AC Milan are aware of Chelsea’s interest in signing Mike Maignan and have thus prepared a counter-move, according to a report.
This morning’s edition of Tuttosport (via SempreMilan.it) writes how Chelsea want to sign either Maignan from Milan or André Onana from Inter to be their next starting goalkeeper, and now the management must get to work on a renewal.
There is no overstating what Maignan brings to Milan given that he is not just one of the best goalkeepers in the world but he is also a leader of the dressing room and that is why a contract extension is being readied.
The Rossoneri are aiming to renew Maignan’s contract with a new five-year deal (running until 2028 therefore) and a pay rise to €5m net per season.
Moreover, Milan do not even intend to listen to any offers that come in for Maignan – who has a market value of €80m but is deemed unsellable – and the Frenchman was one of the first players to be contacted by the new management.
They explained the present and future plans to him, also because there could be changes within the goalkeeper coaching team too. Now Maignan is with France ahead of some Euro 2024 qualifying matches, and then the renewal talks will take hold.
Chelsea: Hi darling it’s me wanna buy him for €100m
Milanelo:……
Wasn’t furlani, scaroni, or whoever cardinale puppets said that no player are not unsaleable and they will sale if the price is right?
Yeah I was thinking the same. I guess it depends of the offer. And Maignan seemed very unhappy with Maldini’s firing, remember his IG post with “Sempre Milan?”
If we lose Maignan because of this front staff, I will personally go burn Furlani’s car.
Except 4 players. Iirc Maignan, Leao, Tonali, Theo
Others are sellable if the price is right.
Also remember that this ‘right’ is depending of Milan management, not market price. For example Malick Thiaw has market value of €15m (transfermarkt) but if Management valued him at €30m then they won’t sell him for €20m.
Well basically that’s the same as every other clubs out there, we just being enraged by Maldini’s sacking (which I hate too) that we found them so faulty.
Maybe our owner seek profit, stingy and more businessman than sportsman, but they aren’t stupid. They know a sport team is more valuable the stronger/more successes they have, so they won’t just kill Milan outright like sell all the important players for profit and buy peanut in the ground, they will seek for diamonds in the rough. Let’s just wait and see for the Mercato and don’t take assumption.
And all of you that shout #CardinaleOut, he won’t go that easily lol. He already bought this club so we’re basically stuck with him for foreseeable future, so just wait and see.
Sadly you can have a team that is largely profitable and that doesn’t win anything. See Borussia Dortmund or Benfica (yes, they win, but there is three relevant teams in their championship).
From what is leaking, and it’s not a surprise because Jerry’s goal is to resell for maximum profits, sustainability is first, winning is second. As long as Milan is qualified every year in UCL, this ownership will be happy. Winning is a plus, for sure, but the current strategy shows that we won’t compete for UCL, and we can only expect others Serie A big teams to struggle so we can compete for the title.
We are all sad with Maldini’s firing, because it was rude, but also because winning ambitions vanished. Now, we are rooting for a stadium project. Glory days.
It’s okay if he sell Milan for profit as long as he complete Milan-owned stadium. The next owner will have a solid foundation by then.
Man what is sad and frustrating is that Maldini thought we only missed a few pieces to compete for UCL and scudetto on a yearly basis, and he was probably right since Milan was in UCL semi-finals. Find a young and promising striker, get Berardi for RW, get Milinkovic-Savic for MC. Yeah, that’s some investment, but you don’t win trophies reselling your best players to recruit young prospects. Now we have an owner that is only thinking about a new stadium. We are missing the opportunity to win right now. At best, it’s only a delay of a few years, when Jerry will resell to a more ambitious owner, or we will just watch Milan struggle if the strategy doesn’t work.
“because winning ambitions vanished”
Did they? So Pioli & the players have decided not to even try anymore? Some people… 🙂
Nah, if someone offer 35M+.. i doubt cardinale will reject
He won’t, he is stingy but not stupid.
Chelsea offered 80M€ based on some rumors.
Sorry. 60M€. Still almost double what you said they’d sell him for.
I really hope but I’m not so sure. Chelsea has so much useless players that they could include 2-3 in this deal and Milan could accept. You know, 60M + Pulisic + pick another fail from Chelsea that would fail at Milan, same as Pulisic. That is over 100M of value and Chelsea can afford that, because they were pretty smart and spent 300M over the next 7-10 years, they don’t care that much…
They won’t be able to give ultra long contract anymore, Uefa banned it starting from this summer. Max 5 years contract now.
True, but they spent 550m€ last season, they do not need to do that anymore. Now they can buy a specific position every year. They used the system smartly and maybe it was changed but Chelsea had a real-life benefit from being smart and creative. They will now sell the players they don’t need, fill up the funds and be able to spend again this summer, without any restrictions. You are talking like they did not already use this and don’t care it was changed. 😀
I just comment about the loophole they used. They still need to sell though, they are really far in the red.
And they still won’t get UCL next season. Mark my words hahaha
At least Cardinale is not insane like Boehly. 😂
They need to collect 150M€ this season and just selling Lukaku, Mount and Kovacic covers this. It is a 3 year period with FFP, they check last 3 seasons. And they have another 10 players that will bring around 150M to 200M. So the will be in the green and can spend another 150-200M this summer. Spending money doesn’t win you CL but it does make you more competitive in it. Chelsea did the smartest thing, most of those players are from 18-23. If they purchased 27–30-year-old players I would say it is stupid. But it was really smart. People are laughing at Chelsea because they don’t understand anything. They used a perfect loophole which is not possible anymore. But Milan could have spent 100M like that easily, nobody would notice and it wouldn’t affect finances, it would be 10-15M for the next xy seasons less in the budget. But if that spending gets you better players, better results, more money, more sponsors in the end you pay it from the increase and you don’t have a smaller budget. I think it is pretty simple to understand that it definitely wasn’t a stupid tactic. Maybe results didn’t come in 3 months, but they got all the top talents to develop as a team and you’ll see them in the next few years.
Chelsea have so many players to sell or include in the deal that they could buy Mike and still make a profit on spending this summer. They’ll get 30m each for Mendy and Kepa alone.
And whos going to pay 30m for them?
One inconsistent and one disappear last season. Even at 20m I doubt any club will buy them.
Tottenham offered 25M for Mendy already. What do you mean who will buy them? They are both good goalkeepers, Kepa issue was that he was overpaid when he was a kid and everyone expected him to be the best in history. Too much pressure for a kid. But they can get 15-20M for him easy. They also have so much deadwood they can make 300-400M€ in sales this summer without breaking a sweat.