Manchester United are unwilling to let Eric Bailly join Milan on loan until the end of the season, while the Rossoneri striker Pietro Pellegri could join Torino on a temporary transfer.
The Serie A giants are still looking for a replacement for their injured defender Simon Kjaer. Lille’s Sven Botman is their No.1 target, but the Ligue 1 champions are unwilling to sell their star defender leave in January.
Milan are also looking for a loan deal with an option to buy and Manchester United defender Bailly is among their targets.
However, both La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper and Sky Sports UK report the Red Devils are unwilling to let their defender leave on loan in January even if the Ivory Coast international has only collected seven appearances across all competitions this season.
Meantime, the Rossoneri are in talks with Torino over Pietro Pellegri’s loan move to the Stadio Grande Torino.
ESCL – Oggi c'è stato un nuovo contatto fra #Milan e #Torino per Pietro #Pellegri, attaccante di proprietà del #Monaco. 🔴⚫
Confermato: l'idea che le parti studiano è un riscatto anticipato dei rossoneri, che lo girerebbero in prestito ai granata. 🐂#calciomercato @DiMarzio pic.twitter.com/h7xTi3r570
— Luca Bendoni (@LucaBendoni) January 12, 2022
The striker’s agent Beppe Riso met Milan earlier this week and according to Gianluca Di Marzio, the two parties continued negotiations on Wednesday.
Milan and Torino are on good terms and the Rossoneri could sign Pellegri permanently for €6m from Monaco, loaning him to Monaco.
By doing so, they could have an option to get Gleison Bremer in the summer. The Brazilian defender is expected to extend his contract expiring in 2023 but will likely leave Torino at the end of the season.
Eric Bailly is not expected to leave #MUFC on loan in this window amid interest from AC Milan.
— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) January 12, 2022
Much better he stays, drops down to the youth team and gets some much needed play time.
maldini’s fascination with afro french continues
I reckon you might be the one with the “fascination”, Peter.
@PeterTufaro
Who or what is afro French? Bailly is from the Ivory Coast. He has no connections to France.
He is probably just referring to the Ivory Coast which gained independence in 1960. Avoid that guy though. In fact the entire Manchester backline are all overpaid and overhyped clowns especially Maguire.
‘gained independence in 1960’ 😂Bailly wasn’t even born yet…for another 34 years.
Not a whole lot of ‘afro’ about Giroud…. Toure, Kalulu, Hernandez and Maignan are all proving themselves to ve worth more than they were bought for, though Bakayoko it’s easy of where he was last time around.
Still, 5 out of 6 ftenchmen are firing well above their respective expectations – Are you aure Maldinis fascination isn’t with ‘successful signings,’ rather?