Today Matteo Gabbia could get on the plane to Riyadh, home of the next Italian Super Cup. The clinical tests carried out excluded serious damage to the left knee and certified a hyperextension trauma. He must miss the semi-final against Napoli on Thursday and prepare for the next match (the final or the championship will be seen). In the same hours, on the other side of the world, in Brazil, Thiago Silva greeted his colleagues at Fluminense, accrediting the idea of wanting to move to Italy to complete the first semester of 2026 so as to compete, at the age of 41, for a call-up to the World Cup. The Thiago Silva-Milan pairing is only a suggestion while it still resists due to the obvious need to add a player of great depth to the current defenders who is not a 41 year old. The exit of Gabbia replaced by De Winter in difficulty on Laurienté is a fact that should not be overlooked. Like the problems in attack which should find a partial solution in Riyadh for the recovery of Leao while on Gimenez’s account the failure to start with the group for Arabia has effectively transferred him to the market. The emergency continues and for this reason yesterday there was a summit at Milan (Furlani-Tare-Allegri) to decide the strategy on the transfer market: a defender and a striker were the declared objectives. On this point, the candidacy of the German Fullkrug, 32 years old from West Ham, is not convincing due to his latest physical problems.
The only department in which Allegri enjoys a sufficient number is that of midfield where there is a certain decline on the part of Modric, very justified mind you because he has not missed any of the 15 championship matches so far. There were already some signs with Torino, the same with Sassuolo. Now, on the occasion of the Super Cup, perhaps the time has come to give him a rest so as to propose again – after his debut in the Italian Cup with Lazio – Jashari remaining on the bench with Sassuolo given that in midfield the first change remains the more tested one of Ricci.
Meanwhile, an agreement has been reached to extend Saelemaekers’ contract until 2031 with a salary increase in order to shore up a piece of the future. On the subject, it is worth noting a dose of greater optimism for the proposal made to Maignan. The resistance seems to come more from the goalkeeper’s agents than from the Rossoneri captain.
