{"id":168743,"date":"2025-09-25T16:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168743\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:51:11","slug":"romano-bundesliga-giants-tried-to-hijack-milans-nkunku-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/168743\/","title":{"rendered":"Romano: Bundesliga giants tried to hijack Milan&#8217;s Nkunku deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Nkunku was AC Milan\u2019s signing for the attack late in the window, but Bayer Leverkusen reportedly tried to land him too.<\/p>\n<p>The operation seemed to materialise very quickly, with every major source reporting that Milan and Chelsea agreed a deal worth <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/here-we-go-milan-35m-deal-nkunku\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u20ac37m plus \u20ac5m in bonuses<\/a>. After pursuing more natural strikers all summer, it was quite a change in strategy from the management.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was revealed on August 27th by Matteo Moretto and Fabrizio Romano and came to fruition on August 28th with the player\u2019s arrival in Milan that evening. On that day, however, another club attempted to intervene, unsuccessfully.<\/p>\n<p>Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s attempt<\/p>\n<p>As revealed by Romano (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milanpress.it\/milan-christopher-nkunku-retroscena-leverkusen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MilanPress<\/a>), Bayer Leverkusen attempted to snatch the French forward from Milan at the last minute, appearing willing to match the Rossoneri\u2019s offe. However, the player was very clear: he only wanted to join Milan, rejecting a return to the Bundesliga.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks of hard work at Milanello to get back up to match fitness, Nkunku made his first start for Milan on Tuesday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/nkunku-added-weapon-milan-reasons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">also scoring his first goal<\/a> against Lecce in the Coppa Italia. He played just over 60 minutes, drew a red card, hit the post and scored an acrobatic goal. Not a bad start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christopher Nkunku was AC Milan\u2019s signing for the attack late in the window, but Bayer Leverkusen reportedly tried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-168743","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\/168743","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=168743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}