At the start of the January window, the midfield was mentioned as one of the priorities for AC Milan. However, as most of the budget seemingly will be spent on a striker, the Rossoneri have re-evaluated their situation in the centre of the pitch.
Prior to Ismael Bennacer’s return from injury, Youssouf Fofana and Tijjani Reijnders were heavily overworked in the midfield tandem. The situation has improved in recent weeks but one could argue that it still isn’t ideal, with Ruben Loftus-Cheek recovering from an injury.
According to Nico Schira, Milan are ‘very satisfied’ with the performances of Bennacer and his dedication to regaining top match condition. As such, the midfield is no longer a priority and will likely only be reinforced if faced with an opportunity they cannot refuse.
The belief is that having Youssouf Fofana, Ismael Bennacer, Yunus Musah and Tijjani Reijnders will be enough. Of course, these four have still been working very hard in recent weeks as there have been injuries in other positions, forcing Musah to play on the right for example.
It’s clear that this shift in priority has to do with Milan’s pursuit of Santiago Gimenez, as they will need to fork out around €40m to land the striker this month.
This management….
Frendrup loan+obligation while sending RLC to some english team back in EPL is the one thing we need to do until the summer… what if Bennacer injury relapses? Fofana can’t play every game…
and if Emerson Royal blunder can get Fulham contract I think RLC can get it also…
In order to sign Frendrup we need to offload Loftus Cheat, and also Frendrup might be too high over 20M for same role he has.
This is probably most true. Everyone, myself included, likes to dream about a January overhaul. The reality is January is a hard time to do business. Players are usually more expensive and it just seems more times than not teams over pay for players who don’t adjust right away. I get the feeling conceicao wants a 442 or a 4231 which is why Milan seems to be for a striker or 10 both positions will be hard to find at this point but at least they upgraded RB
We need a true DM. Just think a player that could turn the opposition over and start a counter attack with Leão and Pulisic on the wings? Easy goals but that makes to much sense.
Yeah we used to wanna sign Ricci and Casadei but now is pipedream and Lazio got Casadei for relatively cheap price considering player’s potential in coming years.
Casadei would have been a nice Reijnders backup in the “attacking no.8” role
Only €12mn too and very young. Sigh we’ll probably spend €18mn on the next RLC and pretend it’s good business
Just watch as Reijnders and Fofana die from exhaustion and Bennacer getting injured again…
So gonna happen. We all called it though, Bennacer is the new signing. Moncada is such a clown
Prophet of doom. Nawao
The definition of insanity right here.
Watch this dude gets injured a week after the transfer window closes and Milan for the rest of the season is stuck playing Reijnders and Fofana until the wheels fall off.
I’m a big fan of Bennacer but he’s made of glass. Reijnders and Fofana are already overworked. Musah I’m just not a fan of. All it takes is one injury and we’re screwed. We’re still in 3 competitions too.
I hate RedBird and especially those fraudulent rats Furlani and Moncada.
Kool. Forza Milan.
But Sergio asked for a midfielder? Why not signing a Attacking Midfielder?
Who???!
There we go… For the second season in a row Bennacer is our “new signing” in january…
Kola muani just scored for Juventus…. Milan been chasing g him for 2 to 3 seasons.
I don’t think they will go all in for Gimenez either
it’s a dry loan, relax
What was milan looking.. for past season they wanted him but he was on hight cost. Coming on a loan with option would have been a bargain.
The management also fails in their primary target and went to get garbage for us. That will later be burden to ship out
if Juve couldn’t get an option why do you believe that Milan could majestically change PSG opinion? calm down, man… there are many reasons to $hit on this management, Kolo Muani isn’t one of them…
And now the so called outdated, 1 season specialist, only able to use 3 back system coach just brought Napoli 9 wins out of 10.
Conte was the biggest signing of the summer and it belonged to Napoli. Conte literally auditioned for the role for us and we went with some dude that never got UCL quali with Roma and was mediocre in Serie A. Insanity. Pennywise pound foolish this lot.
Have you forgotten Krava and Osimehn have left? He’s already destroyed the team. If Napoli were in Europe, they wouldn’t be top.
Yes Conte did that. It was Conte, not Napoli who fought and soured relations with Oshimen even before Conte came.
Yes it was Conte who sold Kvara not the napoli management, and yet it’s still the same Conte who is gonna make excellent additions with that Kvara money.
I thought you all said Conte and napoli would crash out by Nov, or some nonsense like that.
9 wins out of 10 and he says Conte is destroying the team. 🤣😂🤣
Do you even think to proofread or censor the words that come outta your mind into your fingertips, before you pen them down.
Conte is destroying napoli, with no 1 position on the table and with 53 points.
Delusion is thy name.
We don’t need him.
All of you are crying to much. We also have zeroli who is very good in the middle, Rlc also on the Way back he is not a starter bud fine as backup so easy. Its more important that we get Jimenez, so we Can get a real 9 in the box who Can finish the attacks and move himself around in the box! If they get jimenez at least there is some hope that they learnt they need to spend money when are the only profitable team in serie a
Aka, we don’t wanna spend any money
Save that $$$$ Gerry!!!!!!
Have to keep those investors happy!!
This is just Schira speculating. Bennacer had ONE good game – hardly good enough to stay, and they were trying to offload him last time before he got hurt.
I think he stays ’till the summer and they sell him then (hopefully). But NOT reinforcing the midfield in what’s left in this window is criminal…
Bennacer isn’t a suitable replacement for either Fofana or Reijnders.
“Bennacer isn’t a suitable replacement for either Fofana or Reijnders”
Exactly! He brings something different that’s missing in the middle but we need additional players..
The reason why Kessie, Tonali, Benny and Krunic worked is because all 4 brought different things but also any three of them are solid defensively and there’s incredible work rate
So they’re REPORTEDLY ready to offer 20 millions for Orsolini and 30 millions for Gimenez but position that’s most delicate and lacks both cover and quality for a season and a half now is not important. They’ll push for CL spots relying on RLC and Musah from the bench. That should be fun🍿
They can literally use those 20 million to get Beradi and Matteo Prati …
I’m down for Prati since last season. Good Italian prospect.
Beradi is proven low cost solution for the right….with Puli and chuc[can’t sell him]
Prati , Bennacer, Fofana, Musa, Tiji and RLC [since can’t sell him] could carry until the summer
For striker, get lucca [20 mill] if gimenez [40] not come…
so cost 40 mill [3 home grown italian] or 60 mil [2 home grown italian ]
The numbers just don’t make sense… They wanted 15mil for Okafor plus 20mil for Orsolini… That’s already more than what they paid for Chuk. 35mil and Chuk loan for Orsolini??? On what planet? Unless they are just trying to get their salaries off the books…
Yet for Gimenez they started with a 30mil offer with bonuses?? i don’t get it.
Buto dia,mula2 kata Milan perlu mantapkan kawasan midfielder.Sekarang Bennacer dah okey (X Tau sampai bila🙄)…Tiba2 terus buat statement “Bukan lagi keutamaan kita”.
Kepala bapak dialah,Hei bodoh,kau boleh pikir x?Kalau Tiba2 Ben injured lagi sekali,takkan kau nk bagi main Tijji ngan Fofana TU main sampai reput.Dengan replacement mcm puki.Babi betullah berita ni.Kalau aku yg beli pemain kan,aku akan cari pemain yang kontrak dia akan tamat tahun ni ngan tahun dpn.Contohnya mcm Andrey Santos yg kau beria nk beli tu,Ada pemain Itali mcm Salvatore Esposito,lepas tu kite ada Amadou Haidara,Jack Mcglynn, Sverre Nypan dan Mahdi Camara…😒😮💨
#Lancau
Sabor… Sabor.. Wahai org mude.. Klo tk bangang bkn milan nama nya kn?🤣🤣🤣
Striker is priority, that’s fact . But if they are not capable to bring midfielder, it’s better to start play more with boys from Primavera or Milan Futuro…there is many interesting players . Give them a chance to play for 10/15 minutes and after few matches we will have a backup players..
Meanwhile Lazio got young star Casadei just for 12M
Casadei has done nothing in 3 years at Chelsea and his performances for the U21s haven’t been good.
Of course they’re not going to sign a MF, a striker is the priority. It doesn’t matter if Bennacer gets injured, Zeroli is a DM and deserves a chance.