AC Milan made a late move in the summer mercato for Nahuel Molina, but were once again let down by their lack of European football.
As Calciomercato.com recall, Milan sold Alex Jimenez to Bournemouth in the final part of the window and they tried to sign a right-back to cover for losing him. A number of names were linked – all of them from LaLiga – but in the end nobody arrives.
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Tried but failed
Milan explored the full-back market over the last 48 hours of the mercato, but failed to find a solution that met their technical and financial criteria. Molina appealed because he was allowed to leave Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid, and he knows Serie A well from his time at Udinese.
Juventus were linked with signing the Argentine but nothing came of it, and then Milan stepped forward to try get a late deal done. Atletico Madrid were actually open to negotiating, even willing to consider a loan.
However, the talks were nipped in the bud due to resistance from the player, who wanted to stay at the Spanish club because he still wants to play in the Champions League. It is a similar story involving Manuel Akanji, who ended up at Inter because of his desire to play in Europe.
One of the 176 players linked to Milan in the last twenty minutes of the mercato 🤣
Sell player then try our luck to sign a cover.. what a trash directors.
If you keep players before buying a new player, then you gonna end up getting lowballed when you try to sell the said player
Correct. But when you sell before you have a replacement, you can be equally squeezed.
Damn if you do, damn of you don’t
so if we get into UCL we can finally sign the missing 3 players?! wingback, CB and ST…
X-factors for this season are definitely:
RLC (elevating his game-play and learning how to control the ball);
Athekame, Odugu (another Terracianno and other “potential”-filled players or actual quality);
Nkunku, Estupinan (staying injury-free)…
the rest of the squad will do fine!
I would go with player that want to join, win scudeto with us and win champions league. This shows me that this player either does not understand the value of Milan Jersey or he has weak mentality. Stay home, and please pick a better subject to write for. Real Madrid had a draught of 16 years and still was the biggest club on earth, something Guliani always mentioned.
I sort of get it, but sometimes wonder why a player would rather watch the UCL from a team’s bench than help a different team qualify for it where they’d be a starter.