Today is the day that AC Milan officially begin preparing for the 2023-24 season as the squad come together at Milanello for the first training session.
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According to Tuttosport (via PianetaMilan), the Milan team will get back to work after their summer vacations for a few tough days in the sun at Milanello before leaving for their tour of the USA on July 20.
The paper writes that Mike Maignan, Fodé Ballo-Touré, Theo Hernández, Pierre Kalulu, Simon Kjær, Malick Thiaw, Charles De Ketelaere, Alexis Saelemaekers, Olivier Giroud, Rafael Leao and Lorenzo Colombo will join the group from Wednesday 19 July after international duty.
The trio of new signings Marco Sportiello, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Luka Romero will be present, in addition to Yacine Adli, Ismaël Bennacer, Davide Calabria, Mattia Caldara, Alessandro Florenzi, Matteo Gabbia, Rade Krunić and Andreas Jungdal.
Daniel Maldini will be there but his loan move to Empoli is being defined, while Junior Messias, Antonio Mirante, Divock Origi, Tommaso Pobega, Ante Rebić, Fikayo Tomori and Devis Vásquez are expected too.
There will also be some players from Ignazio Abate’s Primavera present – namely Victor Eletu, Hugo Cuenca and Chaka Traoré – who Pioli wants to have a look at before a decision is made regarding whether they will stay with the senior side, work under Abate more or go out on loan.
