AC Milan are working on a permanent signing of Chelsea forward Christopher Nkunku, according to a report, and the Dusan Vlahovic idea seems to have lost traction.
It’s been a few chaotic days for Milan on the mercato, with a bunch of new targets emerging, while a lot of work still has to be done before the window closes. As we discussed in our latest newsletter, one can definitely voice criticism towards the management.
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In any case, the No.9 role is a big priority and the failure to secure Conrad Harder has forced the Rossoneri to look elsewhere. While Max Allegri has requested Vlahovic, Milan are reportedly working on Nkunku for the time being.
Nkunku leapfrogs Vlahovic
According to Matteo Moretto, posting a follow-up tweet on X, Milan and Chelsea are discussing a permanent deal for Nkunku. The player has already given his availability for the move and it remains to be seen if a total agreement can be reached.
As for Vlahovic, whom Moretto spoke about on YouTube, nothing has changed in the last few days. The player could actually stay at Juventus as he’s not willing to reduce his salary to join another club, not even if that club is Milan.
Furthermore, there has been no contact between the parties as the Rossoneri know the salary is an obstacle.
What a rollercoaster of mercato 😂
At this point, just go pay Lecce to break the Camarda loan early, bring him back, and start him.
Tempting tbh, but id much rather him actually get some real experience in the league rather than sit on the bench
This is real life not a video game, he isnt ready
stop trying to ruin his career
ACM pay lecce to develop camarda for every his starting , goal+ asist. Let the kid develop in lecce with calm, no need to destroy his career and put burden in his shoulder now for main striker. Remember that genoa striker 17 years ??? His career destroyed ( i forgot his name) due to his physical not ready in monaco, he got injured many times
His name Pietro Pellegri
Nkunku is yet another player with an injury record like a nightmare, but we’re basically on foodstamps for depth up top at this point. Just have to hope he can stay fit if he comes thru
£50M…you tell me. Are we going to negotiate now that mercato is about to end?
Nkunku isn’t a center forward like Vlahovic. This article makes no sense. I guess I did mistranslate because I guess they didn’t have an agreement afterall.
If he can actually stay fit, he’d be a pretty good addition, especially with 2 up top. Kind of a false 9 linking up with the mids and Vlahovic/Santi
No way do we need to be playing that false 9 nonsense.
Not in lineup, but that’s what he would likely act like. Vlahovic would already be the target man, and nkunku would likely occupy the spaces under and around him. Given allegri used to lineup with ibra and robinho up top. This is likely how he’d do it
Nkunku is a AM, maybe winger. If Gimenez strugle physicly as a CF in Seria A Nkunku will be even worse.
this. For him the loan is better in my opinion, but we need him for depth as well, now that we have only Gimenez in the squad and Leao and Puli are far from their best when positioned as strikers.
Zirkze
Vlahovic
Sarlorth
All are better than Nkuku
Not really comparable tho, as nkunku is more of a false 9. Kind of a Thomas muller type role. He would work well alongside vlahovic if we could get both in. If he can stay injury free tho…
Okayyy, and where do Leao and Pulisic play. FFS.
You either play puli as a CAM in the midfield or accept that he needs a different formation. Wel all saw him in the front 2 and i doubt we want to keep seeing that???
Leao can clearly on play as a striker in this formation so he either starts over Nkunku up top, or nkunku plays in the mid 3 as the CAM. Those are pretty much the options here. Its either that or we do 343 instead of 352
Can I just say, that whoever is in charge of our transfer strategy, is making absolutely zero sense. None of the forwards we have been linked with have anything in common. What in the actual hell are we looking for in a striker?
No sense indeed. He’s a forward, not a striker. Milan does not need a freaking forward.
The good ol’ panic button. We sold all our attacker cuz allegri didnt want them, and now have 4 days to replace them…
Only one that makes sense is Vlahovic out of all these names. But I have an itching feeling a lot of this is media speculation.
Tis the season
Tho there are multiple French football news outlets claiming we’ve agreed personal terms. Doesn’t mean we’ll pay the 30-40mil tho so who knows
Furlani has entered the chat…
Giroud, apparently…
“Meanwhile, Bayern have re-ignited their interest in Nkunku and have opened talks but valuation is again a challenge between the clubs.
Chelsea are holding out for close to the £50m paid to sign the versatile attacker from RB Leipzig in 2024”
Milan should hijack Jamie Vardy transfer to Cremonese
Vardy good player
Good movement that is if vlahovic movement failed
And the circus continues. It’s been a well documented fact that we need a starting striker for god knows how long (ever since the says of Balotelli tbh). That was the main priority for at least two summers. But Tare decides to spend most of the mercato chasing the Albenian champion from the Belgian league, and then move on to the striker position on the last week.
We need to save our final judgments to when the mercato ends and the dust settles, but things are looking dire at the moment. And no, Denmark U21 kid (or NT kid for that matter) is not the solution
According to Romano, personal terms weren’t an issue, so its just a matter of transfer fee supposedly
Don’t know what to believe anymore. Is Chelsea suddenly giving away one of their own for cheap? Now that Juve have reached an agreement with PSG for Kolo Muani, what is keeping us from getting Vlahovic? I’ll keep faith in Tare to get the best deal for Milan.
I guess wouldn’t be the first time we’ve helped Chelsea clean house
🚨 Manuel Akanji is the name that Milan are following with most conviction regarding the defense
[@MatteMoretto]
About time!
Akanji (17M was rumored to Gala; maybe guilt them into lower fee after Tiji);
Rabiot (12-13M; 15M for a player that they have publicly have kicked out is insane);
Nkunku and Vlahovic (10-15M) in final days is insane…
20M from Okafor and Musah 25M (Akanji, Rabiot and Vlahovic fee)… in larger picture this is hilarious how good Tare is, if he actually pulls this off
So far we sold Reijnders and Theo on the cheap, and got a nice paycheck for Thiaw and Okafor. And we still don’t have a striker, which was our main priority. So this mercato is a bust so far, as far as I’m concerned
add the 4 that I mentioned and it is a fantastic mercato
Rabiot and Akanji, I think are gonna happen
strikers are the issue… Vlahovic seems too stubborn and money hungry
No way they figured out there is a player like that available.
But I’ve just read there is an 30M offer for Christiansen from Barcelona. Hope it’s fake.
A French player with injuries, probably available for cheaper wages than who is specifically requested….I wonder who is behind not listening to the coach’s requests and sporting director.
People have their answer as to why Maldini said f this shat, I am not dancing with these clowns anymore. We have money coming in they refuse to spend.
Well there you have it folks.
Emberasing what owners doing to our club. They make joke every day.
What is club cant bring players what need? Its joke club
Please sell club before we drop at seria B
So an article on here earlier today says DV is willing to cut his salary in half to play for Max again.
Then this one says he won’t consider salary reduction at all. And then says there hasn’t even been contact between the parties.
This is all click bait rumor BS. They know nothing.
Hojland still available?
No. Going to Napoli
Not signing Boniface was our greatest mistake.
We won’t find any natural and reliable CF…
Hard to be more unreliable than a guy that is out for half a season…
Already done deal to napoli loan with obligation to buy 40m euro
you guys who write these articles are a joke and whoever orchestrates the ads for the site is borderline criminal with the pop ups and scams that appear while scrolling. First you say we are making an offer and dropping everything to focus on Vlahovic now you say we haven’t made contact because of the wages. Which is it? You are all incredible which means untrustworthy charlatans.
“Nkunku raises more questions on confusing AC Milan strategy: One Footbal”
They’re literally starting to write articles about how poor our transfer strategy has been…
Adblock + uBlock Origin add on for your browser. I didn’t see an online ad for half a decade already, anywhere.
What are management smoking. Nkunku: 27 league matches with just 3 goals
Could we stop with all the fvck1n n1663rs and go with Italians for Italian football? Disgusting DEI hires.
You must have been looking in the mirror when you wrote this.
Brad go back to your mom’s basement, you pitiful genetic failure
Another Flop and injury prone ,
Another Flop and injury prone with high salary more than Cornad and other better ones,You want to go down if you only flow Egnland Portugal,
If you can’t get vlahovic, nkunku and arokodore. Nkunku is a replacement for okafor and chuk if sold, and arokodore is the big target man.
Isn’t Nkunku a CAM? So….is that out intent? To play a CAM based setup? (Hint: no, or probably not. It’s just incompetence once more)
Get a striker that will form a formidable partnership with Gim. Fans want top 3 finishing… not struggling for qualification
Alternatively a cheap striker and no championship league in the next season
Panic buying and total confusion by our management….they didn’t even have a proper strategy regarding strikers…jumping from one played to another and wasting time
I think bring Nkuku and vlahovic is a great move or Nku/ Vardy or Nku/ vlahovic, sell fofana to create space leave Musah
Nothing new on the front. No strategy in place for outgoing players and their replacements. All they see and care about is the money they get from sales but fail to address their replacements. And so here we are once again, end of August and still missing key players while not having clear targets locked. Not only targets, they don’t even know what they want. Is it a CF or AM/W, which system will be used etc…
Amazed for all here thats a intriguing to been read all of you specualist about ACM. Appreciated
I’d rather we’d just kept Jovic and/or Abraham who know the club and league and focused on bringing in a top #9 instead (ie not Hojlund Jackson Dovbyk) – like Boniface even with his injury record and let Gimenez come off the bench… Now the best we can hope is bringing in a striker who isn’t even a striker or Salaryvic… nice 👌