Milan turned down the chance to sign Juventus and Italy stopper Giorgio Chiellini while he was at Livorno.

Milan turned down the chance to sign Juventus and Italy stopper Giorgio Chiellini while he was at Livorno.

“I dined with Milan boss Massimiliano Allegri, Vice-President Adriano Galliani and Napoli President Aurelio De Laurentiis on Saturday,” Livorno chief Aldo Spinelli told Radio RAI.

“Talking to Galliani, we remembered when he didn’t want to spend €4m for my Chiellini who was with us at the time.

“We had a little laugh…”

The centre-back, who started his career as a left-back, was netted by Juventus in the summer of 2004 from Livorno.

He spent the 2004-05 campaign on loan at Fiorentina before moving to Turin the season after.

Chiellini, a Scudetto winner with the Old Lady, has won 57 caps for his country.

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