AC Milan are close to signing a central defender on deadline day, but one that will initially begin his time with Milan Futuro.
One of the names that continues to be intensely linked is Joe Gomez of Liverpool as Milan seek a centre-back reinforcement. However, there are now doubts about whether that will go through, and thus some alternatives are being considered.
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Odogu deal close
According to Sky’s expert Gianluca Di Marzio (via MilanNews), Milan have completed a deal for Wolfsburg’s David Odogu and the operation is now nearing completion.
The 1.91m-tall German centre-back, born in 2006, made three Bundesliga appearances (for a total of 194 minutes) in the 2024-25 season, although he has yet to make his league debut in the current campaign.
At present there is no further indication regarding the structure of the deal or even the transfer fee, though it is reported that he will initially be used by the Futuro before eventually (hopefully) graduating to the first team.
Thus, the hole in the squad would remain in terms of a senior central defender who can instantly contribute, which could mean more late movement. You can track everything that goes on from now until the 20:00 CEST deadline on our live blog.
If we are gonna sign a 19yo defender anyways WHY DID WE NOT JUST SIGN LEONI/COMMUZO WITH ALL THE MONEY WE HAVE INSTEAD OF PAYING FOR NKUNKU?? I was hoping it wasnt true but furlani is still in charge after all.
If we get champions league with this midtable defence, we need to revive leonardo davinci to paint allegri.
😂😂😂
Good one!
It’s Serie A in the 2025. Inter won the league with Acerbi and Di Marco in defence. I couldn’t even name any of Napoli’s defenders, apart from Buongiorni.
We have the best midfielders in the league. It’s upto Allegri to make it work.
You couldn’t name them? So you never heard of Di Lorenzo and Rahmani, both in Serie A forever? Says more about you than about Napoli or them…
Dimarco has been the best wingback in Serie A for the last 3-4 seasons…
Replacement for Coubis
I’m with you 💯 The fact that we only realized after getting stuffed by Cremonese that the defence needs work tells you everything you need to know… We don’t seem capable of identifying a problem then going out and fixing that problem.. Take Napoli – they lost Kim and turned around and bought Bonjourno. We’ve needed a couple of quality center backs for the past three years but for some reason we refuse to buy any…
I agree. De Winter for Thiaw was ok, it feels as like for like replacement. But that they couldn’t take those extra 15M, add another 15M and buy a proper central defender is a joke.
Agree with you bro.. better Milan sign with huge amount but with lots of talent like comuzzo/ leoni rather than buy many unknown raw players like athekame, odogu, koni de winter, noahkai banks bla bla bla…
Just like football Italia reporter, Milan scramble in final day mercato with no transfer strategy 😂🤣😂🤣
Totally!
We need aggressive players players that went to give their all to the club Forza Milan 🔥🔥🔥🖤♥️🖤♥️🖤♥️
This kid is 19 years only and stated 3 games last season and none this season thus far – and he will solve our CB problems??? LOL
No pressure at all kid.
We are NOT a serious club
“Talented defender” by who’s standard?
So we’re become AC Borussia Milan right now. Look for an ok youngster, polish lil bit then sell with good price, but with no ambition to recruit “ready” player to compete for the title