Man Utd have seemingly accelerated their pursuit of Joshua Zirkzee and while there is no final agreement, this is bad news for AC Milan. According to a report, they appear willing to pay the high commission requested.
Milan have been working on the signing of Zirkzee for several months, but due to a high commission request from his agent, the negotiations have hit a statement. By the looks of it, Man Utd have now overtaken the Rossoneri in the race.
According to the reliable journalist Ben Jacobs, Man Utd are willing to pay the €40m release clause to Bologna and they have been in direct contact with agent Kia Joorabchian. The commission request is set at around €10m and the English side, unlike Milan, could pay this.
Zirkzee has made it clear that he will make a decision after the Euros, which hasn’t exactly helped Milan in their pursuit of his signature. The striker was asked about the possibility of staying in Italy last night and simply said “I don’t know, we will see”.
In any case, they might have to turn elsewhere and it seems they already have, initiating talks with the entourage of Alvaro Morata. After the Euros, the situation will be clearer.
How can a team that sells out every game, has one of the largest fan economies in the world, and has a relatively low payroll not be able to afford a 10 million euro commission?
It’s a difference between “not being able” and “don’t want to”.
And here I support the management. Imagine what will happen in 3 years time when renewal discussion will take place with his agent. It has Kessie saga written all over it. As much as I’d like to see Zirkzee in Milan, no thanks.
Exactly. Kia would only sanction a 3-year contract which would mean the negotiations for the extension would start already next summer. 10-15M€ now and another 10-15M€ next summer. Does that sound sane? Heck no!
Totally agree. The case of Kessie and Donnarumma once again after several years, that potentially lose him for free due another insane commission request from his agent for new contract? No thanks. Not worth it. Especially so far he has proven to be good (and not that superb actually) only for 1 season, under a good coach who could bring mediocre team to ECL. And he still could not break into starting 11 of the Netherlands, which I believe ruins Kia’s plan to even inctease his commission lol
Nice, just imagine if Milan developed him and added more value to him, so the next commission for renewal will be 25€ ?
Kind of.
I’m confused why it’s now €10mn commission when Kia was asking Milan for €15mn ? Does he have some personal motive not to give the same criteria to Milan over Man United? Perhaps because he’s brokered clients to United before eg Carlos Tevez.
Whatever his methods, it’s just another reason why I despise the scum that are football agents. Shady middle men that offer relatively little and charge a lot. A virus that plagues the industry.
Let him go to United and be a bench warmer there as Hojlund and Rashford would be starters. Then he will do some games as substitute and won’t live up to expectations (cause no one does in United) and after a year desperately look for loan to “rebuild himself” in Atalanta-like team.
Let this be a lesson for him and other players that agree to make deals with such greedy agents that don’t care about player’s will.
Zirkzee is not that good.. he’s just a one season Wonder player.. Milan should look for a player who can guarantee 20-25 goals a season
Let them be.. This is so typical of MU, overpaying players like Maguire, shaw, martinez,awb, Sancho, van de beek, etc lol
The issue isn’t commissions.
The issues isn’t which player to buy – we all have our opinions – neither right nor wrong.
The issue is we are owned by an investment company that is concerned only about one thing – and that is PROFIT.
Because of that, decisions that should be based on football – are not. The players are irrelevant. Every year the names change and every year we have the exact same process – and that is to spend as little amount of $ as possible so as to not ruin your profit margin. It is why we continually make low ball offers to players we have chased and supposedly scouted for months and months; ask players to slash their salary demands; seek only those players on expiring deals or free; seek inexperienced players with resale value; and blame commissions as a blocker to closing a deal. There will always be an excuse.
This is MONEYBALL. If the algorithm says the player is only worth X we will not spend a dollar over X to get him. Nice on paper but that is not how teams that aspire to win consistent titles are made. Nice for the bottom line, but last I checked they don’t give out trophies for being the most profitable club – otherwise Atlanta would be the most historic club in the world – not Real Madrid.
So the cycle will go on and on and each summer and winter will be the same. We are interested in X player and Y player and we foolish fans get excited for a while only to be disappointed when X and Y player are swooped up by other teams that don’t haggle over the players salary and don’t ask for discounts. Sure we will find a few reclamation projects for cheap discounts that will pan out (Pulisic) – but many will not – as that is not how clubs serious about WINNING TITLES operate.
So enjoy the ride and the drama, and be prepared to be disappointed yet again when the majority of the names we are linked to sign elsewhere and Let’s just hope we can get a few decent players to be competitive and hopefully qualify for UCL – cause we need that to keep our profit margin – as that is all Redbird care about – and the cycle continues.
Good times.
Are you just copying and pasting this on every thread?
What a pathetic, failed club. This is not the Milan that I knew.