AC Milan, today, have announced the signing of Pervis Estupinan from Brighton and Hove Albion. A deal that has been wrapped up quickly.
Things with Estupinan progressed rapidly, with Milan making their intent known quite quickly. In fact, negotiations were rather short, with the Rossoneri keen to not lose another target this summer after losing Maxim De Cuyper and Archie Brown.
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The Ecuadorian full-back arrives to replace Theo Hernandez, after struggling to cement a place with Brighton after a phenomenal start to life in England. However, there are certainly concerns about his ability to stay fit.
Estupinan: Done
Today, the club have announced that the deal was done on their website, with the defender set to join his teammates in Asia for the pre-season tour shortly. Having signed a five-year deal, there is a lot of faith placed in the defender, and the rush to sign him deserves praise.
According to reports, the deal closed under the €20 million mark, which is a few million short of the original request from the Premier League outfit. Again, another point of praise for the transfer department.
After arriving in Milano on Wednesday to sign the contract and complete his medical, his move has now been made official.
5 years it’s exaggerating
“However, there are certainly concerns about his ability to stay fit.” Meaning?
He has a poor injury record over the last two years.
Pulisic also had poor injury record before he joined. But it is how it is. For 20 mil you cannot buy a world class fullback. By world class I mean player who is great and not injury prone. For 20 mil you buy either young prospect or a gamble like Estupinian (great player, IF fit). With the budget we have we must gamble and hope for the best.
YES! thank you. We arent (all serie A for that matter) in a position to buy world class players. Ppl act as if we could land Alexander-Arnold or Prime Cafu. Our game is a gamble on a prospect or a really good player but with some caveats. Some worked out great like Puli, Others dont like RLC so far.
Great player, if he stays fit and gets a run of games. The fitness will be a problem though. Hopefully in a slower league with less games and a bit more care, he will be ok. Same issues as pulisic when he signed.
Daniel unfortunately is right: we are not anymore a top side finantially speaking, plain and simple. So that’s it, we’ll not sign bona fide aces, we got to be happy with prospects and gambles.
Such a downgrade from Theo
Welcome Estu! From what I saw when I looked at some Brighton games he was quite decent. Eye test matches the stats so my eyes weren’t deceiving me lol. Hope he stays fit and healthy because if he doesn’t folks will definitely come down hard given the person’s longevity that he’s replacing.
Best of luck and I hope you do well!