’72 decisive hours’ – Gimenez puts others on hold as Milan prepare €35-40m bid

While there is an important Champions League game on the cards tonight, the speculation about Santiago Gimenez joining AC Milan continues.

As Calciomercato.com report, the agent of Gimenez – Raffaella Pimenta – wants to leverage a promise made to the player last summer. Feyenoord said they were willing to let the striker leave in the event a big European club came in, and now Milan have he is pushing to leave.

A first bid was rejected by a second offer will be made this evening by Giorgio Furlani if ​​the Rossoneri finish in the top eight in the Champions League. The club intend to raise the stakes and reach €35-40m, not all immediately and guaranteed but with bonuses included.

The absence of the CEO for tonight’s game in Zagreb is a confirmation of how the negotiation is alive, ahead of ’72 decisive hours’. It is perhaps proving to be more complicated than expected, though the board are working intensely on the second offer with the awareness that no final decision will arrive before Thursday.