As we enter the final stages of the January transfer window, AC Milan are reportedly planning to raise their offer to Feyenoord for Santiago Gimenez.
La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) writes that Milan have decided ‘the time has come to speed up for Santiago Gimenez’, with eight days of the window left. However, it is not something that will go right down to the wire.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Giorgio Furlani and Geoffrey Moncada will do everything possible to convince the Feyenoord directors to sell their striker with a discount on the €40m initially requested and there will be new talks today.
After the first bid of just under €30m was rejected, the plan is to submit a new offer worth €33-34m, including bonuses linked to the striker’s performances and team results. It is difficult to imagine that Milan will pay the €40m, knowing the striker is yet to be tested in a top European league.
Feyenoord have not yet opened up to the idea of counterparts coming the other way in the deal and they have reiterated their intention not to sell in the winter. Gimenez wants a big move, but they will only accomodate those wishes in the summer.

However, the Mexican striker was wanted by Milan in August and he fears that – if the Rossoneri were to be rejected again – a third opportunity would not arise again. This is why his agent Rafaela Pimenta and his father Christian will make their client’s desire to leave now known.
It will not be an easy mission to find a meeting point on everything, especially because there are not actually eight days available. If Milan do not get a breakthrough soon then they will turn to other targets, so as not to be left without a forward.
A loan deal for Joao Felix remains an option, with one of the Manchester United strikers (Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee) as alternatives.
However, I can tell you that 33 million is not enough. I think 36 million without bonusses is the minimum.
last summer they already could have gotten 33 million for him, but that was after a terrible half year for him. He’s doing better now and it’s winter period so you have to pay more.
the player want to leave, he pushed them into seeded qualifiers, no offense but Dutch league isn’t a end stop for talented players…
36M without bonuses for an untested player is an overkill, when he’s about to come to the most defensive league in the top 5 nations.
bonuses are there to protect the club, what if he becomes Piatek or Bacca? we have seen too many strikers become useless here
King22,
Ofcourse everyone in the Netherlands also knows Dutch league isn’t that good. But I’m just saying they are nog gonna agree with 33 million. English clubs are willing to pay more most of the times. And Feyenoord doesn’t have to sell.
Then you are more than welcome to sign another player lol
Ball is not on Milan’s court. Feyenoord is NOT coming to Milan begging to buy their player.
Open your eyes.
They more than happy to keep him till summer.
If they qualify to the next round, it means more revenue. If they qualify to UCL next season, means more revenue
But for 35M they can boost to maybe management pocket and boost their financial statement thus their stock rises, they can buy any young player they want..innit
yeah if Santi stays professional… then all good for Feynoord
depends on the player, we saw how Fofana made Monaco change their minds about his valuation…
just saying…
36m is too much to end up with Afonso Alves, we paid less for Marco Van Basten than what Manchester United paid for Steve Bruce for a reason. It’s one thing playing over there, it’s another playing in Serie A.
Try offering 35M to Santi, Hojlund, Joao, Zirkzee, or Pepi, maybe one of them works out. But it’s not easy to convince players and entourages, let alone
club especially wage and agent fee which is quite hefty sum
Noone of the ones you mentioned are worth more than 35.. they are at the moment small team players who all failed at the biggest clubs.. why would anyone pay even 35 for them?
Ibra don’t be silly. I’m sure, you’re not. West Ham offered 57 million pound for Duran and we could not pay 40 million for Gimenez. so simple. in that case West Ham will give that money and buy Gimenez easily. don’t hesitate. 40 million is like discount.
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Conceicao also expect Alan Varela in the club. let’s do it. let’s give the strong signal to the team, to the coach that we all believe.
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I think that Calabria story in the AC Milan is over, at least for now. why? compare Calabria with Dimarco (I know that is other side of defence) . Calabria is just professional and Dimarco is Legendary level. that’s the reason why Conceicao decided to buy Walker. simple.
The standard of that league is lower than Serie A. Do you want to end up with another waste like we have in the past when signing players from Holland and Portugal. Especially strikers.
It seems that our management never learns. This is not summer where we have the luxury to lowball for weeks and get the player on the dying days of the transfer window, the current transfer window ends this week.
Feyenoord has NO reason to accept anything less that 40M€ and don’t need to sell Giménez this winter so let’s stop lowballing shall we.
Also if they’re willing to spend something in the range of 35M€, why not get Lucca and Prati/Frendrup ?
In any case, if we fail to get any useful player by the end of this transfer window, especially a midfielder, Moncada and Zlatan should be sacked. They shouldn’t be with the team by the end of February, period.
Aside from Zlatan who probably remember this from his days as a player, I am not even sure these clowns know how long the winter market lasts. I am not even joking. They’re THAT level of bad at their job.
I was on the feyenoord website i created an account their will delete is tommorow but they said for more that 35 he can leave. So milan should try 33+ potential bonuses like if he scores 20+ goals etc.
No, for 40 million he can leave.
If you ask the supporters? They want 40-45 million.
Folks here who are more knowledgeable about finance – I confess that I understand very little – could you please explain something that is a great mystery to me? In short: if the club has the resources to offer, say, 35M for a player, a player whose everyone in the board considers to be of great importance to the project, is it plausible and reasonable to believe that they cannot offer the additional 5M demanded by the selling club?
Depends on how close they are to having 70% of the revenues allocated to player costs (more then just wages and transfer fees included here like agent commisions, amortization of player contracts etc).
Concidering Milan managements tactics of negotiating for a month to get a players prize down 5 mil like they did with Fofana, there cant be much wiggle room?
But if the difference is just 5 mil there should be ways to fix that if they really want the player: sell a youth player, or loan out two players so their wages are paid by someone else, or secure some extra revenues for this fiscal year
I wonder when the annual report for 23/24 is available for download. It would be interesting to see the numbers of the income statement there. So far I can only find 22/23 on the homepage
Last year’s profit was €4.6 million. There’s a reason they haggle over ‘only €5 million’.
Thats different thou. Not sure on the exact number for Italy beacuse it differs between the leagues but Milan can make a combined loss of maximum 60 millions over 3 years (i think thats the number now, it was 30 million before but was raised in 2022) if it is covered by a direct contribution from the club’s owner.
So if Milan stays within 70% squad costs but makes a loss of either max 5 million which is always allowed, or 60 million over 3 years but that sum it is covered by a direct contribution from the club’s owner, they still comply with FFP rules. So you can make a loss and still be fine.
Here are 2 quote from UEFA-
“The new football earnings requirements are an evolution of the existing break-even requirements and will bring greater ability to club finances. To ease the implementation for clubs, the calculation of football earnings is similar to the calculation of the break-even result. While the acceptable deviation has increased from €30m over three years to €60m over three years, requirements to ensure the fair value of transactions, to improve the clubs’ balance sheet, and to reduce debts have been significantly strengthened.”
“The biggest innovation in the new regulations will be the introduction of a squad cost rule to bring better cost control in relation to player wages and transfer costs. The regulation limits spending on wages, transfers, and agent fees to 70 per cent of club revenue. Assessments will be performed on a timely basis and breaches will result in pre-defined financial penalties and sporting measures. The new regulations will come into force in June 2022. There will be gradual implementation over three years to allow clubs the necessary time to adapt.”
I think that also meant you could have costs of 90% of revenues on squads in 2023, 80% in 2024 and now 70% for 2025. So alot of clubs are in the middle of cutting down wages and other player related costs this year.
Thats probably with our manegement is busy doing also
I also don’t understand it. If you really believe in a player, then you shouldn’t cancel it based on 5 million. Ofcourse there are always risks, but every club takes those risks.
They cancelled Thuram operation because of 1 million 😂 You can expect any type of coward behavior from this board
Going back to the Fofana project, it has always seemed like they are spending the very last euro they have on hand. They make it look as if they would be completely broke after the deal is closed. It is comical.
very creative point of view. but you know what is happening in our times…
We know how this will end. We’ll keep lowballing, they will get offended, and either will not sell him to us or another club will step in and snatch him. Then it will be too late to get any other worthy player as a plan B. Our managers are amateurs and never learn.
By now everyone knows Milan’s negotiating tactics. We will continue to inch forward then another club will come in and pay what they want…
That didn’t happen with CDK or Fofana. It only happened with Zirkzee because of the agent’s fees, not the transfer fee.
It didn’t happen because they wanted to join Milan only at that time. Gimenez is wanted by a lot of clubs.
CDK was wanted by Leeds. Gimenez has already agreed terms with Milan. He isn’t linked with other elite clubs. In any case, there are only a few days left, I don’t think he’s arriving.
Only if feyernood accept this last offer for Gimenez. This management will not sign any player this January transfer
36m is too much for a guy playing in Holland, no offense but playing in the Eredivisie is not Serie A, a midfielder you can take the gamble but not on a striker, you might end up with Afonso Alves. 25-30m is a fair price. Idiots above who say it’s too little play too much FIFA and don’t have a clue what they’re talking about. Need I remind you of Andre Silva. These leagues are not Serie A. Not even CR7 won the golden boot every season coming out here.
I understand what you say. Problem is only that is the market, even if it’s the Dutch league. They sell a midfielder for 30 million, so it’s not weird if you ask 40 million for a striker.
Feyenoord is also looking at Ajax and PSV and the fees they are receiving. If Ajax can get 30 million for a very very bad striker Brobbey, then Feyenoord is in their right to ask more for Gimenez.
The fact that we are negotiating 33M vs. 36M is the bigger problem with our management than any of the poor transfers they have brought in. Despite 10 people in a room who all could individually lose 3M and still be insanely wealthy, they will delay tactic to save some change. Even if we get him this is at the cost of (a) making it easier on the coach by bringing him sooner, (b) being able to dictate the rest of our market more clearly once a big piece has been achieved, and (c) we could have had him already integrated into the team by the derby. Im a die hard Milan fan, but this leadership is honestly a little pathetic. I dont know what happened, its not the finances, its a mentality.
The Dutch League is indeed very different then the Italian but he got 6 goals in 8 cl games and in ul 6 in 11.
Santiago is not like brobbey, Santi scores goals all year long. We dont feel like we need to get Santiago soon 😁