As much as working on incoming signings is fun, AC Milan must also work on the outgoing players at the club, and the time to do so is running out.
Before the mercato opened, there were plans to part with several returning players – either a permanent ending to their time at the club, or temporary – and to their credit, Milan have done well with that so far. However, there are still several players who must leave the club before the end of the window.
After the news that Pierre Kalulu will depart to Juventus, Milan News has stated there are still five ‘main suspects’ to depart the club: Divock Origi, Fode Ballo-Toure, Yacine Adli, Filippo Terracciano, and Tommaso Pobego, and in most cases, there is progress being made.
As reported this morning, Origi is the subject of interest from several leagues, and he is considering his options, but if nothing comes to fruition it is possible his contract will be terminated. A similar fate could also await Ballo-Toure after his move to Saint-Etienne broke down.
Another player who has been a topic of interest is Pobega, and it was suggested that Bologna are in the running for the midfielder, with the Rossoneri expecting an official bid shortly.
For Adli and Terraciano, there is interest, but currently, there are no moves in the pipeline.
add RLC and Jovic to that list. none of them deserve Milan shirts, even more N8 and N9.
get Kone, Ricci/Locatelli, Omoridion/Gimenez/Gyokeres! This is our Scudetto winning team, otherwise I think another top 2-3 finish!
We are selling Kalulu for what? Selling these 5 won’t do much max 20M, but add 5-6M of Jovic plus EPL teams can easily pay 25-30M for RLC, since even on this forum people think he’s better than Bennacer just because he scored 10 goals. This quality of his made our midfield dysfunctional, which was clear when he was put into double-pivot.
This 50M will finance the 2 midfielders and initial loan + option/obligation, why is that Juve and Inter and every team spam this formula while we are lazy to do it once to actually strengthen our team?
Fortunately, no one is going to listen to your idiotic takes.
Yeah Jovic with the power of friendship and RLC who can’t rotate his head around to mark or defend anyone, just running around like headless chicken will help us win. Ahahahahah
No balance in midfield… no one to score goals…
Try coping hulk’s muscle mass and not brain mass @uberhulk
This is deja vu from last year. Talk that Pobega, Ballo Toure, Origi etc leaving. In the end we barely managed to loan out Origi.
I’ll wait til theyre confirmed because wanting players to leave and actually selling them, are two vastly different scenarios.
MilanNews forgot to include Bennacer in this list.
I’d rather keep Adli, who can provide different characteristics than the rest of the Milan midfielders. He has the frame and, with a little more work, can adapt to the new position.
Bennacer is literally a regista, like Adli, but way better… I can sympathize with keeping both, like giving Adli time to grow in size, if he can’t go for better alternative
Bennacer does everything better than RLC, but I don’t hear you screaming the latter’s name
Please elaborate what is that everything that Bennacer does better than RLC.
Like he should elaborate please, what exactly is Bennacer doing that is better? Average players with mediocre ideas,RLC is by far the better candidate
Rlc better than who
I guess you watch back of tv 🤣🤣
LOL if you need to ask you don’t understand or watch football?!
How about the fact Bennacer won AFCON and was player of the tournament!
Better –
control
Dribbling
Shooting
Workrate
Tackling
Passing
Are you bringing up stuff from 2019.
It’s 2024, brother. We are talking about today not 5,6 years ago.
RLC scored 10 goals just last season, plus 2 assits.
Bennacer has scored a total of 8 goals for Milan and 11 assists in 5 seasons. What Better shooting and passing are we talking about here?
He might be a better tackler than RLC, that’s about it.
Work rate? Go watch Bennacer quiting or walking during Torino counter attacks.
First man subbed off vs Torino under a new coach just like under Pioli last season.
You do have nice takes sometimes, but I don’t understand your desdain for Bennacer. I know many posters overrate him sometimes but you’re acting like his a Pobega 2.0.
Regarding his comparison to Loftus-Cheek during last season:
In progressive passes: Bennacer is in the 48,5 percentile, Loftus-Cheek is in the 2,2 (which is quite mediocre) (Datamb)
Key passes: Bennacer 70th percentile, RLC 50th (datamb)
Forward passes: Bennacer 73,3th percentile (with 88,7% accuracy), RLC 2,5th percentile (with 83% accuracy) (Datamb)
Successfull defensive actions: Bennacer 47,7th percentile, RLC 14th percentile (Datamb)
% Duels wons: Bennacer 65th percentile, RLC 42th percentile (Datamb)
The only paramater where RLC is better is progressive ball carrying where he is in the 92th percentile while Bennacer is only in the 55th percentile (Datamb).
And according to fbref (another source), during the last year:
Bennacer is better in the number of passes attempted and completed and he has more progressive passes while RLC has more progressive carries and more touches in the opposition’s box (since he plays more upfront).
Defensively, Bennacer has more tackles, interceptions and clearances, while RLC has more blocks and aerial wons.
Finally, a human detected… People see 10 goals and think he’s some midfield maestro…
defensive stats are bad enough. comparing players who played in different positions makes it nonsense. ill bet that mike had more forward passing then all of them…but I won’t tell you why…
I don’t think that either of them is particularly good right now not because of skills but because of the number of injuries they have sustained. Availability is a metric and over the last 4 years…having Bennacer for 50% of games makes it hard to value him at anything but half of what you would value him if he was a full time player.
Also not all tackles are made equal…the tackles that Adli didn’t make last season lead to 8-10 extra goals for opponents (when combined with being sloppy on ball). Whereas he averaged more defensive actions than tonali and kessie each in 21-22…you can make these numbers say whatever you want…
@danc27:
I won’t disagree completely about stats being taken out of context, but if RLC is held to such a high standard by some people here because he scored 10 goals while playing pretty much as a second-striker while Bennacer is playing as a DM, I’m sure you wouldn’t mind comparing them in other areas even when it doesn’t favour RLC.
Also I’m not trying to make a case for either of them being so good. IMO, at best either of them is a luxury bencher, but I was simply comparing them.
Tackle. His main job, and pass.
Milan will won if any of them is also “just” on loan.
Pobega – can stay. He is our player. I don’t believe that Milan want sell Pobega. Adli – for his sake should go. He deserves team where he will continue to play. Milan can’t register him.
For Origi – Milan must at least send him on loan even if Milan pay part of his salary. Just like Juventus did with Arthur.
Ballo Toure is not important. He can stay and be punished in Milan Futuro and forced to play and train with them.
And Terracciano… why to sell him? Use little bit in some.non important minutes
@Ben Dixon
I have to take issue with.
“– either a permanent ending to their time at the club, or temporary – and to their credit, Milan have done well with that so far.”
How have we done well so far with our exits?
We can only register 17 non national trained/academy trained players.
And we have way more than that.
Apart from Kalulu. Everyone else that has left is academy trained. The ones over 23 are almost irreplaceable.
And most of the imminent deals appear to be for Pobega (academy) and Terracciano (national).
We desperately need to move someone out of Adli, Bennacer or RLC.
Not to mention Origi and FBT.
I don’t think the exit part of our market is going well at all.
with 3 places in midfield Milan need 6 quality players for starters and depth for any meaningful impact this season (4 dms and 2 ams ). this being said I will go for Tijjani, Fofana, Musah,Pullisic,Zelori, and buy one additional dm. All others should be earmarked for sale.
I like keeping RLC. He’s super flexible – can play CM, CAM, in the pivot, or even provides cover at RB and maybe even at LB. You want to know who plays RWB in a back 3 for this team? RLC is who. He could probably even play LB. If we have a legitimate hole in the team for this season it’s backup LB. Isn’t that what Terraciano plays?
I think Adli is probably the one to move next, then one of Bennacer/Musah. If Musah, I’d loan him out. He needs to play.
I’d sell Saelemakers, too.
RLC can’t play pivot, nor CAM without endangering the rest of the midfield… If he played once or twice as RWB, doesn’t make him RB and even more a LB… have you watched him ever play except for highlights?!
Our management is 1. HOPELESS at selling and 2. WAY to slow when it comes to either purchases or sales.
I’ll be amazed if 2 of these guys leave.
Also, RLC should leave. For his size he doesn’t actually do anything. His (mostly) tap-in goals are probably all that saves him, but he is not starter material.
Divock Origi, Fode Ballo-Toure, Yacine Adli, Filippo Terracciano, and Tommaso Pobega: five extremely mediocre players who shouldn’t be playing for Milan.
Origi is one of the worst footballers I’ve ever seen. Is he really a professional footballer??? Ballo has no skills whatsoever. Adli is slow and defends poorly. Terracciano is completely clueless, always off position, no awareness at all. Pobega is slow. Even slower than Adli.
If we successfully get rid of these five, good riddance! I’d rather not have someone to list for one of the European spots, rather than listing Pobega whose only redeeming quality is that he is eligible for the UEFA lists. I’d rather not pay a salary to someone so useless, and have one fewer person in that list. We should list him, for what? To completely freeze Milan with his slowness, if he were to play the difficult games against European opponents?
If we could get rid of RLC and get Koné instead despite the Mercato being almost closed, it would be ideal, as I consider Koné to be better than RLC at Central Attacking Midfielder. But I’m less willing to get rid of RLC because although very irregular and with bad games more often than good games, sometimes RLC is excellent. I don’t understand why he is so irregular. He can go from Man of the Match to worst player on the pitch in two consecutive games. Incredible. But at least, sometimes he helps, unlike the five players quoted above.
Chukweze and Saelemaekers are players who are highly irregular too. Both are capable of superb games and of total disasters. But it’s too late in the Mercato to replace them so I guess they should stay.
I’d love to see someone take Thiaw from our hands. I’d sell Thiaw for a symbolic fee of 1 Euro, if someone wanted him as a gift. Thiaw is horrible, gaffe-prone, and keeps causing us to drop points with alarming frequency. Thiaw should never wear the Milan jersey again. It’s hard to know who is worse, Origi, or Thiaw. Origi is useless, does nothing. But Thiaw on top of being useless, concedes own goals, concedes silly penalty kicks, completely loses his man who then scores at will, etc. Thiaw is more detrimental to Milan than the traffic cone called Origi.