Gianluca Di Marzio believes that AC Milan could make a move for a striker in January, but a departure is needed first.
With Milan top of the league after 14 games, the January mercato could be an opportunity to strengthen various areas and really begin to cultivate a title push. However, the notion of spending big appears to be out of the window.
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One of the big doubts surrounding Milan at the moment concerns the attack. Both Santiago Gimenez and Christopher Nkunku are without a league goal despite costing €31m and €38m respectively, leading to them already being linked with an exit.
Gimenez out, Lucca in?
Di Marzio spoke live on Sky during the coverage of Milan’s 3-2 comeback win against Torino on Monday night and he shed some light on the striker issue, with his comments relayed by MilanNews.
“Milan remain a team that’s looking around, and as always, evaluating opportunities and various situations. The January transfer window may not take off, depending on many factors, but we know how things can change quickly,” he said.
“The talk of a starting striker is still hot, and that includes Santiago Gimenez. As of now, the arrival of another striker at Milan would depend on the Mexican’s departure in the event of a transfer.”
In an article on his website, Di Marzio adds: “With a squad halved due to injuries, Napoli is waiting for the transfer market to strengthen it. In order to be able to focus on a new midfielder, the club first needs to think about some exits.
“The name would be that of Lorenzo Lucca (the formula, given the large summer investment, would be that of a loan). The striker is being followed in Italy, especially by Milan (if Gimenez leaves) and Roma.”
Lucca is awful! Man, he will never ever raise above Udinese’s level. I can say that with confidence.
In fact, all of the strikers Milan have been linked with are dreadful, makes my eyes hurt reading all these rumors. One exception is Panicelli, who will end up in Barcelona or Chelsea in the end.
Unless they buy striker with large fund, they have to build striker from scratch.
If you keep “looking for opportunities” you will end up with average players. Need to make opportunities and sign some good players instead
Nkunku is a perfect example of those “opportunities”. And don’t tell me he hasn’t been A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. 😀
So was Pulisic. Just saying.
Puli was never a “striker”. We are looking for a CF and in that particular role, we have sucked at recruiting…. since Giroud probably. We just need a guy for 2 yrs and transition to Camarda. lol he’s our best hope
Yeah, Giroud… Look at the dozen of failed strikers we bought before (and after) him. Can anyone even remember the previous successful #9 (not literally #9) before him? Pippo? And he retired about a decade ago.
it’s 1/5 for 1 Pulisic you’ve got Chuck, Gimenez, Nkunku, Okafor.
opportunities is good but high risk
Please, don’t. Please
It’s hard for a guy who’s 6’8” to be invisible, but Lucca somehow pulls it off at Napoli. This sounds more like a writer meeting a numbers commitment than a well-thought-out revelation.
Can we just swap Nkunku and Gimenez for Osihmen?
Perhaps the Turks would go for it
Lmao, we just as well swap Nkunku and Gimenez for Haaland.
Perhaps Man city would jump it.
At this point I would rather take a 34 yr old Duvan Zapata over all these jokers link to Milan. Panicelli and Lorenzo Luca are both overrated and awful.
We had the chance to go for Guirassy before dortmund got him and Furlani screwed it up. Even Moise Kean was available for cheap and we allowed Fiorentina to get him. Sigh. SMH
If Fiorentina is relegated, do you think Kean will be made available? Can’t imagine he would want to play in Serie B nor that the club would want to pay him his salary. He would look good in Red and Black.
Kean has played just one season where he scored enough. Look at the form he is in. Not something we need.