According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Milan are preparing a new contract offer for Rafael Leao and don’t want to sell the player for less than his €150m clause.
Leao’s contract runs out in June 2024 but the offer prepared by club directors in March is no longer valid.
The Rossoneri had planned to raise Leao’s salary from €1.5m to €4.5m per season, but Leao’s transfer value further increased during the last two months of 2021-22, so Milan are now willing to offer a new €6m-a-year deal to their star, extending his stay until 2026.
The pink paper confirms that Chelsea are interested in the player, but no offer has arrived from Stamford Bridge yet.
Leao has a €150m clause and both Gazzetta and Calciomercato claim that the Serie A giants are unwilling to sell in the summer for a lower fee.
Leao returned to training yesterday and it remains to be seen if he will agree to sign a new deal with the club or look for an even more lucrative deal elsewhere, considering that he has been ordered to pay €16.5m to his former club Sporting CP.
Please this guy is more better than drogba can chalsea buy him and win more trophy 🏆 this time.
For £150m, I’ll chauffeur him to London myself. He’s a great talent, but that sort of money will buy 4 or 5 other great talents for the squad.
He aint worth 150m euro’s, he will leave just like kessie – undisclosed fee – most likely around 80-90m euros – as everyone knows milan need to sell, unfortunately
@mohammed, what makes you think that Milan will need to sell? Is it because they always come clean
Milan have the upper hand here.He becomes a free agent in 2024. Meaning if he gets better this year,we accept 100M bids in the summer.
If I were Leao,I would NOT go to Chelsea though..maybe Man City.Chelsea have wasted Lukaku,Werner,Pulisic,Havertz .allhave lost value during their time at Chelsea.
I do think Milan should give him like 6.5M per year.He has earned it.If he outright refuses a new deal.Sell him in the summer.
Either he wants to stay or he doesn’t.
If he doesn’t then the price is 150.
I think we’re in a pretty good position.
My guess is he will neither leave this summer OR sign a new deal. A 4.5m uplift in salary is nothing compared to what Mendes can get him in signing on fees next year when we’ll be forced to sell below market value or lose him in 2024. This is modern football – all roads lead to City, Chelsea, Madrid or PSG (and probably Newcastle) and agents know the system better than anyone.
He’s an incredible talent, enjoy him while we can.
He will leave for sure. I don’t think he had much loyalty for Milan in particular and having been the best player of Milan last season, he can demand more than Milan offers.
I hope he stays in Milan for the longest time?
I don’t think Leao will sign nor leave this season. 150M is a bit of a gamble, even for EPL sides. HOWEVER, if Leao continues to progress this season and confirmed his growth, his value would’ve skyrocket even further and Milan would be in no position (financially) to holding on to him. So the question here is whether Leao is willing to bet on himself and let the contract rolls (and possibly incurring the wrath of the tifosi) or would he play it conservatively with extending with Milan, with possibly an improved buyout clause.
Milan is in no rush to sell this season. Sure, we lost alot of players on a free so far, but I am pretty sure this window is not decisive yet, as Leao is on a mere 1.5M contract, and Milan is still reaping a lot of value there. Here’s to another saga I suppose.
150 million? Makes you wonder why they just spent a third of that on a player in the same position. Well actually it makes you wonder why any of us ever believe these nonsense stories.
@Everyone saying he’s 150m. Sorry, he’s not. He had a good season, to be sure, but he plays in a declining league and has a umber of holes in his game (defense, focus). In one little year he’s going to be one year away from being free, so his value will plummet. At that point he may even refuse to sign for another club if Milan tries to sell then, waiting the contract out and walking. We’ve seen this already. Sorry, but if he doesn’t extend in the next two week, we HAVE to sell. Next, let’s do some “comps”: Raphinha just went to Barcelona for 65m and Sterling to Chelsea for 63m, similar positions with similar stats in the PREMIER LEAGUE. So that sets the market. So 150m for Leao is a pipe dream. Max 80m. Probably closer to 65-70m. Sorry to burst the bubble. Still, with that money the club will find another young talented replacement for LW and could reinforce another position or two and life would go on.
@Vero
I would go even further and say he is worth less than Sterling. He’s still only 27 and has proven himself season after season.
@ Vero
Those stats between Leao and other players were all nice and right, but you forgot age difference buddy. At Leao’s age those players weren’t league MVPs. Sure Sterling had very good numbers but he was playing in an all attack city team, the best in their league, a league with terrible defenses. Leao has problems in his game but he carried the weight of a Milan side with too many holes in attack, leading us to Scudetto.
If Jack Grealish is worth that much, not to mention Maguire … I mean what had they won or had done before their transfers?
So stop devaluing our own players please. The market is crazy.
@Milan Fan
I don’t think Grealish or Maguire were ever worth their transfer fee. Likely never will be. Just because England is crazy for prices doesn’t mean we value our own players at that level.
@ DB
We should value our players less you mean? What are we crazy lol
Of course they were not worth their fee, but that’s the reality of the transfer market today. So if the buyer is from England, the land of crazy, then why not? You want everyone to put crazy price-tags on their player and we do the opposite? lol
We’re living in a world where Scamacca has a 50m price-tag and teams are battling for him. Yeah, Leao, the Serie A MVP, could easily fetch over 100m in this market, trust me.
@ Vero Rossonero He’s not worth 150m. But that’s his release clause so if he wants to leave someone’s going to have to pay that. Now can we move on?
@Milan Fan
No, you’re not getting me. Of course you don’t undervalue your players but you don’t have to play along with the ridiculous way it is in England. Or indeed wherever PSG are prowling about. Even with them involved I’d be shocked if Scamacca actually went for 50m. Maybe 30-35 plus bonuses.
I really can’t see it with how you value Leao. Even the big spenders aren’t stupid enough to spend 100m on him right now. Maybe once he’s really proven his level.