The AC Milan Sentinel
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
AC Milan agree $33.8M for Josh Sargent
The clubs have shaken hands with Liverpool; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market23 Aug 2027
Giacomo Bonaventura 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Vintage Luka Modrić — 8.41
At 41 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.41, and nobody on the pitch better.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Strahinja Pavlović goes up and wins it — 7.91
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.91 for the rest of it.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A row about effort at AC Milan
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adrien Rabiot was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
Graduation day at AC Milan
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Samuele Ricci in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AC Milan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces23 Aug 2027
One of their own: Diego Moreira
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match21 Aug 2027
AC Milan get the job done against Sassuolo
A 2‑0 win over Sassuolo, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
In brief
- Market AC Milan promote Giovanni Di Stefano from within
- Market Giovanni Neri steps up from the AC Milan academy
- Market One of our own: Simone Grassi joins the AC Milan first team