Paolo Maldini made some important moves in the current transfer market session of the summer as he signed Mike Maignan to replace Gianluigi Donnarumma, then Tomori and Tonali's redemptions. Olivier Giroud will sign his contract in a few hours with the club and Brahim Diaz is set to return. Moreover, Ballo-Touré should also soon be a Milan player.
The incoming market operations continue to be busy for the Rossoneri as the aim is to reinforce the squad for Stefano Pioli by providing depth, quality and experience. This is never easy, especially given the financial health of football clubs in Europe due to the covid-19 pandemic and its effects on football.
However, the most difficult task to do right now for Paolo Maldini is generating some cash by offloading players elsewhere, writes Calciomercato.com.
Maldini will have to place some players that are not in Stefano Pioli's technical project. The hottest names are those of Tommaso Pobega who is heading towards Atalanta. He is a primavera graduate and any sale of his would mean pure capital gains in AC Milan's books.
Then, there is Jens Petter Hauge who has offers from the Bundesliga. Pobega and Hauge could bring together 25 million euros together.
To these must be added the exits of Andrea Conti who returned from his loan at Parma and Mattia Caldara who had a disappointing loan spell at Atalanta.
Finally there is a name circled in red among the possible players to be leaving and that is Rafael Leao. Milan could obtain an important sum of money if they sell him, we are talking about around 35 million euros. There could be some signs awaited by Milan to arrive from super agent Jorge Mendes regarding this front.
This is the technical director Paolo Maldini's most difficult task to date, and it has just begun, concludes the source mentioned above.