AC Milan have initiated contact with Roma to see if they can sign Italian forward Nicolo Zaniolo this summer, a report claims.
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As has been reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport, Milan are genuinely interested in Zaniolo and are making progress towards finding out if it is a serious possibility or not.
They have had indirect contacts with Roma today and the intermediaries are now working on the deal and seeing what the finances would be.
Roma certainly have no interest in losing the player that they have stood by during his two extremely serious knee injuries that kept him out for over a season.
If Milan can turn the head of the individual though, it will put pressure on Roma to cash in and move on.
It is not a deal that is anywhere close to completion but the dialogue is certainly open. He scored the winning goal in the Europa Conference League final last week.