don’t need to rush things…
Calafiori got sold to Arsenal and played for them right away. Leoni is one season hype and most likely will warm the bench entire season at Liverpool. They didn’t buy him to play regularly, they bought him to be a sub in case one of the main players get hurt.
Ododu is not an alternative, he’s for Futuro.
Crystal Palace need a CB to offload Guehi. Let’s get Guehi and send them Pavlo + cash.