Milan are facing the risk of losing another long-tenured player for nothing in 2022. The deal of Alessio Romagnoli expires in a year. The negotiation to extend it has not progressed at all during the summer. Moreover, there has not been any inkling about a possible departure, Calciomercato.com reports.
Romagnoli will open the campaign as the third center-back behind Fikayo Tomori and Simon Kjaer. Milan invested €28.5M to buy out the former from Chelsea earlier in June. The English defender leapfrogged the captain in the pecking order last march when the teammate suffered a calf strain. He never left the starting XI since.
Romagnoli is entering his seventh season with the club. According to the specialized site, Milan have not opened talks with his agent Mino Raiola about a potential new contract. Moreover, the player did not ask to be sold in the ongoing window, de facto accepting the backup role. He would technically be free to secure a Bosman move from January on.
At the beginning of the summer, the Italian center-back was linked to Juventus and Barcelona. However, the rumored deals had no traction whatsoever. The Blaugrana have not moved any of their current defenders, so they could not add another one. A swap with Federico Bernardeschi, another Raiola client, seemed on the table early on. But the winger is likely to stay put despite being in the same situation. Milan previously could not come to terms with Gianluigi Donnarumma and Hakan Calhanoglu, who joined PSG and Inter for free.