Milan are beginning to grow concerned they will miss out on No. 1 midfield target Charles De Ketelaere, according to reports in Italy.
The Belgium international was the subject of a meeting between Rossoneri directors Paolo Maldini and Ricky Massara and their Club Brugge counterparts.
Reports from the meeting suggested it was positive, despite failure to strike a deal and Milan had set Friday July as a deadline to find an agreement.
However, with that date having passed, Il Corriere della Sera report their are concerns they will fail to land their target.
According to the report, Brugge want €35 million while Milan will not go above €32m and, despite the gap not being huge in football transfer-fee terms, neither side is willing to budge.
The Rossoneri have now extended the deadline to Tuesday, the report adds, and should they fail to have an agreement in place by then, will move on to other targets.
Go for Berardi, he is the player we need
If he ends up at Leeds and explodes surely bigger clubs in the premier league will put in a mega bid. Speculate to accumulate Milan.
If he’s good enough then 2-3 years from now he’ll be worth 60-70 mil, yet we won’t stump up the final few million to make that happen… this is truly the transfer market of champions :facepalm:
Personally, I am resigned to whatever that might happen to this transfer. Sure, he can worth 60-70M in the future easily, but at the same time he might also turn into another Paqueta, flopped hard with us, only to blossom in Lyon. What I think was the mistake is identifying publicly that CDK is our main transfer target, hence Club Brugge’s hard stance to stay their ground. After all, they have a higher bidder who is willing to wait if we abandoned the offer. It is in their very interest to get as most as they can.
We are also unlike some teams *ahem* Barca or PSG or Madrid, who courted the players and urged them to create some sort of troubles or at least pressure to the owner to release them at lower fees.
Will we regret it if we’re missing out on say, future Balloon d’Or winner just because we refused to spend 3M more? Most probably, but life goes on.
LOL Milan should disband, broke club cannot outbid even Leeds
32M is a huge amount of investment for a player who hasn’t played in the top-5 european league, especially for a club with limited transfer budget (not a dig to milan, most italian clubs are the same). DeBruyne didn’t cost that much money when he was at the same age as CDK.
The kid is talented but not worth above 30M, at least not yet.
But when there is interest from EPL clubs, the market price will be inflated sky high. Should’ve wrapped up the deal weeks ago.
Don’t understand our low ball tactics to be honest. If thus guy goes on to be as good as De Bruyne then an increased bid of 4 /5 million now to profit a further 80 million later makes sense. These owners of ours really dont understand football.