AC Milan announced the signing of Malick Thiaw from Schalke 04 yesterday, managing to wrap up and operation they have been trying to complete for some time.
According to MilanNews, Milan have been after Thiaw since January but Schalke 04 were asking for over €10m then. However, this time out of necessity they decided to sell the German U21 international for €5m plus €2m in bonuses, and he signed a contract with the Rossoneri until 2027.
The report mentions how Paolo Maldini’s call was once again crucial just as it was in the Theo Hernandez and Fikayo Tomori operations.
Thiaw stated: “It’s incredible, I haven’t realised it yet. I met Maldini for the first time today, it was crazy, I was very happy. I was excited, I immediately told my parents when they called me.”
Maldini, Ricky Massara and the scouting area chose a physically strong centre-back at 1.94m tall to help overcome the problem of crosses, but they also chose a young player who can grow.
Thiaw actually already has plenty of experience with over 60 appearances for the first team at Schalke, and the feeling is that Milan did well to wrap up an operation worth a maximum of €7m
This GdS article translated by SempreMilan (ignored by many) is very accurate in predicting Milan summer mercato:
https://sempremilan.com/serie-a-rules-milan-summer-squad-breakdown/
So far, 2 signings (CDK and Thiaw) had been U21 and if Vrantckx join it will be 3. All of them fit that article’s premise.
Well not quite. They still had to sign Florenzi re-sign Mirante as his contract was up and they’re both >21. They had to do it for the local academy requirement. Technically they’re both signings as they were not going to be Milan players come July 1st.
Milan also didn’t have to sign Under 21s. They happen to sign U21s as is their current policy but they could have easily signed older players (max of two, along with Florenzi and Mirante) as long as they came up through a local academy e.g. Berardi, Bellotti. Matter of fact they did do so with F &M
This GdS article translated by SempreMilan (ignored by many) is very accurate in predicting Milan mercato:
sempremilan*com/serie-a-rules-milan-summer-squad-breakdown/
So far, 2 signings (CDK and Thiaw) had been U21 and if Vrantckx join it will be 3. All of them fit that article’s premise.
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then we should’ve renewed Kessie contract
No. He won’t sign for what we offer him, and keep increased his demand when we offer what he want. so let bygone be gone.
He is gone already so just support our current team and stop whining.
True but his agent don’t want him to renew at Milan.
His agent only want big commissions for himself and very high salary for Cashie.
What is this
Why would Schalke demand 10m ? Isn’t his release clause valued at 7-8m? So why not pay that instead 🤷♂️My guess is Milan simply paid the release clause or offered something slightly less as they’re quite cheap lol