AC Milan are hearing new sirens from the Premier League, as Manchester City may pursue Tijjani Reijnders more heavily.
The alarms are already ringing rather loudly, and it regards Man City’s interest in Reijnders. Though this is not a new warning. For months, there have been reports about potential interest, but now that it is here, it is no less terrifying.
For Milan, the task is quite simple: keep the Dutchman. However, the Manchester outfit will not make this easy to do, and a first offer is expected to arrive in the next few weeks, which is when the real bells will start to chime.
As Calciomercato.com reports, though, there is more reason to be worried about the interest, as Pep Guardiola has given up in his pursuit of Florian Wirtz, due to the high asking price sought by the German club.
A figure of €100 million was demanded by Bayer Leverkusen, so now the attention turns to two players – Morgan Gibbs-White and Reijnders – with City walking away from negotiations.
Perhaps, the club will be more enticed to spend more on the midfielder now with one less target to focus on. However, Real Madrid’s involvement in proceedings and a potential bidding war could be enough to deter the interest.
Not true. So he gave up on 22 year old Wirtz for 100M? So he can buy 26 year old Reijnders for 80M?? Makes 0 sense. The reason is that Wirtz iz going to Bayern…
Yeah, there have been reports saying that Wirtz wants a BM transfer.
I read yesterday that it was Bayern Munich who had been discouraged by Leverkusens demands and in fact Liverpool was moving for both Wirtz and Frimpong this summer.
I doubt Liverpool have the money to buy Wirtz, given they need to fill others gaps in other positions as well. BM have bigger financial power, plus pairing Wirtz with Musiala would make them a lot of money in commercial deals. This will be a difficult summer for Leverkusen. lol
Maybe but Liverpool isnt really the biggest spender usually and has great epl. commercial deals but who knows it might just be speculation. I cant blame either for wanting to hire him as he is a great talent I can only dream of seeing in Milan but guess that will just stay as a dream.
Yeah Leverkusen are probably in for some trouble there 😀
All bayern reporters like falk and plettenberg all keep saying that bayern are extremely confident they will get him. And this report is also wrong since asking price by Leverkusen is 150 million
Ok fair enough but I’m also just mentioning what I read but obviously cant say if that report was correct or not either.
Pep’s football is boring AF to watch. Can’t imagine it’s even better to play. Wirtz is right to go elsewhere. But at Bayern he’ll be a backup to Musiala.
He would not be a backup. One of them would play as a winger and the other as an AM, just as they do at Germany.
If they sell Reijnders I expect Puli to leave and curva with pitchforks hunting the management down.
Well in that case then I might actually accept such sales if they do get hunted down by the Curva with torches and pitchforks.
Only way to salvage this season and leave me with a big smile on my face is if the Curva drags Scaroni and Furlani down to the middle of the field and scalps them at halftime 😛
Kidding aside if Milan actually do sell Reijnders and Pulisic and for that matter a bunch of other marquee players then I certainly expect a strong reaction that goes beyond what we are accustomed to with the Curva Sud.
When Tonali was sold and Maldini sacked and both Theo and Leao publicly expressed their shock, no one raised even an eyebrow. They are well paid professionals and should act like it, they said.
But when Reijnders is rumoured to be sold and Pulišić is expressing doubts about this whole “project”, you stand support the revolt.
We told you lot from the very beginning what RedBird are all about here but you were to distracted with all them shiny new players they got. Here it is now. The project you signed up for. Are you not entertained?
I was 100% willing to give RedBird a chance. Tonali was a great bandiera and Milanista embodied. But I feel he was well replaced by Reijnders and Pulisic in terms of contribution.
The rest of the transfers were a sham. And the winter Mercato did sh*t to address the gap. So yea, after a season of failures I call them out on their sh*t.
Just like now, after a sample size of two years I think it would be mad to entrust the management that did this to also fix it.
Same here. I gave em the benefit of the doubt seeing as I’m not a fortune teller and we weren’t doing much better under Maldini – scraping into CL only because of Juve point deduction and transferring the most dead weight over to the club since the mid-80s… I get the feeling we’ll be hearing “I told you so” for quite a while yet tho…
Well to be fair I was furious when Maldini was sacked and Tonali was sold in a short span of time and to some extent still is but I was also willing to give the ownership some time to prove themselves so it isn’t entire black and white on who did or said what. Generally in my view its always good to have a bit balanced take on things, unfortunately things hasn’t panned out well with RedBird as things stands.
When y’all gonna stop with the points deduction equals out of UCL narrative? UEFA was always going to kick out Juve from Europe. They were waiting on what Serie was going to do about it before making a decision on their own. It just happened the points deduction was enough that they didn’t need direct intervention. But even if we were 5th, Juve was always going to be out of UCL that season and we’d be in.
Also…..they cheated. What about that part? It’s not like the points deduction came out the blue. They had players like Vlahovic who they could not afford, cooked the books and got a higher quality team ie more points that they otherwise would not have had. But those parts, as usual, are conveniently left out same two years ago, same now
IKWYDLS that’s absolutely also a valid point and Juventus certainly got the punishment they deserved. From what I recollect it could actually have been worse but they accepted it basically as a plea bargain and then moved on or risking a worse end result.
You lot called some nasty slurs and mock us at the time so it’s fitting we rub it into your faces now🤷♂️
@IKWYDLS – fair point. We still came 4th or 5th tho… my point is people only talk about winning the scudetto under Maldini and not the collapse afterward…
The collapse was still us 4th (or 5th) 20 points from first place and reached UCL semi-finals. But even if we want to argue that we wouldn’t have played UCL if not for juve, we still would have played in the Europa League.
Next season under RedBird we finished 2nd still 19 points behind the leader and this season we’re a midtable team. And in both seasons we were eliminated before the round of 16 in UCL.
So if Maldini deserves to be fired for mishandeling the 2022/23 season (he had budget limitations but he should have done better), then Cardinale, Furlani, Moncada and Ibrahimović should be put in jail for what was done so far.
@dejan10 what exactly was the collapse? In results ? Certainly not the level of collapse we just witnessed this season under Furlani, Moncada and Ibra, is it? That’s far worse. But sure, Scudetto to 4/5th,.ok I’ll give you that, it’s somewhat bad. But we were competitive in the league until January. This year we were never competitive. We also intentionally prioritized the UCL the year after the Scudetto (swapping out the whole starting XI vs Bologna before a UCL clash for instance) and clearly we didn’t have the quality enough to compete on two fronts like Inter did, who had better depth and quality. This is the whole point for Maldini’s requests, however ill-conceived or ill-advised it was to say in “that” interview. It has been shown now that those “requests” have been vindicated, in order to compete clearly an investment over and above just rearranging the furniture would be needed….that seems to be clear imo.
But a UCL semi and “top 4” ….I’d take it. It wasn’t like Napoli winning the title and 10th the next year. Now that’s a collapse.
“When Tonali was sold and Maldini sacked and both Theo and Leao publicly expressed their shock, no one raised even an eyebrow. They are well paid professionals and should act like it, they said.
But when Reijnders is rumoured to be sold and Pulišić is expressing doubts about this whole “project”, you stand support the revolt.”
Are you that dumb or just acting? Puli & Tijj have ALWAYS been professional. Even now on how they’re handling this. Posting weird messages on social media and acting childish during cooling breaks isn’t “being professional”. If you fail to see the difference, you are dumb as a boot.
I think he is refering to how fans reacted in both cases.
I’m talking about Tonali and Maldini here not Leao and Theo you m0r0n. That sledgehammer did its job I see.
“When Tonali was sold and Maldini sacked and both Theo and Leao publicly expressed their shock, no one raised even an eyebrow. They are well paid professionals and should act like it, they said.”
LOL!!! Fng idiot doesn’t even understand what he wrote himself. So, you’re saying Tonali & Maldini should be professionals, eh? 😀 😀 😀 😀
Doubt it if curva sud will do anything. Like Ted mentioned, they were pretty quiet when M&M was fired and tonali sold. The only way to hurt these bankers is stop buying season tickets and merchandise.
Sharp!!.
Stop patronizing!!