After a delay of two hours for Youssouf Fofana’s press conference, Zlatan Ibrahimovic gave the patient journalists something to write about with his admission on Manu Kone.
This morning’s edition of Tuttosport (via PianetaMilan) talks about Ibrahimovic’s words during the unveiling of Fofana as a new signing, which happened yesterday a few hours before the first game of the season against Torino.
“With these four purchases [Morata, Pavlovic, Emerson Royal and Fofana] we have two players for each role, we have Milan Futuro with many talents and then we don’t need to sell anyone because there are many games. And then the market ends when I say so: we are on day six of seven of the construction of Milan, I don’t feel tired, so we continue,” he said.
These were clear words from the Senior Advisor, confirming that Milan in the last two weeks of the window are open to the possibility of some other signings, and then he was asked more specifically about the links with Kone from Borussia Monchengladbach.
“The four purchases were our priorities even before Fonseca arrived. Manu Koné? We are following him, he has grown a lot . With Fofana, a bit of space for him is closed, but we’ll see.”
The French midfielder could therefore be Milan’s last move in the mercato, but a couple of midfielders would have leave first. Yesterday Paulo Fonseca did not call up Yacine Adli and Tommaso Pobega and they are the two main suspects to depart.
It cannot be ruled out that in the next few days an offer could arrive from Saudi Arabia (Al-Qasdiah and Al-Hilal are keen above all) for Ismael Bennacer too. With those funds, Milan could get closer to the €25m that Monchengladbach want for Kone, possibly striking a few for a few million less.
Maybe he’ll come next year when one year is left on his contract.
If we are going to sell Kalulu, get Locatelli.
If not, use Pobega to get Ricci.
Force Ballo to return to Ligue 1, sell Adli, try to terminate Florenzi his career is over (injured until April and his big contract expires this year, not to mention his age).
Pray that Saudi or US team takes Origi!
8/10 Mercato
Today news said chiesa is available for 15 mil . milan must sign him asap
Likely Atalanta will go for Chiesa to replace Lookman (who is close to joining PSG)
There’s a few players that need to go. We still need a striker. It would be nice if we can sell Bennacer anything between 30-50 is good.
That way we can use some additional funds to fill some gaps at LB, CB, DM and CF.