A new right-back could be one of the first signings that AC Milan make this summer and they are pushing ahead on a couple of fronts, according to Fabrizio Romano.
In our exclusive report about Tiago Santos in April, we stated that the management are looking for a new right-sided defender because of the fact Davide Calabria’s back-ups are the ageing Alessandro Florenzi and the untested Filippo Terracciano.
According to what is being reported by Fabrizio Romano, Milan ‘keep working’ on the signing of a new player for that particular position and Emerson Royal ‘remains a strong option’ alongside Tiago Santos.
He understands that Emerson ‘wants the move’ and is ‘keen on joining Milan’, while there are ‘no issues on personal terms’ meaning that the salary requests of the former Real Betis and Barcelona man will not be an issue.
Romano states that Tottenham want around €20m to sell Emerson, so now it is ‘up to the clubs’ to negotiate the transfer fee in the days and weeks ahead.
Emerson Royal has been repeatedly linked with Milan over the past few windows showing a long-standing interest from Geoffrey Moncada, but Santos is a profile that the incoming head coach Paulo Fonseca knows well given he gave him his break at Lille.