{"id":5203,"date":"2025-07-12T21:44:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T21:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5203\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T21:44:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T21:44:03","slug":"didnt-even-want-to-come-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/5203\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Didn&#8217;t even want to come close&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AC Milan have reportedly decided not to go any further with their interest in Granit Xhaka, for various different reasons.<\/p>\n<p>It is no secret that Milan are looking for another midfielder. Tijjani Reijnders was sold to Manchester City, while Samuele Ricci was made official last week and Luka Modric will follow him next week.<\/p>\n<p>Xhaka is among the names that has been linked most consistently, with recent reports suggesting that <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/romano-states-xhaka-deal-progressing-milan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the player has said yes to the move<\/a>, and Fabrizio Romano even went on to claim that <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/milan-agree-personal-terms-with-xhaka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">personal terms had been agreed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Milan cool Xhaka interest<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, there has been talk of Juventus going in for after discussions in recent weeks between Milan and Bayer Leverkusen had come to nothing. Matteo Moretto, a journalist for ESPN and Marca, took stock of the situation in a video on Fabrizio Romano\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXhaka is not currently on Juventus\u2019s list. He\u2019s not a target at the moment. Xhaka has an offer from an Arab club, discussions with Milan are stalled, and there\u2019s been no news compared to the last few weeks,\u201d he said (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milannews.it\/calciomercato-milan\/moretto-milan-xhaka-operazione-in-totale-standby-583508\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MilanNews<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking more specifically about the Rossoneri, he went on to say: \u201cMilan didn\u2019t even want to come close to meeting Bayer Leverkusen\u2019s demands due to cost, age, and maturity issues: the deal is currently on hold.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AC Milan have reportedly decided not to go any further with their interest in Granit Xhaka, for various&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-5203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}