After Simon Kjaer's injury, it is now known that Paolo Maldini and Frederic Massara will be going into the market to secure the replacement of the Dane defender. Many reports claim that AC Milan's dream shot in the mercato is definitely Sven Botman. However, the Dutch centre-back is valued quite highly by his club.
According to what is reported by La Gazzetta dello Sport in this morning's print edition, Lille are still requesting 30 million euros to let go of their star. The Rossoneri management, for its part, cannot invest such a high amount of money in this January session. However, they would like to close a loan deal with the right to exercise a buy-option.
In order for such a deal to go through, AC Milan will obviously have to spend a lot of effort on convincing Lille. The French outfit are aware that Botman is also liked by some Premier League clubs like Newcastle.
