{"id":87542,"date":"2025-08-16T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/87542\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T15:55:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:55:20","slug":"milan-accelerating-hojlund-pursuit-with-hopes-of-closing-early-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/87542\/","title":{"rendered":"Milan &#8216;accelerating&#8217; Hojlund pursuit with hopes of closing &#8216;early next week&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rasmus Hojlund continues to be AC Milan\u2019s main target to reinforce the attack and yesterday, new contacts were held between the parties, according to a report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Santiago Gimenez is currently the only striker at Max Allegri\u2019s disposal and Milan thus need to reinforce their attack. After <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/milan-vlahovic-hojlund-ramos-psg-united\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">evaluating many names for the role<\/a>, it seems they have settled on Manchester United\u2019s Rasmus Hojlund, who could leave to get more playing time.<\/p>\n<p>According to Antonio Vitiello for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corrieredellosport.it\/news\/calcio\/calcio-mercato\/milan\/2025\/08\/16-142556992\/il_milan_accelera_per_hojlund_cosa_manca_per_chiudere_con_il_manchester_united\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Corriere dello Sport<\/a>, Milan held new talks with the Dane\u2019s agents yesterday and have now received his approval. As such, the Rossoneri are now ready to \u2018accelerate\u2019 their pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>Early next week is the goal<\/p>\n<p>As the journalist continues, there is still an economic difference between Milan and Man Utd when it comes to the buy-out clause for the loan. However, there is optimism that a deal can be reached in the end, while Hojlund is now open to the move as well.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hojlund.jpg\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-306955 has-webp\" alt=\"Hojlund\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/750;max-width:1200px\"\/>Photo by Patrick McDermott\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Milan are hoping to secure the go-ahead from all parties over the weekend so that the deal can be secured \u2018early next week\u2019 or at the latest mid-week. The Rossoneri\u2019s season starts tomorrow and the first league game is scheduled for next Saturday, so Allegri wants Hojlund as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Compared to just a week ago, there is certainly a lot more optimism surrounding the negotiations and it remains to be seen if that will lead to a total agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rasmus Hojlund continues to be AC Milan\u2019s main target to reinforce the attack and yesterday, new contacts were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-87542","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\/87542","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=87542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}