Conrad Harder, Randal Kolo Muani, and Dusan Vlahovic (Photo by Gualter Fatia, Paolo Bruno, Lars Baron/Getty Images)
Time is running relentlessly. There are only a few days left until the end of this transfer window and Milan can no longer afford to wait and stand still. Waiting, for example, for a domino effect to trigger a chain reaction in the final stretch before the deadline is far too big a risk, an enormous one. You are Milan and you cannot be kept on a leash (by Sporting CP) for days and days. I hope someone explains this to Giorgio Furlani.
Milan had been waiting to welcome Conrad Harder after an official offer was surprisingly submitted by the Rossoneri and accepted by Sporting CP. From that moment, Milan worked with the player’s entourage to fully convince him of the technical project and to definitely fend off Rennes, who had come very close to securing the deal just days earlier.
We had left things at the bureaucratic steps: for Harder, only medicals and signatures were missing. A profile clearly endorsed by Massimiliano Allegri but not certainly his favourite. Milan had not already exchanged documents with Sporting CP, waiting only for the final go-ahead, tied not only to Rennes’ pressure but also to the Portuguese club’s need to find a replacement.
Yesterday, however, a plot twist, farcical scenes, and everything fell through. The intermediary Paolo Busardo proposed Tolu Arokodare, who, in the meantime, is already in talks with an English club. But, as we’ve been saying for three months, the ideal solution for Allegri has a name and surname: Dusan Vlahovic.
Dusan Vlahovic wants to leave Juventus this summer. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)
Yet, there’s one aspect that unsettles me. Milan had, as we said, three months to finalise the Vlahovic deal, the only destination truly desired by the Serbian. Instead, the Rossoneri went on a surreal wild-goose chase after other strikers, all orchestrated by intermediary Busardo, who…
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