{"id":99376,"date":"2025-08-21T13:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99376\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T13:11:08","slug":"corsport-milan-have-nest-egg-for-centre-back-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/99376\/","title":{"rendered":"CorSport: Milan have ‘nest egg’ for centre-back signing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A striker might not be AC Milan\u2019s final signing of the summer, because a central defender could arrive to complete the rearguard.<\/p>\n

As Corriere dello Sport (seen below) write this morning, the imminent acquisition of Victor Boniface won\u2019t be an instant financial burden for Milan because Igli Tare has managed to defer the payment to next year, if indeed the \u20ac30m option to buy is used<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thus, the sporting director still has a small \u2018nest egg\u2019 set aside this summer to try and acquire players useful to Massimiliano Allegri\u2019s tactical plan. Some of these could be late opportunities, particularly in defence.<\/p>\n

One more centre-back?<\/p>\n

The regular use of a three-man defence to this point by Allegri means that Fikayo Tomori, Matteo Gabbia, Strahinja Pavlovic and Koni De Winter might not be enough. Zachary Athekame and Davide Bartesaghi are there too, but they are more full-backs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s therefore not out of the question that Tare could intervene during the final ten days of the transfer window to strengthen the defence. Among the names being pursued is Caleb Okoli<\/a>, a 24-year-old Italian currently playing for Leicester City in the English Serie B, with a value of \u20ac10-15m.<\/p>\n

\"corriere<\/p>\n

More experienced players could also be considered: Bayern Munich\u2019s Kim Min-jae \u2013 who was explored in early June \u2013 has a salary too high for Serie A (\u20ac8m net per year), while there are some doubts about Barcelona\u2019s Andreas Christensen\u2019s fitness.<\/p>\n

Arsenal\u2019s Jakub Kiwior is popular at Milan, but the Gunners have not yet agreed to a sale. A \u2018sure bet\u2019 is Berat Djimsiti of Atalanta, an experienced player who knows the league and has become accustomed to various positions in the three-man defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A striker might not be AC Milan\u2019s final signing of the summer, because a central defender could arrive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-99376","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\/99376","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=99376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}