Christian Pulisic’s form has come under the microscope in recent weeks, and as a result so has his future at AC Milan.
Pulisic hasn’t found the net in a competitive match for Milan since December 28th, a 3-0 win over Hellas Verona at San Siro. With his deal set to expire in 2027 (the club have a one-year option until 2028), there is increasing speculation about his future.
Pulisic: Interest from Spurs and Liverpool
According to a report this morning by Il Giornale (via MN24), Pulisic is being targeted by two Premier League sides: Liverpool and Tottenham are reportedly closely monitoring the player’s situation ahead of next season.
The Reds are ready for a potential attacking overhaul, while Roberto De Zerbi’s side will need a rebuild if they manage to stay up. The Milan management haven’t yet raised any barriers, and in fact they’ve already set the asking price.
In a transfer panorama increasingly driven by budgetary pressures and the need to finance new signings with sales, Italian clubs are very rarely in the position where they can take a player 100% off the market.
If a €60m offer were to arrive on the desks of the Milan management for Pulisic, they would consider it. It would be a significant capital gain that would allow Milan to reinvest heavily on signings, despite losing one of the most iconic faces of the project in recent years.
It remains to be seen whether the English clubs will translate this interest into an official offer, but the resources that Premier League sides have means the asking price might not rule them out.
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Keep Leão and let him go for 50 ml. He won’t go to relegation bound Spurs.
I was just about to say the opposite – keep Pulisic and sell Leao… surely management aren’t dumb enough to sell both…
I am trying not to be a biased American. Also as I read posts and listen to podcasts Leão has a lot of goodwill with people from the scudetto year. I think we are in agreement that one will have to go
They shouldn’t sell either for less than 80M. And realistically they should keep both and invest in the defence.
Yeh probably true but it just feels like the end of a cycle with Leao – it’s one thing after another with him – not all his fault but there’s so much drama – and at least Pulisic always gives his all on the pitch..
I think I will keep both of them, it will be stupid to sell either of them, if this club really mean anything to this management other than profit and loss balance sheet. Unless Pulisic doesn’t want to stay
” Keep Leao ” Are you fu#$!%cking nuts !
Aim much higher at first.
I know Pulisic has bad form right now but we need to be like Sassuolo when other teams want players from us. Say a high price first.
Also, I’d like us to rather sell Leao and keep Pulisic. Hopefully if Leao can start delivering goals and come back to the Portugal squad and make an impact during the World Cup we can get more money.
Even though Leao has a potentially higher ceiling, he is far less effective than Pulisic. If Leao doesn’t have his elite speed burst anymore he is actually below average. Even when Pulisic isn’t scoring goals he makes consistent runs and tracks back on defense. Leao is a one trick pony and if he doesn’t have elite speed he is a liability on the field. Now, his attitude is poisoning the locker room and alienating the fans… Leao needs to go.
Upvote. I’ll also add that Leao is completely useless playing up the middle. Unless we change coach (again) to win that employs a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1, if we keep Leao and Max we’ll have the same issues next season.
That said, given that we already have players like Leao and Pulisic on the books, I think it would be a lot easier to find a manager that uses 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 and reinforce the defense and midfield to be able to properly play those formations, than it would be to sell one or both, get replacement (and given our lack of talent for finding forwards this is a huge risk), while STILL needing to reinforce defense and midfield anyway.
Unpopular opinion: get rid of Allegri (maybe make a call to the FIGC and encourage them to choose him for the NT), keep BOTH Leao and Pulisic, sign a proper striker, do what needs to be done to sign Goretzka on a free, sign a high quality CB that can play in a back four, sell one of the current CBs that can’t play in a back four (be it whoever), sell Estupido and bring in Spinazzola on a free, and then sign a good coach who uses 4-3-3/4-2-3-1. My vote for this: Enzo Maresca.
Keep Leao so next season around this time will have the same conversations about Leao, just like the last 3 seasons?
What was the definition of insanity?
I’m not necessarily arguing that he’ll be miles better. Just that imagine having to sell Leao and Pulisic, then buy that no. 9 that we never seem to buy, then also replace Leao and Pulisic with whatever type of position but HIGHER QUALITY, then also another good midfielder, then also another leftback, then also a better CB or two….
Do you think Cardinale is going to cough up 250M next summer? My point is that putting aside the disappointment, at least we know what we have there, and it will mean spending less in other places. Because this team’s track record is such that they’ll get rid of Leao, and bring us another Chukwueze or Okafor. But all this is contingent upon the coach too. Because if they keep Allegri and Leao, it will be game over for sure.
I have more faith in the unknown (who they will sign) than in the known (Leao). I have 7 years of Leao.
Enough with Leao.
His salary forces coaches to play him even though he provides nothing. If Allegri gave Nkunku guaranteed starts and minutes that he is giving Leao, Milan would have been better off. Nkunku only has 3 less g/a than Leao and he barely gets any consistent playing time.
Fair enough.
That higher ceiling is gone, its in the past !
He will have a great season for Spurs in the championship next season.
Tottenham? And 60M? I hope it’s a joke. It should be at least 80M. And they 100% shouldn’t sell him.
60m and we bought nkuku that haven’t played regularly in almost 2 years for About 40M?
Exactly. Pulisic is worth at least double. I’d say even more.
No, you won’t get what you think and if Pulisic puts in a transfer request it will be hard to keep him. 50 ml is about right.
Isak cost 145M. Nkunku 40M. If they can’t get 80M for Pulisic they are bad at what they do.
@Max. You are bad at evaluations. Your comparison of Isak and Pulisic is apples to oranges. Isak is a 1.92M striker who scored 21 goals and 23 goals in the EPL alone, over the last two seasons. Pulisic is a winger who has never scored more than 15 league goals in a season. In fact, he’d never scored double digits in the league before the last two seasons with Milan.
The market for strikers is a premium market. They just don’t make them like they used to, and consistent 20+ goal strikers are a rarity. We’re basically talking about players like Haaland, Kane, Lewandowski, Osimhen and Mbappe, and Ronaldo and Benzema not too long ago. These players are what drive that market. I’m not sure Isak is of the same quality, but he’s in the same bucket, which is why his price is 145M. It’s almost certain that Liverpool overpaid, just like we obviously overpaid for Nkunku. That must be accounted for.
If Pulisic had his early season pace throughout the season, I think you’d have a much stronger argument for 80M, but as it is I think 50-60M is reasonable. Same for Leao. If they had sold him last summer, I think he’d still have had a market around 70-80M, but with a second season in a row of mediocrity relativity to his prior ceiling and a lack of professional growth, I think ~50M is a fair price.
Chelsea sold Nkunku for 40M. A guy that didn’t play. Stop writing stupid sh*t. Just because you wrote 12 sentences doesn’t make it correct. For you a fair price for Pulisic is 10M higher than Nkunku. 😂😂😂😂 Seriously?
Max, why do you keep insisting that Nkunku was fairly priced at 37M? Because that’s what we paid for him? Has it not occurred to you that we definitely OVERPAID? Using emojis doesn’t make your point stronger.
So you agree that Tare and Furlani need to go and they are bad at their jobs? We are talking about the same people that evaluated Nkunku at 40M, so they should get 80M for Pulisic. And I don’t use smileys to make my point stronger but laugh at you and your explanation. ?? 😂😂
Nkunku is 20m but our idiots pay 40m so pulisic 60 will be great price
I think that if you paid 40M for Nkunku you shouldn’t even sit at the negotiating table if it is less than 80M.
This is mostly rumor as the team is in a weak spot right now so the sharks are circling. That is way too low of a figure and he def isn’t going to regulation hotspurs. Liverpool, maybe. He wants to play in the champions league so if Liverpool finish out of those spots, he def isn’t going there. The team cohesion from the offices down to the pitch is really bad so teams are seeing what they can pick off the carcass. If the club sells Puli and not Leao or even worse, both, that would signal that this management want to be Dortmund 2.0 which would confirm our worst fears. They haven’t been Da Milan for 15 years yet we still are 2nd all time in champions league trophies so it’s insane that this management would disrespect this club but hey it seems to be happening anyway.
Hey they’re really good at selling important key players.
they are not stupid enough to sell Leao or Pulisic, they might be profit oriented, but they won’t do something that will force a revolt with the fans, especially when the team start going down after the sale of the stars in the team.
If they sell Pulisic or Leao or both, who will replace them? who will bring that decisiveness and magic?
they don’t have the Arab money so they will thread cautiously
They were stupid enough to sell Tonali, let Rejinders go and sell Thiaw although we play with a back three and lacked defenders. So… I wouldn’t bet on that.
Sell Leao and Pulisic Gimenez Esupinan buy Alajbegovic,Muharemovic,Disasi and Kean and with rest money some RB and back Camarda
Hmmm all of our offensive players are poor. Some have proven track records. Some came with quite a bit of potential.
Are all of these individuals poor, or is there something else going on?
Before we sell anyone maybe we should ask how we got here with these clearly talented players?
Hell no. Pulisic is our best player. We need to sort out a new contract for him asap. Is he not playing with a injury still. He’s having a bit of a slump. Leao has been in a slump since we one the scudetto last. Definitely need to move leao on. Allegri has been playing both leao and pulisic all wrong though.
keep both leao and pulisic
Full steam ahead to BanterEra 2.0
Pulisic isn’t for sale
That’s such a joke, just because he has been injured and had a rough6 months. He’s been u touchable since he’s arrived with one of the best characters and attitudes Milan have in their side. If we consider z60 million for him, this is part of the problem ….
Sell Leao, change Allegri, get a striker and a CB, do 4-2-3-1
And keep Luka
Milan will sell leao than pulisic. Pulisic i think its leader for american market and branding…
Ostavi Magniana , Modrića ; i Rabioa !!!! Ostalo sve u smeće
“finance new signings with sales”
That’s absolutely fng ridiculous!!! You have a player that is “Milan-worthy”. A champion. TOP5-player in the whole league. And in order to BUY NEW PLAYERS you would sell the best you got? Why? Just for the pleasure of buying new players? How does that benefit the team and raise the level? Newsflash! IT DOESN’T!!! FFS…
You seem surprised?? His branding for the US market won’t matter to this management once he’s no longer performing for both club and country and I’m not surprised if he’s shipped out this summer.
TBH, yes. Even imbecilles know the significance such players are for their teams – especially in a team such as current Milan. He is absolutely crucial for us. Look what has happened since he stopped scoring. We’re plummeting.
Leao to go. He is not adaptable and the team and coach cannot be replaced at his expense yet he does not deliver, when he delivers the team doesnt play well.
nah thats not milan. the player should go. atleast a 70 mil then we sign other promising wingers. there are so many.
Leao wont even make the difference next year when we in the champions league.
let him go. maybe he will find a team that suites him better and he can become a world class player.