The son of AC Milan, Sandro Tonali, has not denied that a return to Serie A could be on the cards, bringing several questions to life.
When Tonali left, few people allowed themselves to not get carried away and immediately thought about a return. Of course, this was largely inspired by the fact that many thought he should not leave; however, he did. So, play the cards you’re dealt.
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A return has always lingered for this reason, even whilst other clubs have shown interest and Newcastle United have publicly denied any chance of him leaving, at least for now.
The situation
This week, though, the latest reason to believe emerged. It was reported that he met with his agent on Monday in Milano, whilst he also added petrol to the fire by stating he would always consider a return in the future.
Calciomercato.com reports that his value is now at least €70 million, €11m more than what he was sold to Newcastle for. Then, there is also the fact to consider about his contract, he earns up to €9m a year in the North East, with his deal running until June 2028. It would not be an easy mission to bring him home.
Other interest has to be considered too, and Juventus currently lead proceedings. They are ‘most keen’ to add him to their squad. However, the report states to ‘watch out’ for a return to the Rossoneri. He has already expressed a desire to wear his favourite colours once again.
In England, Manchester United are keeping tabs, but whether that move would be made would have to be seen.
His fee is in excess of £90m. The Italians put a smaller price in but we deal in real money in the real world. At the moment there is no Italian club that can afford his wages or his fee.
LOL. Capology says his net wage is 4M€. All top-5 clubs in Italy can manage that easily.
Yeah, UK show gross salary and Italy shows net salary.
But still the amount to buy him would require a new owner of the club unless we negotiate a deal with a player going to Newcastle.
Don’t want him to go anywhere else than coming home.
“Don’t want him to go anywhere else than coming home.”
This!
He is a solid upgrade on Locatelli in my opinion. Modric won’t be playing forever. We have Ricci, but I would really like to have Tonali
Paul Scholes recently said he was the best midfielder in the EPL.
Many geniuses here have defended the decision to sell him by saying he was average.
It is sad that a club that declares they want to win, sell players like him and Tiji, would should be the players we built the team around.
Perhaps if he stays until the end of his contract he can return home, but that will only happen if we are competitive in Italy and Europe, otherwise he can go anywhere he wants
Tiji wanted to be sold.
Funny he signed a contract extension in March and was delighted about it.
So we were under no obligation to sell him 3 months later
No obligation but to the player as he wanted to leave. Milan didn’t want to keep him against his will.
Milan wanted the money! Come on man
Many many times top clubs have refused to sell players, happens all the time.
So when u have a brand new contract, well you just don’t entertain it.
Most importantly a club are not allowed to speak or negotiate with a player without permission from their club.
Click bait. He’s not coming back to Italy anytime soon.
He makes one off handed, open ended comment during the international break and the Italian media runs 20 articles about it.
So dumb.