Monday, July 5, 2021 at 5:27 PM• Jeroen van Poppel • Last update: 17:31

AC Milan is in the market for Isco, you know La Gazzetta dello Sport to report. The 29-year-old attacking midfielder still has a contract with Real Madrid until mid-2022 and can therefore be sold this summer, because otherwise he threatens to leave transfer-free in a year. According to the pink sports newspaper, Isco can be collected in the Spanish capital for an amount of around twenty million euros.

Milan is looking for a new playmaker after Hakan Çalhanoglu left for Internazionale on a free transfer. I Rossoneric seemed on their way to take over James Rodríguez from Everton. Isco’s peer wants to become manager of . after Carlo Ancelotti’s departure the Toffees leave and may according to ESPN for ten million euros. Tuttosport now adds that AC Milan does not find the transfer fee insurmountable, but is running into James’ high salary demands. The Colombian playmaker is reportedly asking for a three-year contract for six million euros per year.

If the reports about James are correct, then attracting Isco will also be a difficult matter for AC Milan. The Spaniard earns fourteen million euros annually from Real Madrid and would have to give up enormously to be able to get started in Milan. Isco ended up at the Royal sidetracked and mainly had to make do with raids. The playmaker came in just over a thousand minutes in 29 official matches last season. He did not score, but did provide two assists. Isco may leave Real Madrid, while Martin Odegaard will have the chance to prove himself this summer, Fabrizio Romano reported earlier.

Milan also considers Dusan Tadic as a candidate, various Italian media reported earlier. According to Nicolò Schira, the 32-year-old captain of Ajax is asking for a three-year contract for four million euros per year. Marc Overmars, Ajax’s director of football affairs, however, has announced that Tadic will not leave under any circumstances. “There is no chance that they will now remove our captain,” Overmars said The Telegraph. “Our captain will not leave this year. He is so important to the club, in many facets. He is the cement between the bricks. So it is a clear ‘no’ from our side, he is not for sale.”