AC Milan target Manu Kone wants to leave Borussia Monchengladbach but no concrete offers have been made for the French midfielder yet.
As reported by Sky Germany’s Florian Plettenberg on X, Kone is keen to leave the Bundesliga side in the final week of the transfer window but as things stand, Milan have not made a concrete offer for his services.
What is reported is that there have been inquiries from Italy to find out what it would take to sign Kone. One of those inquiries is almost certainly from Milan, but it is not clear who else in Serie A is trying to complete a deal.
The 23-year-old has got a contract until 2026 which means Monchengladbach do not need to sell him, but they would let him go if a bid of at least a €20m fixed amount came in.
Milan would be able to afford Kone if they can sell other midfielders first. Ismael Bennacer is the prime candidate to leave for the sort of figure that would unlock the Kone deal.
Tommaso Pobega is very close to joining Bologna which helps but that is a loan deal with an option for a permanent move, so the money is not guaranteed to arrive.
The beauty of the great Milan sides of the past was the balance of Italians and foreigners, now that balance has been totally eradicated and we are left with a purely foreign team with not a drop of Italian blood to be seen. This replicates itself in a team with no passion, no identity and no soul, which is blatant for all too see, especially in the Derby. Inter were created to be a team of foreigners, we have now become more foreign than Inter.
People will point to the lack of quality Italians, or the cost of Italians, but we are not even trying, and there are good Italians out there, Ricci, Bellanova, Prati, Chiesa, Casadei ….all affordable and quality, but we don’t even try, we would rather get yet another foreigner.
It is killing our identity, character and history.
Its a fully valid point in regard of the history of AC Milans and Inters history because that is a simple fact why Inter was established and personally I would prefer AC Milan to have maybe 2/3 of its players to be Italians but I hope and believe that we in the coming years will at least turn more Italian with our upcoming talents. I wouldn’t mind any of your transfer suggestions either but I seriously doubt any of them is happening at this point of time in the mercato.
I can sorta wait for that revolution to happen but if our management ends up selling them all in the coming years then my view of the management/ownership will drastically change for the worse.
It wont happen Martin, they will sell those youth players once they mature. That’s the policy of the americans, no Italians more diversity. I read somewhere long time ago that in the usa they value companies with more diversity higher. So that’s that.
Obviously some wont make it and will be sold but I nevertheless expects us to keep a lot of them if they keep developing in the coming years. If they plan to rinse and repeat each year I might eventually call it quits and that would be a bitter pill to swallow for me after currently 35 years as a supporter.
Even if we are becoming more Inter than Internazionale….
The main reason to get a player like those you mentioned is the homegrown quota. Ie it’s a quota, designated by UEFA. We can’t bring someone who was trained abroad, to take the place of say Pobega. We just lose that squad place.
You want the best chance of going as far as possible in the UCL as even if we are unlikely to win it, the income there dwarfs the other competitions eg Serie A. Not the same for EPL teams who get EPL tv money.
Ricci would be good my man but I fear Torino would drive too hard a bargain, whereas Juve are actually trying to sell Chiesa before his contract expires.
Times have changed man. Get over it. Italy is not producing talents like it did back in the 80s and 90s. I became a Milan fan in the late 80s when the Dutch trio arrived Marco Van Basten, Gulitt and Rijkaard.
In those days Milan had some of the best Italian players Maldini, Tassotti, Baresi, Di Napoli, Panucci, Di Canio, Custacurta, Marco Simone, Stefano Eranio, Massaro, Lentini and even the great Roberto Baggio wore our colors.
Serie A was the best league back then in the 80s and 90s that has changed because of the Italian government bureaucracy that’s holding back Serie A.
So that problem is much bigger than Milan. Now Italy is not producing the best talent in the market compared to the French Ligue 1 and La Liga.
This is such a baseless argument. Italian youth has been one of the best in international tournoments in recent years. The senior team won the previous Euro too. No one can win all the time, neither is Brazil and neither is France winning all the time.
I have to disagree. Italy is producing plenty of talented Italian youth. Just look at their results in the last few years. The talent is clearly there. Look at Fuuturo – loads of talent.
The problem is, there is no system of integration of the youth into the first teams across most clubs.
There is no quality Italian players now
no Italian, not even utility players & worse the non-Italian players we’ve isn’t the best in their own country (only Mike), they desperately push Pobega, Calabria & Terra to hide inability to sell Adli, BaTor & Origi
Who cares about derby, when we can be profitable.
This is modern cardinale milan, full of foreign. We call it French of milano.
Chiesa is a cripple. Our Primavera and Futuro are full of Italians. It’s going to take some years, but we will see several Italians in the starting XI in the next few years.
So is Chukwueze also a cripple then ?
As I’ve mentioned several times before on SempreMilan then Chukwueze at the age of 25 has been injured for 164 matchdays while a soon to be 27 years old Chiesa has been inured for 100 matchdays in his entire career.
Yes he is, he is terrible, a one-trick pony
I assume you are talking about Chukwueze of being a one trick pony but that doesn’t really have any relevance to being a cripple.
if it gives us cups and win championships who cares..
Sorry but I have to ask who is this guy,has any one ever seen him play,will he be an upgrade over our current midfielders or the news about him just rumors and make this site look a little bit entertaining and not boring because for me I think Milan last signing was and will be fofana🙄🙄
I cant really say I personally know much about the player besides of that we wanted to acquire him a few years ago but Ibra said in an interview in the last week that they was monitoring him so I wouldn’t completely exclude the possibility of him joining us.
They can actually sign him because it’s not too expensive this article