During the appointment with the Cronache di Spogliatoio podcast ‘Euro Cronache’, during the column “Let’s open the taps: ask your questions in chat”, the Il Foglio journalist Giuseppe Pastore talked about Milan focusing in particular on the identikit that the central defender should have on which the Rossoneri management could focus in the next transfer market. These are his statements.
What characteristics must the new central defender that Milan will acquire have?
“We almost never talk about the central defender for Milan, also because they need him. In theory yes, he would have three, four, but I don’t know if Thiaw is still considered by Milan, but in reality yes in my opinion. I don’t know Meanwhile, a player who is fast, because when Milan lacked Kalulu, for the whole season in fact, and Tomori, who limped anyway, the team had an incredible effort when they stretched out to cover the spaces behind Thiaw he is a fast player, Gabbia himself is not, a player who has speed, if Milan wants to follow up on Ibrahimovic’s ideas of dominating the game, coming and going beyond, they need someone who can also return. I don’t know , I think that the defenders’ pools are varied, France for example has exceptional ones in Ligue 1, at least on an athletic level, you learn to be a defender in Italy, and none of these defenders I mentioned were already strong before arriving in Italy it is certainly not the first role to be covered, the midfielder and the striker”:
