Chelsea FC loanee Tiémoué Bakayoko is seen as a possible signing this summer by Serie A club AC Milan.
Bakayoko, who is currently on loan at French club AS Monaco, has been overlooked for the first-team Chelsea FC squad for a long time now, spending a majority of his Blues career out on loan.
According to recent reports, AC Milan have not forgotten Bakayoko, who spent the 2018-19 season on loan there, and are looking forward to negotiating a deal for him with Chelsea FC in the summer.
Bakayoko’s current agreement with the Blues includes €40m buy-option which has not been activated by his former club AS Monaco. Moreover, it does not seem like the Ligue 1 side will be keen on triggering the buyback clause to sign the player after the premature cancellation of the French league which saw Paris Saint Germain being crowned the champions.
Bakayoko has had a fairly good Ligue 1 season with the midfielder having appeared in 20 of AS Monaco’s league matches before the suspension of the French topflight football league.
AC Milan are closing on a deal to hire Ralf Rangnick, the former head coach of Bundesliga side RB Leipzig and current head of international relations and scouting for Red Bull’s football teams as the Italian side’s new sporting director.
And it is believed that Rangnick considers Bakayoko to be a great signing for AC Milan and revitalize their ageing midfield. Furthermore, Bakayoko is seen as an ideal successor to the Argentine defensive midfielder Lucas Biglia, who will be leaving AC Milan at the end of his current contract this summer.
The only obstacle in AC Milan’s desire to sign Bakayoko persists in the form of Chelsea FC’s asking price for the French midfielder. The Serie A side are not eager on paying an amount close to Bakayoko’s buy-back price of €40m with the ongoing pandemic’s adverse effect on football incomes and the transfer market. Bakayoko has just two years remaining on his current contract with the Blues and Chelsea FC coach Frank Lampard will be hoping to offload the player and generate some surplus funds to finance his transfer activity in the summer.
