Milan will meet with Sassuolo CEO Giovanni Carnevali soon as they work to sign exciting duo Gianluca Scamacca and Domenico Berardi.
The Rossoneri are ready to significantly strengthen their attack in the upcoming summer transfer window in order to further confirm their return to the top. Their interest in both players is well known by now but things are finally starting to heat up.
As reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport, Milan are prepared to pay around €15m for Berardi and €30m for Scamacca. At first glance pulling off a deal like this seems impossible, but the Rossoneri are fairly confident.
Inter have been interested in Scamacca for some time now but currently they can only offer a loan deal with a buy option attached, a formula that doesn’t interest Sassuolo. This would force the Nerazzurri to sell one of their attacking players in order to pick him up in a definitive transfer, a situation that allows the Rossoneri to insert themselves in the race for his signature.
Scamacca has already outlined a contract extension with Sassuolo that would tie him to the club until 2026 and double his salary from €400,000 to €800,000, but pen hasn’t been put to paper and some cracks are starting to form between player and team.
Whilst Milan are keen to acquire Scamacca, they are much more interested in signing Berardi, believing him to be the perfect fit for their squad. The Rossoneri’s €15m valuation clearly scared the Neroverdi off but things have changed since that was first suggested.
For starters, the Italian winger is not keen to move abroad and Napoli’s interest is fairly relaxed, so options in Serie A are a little limited. With his contract expiring in two years, the Euro 2020 winner now needs to decide whether he wants to spend the rest of his peak years with Sassuolo or if it’s time to move on.
Accelerata Milan: incontro fissato col Sassuolo, pronti 45 milioni per Scamacca e Berardi https://t.co/tlv2dkSjwo
— La Gazzetta dello Sport (@Gazzetta_it) March 26, 2022
Get them and Mæhle
They should get Scamacca, Berardi and then Bring in Belotti for free. Will be a long season and having 2 strikers ready to go will be perfect and opens up other formation options.
Oh no, to do what exactly, warm the bench like other Italian players at the big teams. They will be ruined there, stay put, and play each game, each week.
The Italian national team suffers from moves like this, because these players don’t get the playing time they need at the big clubs; then we expect them to play for Italy and perform miracles.
Does Tonali play each week for Milan? Locatelli isn’t an automatic starter at Juventus, Bernadeschi was a promising player, but has been stuck on the bench at Juve and we wonder why he doesn’t perform for the national team? Players like Balotelli, El Sharawi, even Giovinco, should have been at their peak best if they were allowed the proper playing time as they matured as players, but they stagnated, not their fault. And the national team suffers as a result.
If the national team is to recover, we need Scamacca, we need him to play and mature, but it wont happen at the big clubs .
@Canada
Relax lol. Those 2 are first choice players at Milan. They’d be expensive too, which will mean they’d be used a lot.
And if Italy wants to do well, they need to be playing in the CL where they’ll learn more. They won’t learn much playing only in Serie A, which is pretty weak at the moment.
Yes to both. Scamacca should move to Milan for sure. Suits the style and he’ll get plenty of minutes once he settles.
They are both upgrades to what we have and more importantly they are both Italian in this increasingly non-Italian Milan.
@ Canada
“Does Tonali play each week for Milan? ”
Yes he does. Derp.
Locatelli started the season for Juventus then went crap. Bernardeschi was always average and quite simply has NEVER been up to Juventus standards.
Balotelli? Give me a break. That guy had that many chances it’s not funny. He couldn’t even cut it at Monza. People like you always making up excuses for Baloflop.
Giovinco? It’s not 2012! Hello!
Yes, let’s keep Scamacca, Berardi and Belotti at provincial clubs that constantly finish midtable and wonder why they and Italy struggle. Those 3 and other’s need the chance to step up.
If they’re good enough they will play.
Locatelli should have gone to Arsenal where he would be much more valued than at Juve. Anyway, Berardi & Scamacca at Milan would be exciting to say the least.
In the past there was some kind of hierarchy of clubs, you get better you move to certain clubs slowly untill you reach the top club, with the exceptions of some rare talented players, now its different, once the kid start to show glimpses of talent they snatched by “big clubs” and then warm bench during their most important years to develop, and there you have undercoocked players all over Italy.
@Veron
I miss the co-ownerships for that reason, even though the system wasn’t perfect it gave playing time to promising players and both clubs got something out of it, although the silent actions were… Silly.
I don’t understand what Canada above is against this move for… Berardi would immediately replace a Belgian, Scamacca pretty much a Frenchman or Swede…