AC Milan management decided to part ways with Gianluigi Donnarumma who grew up at the club, because of failure to negotiate reasonable contract extension terms with agent Mino Raiola.
The Rossoneri managers did not want to waste any more time and decided to sign Mike Maignan from Lille for a transfer fee reportedly worth 15 million euros including bonuses.
Today's edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport highlights Paolo Maldini's words yesterday to the club's official Twitch channel (which you can read in English here): "We must have respect for those who have given so much to Milan. The paths diverge, I can only wish him the best."
The newspaper outlines how Paolo Maldini's words were as usual elegant and carefully picked. Milan would have liked to keep the player but with the excessive economic demands of 12 million euros for a salary, it was not possible.