AC Milan are looking for a new deputy left-back ahead of the upcoming season as Fode Ballo-Toure is expected to leave the club, eventually anyway. Two names are high up on the Rossoneri’s wish list, a report claims.
Ballo-Toure has been linked with several clubs since the start of the summer and the fact is that quite a few offers have arrived. However, it’s been hard to convince the Senegalese international thus far, but he’s still expected to leave.
As reported by today’s edition of Tuttosport (see photo below), Milan have set their sights above all on Basel’s Riccardo Calafiori and Salernitana’s Pasquale Mazzocchi. The newspaper describes it as ‘a duel’ between the two.
Calafiori, at the age of 21, has played solely on the left-hand side of the defence in his career. Mazzocchi, on the other hand, with a few more years under his belt (28) is comfortable playing on both sides of the defence even if he’s primarily a right-back.
