The former Napoli player has little space in Monaco and wants to get to the World Cup as best he can. Ideal profile because he knows our championship and adapts to the three-man defence. However, his salary is outside the Rossoneri parameters. Germans reluctant to accept the loan with right of redemption
After having fixed the attack by inserting Füllkrug in place of Gimenez who, according to Allegri, will be available again “in three-four months”, Milan will now shift their attention to the defence. The club’s objective is to give Allegri not just one more player, because numerically the department is full with the starters Tomori, Gabbia and Pavlovic plus the reserves De Winter and Odogu, but with an element capable of making the difference and further raising the quality of the department. This is why in via Aldo Rossi they are looking around without excessive frenzy: they want to be ready to seize important opportunities that present themselves above all externally. For this reason they follow the evolution of the situation of top defenders such as the South Korean Kim Min-jae, far from satisfied with his season with Bayern Munich.
Rossoneri approval
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The former Napoli player, who moved to the Bundesliga in 2023 when the Bavarians paid the 57 million release clause contained in his contract, is experiencing a complicated year in terms of usage, much less continuous than in the previous two seasons, in which he still had to deal with a problem with his Achilles tendon (2024-25) and participation in the Asian Cup (2023-24). His call-up for the World Cup which will be played from June onwards in Canada, Mexico and the United States is not in doubt because he is a cornerstone of the Asian national team, but Kim would like to show up for the event in top condition. And being used so little by Bayern doesn’t make him feel comfortable, he who was used to something else in his career. Both with Fenerbahce and with the Italian Napoli. Hence the desire to look around to decide without haste what to do with this second part of the season. There are several teams that are giving his entourage a certain interest (the latest was Fenerbahce), but Milan’s appreciation has “warmed” him more than the others. If he decides to leave the Bundesliga, returning to Italy is the option that excites him the most. Because he knows our championship well and because he knows that he would not have great difficulties either in adapting to Allegri’s three-man defense (he was in Spalletti’s) or to life at Milanello.
High costs
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Kim would allow the Devil to include an element with undoubted experience in the squad (in via Aldo Rossi the research and monitoring at the moment are focused on profiles who know the Italian championship and do not need adaptation), it would extend the Livorno coach’s ability to rotate his elements back there (even if at that point Odogu would leave) and it would allow the South Korean to prepare in the best possible way for the approach to the World Cup. While now he is champing at the bit on the bench, with Tah and Upamecano starting at Kompany’s court. Bringing Kim to the Rossoneri, however, is not easy. Above all because Bayern must be convinced to accept the loan with right of redemption as a formula. Plus there is the defender’s salary, outside the parameters of the Rossoneri. Regardless of the player’s appreciation for the Rossoneri shirt, therefore, the road is not downhill at the moment, but the scenario may change as the weeks go by. Especially if the playing time of Kim, who missed the last Bundesliga match due to injury, does not increase.
Nkunku and the Fene
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Meanwhile, an official offer for the Frenchman has not yet arrived from Turkey, who was absent in Cagliari this evening due to a blow to an ankle suffered in the match against Verona. The decision to sell him has not been made at Milan and the former Chelsea player has made it known that he does not want to leave. Another important performance at the Unipol Domus would perhaps have definitively banished the rumors which are destined to remain current. To let Nkunku leave, the Devil is asking for a permanent transfer, a loan with obligation to buy or an exchange of loans with a welcome element. And he values his price tag a little less than what he paid him in August, i.e. 37 million plus bonuses. Certainly, after the arrival of Füllkrug, for the possible replacement of Nkunku the managers are thinking of a second striker who would be the alternative to Pulisic, with the German alter ego of Leao. Also in this case the priority is to hire an expert, preferably with a past or present in Serie A. Because there is little time to integrate into the team’s mechanisms. Goals are needed to reach the top four, as Allegri asked yesterday.
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