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Monica Colombo
All those players with contracts expiring in the summer will be able to deal with anyone. Milan is working on the renewal of the goalkeeper, while the Bianconeri and Nerazzurri are dealing with their own cases. Rome, what’s happening with Joya?
If you don’t have resources to invest in the January market or even, like Napoli and Pisa, you have the obligation to face the negotiations respecting the zero balance constraint as imposed by the independent Commission that supervises the clubs’ accounts, no big deal. You can save today, to have the opportunity to make bargains starting tomorrow. Moreover, as stated in article 95bis of the Noif (the Federal Internal Organizational Rules) from January 1st clubs have the possibility to have players sign pre-contracts who will be released on the following June 30th.
Starting from the door, the most prestigious exponent of the category of champions stopped at the crossroads, renewal or release, is Mike Maignan. The whole of Milan, from CEO Furlani to sporting director Tare, through Max Allegri and the entire dressing room, is working to obtain the Frenchman’s signature. After the breakdown in diplomatic relations last year between the player and the club, which retracted the first proposal made and presented a lower one, calm is returning. The Devil has now submitted a new draft contract to the goalkeeper, valid until 2029 with an option for 2030: the salary would rise to 5.5 million to which a 1.5 million bonus would be added. A very important conversation should take place next week, perhaps decisive for solving the puzzle.
Max never misses an opportunity to continue with the work of persuasion towards the player and moderate optimism reigns within the club. Certainly, the club would like to know the goalkeeper’s response in the first months of the new year also to have time to find a replacement in the spring in case they part ways. Now or never. Juve and Inter are monitoring developments remotely.
In Rome it is Paulo Dybala with the fate of those who are suspended. His agreement with the Capitoline club, supported by an 8 million salary, ends in June. So far the company has not appeared to rediscuss the terms of the contract. However, the esteem that Gasperini has for him must be underlined: «If he doesn’t have injuries, he plays regardless because Roma don’t have other players of such high quality». The feeling is that if Dybala confirms this level of performance during the rest of the season and above all accepts a downward renewal, the chances of him staying are not remote.
L’Inter in the spring he will have to decide what level of staff revolution he wants to face. No one in Viale della Liberazione intends now, with the team in full swing for the Scudetto and the Champions League, to think about the new cycle to set up. They’re expiring Sommer (who will almost certainly say hello), Unripe (flattered by Al Hilal’s proposal), Darmian, The Free e Mkhitaryan. It goes without saying that, speaking of footballers over thirty, not all of them will be able to stay. We will talk about it again in the coming months when the club will have taken stock of the season’s objectives achieved and at the same time the players themselves (especially Mkhitaryan and De Vrij) will decide how to end their careers.
The Juventus has two thorns to resolve, Vlahovic and McKennie. The serious injury that stopped the Serbian center forward took away his bargaining power: in the last few hours there has been talk of an interest from the Barcelona for the post-Lewandowski (another top player, close to being released) but one cannot fail to note the admiration that Allegri has for him. Future in the balance for McKennieconsidered a reserve before each championship and then considered essential, during each season, by all the coaches who have alternated on the Juventus bench in the last six seasons. Agent Cory Gibbs yesterday denied the midfielder’s intention to return to the USA. “All false.”
January 1, 2026 (changed January 1, 2026 | 07:12)
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