The assault of Chelsea also rejected thanks to the pressing on the goalkeeper of the new technician. But Mike has a contract until 2026 and the renewal negotiation remains stalled

Journalist

June 10, 2025 (modification at 11:12 pm) – MILAN

Assault rejected: Milan started on the goal and defended Mike Maignan from opposing attacks. The last to show up in the area and to insist to win the resistance of the club was Chelsea: attempts until the last hours, nobody successful. Milan invited, Maignan will remain Rossoneri. The game was long and this can be considered the first half: the Londoners wanted Mike immediately, ready for the Club World Cup in the United States. Milan continued to oppose, relaunching in the other half of the field: to deprive the goalkeeper, he asked for more than the 18-20 million proposed by the premier. And in the end the last offer was also declined. Will Chelsea try us again in the late summer? Possible, but the outcome would remain the same. And if the Rossoneri requests were not satisfied now that Maresca, Blues technician, had more needed, it is difficult to happen in the future.

Technical estimate

Among the coaches he thus won Allegri, who from the beginning was in marking on Mike because he chose to stay at Milan. After difficult seasons Maignan had convinced himself starting, Max is certain of being able to do the new strength of the team. The technician’s defensive strategy once again worked: he wanted the Frenchman to remain and he always reiterated it to the company. The Ad Furlani did the rest: the deal would eventually be closed only under the redness. As mentioned, the resistance Milan held up and Chelsea retired without putting the hit. Max appreciates technical qualities and leadership: Mike had arrived at Milan in the summer of 2021 after winning the French championship with lilac, in front of the current kings of Europe of PSG. Scudetto also to the first Rossoneri attempt, May 2022, as a protagonist. Then long months of melancholy: Maignan, obsessed with the victory, felt a climate of distrust, as if the objectives were reduced. Allegri is sure he can return the necessary enthusiasm, in addition to obviously renewing the ambitions, and will ask Mike, able to set the maneuver, to transmit it to the whole team.

Renewal or junction

The match with Chelsea is therefore closed, also in consideration of a second half between July and August. If anything, a new one will open with Milan: the goalkeeper is linked to the Rossoneri club until the summer of 2026, therefore he would begin next season as a potential free. Unless the negotiation is resumed for the extension of the agreement: between the request for engagement and offer, however, a clear distance remains. And the dialogues of recent times have been unproductive. The company is aware of the risk and indeed faces it without fear: Mike had come from the lilac for thirteen million plus bonuses, an expense that in the meantime has been repaid and cushioned. At the beginning of July Mike will turn 30 and for the club it makes more sense to challenge the danger of the free junction rather than binding it to Milan by committing itself with a long and rich contract.

Performance

Also because with Max, the performance on Maignan’s field will also have to grow again: in the last season there have been more the errors of the decisive interventions. The ball that slips on the pole covered in the outward journey of the Champions League against Feyenoord had ended up compromising the European future of the team. The ball bounced on Thiaw’s chest for the sensational truck of Turin in the championship another significant image of the season. Mike, however, is much more, is the Magic Eagle – the magic eagle – and now everyone expects them to know how to return to fly.



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