With Alexis Saelemaekers and Tammy Abraham in the headlines for AS Roma and AC Milan, a lot has been written recently about their futures.
As La Repubblica (via MilanNews) recalls, one of the last deals completed in the summer window was the loan swap between Milan and Roma with Saelemaekers heading to the Giallorossi and Abraham joining the Rossoneri.
Both players have had their ups and downs due to a combination of injuries and not having a starting spot, yet they have written themselves in the history books. Saelemaekers scored in the derby against Lazio to make it 2-0 over the weekend, while Abraham netted an added-time winner vs. Inter.
The Conceicao variable
There are two players that Roma are ready to put on the table to convince Milan to permanently sell the former Anderlecht man. The first is Abraham, who Milan do not seem particularly interested in keeping beyond the end of this season at the moment.
The other is Bryan Cristante and given that the Diavolo are looking for a midfielder in the January transfer window, his name appeals more. However, there is a new factor to consider: Conceiçao, who would like Saelemaekers back at Milanello.
The Portuguese coach, who arrived at the Rossoneri at the end of December to replace the sacked Paulo Fonseca, greatly admires the Belgian winger and considers him perfect for his 4-4-2 system.
It also remains to be seen what Saelemaekers’ future will be, who has never hidden the fact that he is very happy at Roma, but also stated upon his return that he feels like San Siro is home.
They were talking the same when fonseca arrived, and saele really played well in his system,he was one of the best at preseason matches, then our amateur menagement failed to buy striker and had to sacrifice saele to get tammy
So ein quatsch!! 2 Spiele TOP, danach wieder FLOP!! Er war nicht konstant gut.
Die Spielpraxis hat sicher gut getan. Ich bin gespannt wie er sich bei Milan schlägt.
Forza Milan❤️🖤
…we will hopefully part ways once for all with mediocor defensive wing….
Yes, let Rome have him if they want him. I’m not super impressed with this Jimenez dude, but I still rate him higher than the Saladmaker
Gotta love these made up stories. How in the world would you know that “Conceicao would like Saleamakers back at Milanello?”
I think Tammy has been good other than the stupid penalty taking incident where he acted like a fool.
He has 6 goals and 2 assists in all competitions so far this season in limited minutes. That’s about 3 seasons worth of production from Saleamakers.
You do realize that you’re comparing a production of a striker with a non striker right?
To make it worse, Saelemakers actually scored more goals in similar minutes compared to Tammy. (3vs2, 574’vs563′)
I got nothing against Tammy, I hope he can return to his 21/22 form, but this is just a silly argument only aimed to bash Saele.
Do better.
**Goals in Serie-A
You are conveniently leaving out all competitions. Tammy also has 2 goals and an assist in Champions League play, a goal and assist in Coppa Italia and the trophy winning goal in the Supercoppa. His production when he plays is very good.
Saleamakers has 3 goals total in all competions, which is actually higher than his per season average when he was starting for us. And don’t give me this sorry excuse that you can’t compare the two because Saleamakers is Winger, Look at Pulisic’s and Leao’s production.
Do all of you fools have amnesia? Everyone acting like Saleamakers didn’t play for us for years…
He was our starting LW for years and averaged about 2 goals per season and everyone complained we needed a real RW. Messias was an upgrade on Saleamakers.
Hey here’s another idea , let’s bring Daniel Maldini back, he scored a goal for Monza.
Maybe Castejello is available too.
Good lord, this comment section is dumb.
RW
Saelemaekers is not even a winger. he is wing back and he plays at his natural position at roma, sometimes he is used on wings.
Pioli try to fill him up on right wing as castellijo was worse and there was no budget at this time to bring big player on rw.
It was not the problem of Salaemaekers for lack of goals/assists and he was often used as right midfielder by Pioli.
he was never used as starting LW but on right wing , i think you have amnesia ha ha ha
you are right to call yourself as dumb
LMAO
You are at it again, comparing apples and oranges lol
Of course you think Abraham has been good. I wouldn’t expect anything else. Emerson Royal best Milan player followed by Abraham. Theo the worst left-back in the world, of course.
LMAO
Cristante?
CRISTANTE???
If the clowns who manage Milan purchase this utterly mediocre player, all is lost.
Brian came from Milan’s youth system I think he is decent
Maldini’s Heir will be in on cloud nine.
Problem is with Pioli and with Fonseca, Saelemaekers when given chance – flopped.
But why would Milan keep him ?
Well the reason is simple, other positions and other players.
It seems like Milan is not happy with Okafor, Chukwueze, Tammy, Abraham, plus Bennacer is always injured and Ruben Loftus Cheek is flopped this year.
There is possibility that some of those leave in January and definitely in summer. And we all know Milan would not be able to cover all of that positions. So Sale seems like logical choice to be kept as back up left and right winger, and both Okafor and Chukwueze could leave Milan. New midfielder, someone like Rashford or other players and who knows defender could arrive next year, so Milan is creating space by sale now and in the summer.
nah, pass.
He was mediocre when he was at milan
Bring him back!! Sell chukwueze.
Saelesmaekers doing well somewhere else doesn’t mean he’ll do well here. He had a TON of playing time and was still painfully mediocre at Milan. He doesn’t have the mentality to play at a big team.
Majority of U all saying Saleas this and that. Saleas man was poorly managed secondly he has one of the highest work rate in helping Cal also he performed better in the CL but I observed majority just don’t like his name. He is far more useful than the same Abraham and Chukwueze. U all forgot the scudetto so fast and U all forgot he was converted from RB to RW. You guys forgot he played LW against Lazio when Leao was injured and he played excellently and we won 2:0
It was this same Saleamakers that was there when we got to UCL semi final after over 10 years and U all forgot how he covered up so many shit but never appreciated and want us to give them Saleas and also add money for Abraham. That’s not smart of Fonseca.
Still better than Chuk.
We NEED at least another striker – if we are playing a 4-4-2.
Cannot rely on Carmada as the only backup.
He should’ve never left. A million times better than that waste of space Chukwueze.
Roma can keep that clumsy fool Abraham, too. Best scenario for Milan would be to let Abraham go and take back Saelemaekers, then get David on a free as a replacement for striker position, but we all know they can’t pull this off.
Take Sale and Tammy and give us a quality ST.
Abraham’s grand mother can’t miss that goal he scored against Inter.
He neither creates nor take chances.
He is quite dumb and lacks quality. He just got speed only.