Origi lands and will soon be Milan’s first signing

Milan, having completed the change of ownership, is about to announce its first signing for next season. After winning the first ‘scudetto’ since 2011, the ‘rossoneri’ fans are impatiently awaiting the arrival of reinforcements and today they welcomed the arrival of Divock Origi at Malpensa airport.

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The 27-year-old Belgian striker landed this afternoon and in the next few hours he will officially become a Milan player. The announcement will take place once you complete the usual procedure. Tomorrow morning he is scheduled to undergo a medical check-up at the La Maddnina clinic in Milan and later he will sign the contract at the club’s headquarters.

Arrives at Liverpool’s zero cost

Origi arrives at San Siro without transfer cost since he is free at the end of his contract with Liverpool this Thursday. He leaves the ‘red’ club eight seasons after signing him from Lille, although he initially left him on loan at the French team itself in the 2014-2015 season and was also on loan at Wolfsburg in the 2017-2018 campaign.

Origi has participated in all of Liverpool’s recent successes under Jürgen Klopp: a Premier (2020), an FA Cup (2022), a League Cup (2022), a Champions League (2019), a European Super Cup ( 2019) and a Club World Cup (2021).

Competition for Giroud

Although he also played on the wing at Liverpool, Stefano Pioli, Milan coach, wants him as a center forward, a position in which he will compete with Olivier Giroud while waiting to see if Zlatan Ibrahimovic will continue to be active at 40 after undergoing surgery at the end of the season. May from a knee injury that will keep him out for 7 to 8 months.

On June 1, Milan announced an agreement by which it becomes controlled by RedBird, another American investment fund that relieves Elliott Management, which has been its owner since 2018.

This replacement has meant that Milan has not closed any signing so far since in fact both the technical director and Paolo Maldini as well as the director of football Frederic Massara are pending renewal of their contracts, which end on Thursday.