New Milan director of sport Igli Tare already started work today, meeting with Roma chiefs for Alexis Saelemaekers, Tammy Abraham and Francesco Camarda.
The announcement that Tare had been hired finally came this evening, several days after the reports of an agreement and three-year contract signed.
In truth, he had already begun his new job some hours before that, as he entered the Casa Milan headquarters earlier this afternoon.
He was swiftly followed in by Roma director of sport Florent Ghisolfi and agent Beppe Riso, who already acted as an intermediary last summer in the swap of loans between Saelemaekers and Abraham.
Tuesday’s report claims that that is still likely to be the case, despite the fact that neither side have formally decided upon their head coach for 2025-26. Milan have also not yet secured a sporting director, although reports earlier in the week suggest that Igli Tare is the leading candidate for that role.
Tuesday’s report claims that Abraham was valued in the region of €25m by Roma at the time of his loan deal given the €40m they spent to sign him from Chelsea in the summer of 2021.
Saelemaekers, meanwhile, was valued in the region of €15m, although his market value may have increased after a series of strong performances in 2024-25.
If Milan and Roma were to stick by those original valuations, and if the deals are to be made permanent, then Roma would effectively raise around €10m by swapping Abraham for Saelemaekers.
