Soccer transfers and rumours

Nikola Kalinic to Milan- Rossoneri sign Croatian international from Fiorentina

AC Milan have officially confirmed the signing of Nikola Kalinic from Fiorentina. The Croatian international has initially joined on loan, but Milan have an obligation to buy written into the deal.

How much did AC Milan pay for Kalinic?

The loan fee is expected to be around 5 million euros, with another 20 million euros to be paid to make the deal permanent.

What shirt number will Kalinic wear at Milan?

He has been given the No.7 jersey

Former Blackburn Rovers striker Kalinic has put pen to paper a contract that will keep him at the San Siro till 2021. He comes Milan’s 11th signing of the summer after Leonardo Bonucci, Andre Silva, Andrea Conti, Hakan Calhanoglu, Mateo Musacchio, Ricardo Rodriguez, Lucas Biglia, Franck Kessie, Antonio Donnarumma and Fabio Borini.

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Man City meet with Messi representatives over potential transfer- 300 million Euro release clause

Barely weeks after losing Neymar for a jaw dropping 222 million euros to Paris Saint-Germain, rumours in the press say that approaches have been made by Man City to Lionel Messi, who currently has a 300 million euro release clause.

Messi is yet to ink a contract extension at Barcelona- the Catalans announced on July 5 that they had agreed on a contract renewal till 2021 “to be signed” in the coming weeks, but no official news on that front has come forth after that, meaning it is yet to be formally inked.

While Yahoo France have linked Man City with a 300 million bid for Messi, Duncan Castles from the Daily Record (a fairly reputable source for City transfer gossip) has said that the two parties have been in talks, but a more likely switch might be a free transfer ahead of the 2018-19 season. However Castles reckons that City are ready to activate the 300 million release clause should they agree terms with the player, but the lack of time between now and the end of the window could be a deterrent (the Neymar saga dragged on for weeks)

What a transfer window this has been, and what could this mean for under-fire Bartomeu if the Spanish giants lose two of their famed MSN trio?

There’s already some simmering anger over the way young Sergi Samper was told he was surplus to requirements at the Nou Camp, and Barca’s first signing of the summer transfer window after Neymar’s transfer being Spurs reject Paulinho from the Chiense league.

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