AC Milan are worried that they will no longer be able to bank some of the money they hoped to get from buy-out clauses for loan players.
La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) took stock of the situation regarding some of the loanees, starting with Yunus Musah. He played just 703 minutes so far for Atalanta, who will send him back at the end of the season and will not use their €24m option to buy.
Ismael Bennacer meanwhile is now at Dinamo Zagreb. The Algerian has also managed to clock up 789 minutes of play this year, despite some injuries. The €10m option will not be activated, and the former Empoli player will return to Milan.
The same fate seems to befall Filippo Terracciano, who is on loan at Cremonese. An obligation to buy would be triggered if they stay up, but they are currently in the bottom three. The Lombardy club are unlikely to make it permanent if they get relegated.
Finally there is Samuel Chukwueze, the only one among the loan players who could be bought out. The Nigerian has become a fan favourite in his time at Fulham, but they consider the option agreed to be too high, so his fate too is uncertain.
For how long will we continue to buy mediocrity?
Players who cannot even hold their own in lesser teams… yet when we advocate for players with calibre some fans say we have no right to demand such.
Ok, there you have it. Let’s continue to buy them.
Galatasaray paid in instalments of €40m and €35m in order to afford Osimhen transfer, but my darling club cannot dream big and be creative to structure deals to cover up for our economic reality.
If Milan must upgrade, we must change our strategy and sign more established players.
The problem is not the fans. It’s the club management and Redbird. They believe in their moneyball algorithm which clearly doesn’t work for a team of Milan’s caliber.
What they don’t understand isn’t that it’s better to invest in a quality player who cost 60m instead of buying 3 mediocre players for 20m.
Until Cardinale, Furlani, Moncada and even Ibra leave it won’t be any different.
I do understand your point but spending €70m to sign Nkunku and Jashari doesn’t look like moneyball to me.
I think the club is gradually moving from it’s moneyball and youth strategy to getting some experienced and capable players, but the scouting has been poor, we got lucky with Rabiot and we can all see how poor the level of our team is, we now need to channel that strategy towards the right players, but hey the right players aren’t that cheap.
I mean, the €40m spent on Nkunku could have given us 50% of Osimhen, while the €70m used to sign Jashari and Ricci could have gotten us Tonali.
It would have been better to have either of Fofana, Bennacer, Bondo or even Musah on the bench as substitutes and have a quality Tonali starting than to have an average Fofana starting and €70m sitting on the bench, it doesn’t show ambition in any way.
Bro you nailed it but the stupid redbird won’t fire who needs to be fired in the name of Mocanda and furliani