GdS: Milan to submit second official bid for Feyenoord star Gimenez – the details | OneFootball

As we enter the final stages of the January transfer window, AC Milan are reportedly planning to raise their offer to Feyenoord for Santiago Gimenez.

La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) writes that Milan have decided ‘the time has come to speed up for Santiago Gimenez’, with eight days of the window left. However, it is not something that will go right down to the wire.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Giorgio Furlani and Geoffrey Moncada will do everything possible to convince the Feyenoord directors to sell their striker with a discount on the €40m initially requested and there will be new talks today.

After the first bid of just under €30m was rejected, the plan is to submit a new offer worth €33-34m, including bonuses linked to the striker’s performances and team results. It is difficult to imagine that Milan will pay the €40m, knowing the striker is yet to be tested in a top European league.

Feyenoord have not yet opened up to the idea of counterparts coming the other way in the deal and they have reiterated their intention not to sell in the winter. Gimenez wants a big move, but they will only accomodate those wishes in the summer.

However, the Mexican striker was wanted by Milan in August and he fears that – if the Rossoneri were to be rejected again – a third opportunity would not arise again. This is why his agent Rafaela Pimenta and his father Christian will make their client’s desire to leave now known.

It will not be an easy mission to find a meeting point on everything, especially because there are not actually eight days available. If Milan do not get a breakthrough soon then they will turn to other targets, so as not to be left without a forward.

A loan deal for Joao Felix remains an option, with one of the Manchester United strikers (Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee) as alternatives.