{"id":486341,"date":"2024-08-15T06:59:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T10:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486341"},"modified":"2024-08-15T06:16:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T10:16:16","slug":"milan-ever-closer-to-french-international-fofana-from-monaco","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/milan-ever-closer-to-french-international-fofana-from-monaco\/","title":{"rendered":"Milan ever closer to French international Fofana from Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AC Milan is close to securing the signing of Monaco&#8217;s midfielder Youssouf Fofana, following an increased offer from the Rossoneri, according to recent reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old French international, who has attracted interest from top European clubs like Manchester United, West Ham, and Atletico Madrid, is in the final year of his contract. This has led Milan to pursue a cut-price deal, initially aiming for around \u20ac20 million.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd34\u26ab\ufe0f AC Milan are closing in on Youssouf Fofana deal! He\u2019s just one step away.<\/p>\n<p>AC Milan improved the structure of their bid and the agreement with AS Monaco is now very close.<\/p>\n<p>Work in progress to get the deal done this week. Fofana only wanted Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Here we go, soon. \u23f3\u231b\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/meVqTQWOeu\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/meVqTQWOeu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1823844948413997223?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 14, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, with a potential bidding war emerging among Europe\u2019s elite, Monaco set their asking price at approximately \u20ac35 million. In response, Milan has made an improved offer of \u20ac20 million plus an additional \u20ac5 million in bonuses, as reported by Sky Sport Italia.<\/p>\n<p>Monaco is now considering the proposal, and if it meets their expectations, Fofana could be set to join Milan. Reports from TMW suggest that the Rossoneri hope to finalize the deal by the start of next week, while La Gazzetta dello Sport claims that Fofana is eager to make the move to Milan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AC Milan is close to securing the signing of Monaco&#8217;s midfielder Youssouf Fofana, following an increased offer from the Rossoneri, according to recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486343,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17877,20759,23267],"news_category":[138,14235,141],"gn_keywords":[17879,20760,23268],"acf":{"announce":"The midfielder is at his final 12 months of his contract and his price is much lower","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486344,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486341\/revisions\/486344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486341"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486341"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}