Jan-Carlo Simic could be set to leave AC Milan as Anderlecht have come in for him and an agreement is close, according to reports.
While Simic is highly rated and has already had first team experience, Milan have been grappling with his contract renewal for some time now given that his current deal will expire in one year.
There have been links with various clubs over the past few weeks with Torino among them as they look for a replacement for Alessandro Buongiorno, though things went cold on that front.
According to Luca Bianchin of La Gazzetta dello Sport and Matteo Moretto of Relevo, it is Anderlecht that are the latest club to come forward and express an interest in signing Simic.
The former claims that Anderlecht are a ‘serious option’ for Simic and that an agreement with the player over terms is ‘very close’. The Serbian could leave Milan for a sum close to €3m, he adds.
Last season the 19-year-old played 35 games across all competitions with four of them coming in Serie A, including a goal at San Siro in the win over Monza. He was expected to be part of Milan Futuro, but it seems he has bigger ambitions.
Our U-19 club has better talents than Varselona.
Why they are giving chance to their 16 years young players and our smart bitchass club ‘thinks’ that 19-20 years young players ‘need experience’???
What will happen if we integrate Zeroli, Simic and Camarda into main team?
Tell me another joke.
How many good players did came out of Milan youth systems and how many of those came out from Barca youth system in the last 10 years ?
Barcelona has a system and certain way in which they train their players from early age to fit in.
And of course Seria A is harder league than La Liga. It requires more tactical awareness from players.
Tomori and Thiaw blunder every third game anyway.
In worst case, Simic will join them
If he was playing for Anderlecht and they wanted to sell, you’d be quoted €40m. Sad truth is that Milan isn’t a club that can afford to trust its youngsters cuz even the coaches know that they’re judged by whether they win or lose. In the end it may be best for him to look for a place where he can play first team football because the precedent suggests that not many youngsters make it into the first team. If the report is true then this is Kerkez happening all over again. Good luck to him anyway, he probably feels he’s too good to be playing with the young boys.
He should be part of first team. Why we have to buy someone when we have a great prospect for future! He should be renewed!
This is bad decision.
If this does happened Milan better add buyback and/or sell-on clause.
For 3m fee buyback clause for 8-10m and 30% sell-on clause seems fair.
Milan cannot add a buyback or do much as the player has only a year left on his contact and can go for free.
It’s too late now , this situation had to be dealt with earlier (and they have tried apparently) but the ball is in his court now . It’s basically take little or nothing .
That’s why the management want to offer Theo & Maignan new contracts this year , to avoid players with 12 mo this left on their contracts.
Yes, Milan already tried since last year but apparently they were asking for too much salary for a young player. I assume around 1-2m per year.
Average Milan’s young player salary is about 560 thousand Euro, which is the amount that Colombo, Maldini made. Younger players like Nasti earn less than 200 thousand.
Would be a big mistake. He is ready for SeriA, no point for him in doing Serie C. We should renew his contract and either keep it as rotation CB or loan it to a Serie A club.
You do realize that Milan can not do either of those things unilaterally, don’t you? The player has to agree and Simic has made it clear that he wants out, so sell now for whatever you can get. It’s a shame yes, but it is his decision and there’s nothing Milan can do about it. Well, I guess they could offer him 5M a year and a guaranteed starting spot, but that ain’t happening.
Sad sad news.
Is he that bad that only worths 3m are u serious
He is not bad, but his situation is less than ideal. For the coaches He is not yet first team ready, on the last year of the contract, and reportedly asking for too big salary for fringe player.
Our only option if he don’t renew is sell him this summer, if we don’t want him to leave for free.
How isn’t he first team ready? He played a few matches, and did well. The other Milan CBs have been making gaffe after gaffe. It is the lack of trust in the youth, not his own fault.
Where did I say that it’s his fault, duh.
I say “For the coaches he is not first team ready”… maybe my meaning doesn’t come across easily as English isn’t my first language, sorry.
But if it’s true that he asked for too much salary, then I don’t know. If we agree other players will ask for increase in salary too.
No worries, your comment was clear and understandable. My question was rhetorical.
I doubt it is a salary issue. IMO the only meaningful issue is that Milan, and Serie A teams in general, do not trust young talents enough. It either ruins their development or makes them switch clubs.
Remember Pau Cubarsi at barca ?? Hes only 17yold. Now he became the promising CB. Xavi trust the young players. The lack of talented player in italian national team that the most of the italian club never trust the young players, exclude atalanta. I guess…
He would be dumb to stay at Milan. He did well when he played, but Milan seek to send him to Serie C and buy someone else instead.
Oh wow 3 millions. Now we just wait to get 5 millions from Brescianini sale and we’ll soon have enough to get Fofana. On a discount of course.
And we also have Pellegrino for 5 millions so no biggie.
Milan never learn from mistakes. Kerkez case will happen again. We are run by the most incompetents managers ever…
Personally, I would give him a contract for 1.5-2 million/year and a 5 year long contract. It will be worth it. Future star. It’s more than foolish to let them leave so easily.
Thank god you aren’t in charge. This isn’t FIFA24, there’s real money involved and tough decisions have to be made.
What would be foolish is to sign an unproven kid for 5 years at about the same pay as your captain gets. That would cause so much turmoil in the squad, plus he still might not sign. Once again, IT IS ALWAYS THE PLAYER WHO DECIDES.
Kerkez is a tough analogy. How do you bench Theo to play Kerkez? Apparently Kerkez thinks he should be the starter everywhere he goes. So be it. If he had been a bit more patient, he could have been on the verge of becoming Milan’s starting LB this season, since Theo has 2 years left on contract. If Kerkez had stayed, 90% probably we’d be actively trying to sell Theo this summer for 70-80m, which could have funded a lot of improvements elsewhere. Instead Kerkez is Bournemouth. I guess he has plenty of time though, as he’s still only 20.
Kerkez is a great advert why to leave from the player’s side. He’s made more money, yes shown his talent, he’s a star for his national side and if he keeps playing well he can choose to move somewhere bigger in a year or two.
From Milan’s side, he’s a symbol of a strategic failure to create a system to keep and develop talented players. Look how Chelsea keep hold of players until they’re ready to sell them, someone like Maatsen brought in, loaned at increasingly big clubs and moved on for sizeable money. They have a dedicated department to finding the right places and managing these investments. To be fair, I think Milan’s management recognises this but it will take a bit of time to get set up and smoothly working.
You raise good points, but again, what do you do if Kerkez expects first team minutes and you have Theo? Could he have been loaned out to another Serie A club? Perhaps, but we have to assume that this was proposed and that for whatever reason the player did not want to accept that. It could just be a case of a difficult individual, everything else set aside.
As to Chelsea, there are a number of reasons why they are able to retain young talent in a system of perpetual loans: 1. It’s Chelsea, until recently a club consistently competing for the PL title and the CL; 2. They have the money to pay these players with potential salaries that are equal to what many proven/established Serie A players make (we don’t); Chelsea is in the PL, so even if they’re not in the first team players there are getting exposure in the top league and if they don’t make the cut at Chelsea they can always move to a mid-table club and probably still make more money than they would at Milan (or any other Serie A club).
If I were him I’d go.
If I were Milan I’d stop faffing around trying to sign a CB and back Gabbia, Tomori, Thiaw, Kalulu, and Simic.
That’s the choice.
Why milan not including this player ?? Why he could leave only for 3m ?? Anybody can explain ??
Contract runs out next year.
To be fair, I don’t think 3m and done, that may be a base price with a lot of future incentives and clauses built in.
I think this is because the management has some issue when they brought up the Milan futuro idea . Abate is gone, and i think he deserves to lead the new U-23 as he was the one who nurtured them in u-20.
Ideally, they should’ve extended him before the 2nd half of the 23-23 season and loaned him out, because there were some serie A or serie B team interested in him.
This is just the mismanagement of Milan. Their Milan futuro project doesn’t convicing enough and they just don’t understand squad dynamics.