There are three players in the AC Milan squad who could leave in the direction of the Middle East this summer, according to a report.
As this morning’s edition of Tuttosport (via PianetaMilan) claims, Ismael Bennacer remains in the sights of Al-Ittihad despite the fact that negotiations between the Saudi club and Stefano Pioli have broken down.
The midfielder was mentioned as a target for them because Pioli was close to becoming the new head coach, even if Bennacer has not been completely open to a move to Saudi Arabia. He wants to meet Paulo Fonseca first to understand what the plans are for him.
Meanwhile, Al-Sadd Sports Club have presented an official offer for Yacine Adli, but the Frenchman does not seem interested at the moment and is also keen on staying and playing for a spot in the suad.
Alexis Saelemaekers, on the other hand, seems to be open to a possible experience in Saudi Arabia. So, at the moment, there are three players who could leave Milan for Saudi Arabia in this transfer window, pending developments in the coming days and weeks.
The transfer fees that the Rossoneri would get for each player are not disclosed, but the funds could certainly help fund other incomings.
Benny & Saele? Why not. Adli? Nope. Give him a proper chance and if he won’t shine, sell him next year.
Sell all 3 and buy Olmo..win win win
I’d keep Adli. For all his liabilities, he is pretty much our only midfielder who can pass the ball forward and take a set piece. Also fighting spirit is important and he is one of the few players fighting for the jersey.
Tijani, fofana, musah, ruben. When will adli play? I’m assuming 4231
You don’t need all midfielders to be starters.
Loftus-Cheek doesn’t do well in a 4-2-3-1, he is neither an AM and doesn’t have the work rate to play as DM, he’ll do better in a 4-3-3 as a mezzala. Musah is still a gamble.
Also Adli can do things that neither Musah or Loftus-Cheek can do, which is pass the ball.
Pass the ball backwards? Yeah. Ruben can do that. So can musah. We literally have 0 reasons to keep adli if an offer comes. Sure, I’d rather keep adli and sell ruben but that’s never gonna happen.
“Pass the ball backwards”
If you’re suggesting Adli is a krunic-wannabe when it comes to backpassing, you are absolutely clueless. Adli was the one and only midfielder the whole season who was even remotely thinking about passing the ball forwards.
If you failed to register that Adli’s passes were 1000x more advancing than the passes of the other midfielders (RLC included) all I can say is you probably need stronger glasses. Waaaay stronger.
No..he does pass back a lot. It’s a fact. And slows down the play a lot. Another fact.
You people really should stop overrating Adli. He’s good. For an average lvl. He could get better. But he won’t. Not at Milan.
I guess people only remember Adli when he makes a nice pass forward. But forget about him when he passes back or loses the ball in a delicate situation.. I’m cursed to remember everything unfortunately. Unless i get blackout drunk. But that’s neither here nor there.
@flyingturtle: check their stats in datamb. Adli is in the 99th percentile in forward passes and progressive passes and in the 91th percentile in forward passes accuracy, waayy better than Musah or Ruben.
I was actually surprised by some of those, but also check his assist to Leao in one of the later games in serie A. Loftus-Cheek and Musah can’t do that. In flashscore, his season was rated as good as Loftus-Cheek (who scored a shit ton of goals) and better than Musah.
Now of course, there is more to that than those stats, which don’t tell the whole story, but he definetly isn’t the “backward passer” and useless player you made him to be. At least not as much as Musah or Loftus-Cheek.
(@moderation: why don’t you publish my comments)
I don’t care about one assist in one game in a season of 50+ games.. I really don’t care about it.
I’ll just refer to -But forget about him when he passes back or loses the ball in a delicate situation- and that happens more than in one game per season. So idk. Think what you want
It seems that you conviently skipped the part about the percentile in progressive passes and forward passes. “Adli is in the 99th percentile in forward passes and progressive passes and in the 91th percentile in forward passes accuracy, waayy better than Musah or Ruben.” I would have posted a link but this website doesn’t seem to allow me to do so.
But anyways, even with his backward passes, at least, he can pass the ball forward and he can take a set piece and statistically, he is the best in our team in these departments. Neither Musah nor Ruben can do that. Bennacer is horrible in set pieces.
I didn’t skip it. I’m ignoring it because it’s useless. Tell me how many passes are attempted and how many are successful. % means jack shît without details.
And nah, he isn’t the best. You’re ignoring our other midfielders. I did a quick check tho. Among all our midfielders Adli loses the ball the most and is among the most error prone.. tis what it is. Passing isn’t everything.
For a lack of passers, as you believe we have a lack, we did pretty well offensively, right? 76 goals for..that’s 3 less than Barcelona and their fancy technical midfield
Ok I’ll put it this way:
My source is datamb. The players I’ll compare are Loftus-Cheek, Yunus Musah and Yacine Adli.
Duels won, % defined as: The percentage of duels won by a midfielder.
Ruben: 41.6% Yunus: 36.5 Adli: 88.6
Defensive Actions, per 90 defined as: Sum of tackles, interceptions and ground duels won; normalized per 90 minutes.
Ruben: 14, Yunus: 17.6, Adli: 82.6
Progressive Carries, per 90 defined as: Runs with the ball that significantly advance the team’s position; normalized per 90 minutes.
Ruben: 91.3 Yunus: 96.7 Adli: 88.2
Forward Passes, per 90: The number of passes attempted by a midfielder, excluding backwards and sideways passes; normalized per 90 minutes. (I’ll put in brackets the percentage completed):
Ruben: 2.5 (82.9%), Yunus: 18.1 (81.7), Adli: 98.4 (90.4)
Key passes, per 90: Open-play passes that directly lead to a goal-scoring opportunity; normalized per 90 minutes.
Ruben: 49.9 Yunus: 56.4 Adli: 47
Progressive Passes, per 90: Completed passes that help the team significantly advance towards the opponent’s goal; normalized per 90 minutes.
Ruben: 2.2 Yunus: 15.2 Adli: 99.1
Now of course you have to take into account their positions (Loftus-Cheek is pretty much a SS and Musah has been playing everywhere) and their minutes (Ruben played the most, Adli and Musah pretty much equal), against whom they played,….
But here you go, if you know of a criteria where Adli looks complete trash compared to Loftus-Cheek and Musah, feel free to inform me.
“I didn’t skip it. I’m ignoring it because it’s useless. Tell me how many passes are attempted and how many are successful. % means jack shît without details.”
Turtle you are being too ignorant there. There’s enough data in the entire season to make a comparison. Enough passes and gameplay to make an informed comparison statistically. And when you normalize to per 90min even better as Giga did. In this way u can’t say one played more games so he had more successful passes and in turn ironically more failed passes. Adli btw had the second most passes of the 5.
@giga you beat me to it.
There is another stst which shows team success when player is on field and out of the 5 players Musah is by far the worse at +0.08. all others are 0.29 and above. Not to beat down on Musah too much, Adli for me also has a defending issue. He’s great at passing esp progressive passing (one of the best in Europe) but he fails at times on defense. Our whole mid failed badly last season. I’d like to see Aldi alongside a more defensive minded mid.
Reijnders Benny Adli
Key Passes/game: 1.4 .9 .9
Succ.Passing %: 92 90 89
Long Balls/game: 1.4 1.2 3.3
Passer Rating: 6.9 6.7 6.7
What is your source ? Mine is Datamb and Adli seems to be way better.