The winter transfer market for AC Milan has already seen two official moves aimed at immediately reinforcing Stefano Pioli's defensive department, which has been suffering from injuries. The profiles who arrived are: Matteo Gabbia who returned from loan at Villarreal on January 2nd (he already played some minutes against Empoli), and yesterday saw Filippo Terracciano, a defender and midfielder born in 2003, was officially signed from Hellas Verona.
The initial idea in the weeks leading up to 2024 was to gift the manager a new striker (with Guirassy as the main candidate). However, the abolition of the Growth Decree on one side and Luka Jovic's surge on the other are causing a change in strategy for this transfer window: what if the funds set aside for another forward besides Giroud were used to reinforce the defense immediately? Fikayo Tomori, Malick Thiaw, and Pierre Kalulu won't return before the end of February, and in a broader perspective, it will be necessary to sign another central defender in the summer regardless. So, it's possible to secure another defender now.
The Milan managers, according to Milan News, are seriously trying, and in recent days, they have been gathering information about 21-year-old Romanian centre-back Radu Dragusin from Genoa and Alessandro Buongiorno, the 24-year-old Italian defender of Torino. The Rossoneri's idea for the Romanian Dragusin involves potentially including Lorenzo Colombo in the deal, valuing him at 12-15 million euros, plus a fee of 10 million euros, maybe adding a renegotiation of Messias's buyout. However, it's not easy to complete: there's significant interest in Dragusin from Bayern Munich and Tottenham. Talks for the Torino captain, Buongiorno, however, are also in the early stages: he's expensive, and it's not certain he wants to move in January, but Milan is determined to try.
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