Back in the heyday.

Rumors of a Belotti/Pobega swap in January. At this point, I would even ask for cash for Pobega in that swap. What's up with Belotti this season with Torino? He hasn't played much?

Peroneus tendon injury.

What's up is that he's finally seen as what he has always been: the overrated striker that he is.

The club had the AGM yesterday, where the 2021 financial statements were approved with a loss of 96,4M. Last year it was 194,6M.

Just to put some perspective, Inter closed 2021 with 245,6M losses, and Juve with 209,9M losses.

Great work by Gazidis and co.

Gazidis stated that agents and players have been acting like Covid never happened. Referencing Donna and Kessie?s demands this year. He also stressed that sometimes its better to let the players leave for free and focus on economic sustainability of the club. The goal of the management is to bring Milan back to where it was, but in a sustainable model.

He also stated that some mistakes were made, but all decisions were taken for the good of Milan.

I think this clearly shows where the management is going, they will not be held ransom and will built on the squad YoY to reach a squad capable of challenging both domestically and in Europe. Its gonna be a long journey, and we are at the beginning of that journey.

Two strikers we're being linked with recently.

Julian Alvarez, 21, River Plate

Yuri Alberto, 20, Internacional

Agreed. Especially considering both of them had CL football last season while we didn't

Their wage bills are astronomical compared to ours, and we've offloaded Donna and Hakan as well from last season's, while Inter added our dead weight on 5m per year

Just look at all the sponsorships he's brought in, and I'm sure others will be added. They probably are looking for a great deal for the back of the shirt as well (not a fan of that but it could potentially bring another 10m a season)

We really need to offload Emirates as well. The deal is too low to be our biggest and main sponsor, even if we have more freedom in terms of getting separate partners for training kits.

Lazio got a great deal from Binance and Inter's with Socios is pretty big as well.


I still think it's a terrible business plan to let them go for free. What we need to do is to not allow deals to go into their final season. We should have issued an ultimatum to Kessie before this summer, either sign or find a new club. Simple as that

We cannot keep losing 100s of millions worth of assets for free. Even if so far we have been lucky to come out smelling like roses in both cases.


I really don't think we need to be going in for a striker in January

We have shown that we can adjust to either, Ibra, Giroud or Rebic leading the line. It's hardly a position of import right now.

A decent backup to Diaz and a proper RW should be what we're concentrating on.

Faivre is just waiting there on a plate in France and he's been doing very well. Not shelling out the little extra will hurt in the long run as they'll want more for him now.

Also, I thought that Alvarez kid was an AM?

Alvarez is a CF. I think you're mistaking him with someone else.

Perhaps Ricky Alvarez?

And well, I disagree. We need a mobile striker. Giroud is on some occasions good and tactically a solid choice, but in others we truly lack mobility and the surprise factor. Only makes me wonder why we even bothered signing this Pellegri guy who seems to be crossed off completely.

Agreed. Rebic has been that mobile striker for us thus far, but we need him to rotate with Leao. We also really need a fast-paced RW who can dribble past opponents, score, assist. That right-hand side of our attack is so, so weak compared to the left. We end up being predictable.

If we can get both Faivre and one of these South Americans in January it would make a world of difference. They're not world class, but they're very promising, and it's the best we can afford right now.

And hopefully Messias starts playing FFS!

Barella, one of the best midfielders in Europe and in the Ballon d'Or list has just renewed with Inter for 5M annually. Kessie, who's had one decent season in his last 5 years, demands 8M.

I am honestly disgusted by certain people.

RW would be top priority for me. AM as well. Diaz alone isn't enough, look what happened when he was out.

Strikers we can rotate the 3 we have plus the Rebic factor

I also want Pioli to think outside the box and just play Rebic on the right. He's a great crosses, has played that position before for Croatia and will give you the defensive work rate as well as the attacking threat that Alexis simply doesn't right now.

Obviously this leaves us in the pickle of not have an alternative for Leao though. Letting Hauge go to Germany was really pointless


We don't really know what Kessie is demanding and what we're offering

I don't know what's going on but I'm more p!ssed off at the club than Kessie. Kessie can get that kind of money easily in England. Barella is an Inter fan, just like Tonali is a Milan fan. He's faught to be there from the beginning and won't leave

I honestly think we're lowballing Kessie or we're going to renew the others like Theo and Bennacer before we offer Kessie a huge deal. They don't want to set a precedent with him but watching him play these last few games when he's back in form it's obvious how hugely important he still is to us and we cannot lose him from the midfield. Tonali and Benna are great when they are next to him, together they leave too many spaces. Kessie is the perfect partner for both. Losing him for whatever reason would be idiotic.

Either way, the management needs to grow some balls and get this BS over with by January. If he still won't renew by then we need to try to sell him. Spurs under Conte would jump at the chance to get him. We need to make it clear to his agent that either he goes now or he sits for the rest of the season and we bring in a replacement. It might cost us a bit more if he still doesn't want to move, but at least we make a point

Reliable sources say Kessie is just asking too much. The club has gone way and beyond what they can offer, but he keeps shooting very high. His agent in particular seems a very difficult person to deal with.

I heard that when Maldini and co. came in for Fassone and Mirabelli they started to renew the contracts of some players who were promised a renewal and slight adjustment. Kessie was the only one they told to f*ck off because he was not Milan material. Remember this was back in 2018. Kessie had an offer by Monaco at the time and his agent flew in France but they couldn't reach a deal. So, he stayed with us and gradually improved his performances.

That is why the relations between Maldini and his agent are not the greatest, and why it's becoming so difficult to renew his contract.

Seedorf takes a dig at Kessie stating he hasnt helped the team out of their CL group where they sit at rock bottom. And he has not contributed to a Scudetto win.

He has the right to demand whatever economic terms he wants likewise Milan management have the right to cap their offer to something within their economic means.

Safe to say this is Kessie?s last season with Milan.