The Rossoneri have decided to sink Bayer Leverkusen for the Nigerian of Bayer, who will arrive on loan with the right of redemption, but brings with him a series of unknowns linked to his physical conditions
Rasmus Hojlund will not be the new Milan center forward. With the lunge of this afternoon, the Rossoneri decided to focus everything on Victor Boniface, coming on loan with the right of redemption from Bayer Leverkusen. This was the discriminant who gave the accelerated to the negotiation: the Danish of Manchester United demanded more certain guarantees on a stay in Milan even in the seasons to follow, while the Nigerian would be satisfied with playing his Milan chances in the next ten months. The figures of the operation that will bring Osimhen’s national teammate to Milan should be around 5 million for the loan and between 25 and 27 for the right of redemption. Hojlund, on the other hand, would have cost the same 5 plus more mandatory 35.
Milan, Boniface is a great unknown
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Boniface, 25 years old, will arrive in the Rossoneri with the respectable average of about one goal every two games: 72 in 179 between Bodo/Glimt, Union Saint Gilloise and Bayer, one of which against Milan in the last Champions League championship phase. Of course, from the point of view of physical reliability, compared to Hojlund, which last year has undergone only one muscle stop, the risk is very high: Boniface has a historian who puts the chills. Two interventions to the crusaded ligaments of the knee (in 2019 and 2020) and a series of muscle accidents, including one, in January 2024, which stopped him for three months due to a serious problem for the adductors and the last, in November 2024, who did not only keep it out for 12 games, but also conditioned the performance of the entire second part of the season. The chronicles arriving from Rio de Janeiro (where Bayer Leverkusen has carried out the summer preparation) speak of a eager player to return to the protagonist, who did a personalized job with a trainer in Spain a week before joining his teammates, but who went to the first workloads. The doubt at this point is legitimate: when could it be available to Allegri, who will already have to do without the Leao? Boniface to Milan, therefore, represents a risky unknown.