Alexis Saelemaekers has seemingly found his stride at Roma, bagging two goals and one assist in the last three games, and interest is mounting ahead of the summer. According to a report, AC Milan will demand at least €15m for the winger.
Saelemaekers joined Roma on deadline day in the summer, with Tammy Abraham moving in the other direction, and he has seemingly found his stride. After a tough start to the season due to injury, he’s now producing points for the Giallorossi.
According to La Repubblica, as cited by Il Garante, there are several potential suitors for Saelemaekers and the price tag has increased since the summer. Milan will certainly set a new price tag after the season but for now, the base would be at least €15m.
It should be remembered that Bologna opted against redeeming the Belgian for around €15m, mainly because of the managerial change, and it seems this played in Milan’s favour. Regardless of whether they want to sign Abraham permanently or not, they will get money for Saelemaekers.
Given the struggles of Samuel Chukwueze, however, one can also question the decision to let him leave this season. The Nigerian could even depart the club in January, even if it’s more likely for Noah Okafor.
Chukwueze and Okafor are very bad rotation options.
Saelemaekers can stay next year.
Nah. Castilejo and borini were very bad rotation options.
Chuku and okafor, while they don’t always impress are far from bad.
Idk why people expect subs will just come on and play at the same lvl as the starters do. Doesn’t happen in any club, why would it at Milan?
I disagree with you in regard to chukwu’s situation… He’s supposed to have gotten used to this environment and give us what we want and regarding his playing time, that is never an excuse for his performance at all
Chuk is absolutely trash. Salad should 100% be a rotation player for us next year over Chuk. In fact he has something that Chuk doesn’t have and that’s effort.
I think chuku this season is being held back by fonsecas stupìd tactics. He’s strengths are going in the thick of it. Beating the man and taking a shot. Fonseca has him playing wide while Emerson goes inside (you see that dude in the opposition 11box more often than in the Milan 11 box).
If you take that in account he isn’t doing bad at all.
Chuku can beat his man but that’s basically all he can do. He can’t shoot for shit, can’t cross. He’s amazing off the dribble and shite at everything else.
A player with one leg should can’t have tactics as his problem. The fact he can’t pass the ball to Abraham in the last game to put him 1 on 1 vs the keeper because he has one leg. Schoolboy bass. This is not tactics, this is fundamentally wrong.
It’s his fault and also the guys who decided to spend 30 million for this joke of a player.
Why do I even bother. Guess the new thing is shîting on poor chuku.
All these fans know is, he didn’t score, he didn’t pass, he was worth 30M ( he wasn’t)..
It’s not like anyone else is doing any better. That doesn’t matter at all. Chuku is the guilty party. Utterly useless, right.
King Emerson can’t reach his high lvls with a guy like chukuweze holding him back
AALexis is versatile player. He can play both wings and backs. He is now more experienced than Okafor and Chukwueze.
Milan did good to loan Alexis and keep Chuk, to put pressure on him. We can see that like De ketelaere he can not keep u for Milan, and should be sold. Bring another one who can.
Yes yes. He can play everywhere. Poorly.
That’s not an asset.
Agree that chuk and Okafor are poor players. I would also add Musah to that.
Saeleamakers, Florenzi, Kalulu were all much more reliable and useful.
Absolutely
Salad is better keep then chuck and okafor. Sell both of those instead and get someone who can actually play. Just cant believe how much we forked for chuck and now we think fetching 15M for salad is good deal.
Who was again that bought the two for a lot?
i know football isnt all about goals but saelemaekers has 2 goals in 6 serie a games meanwhile chuk has 1 in 16 games and saelemaekers has played 428 miniutes and chuk 675
Alexis gets plenty of minutes. Chuk doesn’t get any continuity.
And 2 goals is about what Saleamakers averaged per season for us when he was our starting RW for multiple seasons. I love this game where every time a former Milan players has a decent game there is an article about what a Huge Mistake Milan made and we have to pretend that they are some great player now. Did the same thing with Maldini when he scored 1 goal for Monza, now 15 games into the season he still has 1 goal and zero assists. Another Huge Mistake! Same with Tonali who can’t even start for Newcastle. Same. Same. Same.
Ah yeah.
I remember when the media blown the kid out of proportion.
Now it seems like no one is talking about kid maldini anymore.
Said it before, i’ll say it again.
The kid is mediocre at best.
The only great thing about him is his last name.
Oh and because he’s italian.
Italian media have been desperate to find italian player they can praise.
Keep Alexis.
Ditch Abraham and buy someone who can make a difference.
Sell Chuck and Okafor.
Get rid of Calabria and Emerson.
Get rid of RLC and bring back Daniel Maldini.
It is always easy to see Chukwueze as a weaker player than Saelemaeker but Rossoneri stats tell a different story.
Saelemakers have 99 seie games for Milan with 5 goals scored. Saelemalers had 4 seasons of development and experience with Milan. Saelemaker joined Milan when scudetto is not an ambition so there was less pressure and He also did not any major threat on the right wing like Chukwu is facing with pulisic.
Saelemakers needed a season long loan at Bologna with a coach that is not Pioli to become established.
Chukwu played 4 serie A games for Milan and scored 2 goals which is same average with Saelemakers.
It is not all roomy when you recall that Chukwu have 2 champions league goals and 2 Coppa Italia making it a total of 6 goals for Milan. Considering all the issues he faced like the injuries , the Afcon absence, The Pulisic form on the right wing then he seemed to be contributing as much as or better than Saelemakers did at Milan.
Technically Chukwu have shown development In the defensive phase.
I strongly believe that keeping Chukwu with a hope to unlock his full potential is the right option provided another quality Winger will be added to the squad in January
Chukwu
Hi Bro, we need to see the current level from them to be compared, we need player who ready to give impact for our squad on this season. Please open your eyes who Is the better option for current subs of our lovely club. Chuk or salad.
My comments are on what is available currently to Milan. Salad is tied to Roma for the season only chukwu is available. Learn to use him properly before he becomes another CDK or Kalulu.
Also note that, I clearly stated that we need a new top quality Winger in Janaury while Chukwu is trying to find his form.
Others have clearly stated the continuity issues affecting Chukwu which also includes the change in Coach with a complete different mentality compared to his first season.
Foncesa have been chopping and changing all through the season to get to know his players same experimentation is happening with Amorin with Man Utd.
Milan made a mistake by not appointing a top class coach that will not need experimentation to build and gel the team
Bottomline Chukwu like all the players are currently doing below their level due to Foncesa
Pls name a single player that is delivering better now, even Pulisic won’t be mentioned here.
Seriously? Is that a serious question?
“Pls name a single player that is delivering better now, even Pulisic won’t be mentioned here.”
How about Reijnders? Definitely Pulisic. Leao. Fofana. I could go on but the list would be much shorter if you asked who is delivering worse than Chuku… that would be a very short list.
Stop with the continuity excuse. He’s had plenty of minutes and a number of starts including starting the last 2 matches and he has shown very little. He’s not good enough to be a regular starter, so if he can’t produce and be useful off the bench or starting when someone needs a rest then he is of no use at all.
It is always easy to see Chukwueze as a weaker player than Saelemaeker but Rossoneri stats tells a different story.
Saelemakers have 99 serie A games for Milan with 5 goals scored. Saelemalers had 4 seasons of development and experience with Milan. Saelemaker joined Milan when scudetto is not an ambition so there was less pressure and He also did not have any major threat on the right wing like Chukwu is facing with pulisic.
Saelemakers needed a season long loan at Bologna with a different coach that is not Pioli to become established.
Chukwu played 40 serie A games for Milan and scored 2 goals which is same average with Saelemakers.
It is not all doomy when you recall that Chukwu have 2 champions league goals and 2 Coppa Italia making it a total of 6 goals for Milan. Considering all the issues he faced like the injuries , the Afcon absence, The Pulisic form on the right wing then he seemed to be contributing as much as or better than Saelemakers did at Milan.
Technically Chukwu have shown development In the defensive phase.
I strongly believe that keeping Chukwu with a hope to unlock his full potential is the right option provided another quality Winger will be added to the squad in January
Alexis’ game suits being an attacking wing back in 3-5-2
While he’s been decent this season if we aren’t likely to switch to that system long term, we should take advantage of his good form to sell him at a decent price.
As much as I like the kid, has a good work ethic etc I fear he’ll go back to being relatively ineffective if he returns to Milan. Sell is best for all parties even if he excels elsewhere, good luck to him.
When did it become reasonable for a player to need at least 2 seasons to settle in? Literally spending the first half of their very lucrative contract just getting to know the place and doing ‘ok’ from time to time. No , that’s ridiculous.
Sell all three please.
Saelemaekers and Florenzi should not have been allowed to leave. Especially when you consider we have chukwueze and musah now, instead. Seems like every decision has been bad.
Milan buys the wrong players that doesn’t suits the formation we play. We have fantastic but lazy players like leao.
Give Chukwu continuity and see a developed player. He can’t score two goals yesterday and you bench him today. It doesn’t work that way at all.
The coach tactics is not helping the player. When Chukwu plays, he asked to defend more than attack. If you give that boy room to play his game, he will destroy Serie A defenders.
That boy is low on confidence when he is attacking. We need a coach that can unlock these players.
We keep complaining but all the players we sent out are doing well outside our system. Name a player who isn’t doing well outside this system. There is something wrong with our environment and there is no leader in the team anymore. Leao had senior players like Ibra help him out. Salad had players like Bonaventura and others.
Let’s call the management to give these players a better coach. We have lost the Milan Project already, nothing is going on at this club that’s exciting. We need that to change.
Sell Chukwu and watch him become a wonderful where he goes. We see what’s happening with Charles De’Kae, boy is playing the football of his life.
better than okafor and chukuwueze combined and we spent 50 mil on them LOL