MN: Maldini’s two priorities for the summer
AC Milan management is already planning the summer mercato. Maldini’s priorities are renewals and two signings.
Now that the winter transfer window has closed it is time for Paolo Maldini to start thinking about the Milan to come. First of all, the issues related to the contracts of Gianluigi Donnarumma, Hakan Calhanoglu and Zlatan Ibrahimovic have yet to be resolved. There has been no progress with any of them despite the optimism of the Rossoneri.
In the background there are also those whose deal expires in 2022. Four key players like Alessio Romagnoli, Simon Kjaer, Franck Kessie and Davide Calabria. After that Paolo Maldini will have to start planning strategies for the summer mercato reports MilanNews.it.
For Gigio and Hakan, negotiations have been quite difficult, there is still economic distance between offer and demand. However, the desire of both players is to stay at Milan. The two are fundamental players for Pioli and the Rossoneri on the other hand would like to keep them for long and build the team of the present and the future. With Ibrahimovic, concrete talks will start after one month.
On the transfer side, AC Milan’s primary goal is to strengthen the squad where no adjustments were made in January. The roles to improve are those of the right winger and the left-back. Florian Thauvin is top transfer target of the Rossoneri management. Alexis Saelemaekers and Samuel Castillejo are a good pair but Thauvin certainly has more qualities.
The Frenchman, who will leave for free Marseille in June, would certainly find the right place in this exciting AC Milan side. Maldini has offered Thauvin a 4-year contract at around 3 million per season. The knot of commissions to be paid to the player’s agents remains to be resolved. In addition, plans are already being made to sign Fikayo Tomori on a permanent transfer, perhaps asking Chelsea for a discount compared to the 28 million euro fee already agreed.
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