Get rid of the redundancies and shore up Pioli’s chessboard with some new pawns that fit perfectly into the Emilian coach’s game system. And at Milan, there is the defender’s box that still needs to be sorted out. There is no doubt that, in terms of numbers (after the sale of Gabbia to Villarreal, the hijacking of Kalulu as an option on the right together with Calabria and the situation around Caldara, considered outgoing) Kjaer remains the only one to lend a hand to the couple Tomori/Thiaw. It is therefore necessary for Furlani and Moncada to find a new central defender who can reinforce the department available to Pioli. And a new profile has appeared on the Rossoneri notebook from Argentina.
NEW IDEA – As reported by TycSportsiThe Via Aldo Rossi club is negotiating the arrival of Marco Pellegrino, 21-year-old central defender with Platense. From South America they let it be known that the contacts were conducted directly from president Sebastiàn Ordoñez who, over the next few hours, could travel towards Italy to try to close the operation. THE ALTERNATIVES – Pellegrino’s name is added to the list of profiles followed by the AC Milan managementtogether with Esteve from Montpellier (in line with company policy and with contained costs, around 6/7 million), Kabak from Hoffenheim and Tanganga from Tottenham (old dots that can make a comeback), Omobamidele, an Irish centre-back under Norwich on which the costs of the operation are worrying – around 15 million – and Lenglet of Barcelona (an idea being explored given his excellent experience and left foot). An open casting for the defense but which seems, in the last few minutes, to have a profile that has undermined the competition with Marco Pellegrino having jumped to the top of the preferences of the Rossoneri management.
THE PROFILE – 21-year-old left-handed centre-back, born in 2002, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but with an Italian passport, as the origins of the surname already suggested. A solid defender who grew up in the Platense youth team and who only made his first-team debut last March. A debut that saw him as a protagonist, so much so that he took ownership of his captain Suso. His profile, among other things, had already been brought to the attention of the former blue coach Mancini as a possible new native to be included in the squad of the national team. Since his debut, Pellegrino has missed only 4 matches (2 of which due to a muscle injury) playing 17 games and also scoring a goal in the last match against Gimnasia. Performance after performance he is confirming himself as the next star of Argentine footballso much so as to deserve not only a release clause of 5 million euros but also the interest of Velez and, in Italy, of Sampdoria, which had initiated the first preliminary contacts for the player and moved to withdraw 90% of his card from the Platense. But now it is Milan that has taken important steps towards Pellegrino, so much so that the president of the South American company is expected in Italy to finalize the deal. On the other hand, his coach (Martin Palermo) had already predicted the future of the 2002 class: ”Marco is destined to finance the market and the youth teams of Platense with his transfer”. And to think that he only chose football in his adolescence, after a youth lived as a good level tennis player – with Alcaraz as a reference model -. Now, the new Passarella is destined for the great European stage, as Palermo had predicted. These will be decisive days: Milan-Pellegrino, the new track of the Rossoneri market is on fire.
2023-08-15 15:40:00
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