AC Milan are keeping their options open with the January window to open in less than three weeks, and a target from France has emerged.
Milan are looking for the right players to add to coach Massimiliano Allegri’s squad as he battles for the Scudetto. There have been many players linked in the past few weeks, with most of them being strikers given the issues in attack.
While Robert Lewandowski and Dusan Vlahovic have been spoken about more as options for next summer, Niclas Fullkrug, Joshua Zirkzee and Lorenzo Lucca seem like possible mid-season candidates.
Cherif on the list
Tuttosport (via Calciomercato.com) are reporting that Milan’s technical director Geoffrey Moncada is eyeing Sidiki Cherif. The French striker of Guinean origin (born in 2006) has a contract with Angers until June 2028, where he developed in the youth academy.
He has scored three goals in 15 appearances this season for the first team, who play at home tonight against Nantes in the Ligue 1 clash. The presence of Milan scouts in Angers’ recent matches hasn’t gone unnoticed.
What they have reported back is positive: he is a fast striker, skilled at attacking space in behind. Several German clubs – including Hamburg, Borussia Monchengladbach, Eintracht Frankfurt and Stuttgart – are watching him too. This means his valuation has already risen to €25-30m.
sure.. he’s French so it’s mean good enough.. 3/15 goal better than 0, feels like i’m a Lecce fans
He’s 19. That kid isn’t gonna be a weekly starting striker option with the scudetto on the line.
Maybe one for the future sure, but if they want to win this year they need to buy experienced guys in January.
When will Mocanda stop buying us French garbage every now and then ?
Never. He’s a one trick pony who only goes fishing in France.
Why not zapata
Currently valued 2 mil at Transfermarkt and even if that website isn’t an exact science then 25-30 mil seems outrageous to say it mildly but what do I know as the kid soon to be 19 years old and has scored 3 goals in the equivalent of 10 full matches played. Must have a huge potential then but fact is that anyone paying that sum is paying for exactky what he might or might not become. Something is clearly rotten in the football world 😛
I’m not sure it’s rotten.
It’s how things are, you are either developing players or you are the end user.
Despite our glorious success in recent years we are still in the former category.
I remember Shevchenko being the first time we sold a top player for financial reasons. Now he was about 30 and had lost some pace so it was justifiable.
We need a complete Mindshift by the owners in order to be successful club in Europe, where we need to be. Imagine the team we could have now if we just stopped flogging off the odd good one we get
Tonali, Kessie, Kalulu, Theo, Jimenez, Tiji, Thiaw etc etc
Well if a player has roughly 10 matches and 3 goals and is valued or sold for 25-30 mil the player needs to have an extraordinary talent because you are basically just paying for potential that might or might not mount to anything hence why I consider that there is something wrong in the sport.
We sold Schevchenko because his wife wanted to live in London or at least that was what went through the grapewine back then and at the time we sold him he had already won a Ballon D’or and even his fee wasn’t much more than what is proposed for this young unproven frenchman.
Clearly something is wrong in the sport nowadays.
I wanted to keep most of those players you mentioned so its not like I thought it was a great idea selling them off.
Yeah its a lot of money for an unproven player.
I don’t have great faith in our scouts, after the recent recruitment.
If as you say he looks like the next R9 then fair enough, thats where we need better scouts.
The price of a good striker is crazy, so we need to be spotting the up and coming ones.
Troy Parrott seems like a good option, just starting to mature and has a broad skill set
Stop getting boys….get real strong men who can really score goals … that is what we need.