Antonio Mirante will undergo a medical tomorrow and sign a one-year contract with Milan after Mike Maignan had to undergo surgery on his wrist.
The Rossoneri found themselves with a shortage of goalkeepers after news Maignan will have arthroscopic surgery on his left wrist.
It’s not yet clear how long the France international will be out for, as the keyhole surgery is also in part to investigate why the pain continues several weeks after he clattered into the upright while saving Mohamed Salah’s Liverpool penalty.
Alessandro Plizzari is out until January following knee surgery, so this only leaves Ciprian Tatarusanu.
Mirante is a free agent after his contract with Roma expired and the 38-year-old met with Milan directors this evening to agree personal terms.
He will sign a contract to the end of the season, reportedly with an option to extend for another year.
Mirante had been in negotiations with Spezia, but Sportitalia suggest Milan had concerns about Maignan’s wrist and had him on alert in case he was needed.
ACCORDO RAGGIUNTO CON #MIRANTE
DOMANI VISITE MEDICHE ALLE 8
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Huge blow for us
Ok so Plizzari is out until January (which further begs the question why he was included in our Champions League squad ahead of outfield players) but don’t we have 5 keepers (that’s FIVE) in our Champions League squad with the others being Desplanches and Jungdal?
So if these two youth team players are not reliable why are they in the Champions League squad and why did Milan start the season without any proper back up to Mignon?
I don’t want to criticise the new directors who have generally do an ok job on the transfer market but this is the sort of nonsense that really gets me. Every transfer window we sign 5 or 6 players and then there’s still massive gaps.
Mirante’s a good emergency signing but it shouldn’t have come to this. The directors have one job and that is to ensure that we have a proper first team squad of players. There’s only about 25 players. I’d hate to see them running a company of thousands,