The pursuit of Mehdi Taremi was never going to be easy but AC Milan thought that they were on the home straight after yesterday’s negotiations.
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Calciomercato.com describes the talks between Milan, Porto and Taremi as being ‘like an amusement park where you go from one emotion to another in the space of a few minutes’.
On Tuesday night Milan reached an agreement in principle with Taremi over a three-year contract and sent an offer of €14m plus €1m bonuses to Porto. At that point, all parties seemed willing to close.
After hours of negotiation, Milan then offered €15m plus €2-3m in bonuses, and Porto were willing to accept. There was ‘great satisfaction at Casa Milan’ mixed with caution, given that Porto are a tough nut to crack especially so late in the window.
Porto president Pinto da Costa then changed the cards on the table: he wanted to reshape the bonuses and payment methods. In these hours of uncertainty, different intermediaries are also starting to enter the scene and only ‘generate confusion within the negotiation’.
What filters from the Rossoneri is that there are no problems with Taremi but all the other issues need to be resolved. The negotiation will continue indefinitely throughout today, with more difficulties than yesterday.
Giorgio Furlani, Geoffrey Moncada and Antonio D’Ottavio are not giving up and will do everything possible to give the Iranian striker to Pioli.
