Sky Sport Italia claim Franck Kessie already has his Barcelona medical and signed the contract, so his Milan experience will end on June 30.
The midfielder has refused to agree an extension at his current club and it has been clear for many months he was going to walk away as a free agent.
While Premier League and Ligue 1 clubs were interested, including Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and PSG, he would appear to be going towards Barcelona.
According to Sky Sport Italia transfer pundit Fabrizio Romano, Kessie was in Spain yesterday during the break for international duty for his medical tests with the Blaugrana staff.
The Ivory Coast international was passed fit and then signed the contract, believed to be worth €6.5m per season plus add-ons for four years.
That is roughly the same salary that Milan had proposed, but the difference is Kessie’s agent will receive a huge commission for brokering the transfer.
Here we go. After verbal agreement reached days ago, Franck Kessié has signed as new Barcelona player until June 2026 – it’s gonna be four year deal, he joins as free agent from AC Milan. 🔵🔴 #FCB
Kessié will receive €6.5m net salary plus add-ons. Medical already completed. pic.twitter.com/9kFCIPJXn5
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) March 22, 2022
Awesome. Go and enjoy your bench life at barca.
Note to AC MiLAN , sell players before contract is up. And if you get a great offer sell immediately.
Living in Barcelona is nicer than Milano, so from a life perspectie I can understand him.
Once again the difference is what the agent pockets.. Bizzarre
When a player values the agent more than the team
Spot on @Mad.
Great move for him and Barca. Would have liked to see him stay but you don’t get many Maldinis these days.
@DB Milan – agree you don’t get many Maldinis these days.
However, the Milan of today is still a long way off the Milan of Maldini and competing for European trophies. With some new primavera talent coming though I don’t think Kessie will be missed.
@db Milan
Milan were the wealthiest and best team in the world. The man city of today so easy to spend his entire career with the club.
Maldini would never stay in this Milan 2022 team, so let’s not be too harsh on donnarumma and kessie.
Kessie was upfront and honest throughout and worked hard at Atalanta to get his Milan move.
donnarumma kept confessing his love and still left a bad taste in the mouth plus Milan gave him his chance
Bad move by Franck. Pjanic thought he struck gold and now he is playing in Turkey. I cannot see him dislodging the young Spanish talent that they have in the middle of the park. At least he did not do the dirty and cross over to Inter. I cannot blame him for the move as Barca are rebuilding well but I am not sure if he fits their style of play.
At this point, I think it’s time we stop blaming the players and agents and focus on our directors.
We keep losing our best players for free, obviously he will be replaced and forgotten like many before him but Milan directors have to learn quickly to put these players up for sale before the expiration of their contracts once they are unable to reach an agreement after 2-3 meetings!!
It doesn’t matter to me who leaves because they are all replaceable but we have to start making something from it!
I think the management has learned the lesson to a certain extent, as we’ve extended the contract of several players already, most importantly Theo. However, the next big test is upon us with Leao and Bennacer hasn’t put their signature yet. My only hope that we’re now wise enough to sell before this turns into another saga. To be honest, if Leao hasn’t sign anything before the windows open, I’d seriously consider a bid of 70M that was bandied about.
I like Kessie…sad to see him go. However…i have this feeling in a few years you will see him playing for a team like Burnley or Watford.
Farewel and good riddance for him! We already have the excellent Tonali and Bennacer in the squad, Adli and Pobega are coming, we will probably hire one between Renato Sanches or Florian Grillitsch. We don’t need a player who is not committed body and soul to the project. That he behaves professionally for the remainder of the season, contributing to the Scudetto conquest, and that’s it.
The only caveat I make is that in my opinion it should have been sold in the pre-season window, but that’s ok, the board thought it was better to count with its participation in the Serie A campaign, and apparently this proved to be a right decision.
This season he has been consistently average. Although I’d have been fine with him staying, and he certainly has his qualities, he really isn’t all that. So if he wants to go to Barca, ok, bye, we won’t miss him. Tonali, Bennacer, Adli when he comes in the summer, Renato Sanchez if we get him, we’re fine in the midfield.
He has the turning circle of the QE2 and pace to match. Glad to see him go, Milan should sign that boy Morton who showed him up in the must win CL against Liverpool…