The Milan is ready to dive back into the championship after the bitter night of Champions League against theAtletico Madrid. The Rossoneri are still at zero points after two matches in the iron group which also includes Liverpool and Porto and the remaining hopes of at least remaining in contention until the end for qualification are linked to the two upcoming challenges against the Dragoes, currently third in the standings with one point.
Net of the controversy over the referee’s decisions Cakir, the company and Stefano Pioli did not like the lightness of Frank Kessie, whose intervention from behind on Koke in midfield at 30 ‘of the first half of a match in which the Ivorian had already been booked, put the referee at least in a position to evaluate the second yellow, which arrived on time.
The expulsion of the former Atalantino has inevitably conditioned the progress of the match and is part of a framework of relations already tense between the player and his agent on the one hand and the club on the other.
The reference is obviously to the negotiations for the renewal of the contract expiring next June, which seems to have come to a standstill. The mutual trust that was breathed in the summer has now vanished in the face of the immovability of George Atangana, manager of Kessie, who does not disengage from the request of 8 million net, bonuses excluded, to extend the midfielder’s adventure in the Rossoneri.
For the owners and the managers, who have already seen it leave at no cost in the summer Gianluigi Donnarumma e Hakan Calhanoglu, who were told no for requests equally considered expensive, this is an important crossroads specifically, given the importance of Kessié in the economy of the team game, but also in a more general context, given that the third missed collection for a top player it would trigger inevitable questions in the fans and would cost a lot in terms of balance, which will also mark a clear decline in red compared to that of 2020.
Thus, having ascertained the player’s desire not to retreat from his requests, as well as the decline in performance experienced by Kessié in the first part of the season, it begins to peep into the Milan the hypothesis of selling the former Atalantino already in the next market session in January, when the midfielder will be involved in Africa Cup of Nations with the Ivory Coast.
A scenario, the latter, which risks complicating AC Milan’s plans, pushed to this decision also by the increasingly convincing performance of Sandro Tonali.
The Maldini-Massara duo is aware of the fact that the loss of Kessié would represent serious damage from a technical point of view, but on the other hand the risk is that of colliding with the player’s no to a goodbye in January, thanks to the interest , for the moment not disclosed, of the Paris Saint Germain, however, willing to close the deal only on a free transfer for an encore of the Donnarumma blow that would do so much harm to the Rossoneri accounts.
OMNISPORT | 01-10-2021 08:08
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