Alexis Saelemaekers has revealed that he was happy to return to play at San Siro against his parent club AC Milan, who he had praise for.
Milan were forced to accept a share of the spoils to end the calendar year, playing out a 1-1 draw with Roma at San Siro. Tijjani Reijnders got the opening goal after a swift counter, but Paulo Dybala’s volley earned the away side a draw.
The build-up to the game was dominated by the news that Fonseca might be taking charge of his last match as head coach. In the end it would prove to be correct, as the club confirmed this morning that he has been relieved of his duties.
Saelemaekers gave an interview to DAZN after the draw against Milan and he provided his assessment of what must have been a strange night, returning to face his old but also parent club. MilanNews relayed his comments.
What kind of match was it?
“The match was difficult. Milan is a great team and in the second half we had chances. But we have to continue working like this, we are on the right path.”
How did you feel about returning to San Siro?
“It’s always a pleasure to come back here, I feel at home. Things in football go fast, we don’t know what will happen in the future but it’s a pleasure to come back here.”
How does it feel to see Dybala like this?
“Paulo is a great player, you can see it even when he touches the ball. Today I saw that he knows how to defend well. We are happy that he is finding his football again and we hope that he can help us in the next matches too.”
Letting him and Kalulu go was a big mistake… CDK never hit it off and the problem that time was Pioli strategies…
Back him and Kalulu and Adli dont sell those great players
Kalulu and Adli are in the hands of Juve and Fiorentina and I think both can pay 12-14M on each.
No please. Average player for an average team. He is a defensive wing, and no team needs it. His stats during Milan era says it all – 141 games with total 10 goals and 14 assists! Leao has those stats for an average season while Salad achieved for 4. Stats with Bologna are no better with 32 games, 4 goals and 3 asists. Wondering why they have not bought him for a “bargain” price…
Yes but there is point in price. Chukwueze costs yearly 9,5 million salary + ammort. For that money you can bring one whole new player, on central defender position, or back up midfielder, or new number 10 position. Definetly use Pulisic on right and possibility to have Saelemaekers as back up.
Sale cost 1,3 million gross+ some small fee for ammor.
Selling Chukwueze is necessary, for stronger team next season.
I think when fans start pointing out salaries and financial stuff, it’s quite ludicrous as we will never really know what the real facts are, it’s just senseless waste of time.
Comment on what is known and relevant
What do you mean? Any clown can check any wage of any player at any top club in 2024. Where do you live, in the dessert? Even there internet works and you can KNOW WHAT THE FACTS ARE. You’re trying to be a smartass and it landed opposite 😀
Ok…..so you believe everything you read do you….i think that is living the simple life… or is it ‘ignorance is bliss’, those figures you read are far from the truth, you don’t know really who is getting what you read or rather what is reported, research it…., within minutes you will know about the accuracy of the reporting, read about Man City’s actual salaries or the one about Givinco moving to Toronto..
No one is being a smartass, as you eloquently put it, as fans we want to be the one part of football that is actual football, not the finances or the politics of it all, we want to comment and debate football, why is that so hard for so many to fathom
This is actually a losser mentality calculation – we as a club that always go for trophies have to have best or close to best players for each role, not average cheap players…
The only loser is anyone keeping an expensive player that is almost useless. Winners cut of deadwood quickly…
Basically if he played instead of Emerson Royal how much worse would Milan be? I doubt you can be much worse than Emerson defensively and offensively he showed almost nothing. Instead of wasting 20+M€ on Emerson, I’m sure Calabria, Jimenez and Salaemakers could have solved this position. And maybe bought a DM or a striker? But we have some real geniuses that buy players based on stats on a paper sheet, and anyone watching Emerson for 2 games knew he is not even an average player.
I agree that Royal is disasterous, and compared to him even 3 mentioned look like good solutions. It is always a thing of a baseline, in respective case it is too low. Try instead comparing them with Theo when peaks. Result would be that non of them would be suitable. So do not bring Salad back, sell him, let Calabria go, and keep Jimenez as potential.
“Basically if he played instead of Emerson Royal how much worse would Milan be?”
In fact Milan would be 10x better. They could put Sportiello on the pitch and he’d do better than the most gifted Brazilian ever.
Honestly, watching Emerson and Chukwueze play makes me miss Constant & Borini!!! They were pure class compared to our current duo.
Didn’t Fonsy wanted to keep him? Smh