Bayer Leverkusen’s sporting director Simon Rolfes has denied that there are any ongoing negotiations with AC Milan over Granit Xhaka.
It has been a strange last couple of days with regards to the Xhaka rumours, starting with Fabrizio Romano stating that personal terms having been agreed, but there is still a sizeable gap between offer and demand.
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Late last night, Sky reported that the Bundesliga side are now open to letting the 32-year-old depart and for a figure of €8-10m, which is exactly what Milan’s first offer to them was reported to be.
Leverkusen deny talks
Leverkusen’s sporting director Simon Rolfes has now refuted claims that there are ongoing talks with the Rossoneri over the potential sale of their captain. He spoke to the German news outlet Kicker.
“There are no negotiations with Milan about Granit Xhaka. We want to keep him, because Granit is a very important player for us,” he said.
Amid reports that Milan are close to finalising a €25m deal for Samuele Ricci of Torino and have raised their offer for Ardon Jashari of Club Brugge to above €30m, it is possible that Igli Tare and co. have in fact already pivot away from the Swiss.
Good.
As well
Please keep him
Thank you sir.
He doesn’t worth the wasting of time and the headache that comes with it
This is probably why we’ve accelerated for Ricci, Leverkusen has decided not to sell.
Ricci & Jashari would be enough for now. Then we have Adli to be substitute for Modric and Fofana to battle things out with Jashari.
RLC is the type of midfielder Allegri always preferred, so I could see him having a glow up and be this season’s wild card if he can stay healthy.
We need to get Javi Guerra from valencia. Bro would replace Reijnders perfectly….
As we are a selling club nowadays nurturing richer clubs, we need young players that we can develop and then sell.
Taking in Modric is a great thing for a season or maybe two but the other two midfielders need to be young.
We have wasted a few years on not building on the Scudetto season and not being able to get any money for Donnarumma, Kessie and Calhanoglu and now have to restart the project again.
I would like a really good central defender as well as right and left back but we need to sell Thiaw or Tomori first.