The debut with Roma was only the appetizer: there is an idea to retain the Portuguese who arrived on a dry loan from Chelsea

Journalist

February 7 – 01:09 – MILAN

Good first. The director Sergio Conceiçao was enough to broadcast the first film by the new Milan by Santiago Gimenez and Joao Felix a broadcast against Roma in the Italian Cup. San Siro – stage from Kolossal Hollywood par excellence – has praised the two stars already before they put themselves in action, to the reading of the formations and the bull of the reserves. The wait was so great, rewarded by the mother scene of the goal: assists of saints and goals with Joao’s cock. Oscar debut.

the plan

Pretending a replica paired from 1 ‘already in Empoli is perhaps too much. Gimenez has some train of the physical problem suffered at the last exit with the Feyenoord and a little has been seen in the shots: he does not yet have the brilliance of the best times and, in addition, Tammy Abraham made it clear that it is not needed then so rush. For now, English can think about it, as happened in the first half with Roma. At the same time, Joao Felix has not played a game of owner since 11 January (brace at Morecambe in Fa Cup with Chelsea) and Logic wants to follow gradual growth in his insertion in the Rossoneri, although Conceiçao is the first to be ecstatic From the debut of the compatriot and who knows that it is not convinced to immediately give him the keys to the team. From the bench, however, the two are equally afraid of any opponent, because with all that quality, in half an hour, they can change the fate of a game. Then slowly they will go to take together the role that they are responsible for absolute protagonists in Milan.

tactics

It also made it guess Conceiçao in the post race the other evening: the Milan who has more and more and more and more towards the 4-4-2 often used in the harbor, with Santi and Joao in front of it. Even if, to be honest, Felix is ​​free to vary almost as a midfielder Jolly rather than from second pure tip. The fans go further, already preventing the quartet of wonders with Pulisic on the right and Lea on the left, but the Portuguese technician also recalled on Wednesday evening how the team balance remains fundamental. Perhaps we will get ahead, thanks to the availability and sacrifice of each one, in certain meetings or moments of the game. Present and …

AC Milan's Joao Felix, Left, Scores His Side's Third Goal During An Italian Cup Quarterfinal Soccer Match Bethaeen AC Milan and Rome at the San Siro Stadium, in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP photo/Antonio Calanni)

Future Joao Felix

On Gimenez, Milan has invested in an important way, strongly believing both the ideal center forward also for the years to come. By age (he is only 23 years old), growth prospects (playing in Europe for just two and a half seasons) and level (ok, he scored in Holland, but the 7 goals in 9 Champions League matches foreshadow how it is not a question of latitude …). Joao Felix, on the other hand, is in Milan only on loan until 30 June. And then? The question circulates insistently on social media from the final whistle of the match with Roma. On Wednesday the DT Geoffrey Moncada has already made it clear how a stay in the Rossoneri is not at all to be excluded. “We have good relations with Chelsea, then it will depend on us and Joao”. Which, meanwhile, was immediately enchanted by San Siro. For some time now he had not received a demonstration of affection like that of the Milan people after each touch, with the “Oooh” of amazement to every play and, of course, the screaming at the goal to Swylar. A Felix in love with Milan would be easier to treat and retain in the summer, even if the Rossoneri management is already studying the possible formula to be presented to Chelsea, these months should be done well: a new onerous loan to the amortization figure of the blues (8- 10 million euros) with then in 2026 a right of redemption at a decidedly more accessible price for the coffers in via Aldo Rossi (30-35 million). Of the Morata type in Galatasaray. It will be seen. Meanwhile, Milan enjoys the new couple who, using Gimenez’s words on foreign TVs after the cup victory, has already transformed the team into a “equivalent”. Even those who do not know the Spaniard can easily understand the anti -theft.



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