After nine long years, AC Milan are back among the best 16 teams in Europe and they secured it thanks to last night’s 4-0 win against Red Bull Salzburg at San Siro.
Needing only a draw to seal progress, the Rossoneri finished second in Group E of the Champions League with a rout of the Austrian champions in what was a clinical and dominant performance compared to the bad result on Sunday against Torino.
Corriere della Sera (via MilanNews) reports this morning that Milan have ticked off their first target of the season. Before the match there was a lot of anxiety because everyone from players to fans, management to owners knew very well how important the game was.
Once again Olivier Giroud chased away all the fears of a big occasions as he unlocked the match in the first half with a header from a corner kick, while he provided the assist for Rade Krunic’s goal to make it 2-0 and then got his second with a close-range finish before finally setting up Junior Messias.
Milan were under pressure only in the first half, then in the second half the Rossoneri domination was overwhelming. Stefano Pioli could not celebrate the renewal of his contract until 2025 in a better way, and reaching the UCL round of 16 is also very important at an economic level since, since the club will collect an extra €20m which is certainly good for the budget.
Time to renew Bennacer and Leao for the €4M and €7M respectively. Extra €1M for each should easily be found from this surplus.
Actually that’s 8M and 10M after tax. Every year during their stay, and Leao’s will be 14M after 2 seasons. Sounds not that easy after all eh?
Tony wouldn’t understand about tax lol
Bennacer is a no brainer but Leao im not so sure anymore.. He’s strolling after we completed an attacking action is getting really annoying. there you have Rebić, the atk is over and he is sprinting back to his position to help the team in getting the ball back, on the other side you have Leao doing nothing except being in offside and walking, one time he was just lying there becure he missed a chance.. like wtf man, get up and play ffs. For 7M€ you better run your lungs out, its expected from a winger to do it, win the ball back, put some pressure on. Do something. Even Ibra at 40 does at least that
Even the old man Giroud runs more and participates in defensive work as well.
true
Give the money to isma and Rafael
20M i thought it was more than that for round 16