AC Milan management is trying to reinforce the midfield area with important and carefully planned moves in the mercato.
In fact, Franck Kessié and Ismael Bennacer, who are the starters for Stefano Pioli's lineup should be absent for 1 month because of their participations with their respective national teams (Ivory Coast and Algeria) in the African Cup which will be held in January.
Tuttosport takes stock of the situation and claims that Milan will have to deal with this issue by bringing on new faces.
Actually, there are several players that Maldini and Massara monitor in the French Ligue 1: Pape Sarr (18 year old Senegalese player of Metz) Youssouf Fofana (22 years old French central midfielder of Monaco) and the talented Boubacar Kamara who can play the centre-back and midfield role at Marseille. He is 21 years old and highly valued by his club.
There are also important players in Italy that are being followed like Mattias Svanberg of Bologna, 22 year-old talented player from Sweden, and his 24 year-old teammate Jerdy Schouten from the Netherlands.
Another name that can play in multiple areas in the middle of the field is the 27-year-old star of Udinese Rodrigo De Paul, writes the newspaper. The Argentine would not be exactly suitable to play in the two midfielders of 4-2-3-1, but with him, coach Pioli could deploy the team in a 4-3-3 formation.
