Christopher Nkunku will be a new AC Milan player:
The Frenchman arrives from Chelsea and becomes the Rossoneri’s eighth signing of the summer campaign. It is a major investment by the ReddBird-owned club, who will hand the London side a cheque worth €37–38 million fixed, plus a further €5 million in bonuses that are not easy to achieve. He may not be the penalty-box striker the Milan management had initially hinted at, but he is certainly an offensive weapon who, if he can stay fit, possesses immense talent.
Nkunku is 27 years old and, on paper, joins Milan in the prime of his footballing maturity, even if recent years in the Premier League were plagued by injuries. A product of PSG, where he first broke through, he truly blossomed at RB Leipzig, delivering four dream seasons with 172 appearances, 70 goals, and 56 assists.
For a player whose natural role is not as an out-and-out striker but rather as a second forward, attacking midfielder, or winger, those numbers are impressive. In Germany, he was a key figure in winning two DFB-Pokals and reaching a Champions League semifinal. A talent at the peak of his powers, he moved to Chelsea in 2023 where, in his first season, he was extremely unlucky with injuries and was later pushed aside by the club’s constant influx of new signings, as pointed out by Milan News.
Nkunku bids farewell to London after 62 matches, 18 goals, and 5 assists, arriving at Milanello with the hope of rediscovering the world-class talent he had once so clearly displayed.
