AC Milan are pushing for Koni De Winter, and he is now the main name to replace Malick Thiaw as per a report.
According to Gianluca Di Marzio, Milan have taken concrete steps to try and sign De Winter. The former Juventus defender, now at Genoa, was also in Inter’s sights. The Nerazzurri had even made an attempt to secure him in the event of a possible departure of Bisseck or Pavard.
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At this point, however, Milan have ‘truly overtaken them’, having identified De Winter as the perfect player to add to their squad given Thiaw’s imminent departure to Newcastle.
The 2002-born defender is considered a top option for the Rossoneri, and contacts have already been initiated to try to get closer to striking a deal with Genoa.
Thiaw’s replacement?
In case you missed it, Milan and Newcastle have agreed a deal worth €40m including bonuses for Malick Thiaw, who has left the squad in order to fly back to Italy before undergoing a medical, per reports.
There have been some conflicting reports regarding the bonuses in the operation for the German. SportItalia said €35m as the fixed base and €5m in bonuses, while Daniele Longo said €36m plus €4m in bonuses.
The truth is there probably is no “top name” on any list. We just throw out feelers and see what approximate price is demanded by the selling club. If Genoa want ballpark 25m for KDW while Fiorentina ask 35mn for Comuzzo (and Parma even more for Leoni) , then unless Allegri believes Leoni is the 2nd coming of Nesta, we will just go for the cheaper option.
It’s reality, even though I’d really like a promising Italian as a pillar we can build behind for the next 5-10 years…
Scalvini is the only top Italian defender worthy of Milan but he will cost the same as Thiaw. Based on market availability Kiwior should be top of our list. Has serie A experience, solid player, still young at 25, capable of playing multiple roles.
Scalvini, starting CB for Treatment Room FC.
Ash you are mad scalvini maybe you are drunk who wants that injury prone
Isn’t Salvini injured? One injury after anothe
agree if they think Leoni will be that good, then go with 40m and buy or its just managers playing at today world
This content feels like warm hug when everything else seems chaotic
No, enough with the foreigners, it’s time to get some Italians, Commuzo or Leoni or Scalvini
Overhyped and overpriced young Italian.
Exactly. Leoni only played 17 games in Serie A last season and he only started 14 games but Parma wants 40m for him? Crazy how that works.
Scalvini is injury prone and not good at defending. His best attribute is his long range passing.
Comuzzo is overrated by a mile. Smh
Koni de Winter shut down Lukaku, Leao, Vlahovic, Moise Kean, Retegui, Dovbyk and all the other strikers who came up against him last season.
I hope Milan sign de Winter and Renato Viega who is left footed to replace Pavlovic too.
Just like you Italian haters said about Ricci
Always going for the cheapest.
No more Italianizing Milan 🤣😂
Like I already know Furlani won’t approve Leoni
Yeah the “Italianization” was just a pipedream, media hype etc. In reality the economics work out a different way.
Fair enough imho , just be honest about it. So far its been a fairly decent window in spite of selling our best MF Reijnders, and with 3 weeks remaining could turn into a very good one.
Forza Milan
They will sell theirs mum’s if some want pay.
Buy Comuzzo , Leoni or Scalvini , Italian CB !
Go for frendrup if yunus musah & bondo already leave. He is good for compete with fofana
Leoni isn’t worth it. We acted to slowly. The cheap and decent italian defenders have been snapped up. Coppola and Ghilardi, would have been great!
Let’s just shut up with the Italian defender shvt. There are overhyped.
Scalvini is just another Caldara 2.0.
Some need to get of their rockers.
De Winter is a great choice who is also versatile. He can play CB and RB
Exactly. Italy hasn’t even qualified for 2 back to back world cups and they could possibly miss qualifying for next year’s World Cup.
Italy is not producing top players like in the 80s and 90s and early 2000.
I hope we go for Renato Viega from Chelsea too. He’s left footed and miles better than Pavlovic, Gabbia and Tomori.
Better bring back Jan Carlo Simic
Need to sell Tomori, Terraciano, Musah , Rlc