{"id":38087,"date":"2025-08-01T00:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38087\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:14:09","slug":"ac-milan-reject-okafor-offer-from-bologna-as-swiss-striker-starting-to-impress-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38087\/","title":{"rendered":"AC Milan reject Okafor offer from Bologna, as Swiss striker starting to impress in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>              <a class=\"mg-blog-thumb\" href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/milan-reject-okafor-offer-from-bologna-swiss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/liverpool-fc-v-ac-milan-pre-season-friendly-3.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-905703 has-webp\" alt=\"HONG KONG, CHINA - JULY 26: Noah Okafor of AC Milan (R) celebrates after scoring his goal with Warren Pierre Bondo of AC Milan (L) during the Liverpool FC v AC Milan Pre-Season Friendly match at Kai Tak Stadium on July 26, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Yu Chun Christopher Wong\/Eurasia Sport Images\/Getty Images)\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>HONG KONG, CHINA &#8211; JULY 26: Noah Okafor of AC Milan (R) celebrates after scoring his goal with Warren Pierre Bondo of AC Milan (L) during the Liverpool FC v AC Milan Pre-Season Friendly match at Kai Tak Stadium on July 26, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo by Yu Chun Christopher Wong\/Eurasia Sport Images\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><\/a>              &#13;<\/p>\n<p>There are reports that Milan turned down an offer from Bologna for Noah Okafor, as they are increasingly convinced he should be part of Max Allegri\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>The forward had spent the last six months on loan with Napoli, where he barely set foot on the field, making four appearances for a total of 36 minutes of football.<\/p>\n<p>It was expected that he would be sold this summer, but the Rossoneri already rejected proposals from Besiktas and Flamengo.<\/p>\n<p>Okafor will only leave Milan for the right terms<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/perth-glory-v-ac-milan-1.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-905745 has-webp size-medium\" alt=\"PERTH, AUSTRALIA - JULY 31: Noah Okafor of AC Milan in action during the match between Perth Glory and AC Milan at HBF Park on July 31, 2025 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane\/Getty Images)\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/800;max-width:1200px\"\/>PERTH, AUSTRALIA \u2013 JULY 31: Noah Okafor of AC Milan in action during the match between Perth Glory and AC Milan at HBF Park on July 31, 2025 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/garante_il\/status\/1950989329012084897\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to transfer pundit Daniele Longo<\/a>, Milan received an offer from Bologna and turned it down today.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the Besiktas bid, this would\u2019ve been a paid loan with option to buy at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The change of heart with Okafor is both because they <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/milan-set-okafor-asking-price\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">only want to accept a permanent transfer for circa \u20ac15-20m<\/a>, but also that he is increasingly convincing to new coach Allegri.<\/p>\n<p>The Switzerland international scored twice in <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/highlights-watch-milan-hammer-perth-glory-9-0\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">today\u2019s 9-0 friendly victory over Perth Glory<\/a>, having also found the net in the 4-2 win against Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>Purchased from RB Salzburg in 2023 for \u20ac15.5m, his style was not necessarily suited to the other coaches, but might be a better fit with Allegri\u2019s counter-attacking approach.<\/p>\n<p>                                &#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tPost navigation&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HONG KONG, CHINA &#8211; JULY 26: Noah Okafor of AC Milan (R) celebrates after scoring his goal with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-38087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38087","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=38087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}