AC Milan keen to offload Chukwueze, Okafor and two others

AC Milan keen to offload Chukwueze, Okafor and two others

Milan are working on whittling down their squad in January, as Strahinja Pavlovic’s agent had a summit on Thursday, with Luka Jovic, Noah Okafor and Samuel Chukwueze fielding offers.

The Rossoneri have brought in Kyle Walker on loan with the option to buy from Manchester City set at €5m, he underwent his medical and is set to sign the contract.

However, they are also pushing to cut down some of the players who are not part of new coach Sergio Conceicao’s plans.

Pavlovic was the target of a proposal from Fenerbahce, but it was rejected because this would only be a dry loan, so only a permanent sale would be considered for over €20m.

Notably, Pavlovic’s agent was spotted at the club headquarters for a meeting, because VfB Stuttgart are reported to have approached too.

This would be a loan with the option to buy and the player seems a little more amenable to that solution.

Meanwhile, Okafor is training with the squad after his failed transfer to RB Leipzig and is still potentially on the way out.

Chukwueze, who is currently injured, has reportedly been approached by several clubs in the Saudi Pro League for a potentially lucrative transfer.

Jovic was called in by Monza, who sold Milan Djuric to Parma, but the centre-forward is said to be unimpressed with the idea of joining the team rock bottom in Serie A. Meanwhile, Milan appears to have taken a subtle dig at RB Leipzig in their latest social media update, sharing a video from training with the caption: ‘Injured? Definitely NOah’, after the player in question, Noah Okafor, failed a medical with the Bundesliga side earlier in the transfer window.

Okafor had flown over to Leipzig to have a medical ahead of a loan move with a €25m option to buy attached. He found himself back in Milan the day after, however, after the Bundesliga outfit learned that he would not be immediately fit to play.

On Thursday, the Rossoneri social media team shared footage of Okafor back in training at Milanello, along with a slightly teasing caption.

Milan had been hoping to move the Switzerland international on to free up space in the squad and on the wage bill to sign a new attacker in January. Reports at the time of Okafor’s medical with Leipzig indicated that Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford was the top candidate to come in

That route has since cooled off, and will no longer be possible at all once Milan announces the signing of England international Kyle Walker, who arrived in Italy on Thursday.