Samuele Negri

Goalkeeper - AC Milan U20
6 Nov 2030
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Samuele Negri

178 Edition

The AC Milan Sentinel

24 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

AC Milan make home a hard place to visit

38 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Match

AC Milan make it 7 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now AC Milan have 7 straight wins of it.

Player ratings

A brace, and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia takes the afternoon — 8.63

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia provided it, and the 8.63 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

AC Milan may not be able to give Bostero what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Bostero wants continental football; whether AC Milan can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.51 with 13 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

A row about effort at AC Milan

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Real improvement from Samuele Negri at AC Milan

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Samuele Negri is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Player ratings

The game went through Bostero — 7.33

Marked 7.33 on 13 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Match

Moise Kean the difference as AC Milan beat Cagliari

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Moise Kean. 2‑0 against Cagliari, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

Back issues
173 Edition

The AC Milan Sentinel

19 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Youssouf Fofana says AC Milan went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Filippo Terracciano hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AC Milan can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at AC Milan

Lautaro Martínez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Filippo Terracciano has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AC Milan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Matteo Gabbia

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Looking ahead

Derby week at AC Milan

Inter next, which means a week that starts on Monday. Everything else on this page will be forgotten by Saturday; this fixture will not be forgotten for a year.

Squad

Koni De Winter falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout

Bostero gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bostero is on it.

Squad

Samuele Negri stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Samuele Negri and AC Milan agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief