GdS: ‘Giant for Milan’ – Pavlovic seen as perfect profile as Moncada pushes | OneFootball

AC Milan are still without a new signing 12 days into the summer transfer window but they appear to be making ground on various fronts, including the pursuit of Strahinja Pavlovic.

According to this morning’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below), the priorities today are a striker and a defensive midfielder but the management also want a new central defender and potentially one who is starter-level.

Pavlovic has been added to the list of candidates and he is a concrete option, so much so that Geoffrey Moncada and his team are thinking of going for him regardless of whether there are any exits.

He is a left-footed central defender – a rare commodity missing from the current squad – as well as being young at 23 years of age but with notable experience in the Champions League with Red Bull Salzburg and in the World Cup and European Championship with Serbie, who he starts for.

The Milan management have already obtained the player’s approvla and did so after having established constact with his agent Zvonomir Vukic, a former Shakhtar Donetsk player. Despite being on the list of several clubs like Brentford, the Serb prefers Italy.

Previously, Napoli seemed to be ahead but after the purchases of Rafa Marin and Alessandro Buongiorno, the Azzurri no longer seem interested. Milan would double his salary from €700k net per year to around €1.5m.

Now they will have to come to an agreement with Salzburg who, for their part, will not ask for less than €20m. The defender is still young and has a contract with the Austrians until 2027, yet the Noah Okafor deal last summer shows relations are good.