In a summer where departures feel increasingly likely, it seems AC Milan are doing everything to keep their star players.
From reports today, we already know that Adrien Rabiot is increasingly likely to remain at Milan through the summer and there have already been calls made to Mike Maignan to ask the same of him.
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For what it is worth, Gerry Cardinale also called Rafael Leao and the door was not closed on his continuation with the Rossoneri.
However, there are others who face departures this summer and the American is trying to keep and secure them.
Cardinale’s hopes
According to Gazzetta dello Sport, he does not want to lose his ‘big names’, which is why he has shut down the exit talk for Christian Pulisic. He has a contract until 2027 – or 2028, with the option to extend included – and he intends to extend that this summer.
Discussions are expected to restart after the World Cup, where all parties should have a clear mind on the future.
Additionally, he wants to keep Luka Modric at Milanello. Earlier this morning, it was suggested that Ruben Amorim is building a plan for the Croatian and Cardinale wants to help convince him of that.
He will not allow distractions during the World Cup, so it is another case for later. However, a renewal is not off the table and the owner is eager to talk about the future.
Pulisic can still be useful, but why should we focus on an old 41 year old who is a minus in the line up we need to have two powerful and capable double pivots in midfield, he is slow old and predictable,we need to start building for the next era, we need to use our young midfielders properly….
I wouldn’t worry too much, the media has no idea what is going on at Milan. They literally just make stuff up. When was the last time reports were right about Milan?
Also the focus on Modric resigning is about jersey sales not football
“When was the last time reports were right about Milan?” . Us getting Amorim, Ralph Ragnick rejecting us, likely us hiring internally. You just have to sift through the bs. Where there’s smoke there might be fire. There are lots of stuff that they get wrong tho ngl
You need to grow your brain. That is the first step.
“he is slow old and predictable”
Predictable as in quaranteed quality. He keeps his level roughly the same. Unlike some people.
Sure, you can call him slow but he’s still in the top-4 of Milan players and way ahead of any other midfielder in the club exc. Rabiot.
And even being “slow” as you said, he was in fact the most consistent performer all season. You knew what he’d deliver – and he did.
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The phone call to Pulisic: ” Hey Christian, don’t you want to come back and play for your 5th different manager in under 4 seasons, and learn anther set of tactics and style of play, and be asked to play yet another different position?
Sounds great!
Finally! Seems like you’re finally understanding what an atrocious owner we have and the decisions made thereof by him and by extension the management he’s put in place to run the club. I knew you’d come around some day. Took you several years but you got it 👏 👏 👏
Don’t hurt yourself patting yourself on the back. Especially you who has been wrong about an infinite number of things. You were and still are wrong about your reasons. If the owner didn’t care about winning he wouldn’t keep making changes. If all you care about is money it doesn’t make sense to keep firing managers and hiring new ones. The guy is trying, some people in charge have just made bad decisions when it comes to the coach. The worst one being Allegri, which a lot of the geniuses on here were all for.
Now the owner deserves some blame for the people around him that have made poor decisions, altho I think Furlani was the biggest problem and that’s not someone Cardinale put in charge, that was Elliott.
But most of the people on here just hate him because he’s American and keep spouting the same ignorant nonsense that it’s all about profit and doesn’t care about winning. Those people are fools and you are probably one of them.
Gerry doesn’t care about winning football matches. He cares about making money.
His problem us his ego and its finally taken this long for him to understand that making money isn’t just about partnerships and media brand. It all stems from winning football matches.
He bares a lot of the blame. From firing M&M to allowing the decision to move to a Furlani, Moncada and Pioli system to bringing in Ibra. Then allowing Ibra to destroy Furtuo. Moving to allowing the infighting that saw 2 managers in 1 season. Finally understanding the need to win and how it affects the bottom line, getting a good technical director and historically good coach. Only to miss the goal.once again.
Cardinale came in thinking making money would be easy. What he learned is, winning is hard.
Sporting director*
“See… Here’s one of these fools right now.
I love all these half-wits pretending to know what’s in other people’s heads and what their motivation is.
Nobody buys a football club because they think it’s going to be easy money. That’s moronic. And if you have made enough money to buy a football club, surely that’s not the case. Stop trying to get inside the head of people who are way smarter than you are. Or maybe you should put together the money from all of your successful businesses and buy the club…
Ibra destroyed Futuro? Ok. Because they were producing such amazing talents before he took over, right?
LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 classic K. Wrong and strong. Welp that lasted the whole of 10 minutes.. back to regular scheduled programming buffoonery
I think Pulisic had enough of the instability around the club. Modric seems more likely to stay next season.
And I had to change the nickname as I was banned for the 70th time.
Sell him too just another average player
Even at 41 modric is the best player milan has, technicaly, tactically and even in training. he is literally the one guy you can bank on in any given difficult situation. i dont see a player above him in milan and no one of the current squad would even be at his level at his age. so Janice STFU
I like it when he fixes his hair…