Tottenham defender Emerson Royal is no longer a priority target for AC Milan this summer as there are other areas of the squad that they are prioritising.
As reported by Ben Jacobs on X, the Rossoneri may not come in with an improved offer for the Brazilian defender because there are other areas where the money needs to be used.
That does not mean that he is completely without a chance of joining Milan, but other players will be prioritised over him.
Right now, the midfield and the attack are the areas that Milan are focused on. The pursuit for a player like Youssouf Fofana in midfield and Lazar Samardzic in a more versatile role continue, whilst a striker is also needed with Paulo Fonseca not feeling that Alvaro Morata is enough.
Milan had been pursuing Emerson for much of the summer transfer window, having secured an agreement on personal terms a long time ago.
There was a roughly €10m gap between the two clubs when it came to the valuation of the former Barcelona player, and it seems that gap will be too hard to close as far as Milan are concerned.
If Milan can sign a midfielder and an attacker quickly, the interest could be reignited depending on how much money is left.
Please, Fofana!
It’s likely management told Fonseca you can have Royal or you can have Fofana, but you can’t have both. I think having another right back would have been nice, but isn’t an absolute necessity the way a midfielder is.
Moretto confirmed this is not true in fact they are very close
Why isn’t Tiago Santos an option? He is young with lots of potential and played with Foncesca. There is no way that Emerson is better than him
We are going to lose the season because we dont have enough right backs. Very scarce commodity at Milan these days unfortunately
Lose the season? What does that even mean?
Need at least 8 rbs and 12 mezzalas. Our management thinking when it comes 2 mercato
8 RBs??? That’s way too few. Was thinking 11 or so. But with 8 I guess we could make do.
12 rbs and 8 mezzalas then. We’re on a tight budget after all
We need to fulfill the secret quest of starting a game with 11 RBs
Hmmmm new FIFA objective for me.
PS I used to troll ppl on FUT by playing a starting XI with all GKs or all Defenders 🤭😂😂😂
Well the great thing with right backs as we have seen in recent times, they can play RB,LB,CB,CM,RW,LW
If only they could play striker we would be golden!
I don’t see it as a money thing so much, but who would we not register for the squad in order to accommodate Royal? Until we can answer that question about selling or offloading some non-Italian players we have to be careful about who we can sign.
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Who is Ben Jacobs?
That’s the problem with the internet – everyone gets a voice now.
Why in these 3 years media always said that ACM need RB, and we always have abundance stock at hand ?
This current squad already have so many good players who can play RB : Calabria, Terraciano, Florenzi, Kalulu, Alex Jimenez, Saelemaekers, Musah.
And poor lonely Theo at LB, it’s a mystery for the ages
There is nothing but confusion, muddled thinking, lack of planning, indecision and completely foolish attitudes at milan these days.
They think they can now dump fofana for manu coz for €15 million when his value is in fact €25 million ….. and so we will start the usual merry go round. I bet first offer will be €5 million ……