Summer Mercato 2022

[Zio Fester]

As Junior Messias and Alexis Saelemaekers are struggling to hit form on the right flank, Stefano Pioli could turn to a player that hasn’t featured since December, namely Samu Castillejo. The Spaniard has only amassed 122 minutes all season.

Pioli cracking under pressure...

[Bennacer]

33 mill on Botman. I think its way to much to pay for a third choice. Put all 100 million(after sales and everything) on RW, ACM and CF. Period.

[Demonbanana]

33 mill on Botman. I think its way to much to pay for a third choice. Put all 100 million(after sales and everything) on RW, ACM and CF. Period.

Botman would start with Tomori. Kjaer is a question mark and we don't know of Romagnoli will be here. I think we still see Kalulu as RB. 


But, yeah,  I would rather us splash some cash on those positions too.

[Inas]

We all assuming buying Botman exclude other signings. As Milan fans, our minds are so conditioned that we automatically get scared if we are rumored to be buying a 30m player. We feel there won't be anything much left after that [emoji23]

[Bennacer]

Botman would start with Tomori. Kjaer is a question mark and we don't know of Romagnoli will be here. I think we still see Kalulu as RB. 


But, yeah,  I would rather us splash some cash on those positions too.

I see Kalulu as a bigger talent and more suited to our high pressing style than Botman. His speed is the key. Therefore i wrote third choice. Probably the club see Botman as the regular partner for Tomori, personally i dont agreee. And change Calabria with Kalulu? yes thats a solution.

[nefremo]

We all assuming buying Botman exclude other signings. As Milan fans, our minds are so conditioned that we automatically get scared if we are rumored to be buying a 30m player. We feel there won't be anything much left after that [emoji23]

[Zio Fester]

Junior Messias is the man that Paolo Maldini and Ferederic Massara chose to bet on late in the summer window, but his stay at AC Milan appears likely to last only one season.

Messias’ contribution to the Rossoneri has been somewhat inconsistent and for this reason the Rossoneri management almost certainly will not buy him from Crotone permanently for the previously agreed sum of €5m, as SempreMilan.it report.

Well who would have thought being cheap would bite you in the ass...

[Zio Fester]

Alexis Saelemaekers is now facing an uncertain future at AC Milan as Stefano Pioli is reportedly disappointed with his training and his impact in recent games.

Calciomercato.com report that Saelemaekers has played from the first minute on only 17 of the 30 league games so far this season with his last start being back on February 5 against Inter, in which he was replaced at half-time by Junior Messias.

He started Monday’s 0-0 draw against Bologna from the bench and did not even come on which is the latest blow for the former Anderlecht man. Pioli is ‘obviously not happy with his work’ as per the report, both in training and in his last few games as a substitute.

His future is at stake despite the fact his contract is expiring in 2026. Saelemaekers was bought for just over €7m so selling in the summer would mean making a capital gain for the club, which cannot be excluded.

[Arildonardo]

Blues striker touted for Serie A switch

Chelsea striker Timo Werner has been offered to Juventus and Milan - according to The Express.

The 26-year-old's agent Volker Struth travelled to Italy earlier this week to sound out potential suitors ahead of the summer transfer window.

Struth also spoke to officials from Atalanta, with Werner set to leave Chelsea at the end of another frustrating campaign in the Premier League.

[nefremo]

Selling Saele and letting Messias go means we'll need 2 RWs. Not complaining and not against it. Just saying, it's something to keep in mind.

I definitely don't wanna keep Messias. He had a couple decent moments early on, but has been atrocious since. He also has zero upside or room for improvement. About to be 31 in May. Any money amount for him is too much...but 5M is totally excessive. We already spent 2M for his loan. Call it the cost of doing business and ship his ass out.
This last weekend against Bologna was the end of the rope for me. He messed up several promising attacks. One of those was a full on counter in which we actually had numbers on Bologna. He kept the ball so long, that he took it up on the right, then dribbled alllll the way to the left absolutely missing the 3 runs all around him and then lost the ball. I was livid!!!! If that wasn't enough, he then a couple minutes later had a cross that went up in the sky and missed the entire box. It wasn't just anything. It was another very promising situation with players crashing the box. Ended up hitting the corner flag or something. All the players in the box kind of stopped and looked at him like "wtf is this guy doing on the field"?

On Saele...the article is right that him not getting into the game tells a lot. We have a winger on the bench (Saele) and we don't even use him when in desperate ned of a goal. It just shows how much confidence (or lack thereof) Pioli has in him axtually contributing a goal/assist.
In terms of Pioli being unhappy wuth his training or what not...that part is probably nonsense.