Milan market, it is casting for the'attack: in the crosshairs the bomber of the national team

A Milan soccer market: a new top striker is one of the main targets for the future that the Rossoneri management has put in its notebook. While Rafa Leao is expected to resume training and Santiago Gimenenz is aiming to rejoin the team after the ankle injury nightmare, the Milanese club is looking further ahead. And in view of next season, it intends to bet on two staples of Gennaro Gattuso’s Italy side: Moise Kean, moreover who scored in Bergamo against Northern Ireland, and Mateo Retegui.

Taking stock of the situation was ‘SportMediaset’, according to which Milan’s first target was actually Retegui, who would, however, be at the center of a very delicate negotiation. As known, in fact, the former Genoa and Atalanta bomber currently plays for Al-Qadisiyya and therefore plays in Saudi Arabia. The current geopolitical issues make high levels of caution essential, in the knowledge, however, that many players might decide to leave such shores. Provided that the Serie A 2024-2025 top scorer agrees to slash his current seasonal fee, which touches 20 million euros.

More smoothly the negotiation for Moise Kean, facilitated by a not insignificant detail: the fact that Massimiliano Allegri already knows him, having coached him at Juventus. The class of 2000 is on the upswing after an extremely difficult period, but he could be available to leave Fiorentina at the end of the year. In order to convince the Viola to deprive themselves of their star, moreover, AC Milan could insert as a technical quid pro quo Santiago Gimenez himself, now recovered after his very heavy injury.

“The discomfort accompanied me since before the Gold Cup – recently told Gimenez in an interview given to the microphones of ‘TUDN’ -. As a player you think it’s nothing and that you can move on, but after each game the pain was increasing more and more.” Ankle surgery kept him off the field for nearly five months.

“There came a point when it was really strong. I was a starter in Milan, the expectations were very high, and that’s when you start wondering whether to stop or continue,” Gimenez later explained. “I tried to continue, taking medicine to play, until I got to a point where I couldn’t even run anymore from the pain.”