Sven Botman was and still is heavily linked with a move to the San Siro in view of next season. Reportedly, Paolo Maldini and Frederic Massara did try to sign him in the winter's transfer market window, but the attempts failed. However, there is also another club who is interested besides the Rossoneri. We are talking about Premier League club Newcastle.
In fact, Amanda Staveley who is an executive at Newcastle spoke in an interview granted to The Athletic and said these following words about the Dutchman:
"So we had that, an illiquid market, and the complexity of COVID-19, which meant clubs didn’t want to sell because they didn’t know where their squads would end up. We had to encourage players: ‘we’ll be a safe place for you, we’ll deliver and grow'."
"Some desperately wanted to come to us, like Sven (Botman), who still does very much and has talked very openly about that."
"Coming through all that showed us we can do it, that we can stick to our plan and if we get criticised on the last day for ‘oh, you’re going after Jesse (Lingard)’, well, Jesse wanted to come to us."
"We did everything. We never stopped. From the start to the finish, we did not stop working."
