A silence of work, constant and daily. Milan is moving, despite the rumors, on its priorities in the transfer market with the aim of making the right additions to make the team even stronger than last season. The primary need is that of a centre-forward, because Olivier Giroud’s farewell requires the club to go and get a first striker on which to structure the sporting project at least in the medium term.
Zirkzee priority
The last few days, on Joshua Zirkzee, have remained quite interlocutory. The negotiation is not dead, Milan have not abandoned their primary objective and from next Monday they will be able to activate the 40 million clause to be paid to Bologna. The agreement with Kia Joorabchian is still missing, as he is trying to attract other buyers who will give him the 15 million commissions he requests to give the green light to the completion of the operation. Milan, as is known, does not want to pay that amount and continues its diplomatic work to ensure that Kia’s requests can be lowered. It is likely that after the European Championship things will unblock, also because we will have a better picture of the situation.
Lukaku: high figures, but it’s an option
Obviously Milan is not stuck only on Zirkzee and Romelu Lukaku’s name was mentioned in speeches on the fourth floor of Casa Milan. Chelsea, however, continues to follow its idea of a permanent transfer, with a valuation of around 40 million for the Belgian center forward who, in turn, is asking for a significant salary, around 7.5 million. Milan takes him into consideration, but under different and more advantageous conditions given that in recent years Big Rom has only moved for one-year transfers and then returned to home base. If Chelsea were to change their mind, then Milan could really enter the scene.
Gimenez, Dovbyk and the alternatives
In the reasoning that is made by the AC Milan management, in addition to the economic questions, there is also the technical and demographic aspect for the choice of the next owner of the AC Milan number 9 shirt. This is why the candidacy of Santiago Gimenez (valued at 50 million) from Feyenoord and Artem Dovbyk from Girona (40 million clause like Zirkzee, but lower commissions) remain names not to be removed from the AC Milan list.
