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 FC Genoa, Koni de Winter comes to the Rossoneri. Milan pays a transfer of 20 million euros for the 22 -year -old central defender, who signs 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.
According to Ardon Jashari (36 million, Bruges), Samuele Ricci (23 million, FC Turin), Pervis Estupiñán (17 million, Brighton), Luka Modrić (transfer -free) and Pietro Terracciano (free -free), the sixth new addition of Milans is the worldwide 100 million mark cracks when spending. 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 has been the fifth new addition of Rossoneri since 2015, which is coming from Genoa – the most expensive was Krzysztof Piatek in January 2019 for 35 million euros. In the central defense of Massimiliano Allegri, he competes with Fikayo Tomori, Strahinja Pavlović and Matteo Gabbia.