Some background has emerged regarding an agreement that AC Milan and Lille found over the Rafael Leao compensation case.
TMW report that there were talks held at Casa Milan over Leao’s situation yesterday and there were four parties involved. On the one side is Milan as the club, then there is the father of the Portuguese winger, then his agent Jorge Mendes and finally the ‘real agent’ Ted Dimvula, a French lawyer.
The meeting did not involve neither Mendes – who was supposed to be present in the videocall – nor Leao’s father who was meant to show up at Casa Milan, but instead Dimvula conducted the discussions.
Leao has signed two powers of attorney but, legally, the signing with Dimvula means that Mendes has no power over the situation, even if then the good relations with Milan lead him to try and have a say.
A non-renewal cannot be ruled out, even if the player wants to stay at Milan and would be happy with an offer of €7m net per season which is not on the table yet, but the Rossoneri management have made it clear they will offer €6m per year.
In recent months, Milan and Lille had agreed to pay the €19.5m compensation to Sporting CP whereby they would pay half (€9.75m) each so the situation did not end up on Leao’s shoulders. All this was subject to the signing of the renewal, between February and April, for a pre-agreed amount of around €4m net per year.
However, since then the demands have risen to €7m so the back and forth on the contract and the double powers of attorney means that things have slowed down and knots must now be untied one by one.
