Lorenzo Colombo will return to AC Milan in the summer when his loan spell with Monza is done and there is a club within Serie A interested in signing him, a report claims.
As we highlighted in our latest Substack piece yesterday, it has not been the season Milan would have hoped for when they sent Colombo on loan to a team just up the road in Monza.
While the striker has shown his qualities at times, even scoring against the Rossoneri, he has been far too inconsistent with just four goals in 22 games for Raffaele Palladini’s side.
According to Tuttosport (via PianetaMilan), the 21-year-old will return to base in the summer and then leave again, with Torino currently the team most interested in securing his performances.
Toro’s idea would be to take Colombo as a third striker, behind Duván Zapata and Matheus Saldanha. The latter is a Brazilian striker currently at Partizan who sporting director Davide Vagnati wants to replace Antonio Sanabria.
The Granata would then have to sell former Rossoneri player Pietro Pellegri and not buy David Okereke from Cremonese on a permanent basis.
Colombo would then compete for the role of third striker for Torino with Ange-Yoann Bonny who is at Parma, valued at just under €10m by the Italian club.
For Torino, Colombo is worth less than Bonny considering his sub-par season. However, it is unlikely that Milan will agree with that assessment.
Lol, if they get 8M for Colombo it will be a good deal. Demanding anything more is just sheer greed and blowing this opportunity to use this to lower Buongiorno’s transfer fee would be sheer madness.
Yep , 20m euro + colombo for bungo will be good deal for ACM but bad for Torino 😂😂😂
I dont think it is good idea sending him on loan to torino for 3rd choice striker. Better sell him fast , he is not top club striker material
We need colombo for registration
After Girourd leave, we need world class striker
Then we have jovic as 2nd striker, colombo as third
then again, we need to thin out our 1st eleven. we might sign old striker as 3rd backup, and wait camarda to replace 3rd spot.
Yeah one between COLOMBO or MALDINI needs to get back home for the registration rules
Colombo has talent, you only have to see the amazing goals he has scored. He is young and quite big, so it’s taking him time to find consistency.
Mark my words, he will be a good striker!
It might be a good idea to bring him home, keep him as part of our new roster with player X and Jovic.
With the kind of creative players we have he would get better chances and might just find momentum.
Maybe I’m wrong, but I hope we give him a real chance before letting him go. His left foot is just incredible
Yeah he is still young, let wait another year when he will be 23 yo
Interesting to hear your report on his performance v Cagliari.
As you say, he must be taking the chances he gets.