As La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) report this morning, Allegri is ‘in a hurry’ to get the ball rolling in his second Milan spell. On Thursday he signed the contract until 2027 (extendable until 2029) that will tie him to Milan; on Friday the official announcement came.
Later that day he had a first mercato-related summit with Tare, but after a weekend in Tuscany, he will be back in Milan on Wednesday at the latest to have other meetings with the leadership
Tijjani Reijnders is still a Milan player but at Casa Milan, after direct contacts with Manchester City, they expect Pep Guardiola to insist and that this week the offer will be raised above €70m.
The player is ‘bewitched’ by Guardiola, and is now pushing to move to the Premier League club. He would earn more than double what he does now in terms of salary and will still play in the Champions League.
To replace him in a 4-3-3 formation, Allegri would like a physical midfielder. He really likes ‘his’ Adrien Rabiot, who he had at Juventus. The Frenchman seems to be open to the idea, and the move could be facilitated by a clause/agreement with Marseille.
To sign Rabiot, any interested club need to pay around €10m, even if the real obstacle seems to be the €3.5m net salary plus some easy bonuses that will make it rise above the €5m mark. The Rossoneri were linked with Rabiot last summer, when he was available on a free, but he went back to France.
In addition to Reijnders’ replacement, a regista will be needed, but that’s another story. The right midfielder will be Youssouf Fofana, with Yunus Musah as an alternative. Ruben Loftus-Cheek will have to demonstrate motivation and physical endurance in the pre-season to stay.
Raphael Onyedika – a Nigeria international currently at Club Brugge – has also been linked to Milan, observed both in the past and in recent months when the Rossoneri monitored the left-back Maxim De Cuyper, among the possible replacements for Theo Hernandez.
