Agent Jorge Mendes tried throughout the summer to gather offers for AC Milan winger Rafael Leao from other clubs, according to a report.
As TMW recall, there were rumours about a possible approach from Barcelona towards the end of the window, which never actually came to pass as CEO Giorgio Furlani shut the door. The reality is that Jorge Mendes looked for offers ‘more or less everywhere’, on any table, without however finding any.
Milan declared him unsellable as a way to end speculation and probably make the Portuguese feel more responsible. Now, the highest paid player in the squad will be called to overturn the current difficult moment and finally reach a level of personal consistency.
It won’t be easy, considering the cooling break soap opera that dominates the headlines and the two points from three games. The market will come back around though, and some European clubs are alerted by the fact that Leao earns just €6.5m net per year, an affordable figure.
The €175m clause in Leao’s contract expired on July 15. Nobody showed up with the amount that Milan had asked for the Portuguese, but in reality no one asked for information knowing full well that at that amount he would have been unapproachable for anyone.
Also because his European Championship was not the best, with Portugal going out on penalties against France. Now, the former Lille man must focus on taking Milan by the hand and repaying the faith shown through his renewal and the No.10 shirt.
He’s got a goal and an assist in 2 games
true. so does puli. Our wingers will play just fine when the midfield & def sh*t is sorted
I do t think Fonseca’s system gets the best out of our wingers with that high press though… I don’t know how this plays out.
Agreed. Leao is a one dimensional player. He needs acres of space to run into. This only exists if the team sits deep and counters. There is no room for him to run into in a high press and, more importantly, he contributes little to the press. I guess this is why clubs were lining up for him this summer. Unfortunately, both of our “best” players are the types you need to adapt your tactics to, as a coach, a opposed to making fitting them into their system. And so we need to play a 4-3-3 sat deep, and hit on the counter. No way these two would have survived Conte.
Yup.. leao isn’t exactly the pressing kinda guy. O just hope fonsc is wise enough to adapt to players he has
So what you are saying is, noone wants him 🙂
Should have been sold instead of Tonali or to hell with it him and Tonali!!
It’s either Rap music or Football bro you decide ….
So, according to reports, both Theo and Leao were pimping themselves this summer and no takers. When you add Bennacer to that group, you realize what the football world thinks of your best players.
But, after Mbappe announced that he is leaving PSG, many were certain that not only PSG will come for leao but they will pay 175 million.
The transfer bubble has burst. Teams don’t spend crazy money on 1 transfer. Look at the Osimhen situation as a lesson. Teams don’t spend fortunes on players who has had only 1 good season.
Smells to me like media buls*h*i*t. But anyway, now he needs to focus on playing football, even if he just wants to recover his market value.
Well he is unsellable, but that’s because no-one else wants him at those huge prices – he’s a long way from the finished article and too much of a gamble – the only place he can succeed is R Madrid and they have far better players than he, on the bench…
Leao owes us a lot. Not long ago we had to help him bail out of the fine he received from deserting Sporting. It would be nice if he put in some efforts to repay the thrust we put in him and not walk around like a spoiled brat that hasn´t proven anything on the highest stage.
In retrospect that whole Sporting debacle should have been a red flag. It goes to character. Real must have seen similar red flags with Theo, otherwise they wouldn’t have let him go so easily, or without a big sell on clause, etc. They have a lot of raw talent in some areas, but they’re knuckleheads.
You are mentally ill, practically whole Sporting team left because they were physically attacked by fans. What is a red flag there exactly?
Yes, that comment makes me mentally ill. I guess the court that ordered compensation paid to Sporting is mentally ill too. Just because a bunch of player break contract doesn’t make the contract invalid. Players attacked by fans? That is terrible, but if there is no actual provision in the contract to break it because of such an event then you can’t just walk away without consequences. There are other ways to sort it out.
Milan won the Serie A recently with Leao being the best player of Serie A. What? They guy literally was the top player that brough Milan back the title after how many years?
Ok, and that can coexist with the fact that he does not defend. So then the coach/management have a choice to make. They can accept that they have a player who will not defend/not press, but score 12-15 goals and 10 assists and then design tactics around this, OR get a player that can do the same and also contribute defensively. If Leao was a striker, there would be less debate about this (although I’d then expect at least another 5 goals), but he’s a winger and in contemporary football defense is played by at least 9 men, if not 10.
Yes because Milan has no ambition and Mendes sees it. We have a guy that is seriously explaining in public why Milan buys 20M players, and he is working at Milan. Don’t worry, he will leave along with Theo once we don’t qualify for CL this season.
Sell him. You simply cant have players like this on your team no matter how good they are. Raheem sterling situation was the same. Everyone talks trash about Cr7 at the Euros, But Leao was SOo disinterested. I can see why cr7 was throwing fits.
“Sell him.”
You didn’t get past the title of this article now did you? 🙂
Gaslighting article. Fake news
Leao need to go to Spanish league. He will exploded for his career or his tactical playing