It seems that AC Milan will change their second goalkeeper this summer, as Pietro Terracciano gets closer to a move.
There has been a lot of talk in the past few days about the goalkeeper situation at Milan, largely due to the lack of movement elsewhere. Nevertheless, it also seems like the next deal that could go through.
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In fairness, it may be better to say deals, given the signing of Terracciano would only occur if Marco Sportiello left for Atalanta. Though, this is quite probable in itself, and it is only becoming the case more.
Medical possible soon
As Calciomercato.com write, the Italian is ready to join the Rossoneri, and he is ‘one step away’ from completing the deal. Personal terms have already been agreed, as was reported over the weekend, and the report states that he should sign a deal worth €800k per season, on a two year contract.
Doing so will see the 35-year-old take a €100k price hit on his current wage in Florence, though he has already given his willingness to the club.
It is possible that a medical could be booked in this week to finalise things, especially with Sportiello agreeing a contract with Atalanta.
Going to be honest here, wouldn’t it have been better to use Torriani as our second? Are our youth keepers that useless?
Honestly don’t know why we even have a youth project. If Donnarumma were to play under this management, no one would know how good he is. He’ll go on several loan till we let him go to the second division for fewer with a 50% resale clause.
Imo it doesn’t hurt to have experienced old Italian in the back office, every top club has someone like it. It just doesn’t make sense to trade Sportiello for him, it’s a downgrade
Why … just why?
Still can’t get my head around this transfer. So we’ll terminate Sportiello contract so he can move to Atalanta (our direct rival) for free? He’ll be a back up GK anyway in Atalanta. And we end up with the worse GK.
He’s so bad….
It makes absolutely no sense. They just give a solid no2 goalkeeper for free to Atalanta, and get in return worse and 2-years older one.
Why not just keep Sportiello???? If Atalanta wants him so desperately, make them pay 5mil euros. I’m sure if this would be other way around, Atalanta would squeeze Milan out of money
As usual creating problems where we never had one
Does all of this go back to that weird hand injury that Sportiello managed to get at the team hotel during last preseason? An incident that was never properly explained.
But at a time when Maignan couldn’t play and it should have been Sportiello’s time to shine. We instead relied on Torriani for several games and he did quite well.
I suspect that could have something to do with why we are letting Sportiello leave for free.
Not sure why we don’t empower some of our youth GKs to be the reserves. We have a lot of them.
Even Vasquez too but I can understand why they want the reserve GK slot to be occupied by an Italian and not use an open player slot.
Than just use Torriani, he is Italian. These people are useless.
And we know Mike will miss several games too next season so we really need a decent back up. And now we end up with a worse back up in Terracciano. Can’t really see eye to eye about this.
A very useless and clueless management
This club and Italian football in general is a joke. What does a young Italian need to do to even get a bit of a chance. No wonder all the up and comers want to leave. If I was Camarda I wouldn’t even think of coming back. We are linked with all these mediocre left backs. No better than Bart, but what does he need to do to get a chance!!
Then we wonder why Italian players don’t develop and why the current crop of Italian players are rubbish.