Bayer Leverkusen are a more likely destination for Malick Thiaw than Bayern Munich if he were to return to Germany, a journalist has claimed.
Thiaw has been linked with a Milan exit during the past couple of weeks. It was first reported by Bild that the German has long been admired by Leverkusen, a club that he actually played in the youth sector of up until U19 level.
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Then, it emerged that Bayern boss Vincent Kompany was present at the Coppa Italia match between Milan and Inter to watch Malick up close. The defender is considering the possibility of returning to play in his home country, to convince Julian Nagelsmann to call him up for the national team.
Now, Christian Falk has given an update on the story during his latest column on cfbayerninsider, speaking about the links that have surfaced in recent weeks.
“Vincent Kompany was at the Coppa Italia game between Inter Milan and AC Milan. We heard that he wanted to watch Inter,” he said.
“Malick Thiaw is on the list of Leverkusen; it’s more concrete that he’ll be a successor to Jonathan Tah, whilst Bayern Munich aren’t quite concrete yet. Leverkusen are in a leading position for the German defender.”
I don’t really rate him. If we get a good price. I wouldn’t miss him.
Our best central defender by far. Still young, and will only get better as he develops. Has all the physical and technical skills to thrive in any of the top 4 leagues.
We have 2 other young defenders that we can say the exact same thing about
Milan needs 1 solid leader not all youngsters
His technically not good enough for Milan defender bro. Even the legendary costacurta said that his defending skill was so weird.
Would be great to get rid of this Real Madrid bond player. Let somebody else score own goals for once.
We dont have a lot of time left on his contract. I doubt we get more than 25ML total. And Im sure he will do well in Germany with Xabi Alonso also…
Sell. Milan back line needs a complete rebuild. Out: Thiaw, Tomori and Pavlovic. Get some quality defenders in Serie A. Coppola, Comuzzo, Berkema, Bijol are miles better and young.
Rebuild every couple of seasons? No, I don’t like that. Even the ones you are mentioning, we would go under the same spiral as long as we have the same management who can’t find the right people to construct a proper team
Sell him. Bring in an Italian alongside Gabbia.
He definitely to Jo. tah replacement bro. Please buy him ASAP. Milan need to raise up rubbish mercato budget for next season.