Alvaro Morata at Milan is a good purchase. Thirteen million clause, salary quite affordable for the center forward of a big team. He’s probably not Zirkzee for his playmaking skills, but he has experience, strength. He scores few goals, but good ones, the ones you need in the semi-finals or finals of the Champions League. So to aim for the highest levels he’s perfect. At the medium levels, however, he struggles. Milan needs another centre-forward, who touches a few balls and puts them in. Who comes in at the sixtieth minute and shuffles the cards. Physically, technically. There are few old-fashioned nines, one like Guirassy, in short. The name is not thrown out there by chance: he had an excellent season, he ended up at Borussia Dortmund, where there is Fullkrug and Haller.
One seat for three, one is too many. If Milan considers Fullkrug suitable for its needs, both technical and economic, it must hurry. It’s true, he’s not young, but Giroud was four years older when he arrived in Italy. He won a Scudetto, played a World Cup and a European Championship as a starter. The age of the players has increased, especially for those who started slowly and played little in their youth. 417 games are a lot, that’s true, but at the highest levels Fullkrug played 185. Plus those with the German national team, that is 21. 206 appearances between the Bundesliga, DFB Pokal, Europe and National team mean four seasons for someone who plays for a big team.
For this reason, Fullkrug, over thirty, makes sense. A lot. Milan must move to close, because he would give goals to an attack that has them, but not enough to get to the end of the competitions. At least 20 more are needed in all competitions, if not more. Last year Fullkrug scored 16, with 10 assists, plus the two at the European Championship. He would solve the center forward problem completely, he could play with Morata – who already did so with Llorente in the first year of Juventus – he would give weight and form. He would shorten the distance with Inter. If it is really possible to do it, it must be done now, immediately, before someone else gets there. The problem is not the million more or less.
Juventus is in the midst of major maneuvers. Soulè, Chiesa, Koopmeiners, Huijsen, three purchases, the presentation of Thiago Motta, Milik, Arthur, Szczesny. There are many cats to peel and it is not easy at all. The domino should fall into place, sooner or later, but it is still early and we are on July 20th. In an immobile market it is also difficult to refuse offers, meanwhile Todibò seems closer in the last hours. In midfield there is always confidence to close Koopmeiners thanks to the sales, provided that Atalanta does not declare him truly unsellable. We are not far from an ideal deadline for the Nerazzurri.
Finally Inter enjoying the view. It is true that Cabal could have been a good reinforcement, but he would have been Bastoni’s reserve, so there will be time to eventually choose a replacement. In midfield there are no problems, up front there could be an addition in the event of Valentin Carboni’s sale to Olympique Marseille. The main objective would be Gudmundsson, although the news reports could represent a problem.