Less than a month before the close of the summer market, Milan is still stuck on the sales front. Apart from the already finalized buybacks of Tommaso Pobega, Alvaro Morata, Lorenzo Colombo and Alex Jimenez, the Rossoneri club has not completed any sales. A situation that, as highlighted by some newspapers like Il Corriere dello Sport, is inevitably slowing down incoming operations as well. The squad remains very large and several players are waiting for a placement. From Filippo Terracciano to Fikayo Tomori, passing through David Odogu, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Warren Bondo, Tommaso Ricci, Yunus Musah and Ismael Bennacer, up to the still open cases of Youssouf Fofana, Santiago Gimenez and Pervis Estupinian.
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Also Rafael Leao, considered a possible departure in recent weeks, now appears increasingly inclined to stay. The scenario is very different from the previous summer, when Milan managed to finance the market thanks to major sales. Tijjani Reijnders’ departure to Manchester City brought in over 55 million euros, to which were added the 35 million received for Malick Thiaw, 25 for Theo Hernandez, 19 for Noah Okafor, as well as the Emerson Royal and Yacine Adli deals. A nest egg that allowed the club to move with greater freedom. This year, however, the outgoing market is struggling to take off. Both the underwhelming performance of many players last season and the new management structure chosen by the ownership weigh heavily.
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The structure wanted by Gerry Cardinale has in fact changed the way of operating. Bobby Gardiner, Director of Football Intelligence, mainly comes from the scouting world and does not have extensive experience in conducting negotiations, while Hendrik Almstadt, head of player trading, has not led a buying and selling campaign since his time at Aston Villa, now a decade ago. Rebuilding a network of contacts with agents and intermediaries takes time, and the new organizational model is still settling. In the long term it could bear fruit, but today Ruben Amorim finds himself with a squad still to be trimmed and with limited room for maneuver. And as the start of Serie A approaches, the risk is that Milan’s real market may only begin after the first matchdays of the championship.
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