One of the areas that the AC Milan management are studying is the centre-forward department, which has several uncertainties at present.
Calciomercato.it recall that Milan are different to the other top sides in Serie A as they are yet to spend a big sum for the purchase of a striker. Juventus for example spent €70m to get their hands on Dusan Vlahovic, while the Rossoneri in contrast signed his compatriot Marko Lazetic for €4m from Red Star.
After a tough first few months, Lazetic is showing his potential now having scored a hat-trick against Atalanta and having scored goals in the Youth League against Dinamo Zagreb and Salzburg. Dutch clubs but also Serie B teams are keen on a loan deal, but Milan would rather keep him around.
A different path was chosen for Marco Nasti and Lorenzo Colombo as both went to gain experience on loan. The former has four appearances with Cosenza in Serie B and in January he could go elsewhere, while Colombo has scored three Serie A goals for Lecce who have decided to exercise their €2.5m option to buy, but Milan have a buy-back at €3.5m that will almost certainly be used should his good run continue.
Olivier Giroud is clearly the certainty of the striker department for Milan, with Zlatan Ibrahimovic the ‘wild card’ until next summer at least, but all others are under examination for the time being and that is why an investment in a new striker may finally have to happen.
Paolo Maldini and Ricky Massara are looking around and they have two young profiles in mind: Noah Okafor at Salzburg (22) and Armando Broja at Chelsea (21), both valued at €35-40m. It is a significant figure that Milan hope to have to be able to invest elsewhere with one of their current young players exploding.
Milan should give the chances they are giving to origi to lazetic! The youth surprised us many times look at calabria, donnarumma, el sharaawy. If lazetic glows we don’t have to spend a lot of money for a striker and if he don’t at least we tried and we don’t have the problem of angry players in the club
Origi is 27.
To lazetic bro origi is not the youth player I mentioned it was lazetic
If i had an euro for everytime i read a variation of this article…
Broja doesn’t deserve 35-40m lol 😂 and okafor will change to Winger lol . We really should try Jonathan David tbh or Jonathan Burkardt and maybe Arnaud Kalimuendo someone that could worth to spend money also maybe Lōis Openda
Ajax has a youth striker lucca tall striker his style of playing is just like luca toni he is a cheap option especially if they get ziyech a great assister or gakpo as a replacement if leao goes