{"id":258928,"date":"2025-09-27T14:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/258928\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T14:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:22:13","slug":"milan-targeting-loan-with-option-deal-for-real-madrids-club-world-cup-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/258928\/","title":{"rendered":"Milan targeting loan with option deal for Real Madrid&#8217;s Club World Cup star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AC Milan did not sign an out-and-out striker during the summer window, and they are eyeing a Real Madrid man to potentially fill that role.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Milan were linked with many strikers during the summer window, from Rasmus Hojlund to Dusan Vlahovic. They were believed to be close to signing two, namely Victor Boniface <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/boniface-milan-medical-failed-bizarre-reason\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>who failed a medical<\/strong><\/a> with the Rossoneri, and Conrad Harder who chose RB Leipzig.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago Gimenez remains the only true centre-forward in the squad, and while he broke his duck in midweek against Lecce in the cup, it came after <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/gimenez-19th-shot-first-goal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>his 19th shot of the season<\/strong><\/a>. Over the summer his future seemed uncertain too, amid talk of a swap deal with Roma for Artem Dovbyk.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalo Garcia: On Milan\u2019s radar<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tuttomercatoweb.com\/editoriale\/inter-per-il-dopo-sommer-e-derby-con-il-milan-per-caprile-ma-c-e-anche-meret-juventus-palestra-e-piu-di-un-idea-e-piace-anche-sucic-della-real-socieda-2150486\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TMW<\/a>,\u00a0Milan\u2019s real target for January remains a central defender who can enhance the team\u2019s quality. The rest is tied to Gimenez, who is showing more promising signs.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/MilanLecce-13.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-311582 has-webp\" alt=\"Santiago Gimenez Milan\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/750;max-width:1200px\"\/>Photo by AC Milan<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the Rossoneri are also tracking Real Madrid\u2019s Gonzalo Garcia, who scored four goals in six games at the last Club World Cup. His use in LaLiga has been very limited so far, given the amount of attacking options Xabi Alonso has.<\/p>\n<p>Milan\u2019s directors are hoping to try agree a loan deal with an option, although it\u2019s unlikely that Los Blancos would be open to such a formula. That said, recent operations show that relations between the clubs are good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AC Milan did not sign an out-and-out striker during the summer window, and they are eyeing a Real&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":258929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-258928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115276713389329178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}