Believed to be on the verge of getting done on Wednesday, Fikayo Tomori’s move from Chelsea to Milan still wasn’t completed on Thursday morning, and the Italian newspapers try to explain why.
Gazzetta dello Sport have a dedicated article regarding this particular matter, explaining the delay has come from the Serie A club’s end, stating ‘the Rossoneri managers have tried and will try until the last to get a small discount on the amount agreed five months ago’.
That, of course, is the now famous €28m fee that Frank Lampard’s Chelsea agreed to, but the Blues, who aren’t particularly pleased at losing a talent, ‘have so far not given anything up, even in the fact of the opportunity to receive a lower sum, but in a relatively shorter time’.
Therefore, ‘everything suggests Tomori’s purchase will take place on the basis of the agreed payment in instalments’, meaning Milan ‘will pay the €28m necessary, but will be able to spread them over several transfer budgets’.
Once that is done, the centre-back will have a ‘five-year contract’ that is already ready, while the ‘official announcement could be postponed to next week’.
Corriere dello Sport, however, reckon the announcement is now ‘also a matter of hours’, as ‘it’s established that Chelsea have not granted any discount’.
Right now, ‘it’s a question of defining the last details of the recalibration of the instalments’.
