Youssouf Fofana is already beginning to show how important he is to Paulo Fonseca’s AC Milan side, and the management are looking into signing a deputy.
According to Niccolò Ceccarini of TMW, one of the areas that Milan are focusing their attention is the midfield. Fofana is becoming increasingly essential in Fonseca’s tactical plans and is the ideal player to support a formation with the two strikers plus Rafael Leao and Christian Pulisic.
His work in front of the defence is very important but one of the issues that has arisen is that there is no other player in the squad who has the same characteristics. Yunus Musah is a possibility but he has to get used to this position, while Ruben Loftus-Cheek has been inconsistent in terms of form and fitness.
Given the length of the season and the number of games to play, Milan could also decide to try and sign another defensive midfielder as early as the January window. It is still early but there is no shortage of reflections.
An idea leads to an old target also pursued in the summer window: Johnny Cardoso of Real Betis. He is very popular among the management, and the USA international already knows Pulisic and Musah.
That would be a smart move. I think Fofana is great but yes, with Bennacer’s injury, Musah’s irregular performances, and Vos initially appearing good for Milan Futuro but kind of missing in action ever since his good first game, indeed we may need a better deputy for Fofana. Maybe Vos will grow into a player who can fulfill this role but for the moment he is just a promise, so if a true defensive midfielder comes in the winter window, that would be great.
Bunch of idiots. Cardoso is not even a starter at Betis and he’s not a starting player for the US National team. What a F’cking joke.
he’s US national, that’s all they need…
I would have preferred even Frendrup from Genoa over this guy…
Lets bring the entire gringos national team…they rull at “soccer”…maybe some day a brave guy will put a bullet into Jerry’s fkd brain and we get some sense finally around this team
How many attempts does it take!
And we already had one of the best midfields in the league and the only player we couldn’t do anything about losing was Kessie (who hilariously the fans blame the club NOT the mercenary player).
Even after losing Kessie we still made it to the semi-finals of the Champions League where we dominated the midfield.
It’s just a farce. By the time we replace Tonali we’ll have spent three times his transfer fee!
the thing is they signed Fofana and thought it was all done…
they waste so much time on deals that don’t go anywhere that they don’t have enough time to figure out better Tammy deal (even an option set under 20M would have been a great deal. now the only hope is his contract until 2026) and who comes when Benacer leaves, although kudos for still spending under 50M for Emerson, Morata and Fofana…
Morata and Fofana are great but what it has to do with Tonali? Fofana would play with Tonali just as well as Benacer played with Kessier. And in term of money the Tonali cash already beed spent last season
Wasted. Tonali cash was already wasted last season.
Yeah, it really sucks that Milan signed Pulisic doesn’t it?
Moron
you don’t like what Puli or Reijnders contribute to the team??
I was saying entire mercato that we are missing midfielders… how did season start? Bennacer injury, RLC being as useless as ever (that’s 8M we spend on them that is just going down the drain)… I was criticizing the management of ruining our midfield that’s all…
Sorry dude but calling a guy mercenary just because he wants to get what he deserves from his proffesion is just childish.if you want to call someone mercenary call dollarfukinruma a mercenary.That bum gipsy was raised by this club and he showed no respect at all…that is a f mercenary who should be treated like one.
Transfermarkt has him at 25M€ atm. doubt betis will ask for less. The bright idea here is to buy a player for 20+M to be a sub?
No serie a exp, only 9 moths in eu football
Again with foreigners without Serie A experience and language barrier. These yanks are treating European football as if it’s a closed tournament like those in USA where it doesn’t matter from which club a player comes cause they all play same tournament. What a bunch of imbe*iles.
I swear to god, Gerry thought he would see Eiffel when he came to Milan and drink beer on Oktoberfest with “local Germans”… US geography skills strike again!
The only imbecile around here is you. Well no, actually there are quite a few on here.
EVERY TEAM, in EVERY top league, signs players from all around the world who speak different languages than the language of the country they are in.
And the whole it’s a different league they play differently talk just shows you never played. The game is the same everywhere, you can either play or not. Are you telling me that every team in a league plays the same style, and it’s different in every country? Really? You don’t see the stupidity in that line of thinking?
So new players coming from abroad into new league with new language, culture etc. don’t have problems settling in? Leao needed 2 season so settle in, Hakan was nowhere, Paqueta was lost, CdK was lost, Chuk and Musah are on their second season but still lost, Pavlovic is lost. The only ones who performed from the start were the Chelsea rejects because we already had Tomori here and he helped Puli and RLC settle and Abraham is in Serie A for 3 years now, Morata played for Juve, Kessie and Bennacer payed for Atalanta and Empoli. I understand players need time to settle but foreigners tend to take more time.
I don’t need to guess here, you reek of yank. Kiss cam, hot dogs and half time shows are your sports highlights so stick to that.
You’re contradicting yourself. So the English settle in. Other nationalities don’t? By your logic Cardoso would have no problems settling in due to Pulisic and Musah being there.
“because we already had Tomori here and he helped Puli and RLC settle and Abraham is in Serie A for 3 years now”
Is that written in Chinese?
As an American I can say that Johnny is a good player but he doesn’t make a ton of sense for Milan right now. He can’t play a single pivot very well. However, he is very technical and a good passer.
I think Yunus has a higher upside — it’s been a shame to see some Milan fans lose patience with such a young player.
You are all overlooking the fact that Spurs have two weeks at the start of next summer’s transfer period to sign Cardoso. Only if they don’t exercise that option could any other side sign him. That was written into the Lo Celso deal. Milan can have all the interest they want, but if Spurs want they can sign him for 21M. So it would cost more than that for any other team.
Actually, I think Musa playing style is quite similar to Fofana and he should be his direct replacement. Even if the two of them are to miss match the same time, Loftus Cheek, Cos and Zeroli can fill the gap.
No he’s not.Fofana is a DM when Musah is a useless gringo.
You mean the Italian guy who lived his whole life in Italy and Spain? That makes one a “Gringo”? In the words of Inigo Montoya, “I do not think that word means what you think it does”.
Again, same argument we made when the likes of Fonseca and Emery were brought it:
“There are better options out there”
With all the moves involving gringos in serie A and specially to Milan,I really can picture that the gringos have a plan in mind for the next world cup.I mean if south korrea was”able” to reach semis why the gringos would not be good enough to win it?!Afterall we all know its all about politics and selling an image.
Cardoso is rubbish the only option that’s left is ricci
I read “American” then I knew what’s up.
Maybe play musah. He leads the team in assists/90, tackles won/90, progressive runs/90, and passing competition…he showed he could play against any midfield in CL last season…It seems like probably a good idea to see what he can do before bringing in someone else…icing him this long is wild after refusing to sell him to Napoli.