When a club’s Chief Football Officer meets with a big agent, rumours start spreading, so when Milan’s, Zvonimir Boban, had a chat with Jorge Mendes, you can imagine the excitement in Italy.
Of course, there are simple reasons as to why this encounter would take place, like catching up on André Silva’s situation, with the Portuguese striker currently out on loan at Eintracht Frankfurt.
However, that’s not the main story being run. No. What Calciomercato.it write about is a move from the Serie A side for Wolverhampton Wanderers midfielder Rúben Neves.
It’s stated the player has been on Milan’s books for ‘some time’, and they have seemingly kept tabs on his progress throughout that period.
Furthermore, the Portuguese star’s price is said to be around €40m (that seems far too low for us) while the Italian website explain it ‘isn’t impossible to imagine a negotiation that would involve Neves and Franck Kessié’.
This seems like a lot of wishful thinking from Calciomercato.it, and while it might be the case Boban did bring up Neves, we doubt Jorge Mendes’ reply was ‘he’s available and Wolves would be happy to sell at €40m’.
In fact, it was probably the opposite of that, such is the 22-year-old’s importance to Nuno Espírito Santo’s side.
