{"id":55438,"date":"2025-08-03T14:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/55438\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T14:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:13:07","slug":"moretto-milan-very-close-to-signing-athekame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/55438\/","title":{"rendered":"Moretto: Milan &#8216;very close&#8217; to signing Athekame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of movement this summer by AC Milan. However, the key moves could be in the next few weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It has been a good summer for Milan already. They have made progress on the team and there is room to continue that. However, there is still a need to finish the project for Massimiliano Allegri\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>He has, as reports say, a 70% complete team so far. So, work needs to be done with time running out. Though it seems like more can be done shortly.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udde9 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ACMilan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ACMilan<\/a>&#8216;s squad is 70% complete according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SkySport<\/a>, with three gaps to fill.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14 What would make it a perfect window? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FQoerXmK14\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/FQoerXmK14<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SempreMilan (@SempreMilanCom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SempreMilanCom\/status\/1951674353827164554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 2, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another step<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the Rossoneri have quickly stepped up their interest in Zachary Athekame, and after a first bid on Friday, another could arrive shortly. Fabrizio Romano stated that the clubs hope to <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/milan-can-close-deal-athekame-first-bid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">find a \u2018middle ground\u2019<\/a> and it could be done soon.<\/p>\n<p>News has also arrived from one of his colleagues this afternoon. Matteo Moretto (via <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MilanMatters\/status\/1951948583881588878\" rel=\"nofollow\">Milan Matters<\/a>) writes that the right-back is \u2018very close\u2019, and there is a wish to complete a deal as early as Tuesday this week. Should this be done, you would imagine he would be able to play against Leeds and\/or Chelsea this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Considering <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/milan-continue-guerra-plan-b-price\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the situations elsewhere<\/a>, being active and closing a deal so quickly can only be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been a lot of movement this summer by AC Milan. However, the key moves could be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-55438","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\/55438","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=55438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}