{"id":363481,"date":"2025-11-08T01:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/363481\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T01:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:46:21","slug":"moretto-striker-pursuit-and-a-south-american-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/363481\/","title":{"rendered":"Moretto: Striker pursuit and a South American talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AC Milan have not yet made a decision on the striker they will pursue in January, but Mateo Pellegrino seems an unlikely option.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Milan spent over \u20ac70m on Christopher Nkunku and Santiago Gimenez, but both have not started the season in the best way. The Frenchman was the most expensive signing of the summer, and the latter arrived in the winter, but they have combined for zero league goals so far in 2025-26.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the week the rising Parma star Mateo Pellegrino was <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/milan-watch-parma-star-january-mercato\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>discussed as a viable option<\/strong><\/a> by La Gazzetta dello Sport. However, he is not the only possible name that Igli Tare and his team are monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>Moretto\u2019s update<\/p>\n<p>The journalist Matteo Moretto spoke in a video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UDS4GjoF-Gg&amp;pp=ygUbZmFicml6aW8gcm9tYW5vIGluIGl0YWxpYW5v\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fabrizio Romano\u2019s YouTube channel<\/a> about various topics related to Milan\u2019s movements including renewals that are close and also <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/moretto-tomori-renewal-by-christmas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>the possible signing of a new striker<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of talk about AC Milan\u2019s attack and how they can strengthen it ahead of the January transfer window. I want to tell you that Milan are monitoring certain players, but they still have to decide, meet directly with their coach,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Dovbyk-Pellegrino-Burkardt.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-315796 has-webp\" alt=\"Dovbyk Pellegrino Burkardt\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/750;max-width:1200px\"\/>Jan Kruger + Alessandro Sabattini + Alex Grimm\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat fateful pre-transfer meeting has yet to take place. There\u2019s still no clear direction. Milan want to see how the team will react to the upcoming matches and the coming weeks, and also understand what happens based on unforeseen circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve received a lot of inquiries regarding Mateo Pellegrino, the 2001-born Argentine striker from Parma. From what we understand, Pellegrino isn\u2019t currently being considered by the Rossoneri management, and I don\u2019t think he\u2019s a name worth adding to Milan\u2019s list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMilan have two non-EU spots available and will focus on scouting for young talent \u2013 perhaps from South America \u2013 in the coming months to strengthen the squad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AC Milan have not yet made a decision on the striker they will pursue in January, but Mateo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":363482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-363481","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\/115511557491345061","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363481","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=363481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}