Should replace Thiaw
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Less than 24 hours after Malick Thiaw’s departure to Newcastle United, AC Milan presented a replacement. From league competitor Genoa CFC, Koni de Winter comes to the Rossoneri. Milan pays a transfer of 20 million euros for the 22 -year -old central defender, who signed a contract by 2030.
In 2018, de Winter moved from Belgium to the youth of Juventus Turin at the age of 16 and established itself about borrowing to Empoli and Genoa in Italy. In Genoa, which in 2024 committed him to a female power after a one -year loan for 8 million euros, he immediately became a regular and increased its market value from 4 million to EUR 22 million.
After Ardon Jashari (36 million, Bruges), Samuele Ricci (23 million, FC Turin), Pervis Estupiñán (17 million, Brighton) and the transfer-free Luka Modrić and Pietro Terracciano is the sixth access of Milan, which is the 18th club at the 100 million mark at the Expenses cracked. Nevertheless, the 19-fold Italian master can show a transfer plus of EUR 43.8 million, since Tijjani Reijnders (55 million, Man City), Thiaw (35 million, Newcastle) and Theo Hernández (25 million, al-Hilal) left the club.
De Winter is Milan’s fifth access from Genoa in the last decade – the most expensive in 2019 was Krzysztof Piatek for 35 million euros. In the central defense of Massimiliano Allegri, he competes with Fikayo Tomori, Strahinja Pavlović and Matteo Gabbia.