AC Milan will start with a nice available budget for the summer transfer window and there is the possibility that it could be further increased, a journalist has claimed.
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According to Antonio Vitiello of MilanNews, Milan will ‘start from a budget of 90-100 million’ this summer, which derives from the €50m for participating in the Champions League, the €16m for finishing second in Serie A, the €23m from Charles De Ketelaere moving permanently to Atalanta, and the departures of Junior Messias and Rade Krunic.
Furthermore, the club will save on the salaries of Olivier Giroud, Simon Kjaer, Mattia Caldara and Antonio Mirante, then there will be the capacity to send some young players out on loan to further decrease the wage bill.
With a budget of €90-100m, Milan will ‘begin to operate on the incoming market’ and then they will evaluate any bids that come in, even for top players.
We can ‘start from the assumption that the club does not need to sell’, but the sale of Sandro Tonali for €70m ‘teachesus that no player can be considered unsellable at certain figures’.