AC Milan’s failure to qualify for the Champions League could lead to major sales, and a big offer is expected for Tijjani Reijnders.
As Tuttosport reports, the idea of a mass exodus and a fire sale is probably too extreme, but one of the side effects of the defeat in the Coppa Italia final – combined with a failure to qualify for the Champions League – is that some players could leave.
Stars may be ‘sacrificed for economic reasons’ or be ‘attracted by offers from clubs that will instead take part in the Champions League’. Milan could also get into the Europa League (difficult) or Conference, but that would not match the ambitions of some players.
Among these is Tijjani Reijnders. The Dutchman is doing well at Milan, he has often stated that he is happy and in March he renewed until 2030, however his super season has attracted the attention of the big European clubs.
Manchester City: Big Reijnders offer ready
Everyone has shown interest in Reijnders, including Real Madrid, Arsenal and Bayern Munich. But there is one club that has had the Dutchman in its sights since the autumn and that is Manchester City.
Pep Guardiola’s team invested almost €220m in the winter mercato to strengthen the squad also out of fear of possible sanctions for the 115 violations of the Premier League’s Financial Fair Play rules between 2009 and 2018.
Having averted the risk of relegation – barring big surprises – one of the possible scenarios at the beginning of 2025 was, in addition to a very big fine, a transfer ban that could apply for multiple future windows.
The verdict was expected in the spring and it is now expected that it could arrive as late as the beginning of July. Thus City, who will participate in the Club World Cup from mid-June, will still have the possibility of operating at the beginning of the market.
In England they are certain that Reijnders has been identified by Guardiola as Kevin De Bruyne’s heir and City would be ready to put on the table an offer higher than €70m. Will Milan, who sold Tonali to Newcastle for around €60m, without the proceeds from the Champions League, turn it down?
The risk that the directors find themselves in the difficult situation of having to evaluate what to do is high. And the fans, already angry after a negative season, would hardly welcome the sale of one of the best players in the team serenely.
How many City avoided relegation is beyond me, and they call our league corrupt
Clubs like City and Barcelona generate a lot of money, so naturally they are above the law and protected. They get a slap on the wrist every now and then but that’s about it. Imagine LaLiga without Barcelona. Worse than Ligue 1.
I mentioned that on a another post here. They wouldn’t have the balls to punish Man City that hard, because that would just put English football and Premier League in bad picture
At this point nothing matters anymore. Milan has become a selling club to balance the books, a luxury we can’t afford ito personnel and on top of that incapable of recruiting suitable replacements. If it wasn’t bad already that Tonali was sold, now we will miss the opportunity to rebuild around Tijji and Puli and rather get rid of Theo ( if we have to make a sacrifice in terms of personnel) and some of the deadweight. Can it get any more worse than it already is.
Yes they might change from Private to Public Company example Milan Inc. And put them at the Wall Street in the States, so everyone like us can buy and be part of this historic club. Maybe we can do something in this banter management era
Sell titi for about 70 mil and ask for a first contact for kdb…, offer him a great sallary (10 mil) and buy sandro back for 50 mil. So we are safe for next 2 years and ask for real number 9 like lukaku and you are sure for a striker who makes 15-20 goals per season. Let camarda grow and make him after that our real number 9. Sell pulicic also for above 50 mil if possible, cause he is this year great for us…, but we are milan, and players like him is not the quality we are used to. I think that saelemakers is even a good option. Try to keep Theo and leao on the left, on the right walker-gimenez or saelemakers. In the middle sandro and kdb. As striker lukaku-camarda. Probbibly to simple and without americans for our management.
This is not an excuses, I remember vividly when go for regulation like of delpero trezegate among others follow there team. Talkless this season unfortunately we didn’t get qualification then we trying to sold most important player. And I thought we had learnt a lesson of deposited for tonali. Pls milan owner sold us now. This is the right time.
I meant juventus goes for relegated. This is what I meant.
Watch our management agree to sell even before ManCity has written enough zeros to the offer. They incompetent clowns will sell him in a heartbeat (for way less than it would be possible) just so they can fix the budget deficit THEY caused by choosing the cheapest coach they could find.
100%
This is utter nonsense. We don’t have to sell players for economic reasons. Our wage budget is at 98 million euros, half of our actual spending power to fall within FFP parameters. 450 million, 404 million and even say 300 million euros next year, we can afford a season without Europe. Extend our expiring contracts at 6 to 7.5 million euros comfortably and spend their typical 40-50 million euros for a midfielder without a dime from a sale. Kalulu and other sales can add to reinforce other positions if they so choose.
The only way players refuse to extend is if they are lowballed, as previous players who left for free were or to play for a mire ambition club, maybe one in the CL, because they are not convinced by this management’s project. It would not be for a financial necessity.
Gerry on selling Tonali:
“We don’t sell out of necessity, we sell out of opportunism. If we remain disciplined, there will always be counterparties on the market who will allow extraordinary returns for the players.”
There would be nothing wrong with this if the players were brought in with equal discipline.
Like the game itself being played in attack and defense as a balance (one we lack), balancing finance with competitive ambition is a skill at the larger club level. Inter and Atalanta have shown this.
Ultimately if the money isn’t there then it is likely the ability to compete is severely restricted. Similar to us giving up 2 goals a game early in the season. No balance means no result.
Gerry gets the money. He doesn’t get the ambition.
To be clear this is overly simplistic in that there are other key factors to manage beyond money and ambition.
– Personnel to build the team.
– culture of excellence
– effective marketing and league relevance
Our ability to put great players on the field is there. Our roster is deep and talented. BUT, without effective leadership at the club level balancing money and ambition in a culture of excellence we will continue to be the most frustrating mid table team in the big 5 leagues.
The issue is Fofana and Tijjani do not make up for Tonali, Hakan, Bennacer, Kessie and Krunic.
Bennacer has effectively been out for 3 years with injuries. So we been lacking in midfield when we were amoung the strongest in Europe. They seriously couldn’t think Adli, Krunic RLC and Pobega would be ready or potentially suitable alternatives. Each would be at best a solid substitute or starters for cup or league games against weaker opponents with congested schedules because of Europe. None ever proved to be at the level required or healthy for consistent periods in order to assure we could compete in Europe or against top domestic rivals. We needed 2 solid players 3 years ago.
Strong clubs with a competent leaders reinforce around their best players.
Milan is run by clueless clowns – they offload their strong players. Extending contracts are only done to drive up the price – they don’t intend for the players to actually stay that long.
By they will try to make alibi’s for it “We missed CL, we had to sell him…”
We have Tijjani on low wage figures, as was Tonali. It makes 0 sense to sell them when equivalent players would cost twice as much in wages. We ahoot ourselves in the foot. People syaing Tonali missed a whole year. He was earning at most 3 million euros. We could loan a player for a year in the worst scenario and be in less of a jam than we ended up in.
They have 70mil+ reasons to sell him… what do you mean?!
If milan sell reindeers i will hate furlani and cardinale for the rest of my life …. the 2 bast….
Sell him or not, most of the fans hate them already for the damage they have done, and the incompetence the brought to our club.
Please city asap to submit the offer. Milan have no money next season
Please city soon possible to submit the offer. Milan have no money next season…