Marcus Rashford’s entourage have held ‘exploratory talks’ with AC Milan about a potential loan move there, according to a report.
According to the latest from The Athletic, Dwaine Maynard – Rashford’s brother and agent – flew to Milan on Tuesday to hold discussions with the Rossoneri leadership over the possibility of a January switch.
Talks are described as being ‘at a preliminary stage’, with Borussia Dortmund also in the running to land the forward. Milan’s directors had just landed back from Saudi Arabia, where the team won the Supercoppa Italiana 3-2 by beating rivals Inter.
Juventus are also ‘weighing up a move’ to recruit the England international, who now seems to be completely out of favour at Old Trafford under Ruben Amorim, but it is the Rossoneri who have held the talks with his camp.
Milan are ‘assessing what opportunities the winter market has to offer’ after sacking Paulo Fonseca and replacing him with Sergio Conceicao, who won a trophy after just two games in charge out in the Middle East.
One issue is that the Diavolo have Rafael Leao on the left side, which would be Rashford’s preferred position. Even in the striker role they have Alvaro Morata and Tammy Abraham – the hero against Inter – while on the right there is Christian Pulisic and the currently injured Samuel Chukwueze.
Rashford’s salary is ‘worth more than £325,000 a week’ and ‘would also have to be heavily subsidised‘ for a loan deal to appeal to Milan’.
no need to work hard, don’t act like you have a lot of money. There are many other good players besides Rashford. Just open Transfermarket on google or even on YouTube to find players. It’s easy. After that, use your clever brain to look the player’s statistics.🙂
Vlahovic should be our prime target.18 months left on his contract and juve is trying to sell him while he has high market value. Given they want Tomori + already owe us 20m for kalulu we should go for him. He would be ideal CF we are missing since ibra was sold by galliani in his prime to PSG. He’ll do well under conceicao. With him pulisic and leao we will have fantastic front 3. He would a statement signing and for once we will weaken our direct rivals not the other way around.
juventus owe us 14 mil + 3 mil in bonuses for Kalulu.
Vlahovic has 12 mil NET per season and does not want to lower it. Will you pay his salary??? Beside all that he is useless player…
Don’t get me wrong Vlahovic would be a fantastic signing but there is no chance in hell that we would be able to sign him as he is by far the highest paid player in Serie A as he earns 22mil gross pr. year.
2nd. highest paid player in Serie A by the way is Lautauro at 16.6 mil gross pr. year.
Our highest paid player is Morata at 8.3 mil gross pr. year so I simply can’t imagine any chance of signing the Serb and it’s highly questionable if he is actually worth such an exorbitant salary to begin with.
@ Martin – Morata was a big mistake. He isn’t a 20+ goal CF. He adds experience and winning mentality to the dressing room but he should of never been signed.
Best bang for buck CF out there for us is Jonathan David but given he is a free agent in 6 months we have to pay 7-8m wages for him anyway with the big risk he might flop in Italy. We are linked with mexican Jimenez from Feyernoord. Coming from holland is even riskier. Vlahovic & Osimhen are the best 2 outside of Laturo & Thuram capable of consistently scoring 20+ goals per season. Napoli want 75m to recoup their money from Lille + he earns 10m net + bonuses. Vlahovic is on 12m which about the same. Moncada has already wasted enough on flop signings like emerson. We need to add quality albeit within financial parameter. If Juve is keen to sell and we can generate 50-60m via Kalulu and Tomori we should be receptive to seeing whether a deal can take place. That’s all im saying. Give conceicao proper gift so we can push for top 4 + go far in ucl.
In what do you live in to think, even for a second, Milan would play 22M gross salary for anyone?
Not to mention we don’t need a 20+ goal striker anyway. We have plenty of firepower up front.
Are trolling us? Our top scorers are Tijani & Pulisic neither are CF. How does any team win titles or have successful seasons without a proper CF? Morata & Abraham arent good enough.
Go ask that question to Liverpool.
ST has evolved and scoring goals is a team effort.
When your team does 70+ goals a season who gives a F if its from a ST, RW,LW, CM…?
A strong striker who does 20+ goals is welcomed but it also makes you oh so predictable in the attacking phase. It isn’t a necessity to have one and it doesn’t automatically make you better.
Morata and Abraham are good enough but they aren’t in optimal form. Get that form out of them and we’re fine in the ST department.
Respectfully i disagree with you. Sure Liverpool & Madrid goals distribution is evenly disbursed but most other big clubs are reliant on a quality CF. Manc on Haaland, Bayern on Kane, Barca on Lewondownski, Inter on Laturo & thuram etc. Now look at teams that dont have a good CF ie Arsenal, Manu, etc. It places too much pressure on others to score goals. Sure we all want mids to score but its unrealistic to expect Tijani to score 9 in half a season every year.
I agree Morata & Abraham can do better but neither is milan quality. Morata is turning 32, Tammy is talented but too inconsistent for club like milan who is used to having elite CF like Ibra, sheva, Inzaghi, Van Basten etc. Those two are not at that calibre irrespective of finishing the season strongly.
Arsenal is doing just fine in the atk department and manU is cràp anyway. With a strong ST or not.
Pressure is good. You think those striker don’t have pressure to score?
Morata and Abraham are fine, they are Milan quality. People need to stop living 20 year in the past. Milan isn’t a club that will have a superb ST anymore. Maybe if we find a cheap one and he develops into a superb one, but to straight buy a guy for 50,60,70,80 million?
Not gonna happen in this decade. Nope.
Maybe Camarda will develop into a solid ST, seems like the management ia banking on it, but even that is 5 years away. 5 years from now is 2030.
to be fair it does indeed not matter who scores the goals but I personally want a 20 goals striker + 2 wingers that can amass 20 g/a each. thats an attack that will have my support.
Then add the rest.
You mean Gimenez, not jimenez
Morata is about more than goals. He brings work rate and experience. He can play different positions in attacking, including LW in a pinch. He was signed for peanuts. To say “he should have never have been signed” is excessive.
@Vero the primary goal of a CF is to score goals. Morata had his most successful season last year with Atletico scoring 22 goals and had great Euros winning with Spain as Captain but he has fallen off again. We both agree he brings experience, work rate etc but for 6.5m salary we need goals and his struggling on that front which is his main task.
Sorry for the late reply Ash but I went out and got a bit hammered.
Well to be honest I always hated Morata before joining us but I do like his fighting spirit but I agree he never was the goal scoring player we needed,
Personally I would go for Sesko as he should tick off what we need and wont be as expenssive at least in wages.
I’m agree with you brother.
I agree with you, we have some counterparts to reduce his Transfer fee. BUT: he has a huge salary. He wont reduce it that much to come to us. We wont overpay him. So its Not realistic
Yep he has high wages but he earns less than rashford who is on 18-20m euros with no Serie A experience. Osimhen is the other ideal choice with proven Serie A experience. Otherwise Jonathan David from Lille is one we should go for. Its not about me paying their salary its about adding quality players for us to take the leap in quality. Inter pays laturo 11m + Thuram 7m. You want top players you have to pay high salary.
As for your arrogant remark. Kalulu deal is 20m ie 3m loan + 14m + 3m in easily achievable bonuses ie 20m. 12m salary can be bridged by having sponsorship deals, image rights etc. This years newly format UCL brings more money so does winning copa Italia. Creative accounting + favourable tax loopholes etc.
loan was paid in 2024. summer mercato…
vlahovic is NOT TOP PLAYER, he is highly overrated (at least in my opinion).
i get your point and i think for less money we can bring way better player like sesko, david even gyokeres with much lower salary…
btw. this is dusan’s last game:
https://www.facebook.com/Forza1Juve/videos/958615972284161/
@ Toni123 – Gyokeres has 80m release clause. Last club that triggered such clause from Portugal was Liverpool for Nunez who cant hit a barn door. Would love sesko but his going to epl. We cant compete with their salaries. David is good but risky as his never played in Italy. My point is we need already established CF with Serie A experience. Vlahovic and Osimhen are the only two worthy of Milan but a you said are expensive.
Finally, Vlahovic has lost motivation at Juve like Chiesa. Like our top players theo & leao he needs a good coach like conceicao to get him excited again. Even now playing 60% he is way better than Morata & Abraham.
Shame we cant have CDK back. He would of solved our problems. He couldn’t perform for us but turned out to be a great for Atalanta. Cant blame us for selling and getting our money back but in hindsight we made a mistake.
if we get far in UCL i belive we can get gyokeres (with much lower salary then vlahovic)…
david is risky i agree (maybe this is why no club buys him until now.
i dont like vlahovic at all, to me, he is morata and abraham lever. bad ball control, bad passer and above all terrible finisher…
i think osimhen has no clause for italian clubs and negotiating with de laurentiis is horror…
i agree with you about de ketelaere. he is tall, can score with head and he could play as centreforward. i think he is better when he plays closer to goal.
i would try with nkunku (on loan) as false 9 with expressed technical qualities for fluid and a lot faster game…
but first of all, we should change clowns in charge. moncada is such a bad sporting director…
I agree with you. Moncada has been a disaster chukaweze, emerson etc.
I like Nkunku but the issue is his wage, he earns 15m euros net. we’ve done plenty of deals with Chelsea so why not try again. I would also try to bring Chilwell as back for Theo. He is unwanted but a great attacking LWB. If Chelsea sells cheaply he would be a smart buy too.
@Ash Who is the etc.??? Pulisic? Reijnders? Fofana? Total disasters….
Tammy who already has 6 goals and 2 assists in all competitions despite not having that many minutes.
Musah who just played a big part in our winning a trophy?
Take a punt on Lorenzo Lucca then.
Personally I like lucca and wouldn’t oppose such deal. Young and would come fairly cheap.
You think that Milan would buy Rashford and offer him anything close to 18M? Why are you wasting time on typing such nonsense?
Basically get rid of Okafor and Chukwueze and get Rashford. It is an amazing deal if he takes a wage cut and there is an option to buy included. Rashford can be world class if he wants and I think that after his next move he will try much harder to prove a point.
Where are u going to play him? He is useless as CF (tbh he was rubbish in every position lately). Leao on the left wing. This transfer is more of taking an opportunity rather than a need.
Rashford on loan paying a fraction of his wages would be a good, if surprising, deal. His best position in where Leao plays though, so I can’t see it.
Should get Chiesa on loan with possible buy clause, rather than this rubbish.
The last player we need is a lazy player.
We already have one here.
Besides, coming to italy he’s probably gonna go to the club every single night before match.
When you spread attacking responsibility across the front line of the team, then you don’t necessarily need the 20g striker. We are fortunate to have Leao and Puli who take that load off the striker.
BUT, we do need someone who finishes better than Morata/Abraham. I don’t know that Rashford is it.