There will be a lot of work for Milan this summer and what the ambitions of this ownership will be defined. One of the management’s tasks will be, once again, to shorten the squad list and get rid of the redundancies who will return from loans to the various teams.
They will definitely return to Divock home base Origi, Ballo-ToureLorenzo ColumbusMarco NastiMarco PilgrimMarko Lazetic, Chaka Traore and Devis Vasquez. The only doubt among this circle of players who will return is Daniel Maldini, who was the protagonist of good months with the Monza shirt from January onwards and the former AC Milan CEO Adriano Galliani is thinking of redeeming him.
Fairly unsuccessful years in the Premier League for Origi and Ballo-Touré. The Belgian at Nottingham Forest achieved safety but he was not an absolute protagonist of the team, far from it: alone one assist in 20 games played. The Senegalese, however, 6 appearances in 38 games in the Fulham shirt in which he managed to get a yellow card.
Different championship for the two Marcos: Pellegrino was unable to impose himself in a very disastrous context like that of Salernitana and after 9 games if you don’t play in the best way, he will return to Milan and will most likely be sent out on loan again to mature (there were many expectations for him when he arrived at the Rossoneri); Nasti, for his part, despite a bad season by his Bari which reached the playouts, was one of the few positive notes on the team: 6 goals (one in the first leg of the playout against Ternana) e 1 assist.
Chaka Traorè and Devis Vasquez’s championship was not exceptional. The Colombian spent the first part of the season at Sheffield Wedneaday in the Championship and in Serie B at Ascoli. On both occasions he didn’t find much space: 9 matches with Sheffield and 10 with Ascoli, with which he was relegated to Serie C. The former Parma player was instead sent on loan to Palermo with the hope that he would find enough space to mature but this was not the case: 10 games without managing to get into the scoreboard.
Finally there are Lazetic and the two from Monza Colombo and Maldini. In his adventure at Fortuna Sittard, the Serbian it was not found to have an impact for the fate of the Dutch team, even if the team managed to finish tenth in the Eredivisie. Ups and downs in the championship for the two former AC Milan players; if Maldini arrived at Monza in the second half of the season, Colombo started at Monza right away.
A first part of the season as a starter for Colombo and a second which saw him behind in the hierarchies compared to Djuric: overall, 4 goals and 1 assist in 25 appearances. Daniel Maldini had many difficulties first at Empoli, especially tactically, and then at Monza he managed to find his dimension, so much so that as we said before he could remain in Brianza. 4 goals and 1 assist in 11 appearancesall signed with Monza.
This is the number of players who will return to Milan, and it will be the time for Furlani & Co to redo what was already done, excellently, in the last summer session in eliminating those in the squad who were numerically too many. 9 players, a tough nut to crack.
