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CorSport: Milan see second Gimenez bid rejected – new attempt already planned

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AC Milan are trying to land Santiago Gimenez before the winter transfer window ends, but have had another bid rejected by Feyenoord.

That is according to Corriere dello Sport (via MilanNews), who confirm that Milan have chosen Gimenez as the man they want to be their striker for the future, so much so that they are willing to make an economic investment.

It won’t be easy to get him before the window closes though, because the Dutch club are continuing to put up a wall and have also said no to Milan’s second offer of €31m (€4m more than the first proposal put forward).

Feyenoord are demanding more and will stand firm given their desire not to lose him mid-season. Time is running out for Milan with seven days left, and a higher offer is necessarily needed to convince the Rotterdam club to let their star man depart.

 

Both Milan and Feyenoord will be in action tomorrow evening in the last match of the ‘league phase’ of the 2024-25 Champions League, against Dinamo Zagreb and Lille respectively. Both teams have the chance to finish among the top eight in the standings and thus qualify directly for the round of 16.

For this reason, at least until tomorrow evening it is likely that there will be no news on the negotiations for Gimenez, who in the meantime continues to push to move to the Rossoneri. The operation remains complicated, however, and without a significant raise it is unlikely to happen.

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42 Comments

    1. The market isn’t over yet. We should judge the results at the end, even if the track record of this management is dubious. Remember Fofana’s case, where we haggled for weeks until we finally paid up the full amount, because we really wanted the player. You never know until the mercato is over.

      1. The problem with that is also that how earlier in the window you get the player, how better, because he has more time to adjust.

        1. Feyenoord would have never let him go before the CL game this week, so that´s not on our management. No money in the world could have changed that.

      2. And got the player to miss an already short pre-season and lost few games because he wasn’t in shape… yes very smart management policy.

  1. They’re going to overpay, then be disappointed. But there’s no stopping this runaway train apparently. Nothing to do but stand back and watch the disaster unfold.

  2. he is not worth it , wait to summer and get elite striker like Isak or Gyokeres or Osimhen any of them will do just fine

    1. lmao, this guy is more delusional than the management…

      the best we can do is to get Gimenez now and J.David for free in the summer… these “entrepreneurs” should understand that if we can get the North American trio, it would also skyrocket our income in sales…

      J.David is upgrade on Morata who has similar false 9 type of style while the Mexican is the classic one that we have lacked for a while now…

      Gimenez, J.David, Morata, Camarda would be a good frontline…

      1. Agreed but I don’t think we’ll splash out for David, even on a free (agents fees + wage demands)

        If we get Gimenez… and it’s still an if … I think the management and staff will be content with him backed up by Morata and Camarda.

        They can save their summer budget for Ricci (hopefully).

    2. In what world do you this this cheap ownership will go and spend 70-100M for players like Gyokeres or Osimhen??????????????

      We can’t even spend over 20-25M on a player and all of a sudden we will spend 70-100M????

      Pass what you are smoking my friend 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

      1. Jiminez is the best we can afford, in my opinion. If we can get J David in summer, great, but Ricci should be prioritised then.

      2. No club in serie A could spend that kind of money. You guys think it is a video game, where you just go and get whoever you want. As if what the player themselves mean does not matter.

    3. Oh yes! oh no! Osimhen and Gyokeres combined?? Well we should raise fund for our beloved club, starting from you: Milan “Hard” OnlyFan. Maybe management will seek fund also.

  3. I believe with 35mil they should release to Milan if not we should just let go and go get lucca of udinese and prepare for him next season conceicao plays 4-4-2 lucca and gimenez upfront release Tammy and every other subordinate strikers except morata whom we need his experience.

  4. And you think Milan can get Isak,Gyokeres or Osimhen for that amount? Milan can’t even pay 40 for Gimenez and you’re calling for highly rated strikers in world.

    1. He’s nowhere near worth 40m, nobody pays 40m for one of the Eredivisie strikers. You don’t want to end up with a 40m dud. 25-28m max for this guy. You’re better off getting Osimhen.

  5. According to Gimenez himself Milan offered half of what Notts Forest offered last summer 33m /2= 16.5m

    Reputable sources say our first offer in January was 20m with some bonus, to be payed over 4 years. So Feyenord would be getting 5m now for the star player they don’t want to sell

    Its genius stuff and absolutely guaranteed to fail.
    Waste of everybody’s time.

    Whats more its another example of a club telling Milan their asking price, gettting permission to talk to the player, then low balling and getting the players to force an exit.

    Nobody will let us negotiate with their players in future

  6. milan is in no position to bargain.
    no time left.
    this is proof that the management can only “react” and not “act” .
    if they were serious they should have had concrete targets weeks ago when they agreed deal with conceicao.
    they wasted a whole window now.

  7. Our brain devoid management yet again playongnthe dumbest game ever seen just to end up saving a few pennies if we even complete the signing, at the very last moment, and the player gets no time to integrate with the team, and things go south. And then they throw their hands up wondering why their “brilliant market strategy” hasn’t brought any results in over 2 years

  8. If his valuation is 40 mil there is no way they let him go for 35 or under in January. Prices in January are usually 10-20% higher then in the summer because its mid season and often impossible to find an equally good replacement that can come in and perform right away.

    So clubs want extra compensation for leaving themselves in a bad situation if they sell a key player.

    If Feyenoord vauled him at 35 in the summer and 40 now. Milan gonna have to cough up 40 mil. 35 mil + 5 in easy reachable bonuses might do it.

  9. In my opinion it’s actually a smart move to keep up this Gimenez story to work in silence on Joao Felix. We don’t need a number 9 cause we currently don’t have the wingers to play 442. imagine Leao, Puli and two strikers, who will defend?

    We are bound to 433 + extra striker for the end of the game when not leading, for the rest of the season. Felix is perfect for that extra winger option or additional false 9.

  10. It’s the same situation as Fofana.
    We are using the players desire to come to drive down the price.
    Selling club is holding firm. Eventually with Fofana we had to pay their asking price as we desperately needed a player with his profile.
    And doing the deal so late shot ourselves in the foot for the season preparations.

    The situation is repeating.
    Doing the deal so late will not allow time to ship other players out.

  11. If not Gimenez, maybe we should try to bring Vlahovic , his contract ends in 1,5 year and he don’t want to renew with Juve. For him is better to play 442 and his price is around 50m€ . Vlahovic and Morata can be great duo

  12. So the options have become:

    1. spend too much money on a CF from another league who does not obviously have the profile to succeed as a lone striker in Italy and who is not obviously any change from what we already have; OR

    2. spend half the sum on a player already in Italy and whose game has been shown to work, both for the quality of his hold-up / back to goal play and physicality, and his goal scoring.

    Obviously, Milan wants to go with 1 during winter. Form over substance accounts for 85% of what current management is responsible for. So I guess there is no reason it should change now.

    It’s not even about Lucca being Italian as far as I am concerned. That he is Italian simply make him affordable. Milan desperately needs someone who can dominate that #10 space (in the way that a proper #10 does or that way a CF like Zirkzee or Lucca does) because it is desperately lacking players who can help to dictate the tempo of a match and the spaces it is being played in.

    A CF who can dominate with his back to goal is the single most important position Milan could fill right now. But it’s not flashy so it won’t be done.

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