Chapter 650: Upgrade Complete

Although the club has some complaints about AC Milan regarding the transfer of Romagnoli, when Galliani raised the offer to 30 million euros, the Roma hierarchy immediately chose to compromise.

The reason why AS Roma were willing to sell Pjanic to AC Milan was that in addition to the very attractive offer of 30 million euros, they found that Juventus had secretly recruited Pjanic, which was the fundamental reason why Roma finally agreed to release him.

After all, rather than selling Pjanic to Juventus to continue to strengthen their dominance in Serie A, it would be better to cheapen AC Milan, which is in the midst of a major reshuffle.

Although the Roma club chose to give in under Galliani's money offensive, Pjanic himself was not very willing to join AC Milan because he had no Champions League to play.

However, the Bosnian star finally signed his name to the contract when Galliani agreed to offer Pjanic a weekly salary of €100,000 (after tax) and promised to take AC Milan away if they failed to qualify for the Champions League this season, as long as other clubs made an offer of more than €30 million.

After basically getting Mihajlovic right, Galliani's next job is to clear up a lot of redundancy in the team.

Although the financial situation of AC Milan has been greatly improved by bringing a large amount of commercial sponsorship to the club after Feng Quan took over, "high-paid and low-energy" players such as Robinho and Essien have been directly terminated.

Pazzini, Zacardo and Muntari joined other teams on a free transfer because they were not part of Mihajlovic's plans for the new season.

Saponala, who had high hopes from AC Milan two years ago, joined relegation side Empoli for 4 million euros; French centre-back Lamy, who could not get Mihajlovic's main commitment, joined La Liga club Sevilla for 3.5 million euros.

In addition, Paletta, Bielsa, Matri and other players who are also not in Mihajlovic's plan have been loaned by Galliani to other teams.

Considering that AC Milan only have one defensive midfielder, Nigel de Jong, Mihajlovic suggested to Galliani that he want to bring in a defensive midfielder in case of emergency.

Since the introduction of Romagnoli, Mandzukic and others has cost nearly 100 million euros, the funds for the introduction of defensive midfielders can only rely on the sale of Saponara and Rami to get 7.5 million euros.

Although the value of a defensive midfielder is significantly lower than that of an attacker up front, it is difficult to buy a high-level defensive midfielder at a price of 7.5 million euros.

However, just when Galliani was distressed by this, AC Milan's "good friend" Genoa took the initiative to send it to the door.

Because Kuczka was dissatisfied with his position as a "panacea" in the team, so he applied for a transfer, so the Genoa club took the initiative to promote the Slovak midfielder to AC Milan, a "good friend".

Although a serious injury two years ago made it difficult for Kuczka to regain his former peak form, it was more than enough to be used as a substitute for Nigel de Jong.

So, thanks to his good relationship with the Genoa club, Galliani completed the Kuczka deal for a low price of only 3 million euros.

At this point, AC Milan's summer recruitment work has finally been successfully completed.

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As the team with the highest net transfer spending this summer, although the overall strength of AC Milan has been greatly improved, in the minds of many media and insiders, it is still difficult for them to shake Juventus' Serie A supremacy with limited squad depth.

Moreover, if Mihajlovic does not solve the team run-in problem well, it will be difficult for AC Milan to even guarantee a place in the Champions League.

After all, the five players who spent 200 million euros to bring in, Mandzukic, Pjanic, Felipe Luiz and Romagnoli will undoubtedly become the main players of AC Milan's team in the new season.

Mihajlovic did not take the doubts of the outside world too seriously, and he believed that over time, his team would dispel everyone's doubts with excellent performances.

On July 16, AC Milan defeated Serie C side Legnano 5-0 in the first warm-up game of the new season, but the team's attacking strategy of quickly sending football through the midfield to the feet of El Shaarawy and Cerci, and then solving the battle with their individual ability, attracted a lot of media criticism.

Although only Romagnoli and Pjanic were involved in the game against Legnano among the new signings, judging from the actual content of this game, it is likely that a quick transition through midfield and then to the attackers up front to solve the battle with individual ability is likely to be the main attacking tool of AC Milan in the new season.

If it were Milan a year ago, Mihajlovich's choice might not have attracted criticism, but after Galliani spent a huge amount of 200 million euros to build a luxurious squad for him, such a simple and crude style of play is really unreasonable.

However, to the surprise of the outside world, Fengquan, who is running around the world for the global sales of the "Fengquan brand", fully affirmed Mikhailovich's choice.

"I am very sympathetic to Mr. Sinissa [Mihajlovic] because the current squad of the team means that we cannot play the same pass-and-possession football as Barcelona. And Atletico Madrid, where I played before, also used a similar style of play to win the double of La Liga and the Champions League for two consecutive years. ”

After a pause, Feng Quan continued: "If I had to choose between good football and results, I would not hesitate to choose the latter. After all, only when the team gets a Champions League place will the club's revenue increase significantly. ”

Although Feng Quan's words seem a bit utilitarian, considering his status as the owner of the club, such a statement is understandable.

In fact, the reason why Mihajlovic chose a relatively simple game strategy for the team is that it is difficult for the team's existing squad to play beautiful passing football, but also because of the successful experience of Atletico Madrid.

Although Serie A is more defensive, the overall defensive ability of Serie A teams is slightly stronger than that of La Liga teams, but unless the opponent adopts a two-to-three-man wrap-and-roll defense against Feng Quan, it will be difficult for even Serie A hegemon Juventus to stop Feng Quan's individual attack.

Although AC Milan has only one world-class star in the team, with Feng Quan alone being able to draw the energy of at least two defenders of the opposing team, the other midfielders will inevitably be able to gain more attacking space.

In this way, AC Milan, which lacks top stars, can take advantage of the opponent's weak defensive areas to establish a local "number" advantage in the front court, and then continue to put pressure on the opponent's goal.

In addition, Feng Quan was unable to participate in the team's thousands of training because he was going to return to China to participate in the World Championships in track and field, which was also an important factor in Mihajlovic's choice of a relatively simple and rough style of play. After all, the simpler the tactic, the easier it is for Fengquan to quickly integrate into the team.

As for the lack of depth in the squad, it is not in Mihajlovic's consideration at all, and for AC Milan, who do not need to be distracted by European competitions, as long as they avoid large-scale injury attrition, the current squad is enough to cope with all kinds of emergencies in Serie A.