Gianluigi Donnarumma - GK - AC Milan (12 Viewers)

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Jun 27, 2011
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Honestly speaking, a goalkeeper rejecting €8M net at 23 years old which would have put him on par with the highest paid goalies in the world doesn't speak highly of him.
Him and his agent suit PSG perfectly.

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I think you're missing the bigger picture here. A player like Donnarumma would never reject a €8M contract without agreeing terms with another club first. He knows exactly where he's going. That's for sure.
 

Boksic

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May 11, 2005
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Selling Szczesny was always going to be the issue.

Teams only need 1 starting 'keeper and there aren't many looking to make a change this summer. Then there are very few teams who he would likely be willing to join.
 

Mike-e-y

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Jul 18, 2004
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He’s better than Tek and has resale value but really in a season where our finances are unstable the money spent on him and Mino’s commission is better spend to cover positions where we are tragically in need of upgrading like our Left hand side, central mid and ST if Ronaldo bails
 

Robee

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Jun 21, 2011
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In 2-3 years we will need a new goalkeeper and we will be crying for somebody like Donnarumma. Tek is not top tier goalkeeper anyway. Seems strangely short sighted by us not taking on this opportunity.
Is there actually an opportunity 'though? Who's willing to buy Szczesny on those wages? And paying Raiola and Dollar while keeping him would seriously jeopardise our mercato.
 

K.O.

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Nov 24, 2005
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Honestly speaking, a goalkeeper rejecting €8M net at 23 years old which would have put him on par with the highest paid goalies in the world doesn't speak highly of him.
Him and his agent suit PSG perfectly.

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Putting it into more perspective, he rejected 8M (2M raise on his already inflated wages) from his boyhood club that trusted him with the captaincy and gave him everything including signing his dumb brother just to please him.
 

rainhard

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May 5, 2004
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You keep ignoring the fact pre-Ronaldo and after-Ronaldo are completely different situations. If we had those financial means, we'd have Pogba's signature sealed for months now. Yet we keep haggling to sell Szczesny before signing Donnaruma because even that 6,5 mil is too much for us.

And there's been talk about removing the tax-law for months now. So it's a guess either way.
We need to work that 31m first so we can tackle anything with 31 is out of the books

That is 4 players space in 1. We will have room to move first then offload another players we dont want one by one and keep our wages below 220 when adding some players we need

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Robee

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Jun 21, 2011
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If we don't get him we will ask ourselves in a year or two why we let that opportunity slip away. Hope we get him, we need to think long-term and not just short-term.
We will not. It's crystal clear why we're not doing this. You think long-term and short-term by getting young players in a position of need unless you're stacked in cash maybe...
 
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We will not. It's crystal clear why we're not doing this. You think long-term and short-term by getting young players in a position of need unless you're stacked in cash maybe...
Transfer is still on I think, with the possibility of course that he will sign for another club.

Him not signing yet could be for strategic reasons aswel. At the moment Szczesny is our number 1 goalie, if Dollar signs Tek will turns into a expensive bench sitter who we have to sell; his value will drop. A dry loan seems more realistic at that point.

Besides if we look to the club at the directors level, Paratici just left, Allegri and his team just signed. Cherubini and Arrivabene aren’t official yet. The mercato is still very early days.

Best case scenario for me is that we sell Szczesny for the same amount of his signing fee, worst case scenario doesn’t really exists as Szczesny is a decent keeper. Or maybe the worst case scenario is if we have both on the payroll but I doubt that. Luxury position.
 

Robee

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Jun 21, 2011
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Transfer is still on I think, with the possibility of course that he will sign for another club.

Him not signing yet could be for strategic reasons aswel. At the moment Szczesny is our number 1 goalie, if Dollar signs Tek will turns into a expensive bench sitter who we have to sell; his value will drop. A dry loan seems more realistic at that point.

Besides if we look to the club at the directors level, Paratici just left, Allegri and his team just signed. Cherubini and Arrivabene aren’t official yet. The mercato is still very early days.

Best case scenario for me is that we sell Szczesny for the same amount of his signing fee, worst case scenario doesn’t really exists as Szczesny is a decent keeper. Or maybe the worst case scenario is if we have both on the payroll but I doubt that. Luxury position.
I don't see Tek as the person who'd make such a strong comment and then leave eventually.

I also don't see us keeping Tek on the bench with his salary and our current financial situation.

So I simply don't see it happening anymore even if I'd welcome Dollar with open arms. Still the smart thing is simply to invest in young quality midfielders, maybe a LB and striker before anything else.
That might as well be Allegri's input, whereas Paratici negotiated with Raiola since January.
 

Juventinoo

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Oct 20, 2004
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Am not surprised how this Dollaromma will end, but how many here jumped into the boat of this gold digger and his fat rich Riola ..thinking we will sign him for free :lol:
 
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