Milan transfer market on Mazraoui, Botman and Sanches

It is always the transfer market, even when the winter negotiations have been closed for just three weeks and the opening of the summer business is months away. It is called programming, an exercise that engages the Rossoneri managers more than others: crazy expenses are not allowed and therefore a long scouting job is required. Other times the path is different: as in the case of Noussair Mazraoui, Ajax full-back, it is the agents who contact Milan to propose their client. Milan, back at the top, is liked, and those aiming for a qualitative leap look for the address of San Siro.

Characteristics

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So did Mazraoui, a sporting life in Ajax and now looking for new challenges. Raised in Holland’s most prestigious youth sector, he made his first team debut in February 2018: since then 128 games, 10 goals and 8 winning assists. His total attendance count also includes 35 in the Champions League, 9 in the qualifiers and 26 in the final stages: for a 24-year-old, an excellent experience at the highest level in Europe. The best Dutch season was 2018-19: with 4 goals and 5 assists in 48 games, he is one of the protagonists of the team that won the Scudetto, the National Cup and reached the Champions League semi-finals. He is awarded talent of the year. This year he played 26 games and scored 5 goals, all in the league. They will remain among the most recent memories of his history at Ajax: he is about to expire his contract in the summer and will not extend. Not a small detail: Milan could add an all-round full-back to the squad without having to resort to the cash register. The approval is first and foremost technical: the player likes it and the evaluations underway at Casa Milan confirm that the Mazraoui option (12 appearances and 2 goals for the Moroccan national team) has not been discarded at all. Other European suitors will be added but the fact that it was the agents who proposed it suggests that Milan are the first choice.

Intense summer

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As it is for Sven Botman: an investment of 30 million is ready for the Lille defender. The esteem is reciprocated and it was also understood by the recent meeting at the headquarters, when the Rossoneri management received the agents of the Dutch, 22 years old, indicated for months as the first goal. And if the median loses the free agent Kessie, as everything now suggests, the Rossoneri will try again at Lilla: Renato Sanches, 24, remains the prime suspect. It is in the summer that Milan will redesign itself to become more and more competitive: look for players who know how to win. And all the goals considered so far know the way to success.