{"id":120419,"date":"2025-09-04T22:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120419\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:53:07","slug":"everything-changed-completely-wolfsburg-chief-reveals-all-on-odogus-milan-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/120419\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Everything changed completely&#8217; &#8211; Wolfsburg chief reveals all on Odogu&#8217;s Milan move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfsburg\u2019s general manager has revealed the back story on David Odogu\u2019s move to AC Milan, including how the interest \u2018changed everything\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Odogu was the final signing of the summer window as Milan welcomed him on a four-year contract with the option of a fifth. They are believed to have paid \u20ac7m in fixed fees plus \u20ac3m in bonuses to land one of Germany\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/future-beckenbauer-why-milan-believe-odogu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brightest young defensive prospects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While waiting to see whether he accumulates minutes with the senior team or if he plays more for Milan Futuro, Odogu gave his first press conference as a Rossoneri player at the Casa Milan headquarters earlier today and admitted it <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/odogu-call-milan-desire-play-attributes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has been a whirlwind last few days<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We wish him the best\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Now, Wolfsburg\u2019s general manager \u2013 Peter Christiansen \u2013 has spoken to Kicker to reflect on the summer window the Bundesliga side had. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milannews.it\/news\/dg-wolfsburg-volevamo-che-odogu-restasse-ma-il-milan-lo-ha-voluto-tutto-e-cambiato-589409\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MilanNews<\/a> relay, he also spoke about losing the 19-year-old to Milan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted the player to establish himself here, there was no doubt about it. There was a clear plan to do so, which would have included a loan to Germany or elsewhere to increase his playing time and foster his personal development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was good communication about it, but everything changed completely when Milan wanted him. David and his agents were convinced that this was the right step for him. We wish him all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wolfsburg\u2019s general manager has revealed the back story on David Odogu\u2019s move to AC Milan, including how the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-120419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}