AC Milan made the decision to go after Mehdi Taremi over Romelu Lukaku after some intense internal reflections, according to Franco Ordine.
In his latest column for MilanNews, Ordine admits that Lukaku ‘would have been a starter’ for Milan and would have ‘demanded a role’ as the number one of the attacking department.
This is something that became ‘a fundamental issue’ which convinced him to abandon the idea of going back to Inter and promise himself first to Max Allegri’s Juventus and then to go to Roma.
When Lukaku’s name emerged as a possibility, it produced a ‘very interesting internal debate’ at Milan, who made the decision to ‘not ruin the atmosphere at Milanello’.
The feeling was that Olivier Giroud and perhaps some other team members might not have looked so favourably on the signing of a player like Lukaku, who would command such an important role.
Milan’s mission to find a striker with ‘physical and technical characteristics closer to Giroud and the humility to deputise to the Frenchman’ continued, and that is why they decided to go for Taremi instead.
Lukaka is not a footballer, je has an IQ of a Delphine, no offence to those species.
He has 1 skill and 1 skill only, a buldozer on stereoids who plows through defenve rather the play football. Ibra told him exactly in a brutal honsty what he is.
I would never want to win anything in a fashion that Lukaka wins.
Maybe because last two years lukaku played more like a central defender than a striker,he missed everything and knocked out belgium from world cup,he missed everything in CL final,in few ocations he blocked shots from his teammates and prevented goals like the opponents goalkeeper. Not to mention his low character.
They dont know, the most interesting debate is about Krunic. No one care about Lukaku
Krunic is better than Lukaku 😉
(at least when it comes to generating debate)
20M gross salary might had something to do with it..
Hope Roma enjoys being broke
If they win Serie A (or at least qualify for CL) and he scored at least 20 goals maybe he will be worth it….
But that’s a big IF.
We have to admit that the Milan team is financially weak and is stingy even to hire Taremi.