PM: Milan may sign just one new forward – the current thoughts on the playmaker role

By Oliver Fisher -

AC Milan directors Paolo Maldini and Ricky Massara have a clear vision in mind with regards to the attacking midfielder role, a report claims.

Despite winning the Scudetto last season, there will be some overhaul in the squad as Alessio Romagnoli is close to Lazio, Franck Kessié already has an agreement with Barcelona, Zlatan Ibrahimović’s future is uncertain, Renato Sanches and Sven Botman could both arrive from Lille and Divock Origi seems destined to join on a free transfer.

There will be some loan returns like Tommaso Pobega and Lorenzo Colombo who will need their futures resolving, while renewals like those of Sandro Tonali, Rafael Leao, Pierre Kalulu, Fikayo Tomori, Ismael Bennacer and more will be tackled.

Regarding the playmaker role, PianetaMilan reports that Brahim Díaz will be kept for the second year of his loan from Real Madrid and Renato Sanches can also occupy that role, just as Kessie – the man he is replacing – did a few times last season.

The idea is also to give confidence to Yacine Adli who returns to the Rossoneri after his loan at Bordeaux and is a natural in the attacking midfielder role. Therefore, unless Ante Rebić is sold, it is possible that only one new forward is signed such as a right winger who can also cover the No.10 position.

Tags AC Milan Brahim Diaz Renato Sanches Yacine Adli

16 Comments

  1. Yes so invest 30 Mil into a position where we already are comfortable in and not invest into a position which we are lacking in quality currently, makes sense

  2. Please Maldini let Brahim go! He’s Madrid player and developing him would not be beneficial for us, and I would be ok if he stayed another year if he didn’t suck so much, but he absolutely does! It’s like playing with 10 men every time he starts! even worse he’s gonna limit the playing time of Daniel Maldini and Adli and prevent the signing of CDK! KICK HIM OUT!!!

    1. 👍

      In: Plizzari, Botman or Bremer, cambiasso, Florenzi, Pobega, Renato Sanches, Adli , CDK, Deulefeu, Asensio, Origi and Belotti.

      Out: Tata, Romagnoli, Duarte, caldara,Balo, Kessie, Bakayoko , Diaz, Rebic, Samu (Maldini and Lazetic Loan)

  3. With the way players are expensive,apart from Origi, get Belloti for free, then give either Marko Lazetić or Luan Capanni a serious chance, play them and give them confidence, let’s see how it works

  4. Bullshit news once again has if we are going to keep Diaz to play as back up of Adli and wen Adli is out Pioli plays Krunic or someone else instead of Diaz he dont have what it takes to carry our nº10 shirt!We are gonna sign CDK to be our nº10 and Adli is gonna be is backup Diaz can go back to spain looking for one mid table team where he belongs!

  5. Bull shit news once again has if we are going to keep Diaz to play as back up of Adli and wen Adli is out Pioli plays Krunic or someone else instead of Diaz he dont have what it takes to carry our nº10 shirt!We are gonna sign CDK to be our nº10 and Adli is gonna be is backup Diaz can go back to spain looking for one mid table team where he belongs!

  6. Has if we are going to keep Diaz to play as back up of Adli and wen Adli is out Pioli plays Krunic or someone else instead of Diaz he dont have what it takes to carry our nº10 shirt!We are gonna sign CDK to be our nº10 and Adli is gonna be is backup Diaz can go back to spain looking for one mid table team where he belongs!

  7. Also, why don’t we try Diaz in the RW position? He’s to weak to be in the centre of the pitch so why not on the wing with his technical ability?

  8. I still do not see what Milan see in this Diaz, the dude has been outgrown by Milan team, he gives nothing to attack, midfield or defense, I am so tired of watching that dude play and riuning our matches for us, not minding that he has not committed to Milan but have steadily made it clear that he wants Madrid……CDK or nothing

    1. Remember he won the most crucial match for milan against inter, his presence was known immediately he enters. he was the best milan player in the first 5 matches

  9. People freaking out again, despite the fact that everything is speculation until it’s official. Nevertheless, I jump into the fray: How likely were we ever to spend money on AMC when we have Diaz, Adli and Sanches who can all play in this position? Origi is being brough in as a striker. So the only new attacking player will probably be a RW and it seems the mostly likely candidate is Lang. So the new arrivals will be Origi, Lang, Sanches and Botman (plus Adli and Pobega returning from loans). That’s it. That’s around a 70m spend, and given Milan’s frugality I think this makes sense. Sorry if this isn’t Nkunku/CDK/Antony/God, but Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither is Milan.

    1. And no use speculating about Investcorp, because if they were so rich then they wouldn’t have financed any part of their deal and you’d be hearing how they’re now looking at other clubs, which they’re not to my knowledge, so I doubt things would be incredibly different. Nevermind that the Redbird deal isn’t even inked, so neither party (seller or buyer) is going to be making huge moves on a property that is not completely under countrol.

      1. Dude, they manage 35 billion in assets and you are saying they don’t have money. Hahahahahahahah. I’d say that the loan for the stadium will come from Elliot and that is why they picked these other guys. They literally had an exclusive deal and it was supposed to be private but the vulture fund (that is their nickname) put it out to media so they can get a better price and make more money probably agreeing on some future loans as well. You know, like agents do for players. Everything else is you people being naive, you will see within a year.

  10. You are 100% right xiangfu he was milan best player in the first 5 matches after that AC Milan played some more matches in CL got to semi-finals in Coppa Itallia and won the Scudetto in all those matches we he played looked like AC Milan had just ten players in the field!

  11. I think Diaz should go, he is not strong enough to wear the number 10 for us, Rebic should be given one last chance..

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