According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Daniel Maldini is among the players Milan could offer to Sassuolo to lower their demands for Gianluca Scamacca or Hamed Traoré.
Milan have set their sights on several Neroverdi stars and according to the pink paper, Traoré is now on their agenda for the summer. This season, the 22-year-old has developed massively under Alessio Dionisi, managing eight goals and four assists in 27 appearances across all competitions.
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According to the pink paper, Milan and Sassuolo directors will meet after Easter to discuss the talented midfielder (brother of Manchester United loanee Amad Diallo) and Gianluca Scamacca.
Both players have suitors in the Premier League and according to the report, Sassuolo have already received offers in the region of €40m for Scamacca from England. However, Milan hope to convince Sassuolo to sell both players and could include some of their most exciting prospects to sweeten the deal. Daniel Maldini, Marco Brescianini (now on loan at Monza) and Marco Nasti (a Primavera team striker scorer of 12 goals this season) are among the players that Milan could offer in a player-plus-cash swap deal. Milan remain interested in Domenico Berardi but won’t meet Sassuolo’s €30m asking price because of the player’s age (28).
#Milan, caccia all'erede di Ibra: avanti con Scamacca. E piace anche Traore https://t.co/RwMO90QPDw
— La Gazzetta dello Sport (@Gazzetta_it) April 13, 2022
“could include some of their most exciting prospects to sweeten the deal”
If this is true, then I just dont understand transfers any more. Or Milans tranfers to be clear.
If you have ‘exciting prospects’ why would you hand them over to someone else just to sign another ‘exciting prospect’?
Milan already can’t score goals so I would like to see a move to a 4-4-2 with Maldini and Lazetic (I think that’s the new kids name, right?) up front for the remainder of the season.
The title is already lost so there’s nothing left to lose now, just give it a try.
Sounds like good business.
If a Maldini cannot get a break then I’m not sure any youth player will!
Nasti’s 12 goals is nothing. The likes of Ganz, Come and Cutrone broke all records at Primavera level and none of them stood a chance in the face of Milan‘s relentless need to sign multiple strikers each season. None of them have done much since leaving Milan but neither has Messi at PSG. Who knows what would’ve happened if they hadn’t had the careers endlessly interrupted.
@ Vogel The logic (if that’s what you want to call it) is that everything in modern football is seen in terms of the transfer market. Directors, agents, players, the media, fans, computer games and anyone else who has anything to do with the game sees transfers as being completely inseparable from the sport. It’s in this completely dysfunctional environment that where clubs only see youth players in terms of what profit can be made on them, even whilst they lose a fortune on completely pointless, overpriced signings.
Lorenzo you as a Juventus supporter should know that Traore is Juventus bound. You know about that clause in the contract, right?
It would be the best for all parties. Young players need to get minutes and unless they’re immediately ready (very few are) they won’t get that chance in a club like Milan who fights for trophies or CL placements. Look what two years of consistent playing time did for Scamacca and Raspadori. Their growth has been exponential.
I see a lot of promise and talent in D.Maldini contrary to what many other fans say. I think he can be a fantastic player on Milan’s level, though maybe he’s among those who mature a little later in their careers. He needs a lot of work physically and he needs to play and make mistakes, and where better than the Neroverdi to do this?
Both Scamacca and Traoré would be welcome additions.
My biggest criticism of Pioli would be that he is very hesitant to bring in new talent unless there is a crisis.
First, my comment: How awkward for Daniel Maldini to be traded away by his dad.
Second, my reply to some posters:
@Vogel, I think success for Milan means balancing youth, experience, and the wage bill. As you can see, we’re neck and neck for the title, despite 1. Not having a productive trequartista, 2. Not having a productive RW, and having minimally productive strikers. While there is some “talent” in the primavera system, it’s clear this squad can be competitive now. If we were to “wait and see” if players like Maldini or Nasti develop, we might find that they won’t. Yes, Nasti has score 12 goals against teams of 18 year olds, but can he do it in Serie A? In the meantime the contracts of ready now players like Leao and Theo will keep rolling through the years. It will be hard to renew them after this round of renewals. It’s doubtful that they will get renewed at 7-8m. So if we can find proven pieces now to round out the squad, we should. Also, Scamacca is 6′ 5″. This makes him a rare commodity, that is, young striker who can score, isn’t out of our price range and can play the target man role that is obviously central to our attack. How tall is Nasti?
@Maldini’s Heir, see my response to Vogel, plus I’ll add that you defeat your own argument when you say all these youth players performed for Milan’s primavera, left and then were never heard from again. Cutrone can’t get a game anywhere he’s gone. If he’s that good he’d be starting somewhere, even it it’s Verona, Empoli or some such club. The analogy to Messi is inappropriate. He’s 36, surrounded by top players, doesn’t play striker, isn’t even the offensive focal point of his current club, and as a 36 y/o who has won it all and has been paid a king’s ransom in salary is likely not very motivated.
@ Vero Rossonero I don’t defeat my own argument because nobody knows what makes a footballer tick. Nobody knows why Immobile misses chances for Italy that he scores for Lazio. There’s no logical reason because football is not logical. It’s totally random.
We simply don’t know what would’ve happened to Cutrone if he’d stayed at Milan. When Milan sold him it killed his confidence, he lost the connection the fans and it disrupted his development. What we do know is he had scored at every level before then.
Cutrone is not the only example. Neither Milan nor any of the other clubs have managed to convert numerous childhood protégés into even average Serie A squad players. That points to a failing of the system not the players.