Daniel Maldini got his name back on the scoresheet as Monza did AC Milan a favour by beating Fiorentina on Monday night, and his future is intriguing.
As Calciomercato.com recall, it has been a difficult period for Maldini, who has struggled in terms of performance levels which caused him to lose his starting spot. However, he put in a very high-level display against Fiorentina and scored the winning goal in the end.
Ironically, it might have been an audition of sorts because La Viola are the club that ‘are trying in every way to buy him’ in the January transfer window. The ex-Monza boss Raffaele Palladino likes Daniel a lot and wants to reunite with him.
Fiorentina must be careful of Atalanta, who have decided to sign a trequartista in January and have Paolo’s son on the list, in addition to Rayan Cherki from Lyon and Julio Enciso from Brighton & Hove Albion.
Nonetheless, Adriano Galliani is resisting and will not change his mind: Maldini will not be sold in January because he is too important to the new coach Salvatore Bocchetti and the bid to achieve survival.
Letting the former Milan man go would mean weakening the squad in a big way. Those who want Daniel will have to wait until June when the €12m release clause will be active (€15m for clubs abroad), and as a reminder 50% of the proceeds will go to Milan.
whats with cardinale and getting rid of maldinis?
Cardinale probably didn’t want a constant reminder of his father. We wont forget though that’s for sure.
Cat-dinale likes Italians so much that he doesn’t want to put it in this team.
Cardinale has no idea who the Maldini’s are, he’s just a clueless.
This Maldini is not Cesare or Paolo LOL
Buy him back and get rid of RLC! Now!
Agreed….young with potential and carry the Maldini tradition which the Rossoneris fans love….alot better than RCL
Milan biggest mistake last summer was that they didn’t sign Samardzic. He would have been so good in that CAM role and help unlock low block defenses. Looked very good vs Juventus yesterday. I don’t even know why he isn’t starting for Atalanta, but then again Gasperini isn’t even starting Retegui who is the top scorer in the league this season.
Atalanta got so many attacking players it’s ridiculous. Lookman, CDK, Scamacca, Retegui. Zaniolo is still ass though.
iF We learn somthing, in last 10 years, not all signings are able to reach quality and stay in Milan for longer period of time.
That samardzic guy, would probably been fluke for Milan just like CDK.
Samardzic cant start cause CDK is not just good but he is turning in to a ttop player. They play in the same role. Most of the time. As for Retegui he had some injury problems.
Maybe let Atalanta keep the CDK money they owe us 20m or so and the 50% of Maldini for Samardzic.
I am still amazed we did not sign him, very low price he went for and he is still so young and very talented.
Then again nothing our management does or has done makes sense at all
Absolutely not true.
They do not play in the same role at all.
Samardzic is a midfielder, CDK is a forward.
The player that starts over Samardzic is Pasalic not CDK.
Even yesterday, Samardzic came in and played behind Lookman and CDK.
Zaniolo and CDK play in the same role.
I said most of the time. Samardzic plays as a AM and so does CDK. Atlanta swithes btw 3 up front and 2 up front without a clasical striker. Samardzic is a bit slow for Atalanta mid style, he mostly plays a bit on the right side where CDK mostly plays too. But it depends on the game. If they play with a striker CDK/Samadzic play on the right as some AM/RW hybrid. Similar like how Iicic used to play in Atalanta. I’ve seen at least 10 Atalanta games this season and thats where Gasperini played Samardzic most of the time.
Mind you, all players do well at Atalanta. Giasperini have created this precise system where almost all a player would have to do is blindly moving along the system. Imo CDK will flop at most clubs in the tops leagues fighting for CL football. This is not a bad thing for the players or Atalanta but for about 85% of the other clubs. Most professional players are being mismanaged in one way or the other. MOSt. So over 50% of them will retire without ever playing to their potentials. That’s what Gasperini solves. Just see De Roon and Ederson for example. They will dominate any opponent midfield in the world with the help of a precise football. How many players with De Roons abilities are only good enough for a midtable team?. Atalanta is a place you have to be careful buying a player from because your club is likely to be among the 85% where they don’t slot players into a standard system.
How about bring him back for 6mil? We need an AM and a back up AM.
For this current Milan:
Good players get to go (or escape to explore). Bad players got to stay in with team. Hahaha
The hype in Italy about Daniel is due to his family name. He is an average player at best, certainly not Milan material.
He is better then Loftus. If only he was given all that playing time instead of Loftus he would have been far better now. Milan actually thwarted his development.
No sh1t he is better than RLC LOL
Absolutely true….if this season there were no RCL instead DM is playing then he will be developing further and performing….at least few goals and assists already
Agreed, the last time they hyped and have tons news about him in september last year when he is scored, the news come up again after he scored his SECOND GOAL last match LOL
He is a Maldini yes but not Cesare or Paolo
And he is not better than Chkwu or Okafor
Bring Danielo Maldini back.
For what? We need a goalscorer and he is not
What an absolute failure this has been, there’s a talented Maldini in a position Milan badly need a player and it’s because Milan chose to give him away for free at the start of the season, and now another team will get him for relatively cheap. This is about as bad as the obviously terrible Kerkes deal.
Obviously, I’d say Milan should meet the clause but there’s no way I think he’d consider coming back.