One month to go back to running, at least two to go back to playing: basically, Milan will start work to prepare for next season without Zlatan Ibrahimovic. According to the rehabilitation path established later knee surgery, the Swedish giant may be available to Pioli for the first of the championship (Serie A 2021/22 will start on 22 August) at best, but in any case relaunches a plan already advanced by Maldini and Massara: not a single reinforcement, the Devil he carefully evaluates the possibility of hiring two center forward to work alongside Ibra. The injuries of the giant from Malmoe are not an unknown or ignored detail by the AC Milan management, nor are the 35 years to be completed at the end of September of Olivier Giroud: the Frenchman remains a hot name for the Rossoneri, who await the definitive opening since Chelsea to free him at zero despite the recent renewal, but even if the deal is successful this cannot be enough to guarantee adequate coverage of the role in a season that will see the Via Aldo Rossi club reappear in the Champions League after seven years of absence.
I NOMI – Not surprisingly, Maldini has been taking matters into his own hands for weeks and has begun to probe the market to evaluate a profile that can integrate with two experienced strikers and the idea is to go to a green profile and on the launch pad. This is how the combinations with Scamacca and Raspadori are explained, above all this is explained the contact had a few days ago with the agents of Sasa Kalajdzic, Austrian center forward born in 1997 who repeated himself in the Bundesliga after having already impressed in 2.Bundesliga. Tall (2 meters), young but ready to elbow with two big weights like Ibra and Giroud, not at the top of the Milan list but one of the welcome names, even if it is not a cheap operation: Stuttgart asks at least 25 million euros to negotiate. Milan knows this, despite this, they have taken over the dossier, confirming that the third striker is considered one of the priority moves for the summer and that the Milanese club is ready to invest, if necessary, even an important figure to fill this gap.
IT DEPENDS ON LEAO – Investing yes, but it is also necessary to find the funds and numerically free up space for another graft. For this it becomes essential to thin out the offensive department and, in particular, define what Rafael Leao’s future will be. The former Lille jewel did not convince in the first two seasons at San Siro, enlightening plays alternating with long moments of fogging. Milan therefore evaluates his sale in order to finance other blows, but wants to return the amount spent to snatch him from Lille, 28 million euros in total between cash and Tiago Djalò’s card. A condition that the Rossoneri management he reiterated last week to his agent, Jorge Mendes, which in the meantime has announced the arrival of important offers for the attacker born in ’99, with important interests already arrived from Premier (Everton e Wolverhampton) and Connect 1 (Marseille). The Devil awaits the arrival of concrete proposals to plan the next steps: Leao’s future decides that of the attack, his sale can bring the necessary funds to complete the plan and give not one, but two strikers to support Ibrahimovic.-
