If you can’t beat them, sign them. That seems to be the case when it comes to AC Milan’s management, who are apparently keen on Gabriele Zappa.
As TMW report, Zappa’s brace against Milan for Cagliari at the weekend has turned the spotlight on the Italian full-back. The defender’s contract is expiring next June after playing for four years in Sardinia, and that makes him a potential opportunity to seize.
Zappa has been regular starter throughout the season under Davide Nicola, with only one substitution in the 45th minute – because he had already been booked – in the defeat against Lecce.
Over the weekend, his agent Giuseppe Riso was at the Unipol Domus in Cagliari to watch the match and Milan asked for information on his situation and the conditions he might ask for.
The Rossoneri directors are showing interest due to the probable farewell of Davide Calabria and Alessandro Florenzi, for whom there are no contractual agreements. Zappa, who can also play as a central defender, would take the place of one or both.
There is no concrete negotiation yet, but things could mature over the course of the months. On the other hand, there shouldn’t be any problems in finding a contractual agreement, but Cagliari would like to extend his deal and keep him in the squad.
A lot will depend on the interest (and offers) that Zappa receives over the next few months, while the 24-year-old admitted after scoring his two goals that Milan are his boyhood club.
Sign him, a good potential replacement for full back, he’s also italian.
Fantastic performance against us but I admit I don’t know this guy. What I do know is Cagliari are near rock bottom of the table with him as their starting cb… It’s mind blowing to me how allergic we are to proven quality cbs. Jube get Bremmer, Merde get Pavard, Crapoli get Buongiorno… We get Pavlovic who we hope grows into one of these guys…
Haha. Amateur hour. After one performance, sign him!
Who we should really take a look at is Nuno Tavares at Lazio.
To play in whose place?
Of course, it’s not every day that you get that much space on the back post, but he was only robbed of a hat-trick against us due to poor decision by Viola.
Depth signing at best. We will need depth in both rb leave. But I’d rather we get a proper lb not another player than can “cover” rb and lb and cb
Tomiyasu is the best option
Contract until 2026, experience in Serie A and Artera coaching and exp should make him easily the top 3 in our league…
Di Lorenzo the only one I think currently better than him.
Sign Ricci and Frendrup for Bennacer/RLC
Sign maybe Gnoto for Puli’s chance to play more CAM
And replace Calabria and Florenzi with Tomiyasu
Replace Jovic with J.David
65-70M for 4 players is more than fair and reasonable with these Yanks…
Also people forget the insane package we are getting in summer after Pobega, Colombo, Vasquez, Adli, Kalulu, Saelemakers sales.
Without even RLC and Bennacer incomes we should see profit.
Arteta rates Tomiyasu and he’s also played like 22 games each of the last two seasons due to injuries. Why pay $$$ for an injury prone player that is on PL wages? He also plays for a PL title contender and a top coach (albeit maybe not this season), why would he want to leave?
Ben white… Calafiori…
He’s not a guaranteed starter, before Tomiyasu he also used Kiwior as LB… And Arsenal are constantly gonna be 2-3 place team, if you honestly think they will beat either Liverpool or Man City you must not watch that much football… Chelsea and the new Man Untd under Amorin also will try to push Arsenal out of top 4, they are currently fourth btw…
Plus a lot of people underestimate how frustrating it must be for players and it shows this season, super demoralized and lazy… Why do you think Dortmund after qualifying twice in the span of 3-4 years for UCL final to then just lose, same with Atletico and many “2nd place” teams…
just dissapeared?!*
You’re saying all these players will get tired of playing for 2nd, 3rd and 4th place teams and come to Milan because we’re on our 9th consecutive scudetto? LOL. Or better to play for a 4th place targeting club in Serie A than a 4th place targeting club in the PL? And again, PL wages. Take off the rose colored glasses dude.
no Arsenal just won’t exist…
and if that team can’t win without him, why is it so hard to believe that with reinforcement including him, we can win Scudetto…
I give Arsenal 2 seasons max
2 goals against world class GK Maignan and big club like Milan, I thinks he’s special. Perfetto replacement for florenzi / calabria
Reminds me on how they scouted JP Hauge too. The scouts are getting way too lazy these days.
SAME AS ME TOO…
Okafor…
Remember how so many cried when Hauge was sold?
The decision is straightforward if Zappa offers better quality and a lower price compared to Calabria and Florenzi.