PSG Club Chief Hints at AC Milan and Roma’s Interest in Veteran Defender | OneFootball

Milan Skriniar has yet to play for Paris Saint-Germain this 2024-25 season as the capital club couldn’t offload the Slovakian this past summer transfer window. However, sporting advisor Luis Campos hinted at two Italian clubs who might have inquired about the player.

Skriniar doesn’t fit what manager Luis Enrique wants from his center-backs, so the former Inter Milan standout’s name was in the rumor mill toward the end of the transfer window.

However, no club ended up landing the 29-year-old. The defender remains at PSG, but Campos hinted that the player does have a market in Italy as he didn’t deny when asked about whether AC Milan and AS Roma came asking for the player.

“We need to understand the context for Skriniar as well as for Ugarte,” Campos said at the Thinking Football Summit in Porto on Thursday (h/t Sport.fr). “There was a project change last year, a new way of playing. He remains one of the best central defenders at the European level.

“He had a difficult year, with two major injuries that, as he told me himself, didn’t allow him to perform at the level he expected, or that we expected. We hope he will return to the level for which we chose him. Were Milan and Roma interested in him? That’s part of the transfer market. As I said, if you’re buying a house, you talk to different sellers.”

Had Skriniar returned to Serie A and played for Milan after spending seven years with arch-rival Inter Milan, he wouldn’t be the first player to do so in recent years. Hakan Çalhanoğlu went from playing at Milan from 2017 to 2021 and then signed as a free agent with Inter in 2021.

Skriniar would only have to deal with the backlash. Nonetheless, it seems that if PSG does offload Skriniar, it will be to an Italian club.

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