At the top of Mihajlovic's proposed list of signings is Roma club centre-back Romagnoli.

The young Romagnoli may not yet be 21 years old, but he has already shown his potential to become a top centre-back under the tutelage of Mihajlovic during his loan spell at Sampdoria.

The reason why Mihajlovic strongly recommends Romagnoli is definitely the right medicine.

AC Milan finished 10th last season but finished in the top six for goals scored in the league, and if it weren't for the fact that the older centre-backs were often slumped through by their opponents' speedy strikers due to their slow turn-and-back speeds, their goals were penetrated 50 times. You know, even Chievo, who are ranked 14th, have conceded just 41 goals in the whole season.

If the young Romagnoli can be successfully brought in, it will go a long way towards solving the problem of AC Milan's backline being slow to turn and catch up.

In addition, although Desiglio, who has been trained by AC Milan's own academy in recent seasons, has basically secured the position of the main left wing-back, Desiglio, who was born as a right wing-back, is a right-footed player after all, and the quality of his crosses after going down the left side has always been lacking.

Therefore, in addition to Romagnoli, Mihajlovic is also hoping to bring in a strong left wing-back. In this way, Desiglio, who can be left and right, can make Mihajlovich's arrangement more flexible.

Among AC Milan's existing midfielders, Keisuke Honda's long-range shot and free-kick goal; Nigel de Jong's tough defence, as well as Bonaventura's flexible dribbling and versatile attributes who can play multiple positions in midfield, make AC Milan's midfield configuration seem to be not weak, but they lack a top-level playmaking midfielder, and they often struggle to provide effective help to the forward line under the opposition's tough defense. That's why AC Milan struggled to find a win against their top-six opponents in Serie A last season.

Although Montolivo was originally regarded by Italian fans as the ideal successor to midfield maestro Pirlo, the current AC Milan captain's performance in recent seasons is still a huge gap with the standard of "Pirlo's successor".

Therefore, Mihajlovic wants to bring in a top-notch playmaker who can support the team's playmaking responsibilities in a strong conversation. To this end, Mihajlovic also listed the following targets in order of preference: Kevin De Bruyne, Toni Kroos and Pjanic.

Since the midfield position is the key reinforcement target of Mihajlovich, and the addition of Feng Quan will inevitably make AC Milan's attack power get a qualitative leap, so there is no specific goal for Mihajlovic to recruit on the front line, only hope to introduce a fulcrum striker, and a winger who can serve as a substitute for Feng Quan and Mane.

In addition to the list of signings, Mihajlovic also gave Galliani a list of "purges".

El Shaarawy, who has long fallen out of favor due to frequent injuries, and Essien, Robinho, Pazzini, Matri and others who have not been able to play their due level at AC Milan, are all on Mihajlovic's "purge" list.

After seeing the list made by Mikhailovich, there was no objection from any other side, except for the rejection of the other party's proposal to purge El Shaarawy. After all, Mihajlovich's recruitment and purge targets are very much in line with the actual needs of the team.

The reason why Feng Quan refused to sell Shaarawy is mainly because of the other party's youth, the "little pharaoh" born in October 1992 is not yet 23 years old, as long as he can successfully overcome the injury troubles, even if he can't repeat the peak performance of the 2012-2013 season, at least he can become his qualified substitute.

After getting Feng Quan's approval, Galliani began to show his new owners his superb negotiating skills.

With Romagnoli being Mihajlovic's top target, Galliani made a €20 million offer to the AS Roma club the day after receiving his approval.

Although the club intends to develop Romagnoli as a future leader in the back, it is impossible to guarantee his main position in the short term, and the player himself strongly wants to reunite with his "mentor" Mihajlovic at AC Milan, and after some haggling, he finally agreed to release him for a transfer fee of 25 million euros plus a floating clause of 5 million.

After getting Romagnoli done, Galliani began to look for the right left wing-back through his network.

Before Galliani could find a suitable candidate, Feng Quan recommended his teammates from Atletico Madrid, Felipe Luiz and Mandzukic.

Considering the deep relationship with Atletico Madrid, Feng Quan was originally reluctant to dig into the corner of his old club. Although Feng Quan's achievements are more due to his unremitting efforts, if it were not for Atletico Madrid, the platform that can best give full play to Feng Quan's speed advantage, his growth would never be so rapid. What's more, Fengquan's football school also has to maintain a cooperative relationship with Atletico Madrid.

What Feng Quan never expected was that Paul Fordley would take the initiative to give himself a big gift.

In fact, Atletico Madrid's move is also really helpless, if it weren't for Chelsea's desire to buy Felipe Luiz, Juventus wanting to get Mandzukic, and Paul Fortre would not have taken the initiative to sell the two to the wind.

Although Paul Fortre was not willing to lose two of the team's main players, he had to let it go when Felipe Luiz wanted a change of environment and Mandzukic and Diego Simeone did not get along.

Rather than selling the two to possible Champions League rivals, it would be better to bargain for AC Milan, who have no Champions League to play in.

Although AC Milan has no European games to play, the happy experience of lifting the Big Ears Cup with Feng Quan not long ago made Felipe Luiz and Mandzukic gladly accept the "organizational" arrangement.

Since this is Paulo Fortre who took the initiative to sell to the door, Atletico Madrid is still very fair in terms of transfer fees, Felipe Luiz and Mandzukic, who are enough to establish themselves in most big clubs, and the combined transfer fee is only 40 million euros.

You know, Mandzukic alone, Juventus FC made an offer of 30 million euros to Atletico Madrid.

As a result, AC Milan's squad upgrade is almost complete by acquiring a top-class midfielder who can support the team's playmaking responsibilities before the start of the new season.

However, in the process of introducing a playmaking midfielder, even the long-sleeved and good dancer Galliani has encountered a lot of trouble.

At the beginning, when Galliani made an offer of 40 million euros for De Bruyne, although Wolfsburg did not immediately agree, with years of experience in the transfer market, Galliani believed that a maximum of 10 million would be able to complete the transfer.

Although AC Milan only has 40 million euros left in the transfer funds after the transfer of Romagnoli and others, it is still possible to squeeze out one or two million transfer funds by cleaning up the redundancy in the team a little.

However, just when Galliani was about to increase the price, De Bruyne was taken directly by the deep-pocketed Manchester City club for 74 million euros.

Galliani, who was cut off halfway, had to retreat to Real Madrid to buy Toni Kroos.

Although the relationship between AC Milan and Real Madrid is good, the team's coach Zinedine Zidane directly rejected the deal, and even Toni Kroos himself has no interest in AC Milan.

In desperation, Galliani had no choice but to contact the AS Roma club again to ask for Pjanic, Mihajlovic's last alternative target.

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