According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Manchester United defender Eric Bailly is now Milan‘s primary target to replace Simon Kjaer with the Rossoneri looking for an initial loan move.
According to the report, Manchester United are open to loaning the 27-year-old to San Siro until the end of the season, although they could ask the Serie A giants to add an option to buy in the deal.
Bailly joined Manchester United in a €38m move from Villareal in 2016 but has been struggling with playing time this season, having only collected seven appearances across all competitions.
Milan are looking for a replacement for their injured defender Simon Kjaer and Bailly is now one of their primary targets given that Lille are not open to selling Sven Botman in January.
The Rossoneri are also monitoring Manchester City’s Nathan Aké, but his salary is too high for them, while they can afford Bailly’s.
The Red Devil is currently on AFCON duty with Milan contract rebel Franck Kessié. They are both expected to start in Ivory Coast’s tournament debut against Equatorial Guinea tonight.
Il Milan accelera per Bailly: pressing sullo United #calciomercato https://t.co/P3wqBMJvC2
— La Gazzetta dello Sport (@Gazzetta_it) January 12, 2022
So Gabbia and Kalulu put in some solid performances, the club is apparently short of cash, and yet because the transfer window has arrived we have to go out and sign a CB and our target is a player who hasn’t exactly set the world alight?
Doesn’t this just sum up modern football?
What message does it send to Gabbia?
No matter what he does the club has no faith in him.
He’s 22. How long more do we need to wait?
Is he set to be a 4th choice CB?
4th choice for what?
If a player gets injured we bring someone else in anyway.
@Maldinis heir
Gabbia is not Milan quality, just look how easily Zaniolo outplayed him.. Just sell him ASAP and bring in a quality defender, probably not Baily..
Gabbia is off to Sampdoria!!
Bailly will be a quality signing, already knows kessie which will help with him settling in.
Bailly and Tomori and the back wow!pace, strength cant wait.
He’s talented, that’s for sure, capable of doing the extraordinary piece of defending but also the occasional howler, and his style of play suits Pioli’s Milan, but his injury record is what’s giving me trouble.
@ MZ/x You’re right he’s definitely not capable of playing in a team that’s second in Serie A. I mean we’d never beat the likes of Roma with him. Oh wait we are second and we did beat Roma.
What is Milan quality?
Is he any worse than Filippo Galli? Because we won titles with him.
It’s again this computer game approach to managing a sports team. This doesn’t happen in other proper sports. You don’t just write off players constantly.
If he was good enough to be in our youth team, to break into the first team, that puts in the top 1% of footballers on the planet. The rest is patience and perseverance.
Thinking that playjng Gabbia for the rest of the season will get Milan in the CL is absolutely deluded. We need a Kjaer replacement, he’s no replacement for him as of yet.