Sky journalist claims Milan had ‘confusing’ mercato: “I’m a bit torn” | OneFootball

AC Milan made five first-team additions in the summer mercato, and a journalist has claimed that the mercato was quite confusing in some areas, with the Rossoneri left ‘lacking’.

Reviewing the mercato is always a difficult thing. Now, three games into the season, it could be said that the majority of additions were poor, and they have made no impact. In 35 games time, the Diavolo could be looking like geniuses who underpaid for stars.

Context is key, and with this, we must be mindful of reviewing the mercato in the early stages of the season. After all, players still need time to bed in. The Rossoneri’s movements happened in the latter stages of the mercato, so the time to bed in was lessened, and so on, and so forth.

Nevertheless, Sky Italia journalist Fabio Caressa has offered some insight into the window on his YouTube channel, and his words have been relayed by Milan News.

“I make a premise. I don’t give very low marks because objectively some teams go out and get players who are not so well known, who even I don’t know very well, and who then turn out to be strong. And then you always have to compare the market to the possibility of spending, with teams that have to maintain an economic balance.”

‘In Milan’s case, I don’t dislike the players taken, but it seems to me that they still lack a bit of concreteness in midfield and something at the back. I’m a bit pulled with Milan, I give them 6,” he started.

“Even for the striker it was a bit confusing: Morata, Abraham, I didn’t understand the sale of Kalulu who could have been important for this defence. They didn’t manage to sell who they wanted to sell: now there are four forwards, but apart from Morata the others are question marks and so this [6] is the grade.”