Monaco have lowered their asking price for Youssouf Fofana once again to give AC Milan hope of finally concluding a long transfer saga, a report claims.
Di Marzio reported a couple of weeks ago that Manchester United and Atletico Madrid had entered the race for Fofana and that this had complicated things for Milan, because Monaco sensed the chance to get a better price and upped their demands to €35m.
According to Manuele Baiocchini who spoke live on Sky (via MilanNews), Monaco have returned to asking for €25m for Fofana, but he confirms that they did raise it to €10m more than that because of offers that arrived from England, namely from West Ham.
There is still no agreement with Milan, who will not go as far as that figure given that in about 10 months the French midfielder will be available on a free transfer. The Rossoneri are pushing hard to try and get the Ligue 1 club to let him go for a more reasonable fee.
The France international was not involved in Monaco’s friendly against Barcelona yesterday which could be a sign that he is on the way out, while Calciomercato.com reported that Gerry Cardinale’s arrival in Italy is likely to result in a further acceleration for Fofana.
Yeah he wasn’t called up for the friendly, so he’s headed for the exit. We will see if it’s to us. Maybe Monaco finally realized it’s either what we offered or way less in January or free in a year.
I feel like it will end up a bit like a CDK situation where we will end up paying the first asking price which was 25M€.
It’s absolutely nothing like the CDK situation, we can get him for free in January. I’d have a sit down with the player and discuss what he wants,and just get him for free in January with expectations put into contract.
We don’t want to wait a whole season to sign a super important player, especially since we are lacking a lot in that position
I think you misunderstood me. The starting price was 25M€ when we offered 12M€, then it went to 35M€ while we offered around 20M€, so if the deal is gonna be settled this summer it’s gonna be around 22-25M€ which was the starting price, hence the analogy to CDK.
I don’t care about january, we need a DM right now.
Lmao. He’s on his last year of his contract. Chances are Monaco will begrudgingly accept 20 million and likely never want to do business with us again. 20 million is fair.
20M€+ 10% of future transactions which barely 5M€ from the original price of 25M€.
But we’re not there yet.
No. Not at all. Different scenario.
Either one of two things will happen, we get him super late in the transfer window which isn’t good because then he needs to adjust and it never works out, take a look at de ketelaere, and chukawueze but that would aslo mean we get him super cheap because Monaco would be desperate just to get a little bit of money, or we get him next season for free and the agent will probably ask for like 10m in commission
Probably our menagment will sell now Theo to buy Fofana. My poor Milan what idiots doing at you
On behalf of the fans, we don’t want Fofana again, Juventus has offered us McKennie on a platter of gold with the fact that he is also from USA 🇺🇸.
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McKennie is not what we need
McKennie is a fat pig. No one wants him.
Mxm just sign Tonali back next season if we are going to wait for Fofana
Monaco are just being stubborn. Take the money we offer or watch him collect salaries for an extra year before leaving for free.