Christopher Nkunku’s start to AC Milan life has not been brilliant, and it is not hard to see why. Seeing the solution, though, is challenging.
Football is not as simple as selling because a player does badly, especially in the first six months. Of course, there are times when this occurs, but it is far from regular. Yet, with Nkunku, it has seemed like the most likely option.
In the past few weeks, the Frenchman has effectively already been shown the door, but he has not found a new club yet. Saying that, things change quickly in January, and both sides of the door show that.
Brace to save face?
Against Verona, the forward showed a new side of himself, a goalscorer. He took the penalty to ‘break free’, as Gazzetta dello Sport wrote in this morning’s edition (seen below), and then he grabbed a second in typical striker fashion.
Of course, he is not the physical man that Massimiliano Allegri desires. However, if he can poach in the box like that, who knows if that physicality is needed? Now, on Friday, the hope will be that he can continue in this manner.
Rafael Leao is expected to be on the bench, and with more signs of being a €40 million man, his future could be ahead of him with the Rossoneri. It is not a completed mission; he must continue to ‘encourage the club with goals’.
Turkish sirens
If he fails to do that, an exit could also be possible, regardless of that brace. In Turkey, Fenerbahce are looking to strengthen and the Frenchman’s former coach, Domenico Tedesco, could push for the move.
Nkunku would be a ‘crucial’ addition in his eyes, and with evaluations ongoing, a departure cannot be ruled out. It would be an instant transfer, perhaps for as much as what he arrived for in the summer. January is a big month, and things can change quickly.
It took Nkunku 15 games to get used to Serie A.
Are we sure we want to bring in someone new to do the same process all over again?
There’s no guarantee that the next guy won’t take the same amount of time to acclimatize to Milan and the League…..
This is 1000000000% right
Nkunku is not as good as he needs to be but why sell him and then hope that the New one Will be a world class.
Even if Nkunku is not what we want i would rather wait till summer
Not to forget the great assist against Sassuolo the week before. He’s starting to cook.
dont sell as soon as he is starting to get in shape and scoring goals, his scoored 2 goals yestday 1/4 of pulisics goal tally. he carries on half the rate for the next few matchdays we have few goals from him and he can prove to be useful and i think a formation switch suits most of our attackers best but the return of leao will make nkunku even more competetive
Nkuku is flop and he will flop its better to recover some of that money its like now or never
Milan needed a 9 and brought another 10/11. Nkunku is not a striker and trying to force him to be one is going to be one is an uphill battle. Milan has one 9 in the squad and he is firmly the flop of the season…Gimenez. Only his injury is preventing a Jan exit.