AC Millan wins race for Chelsea target

The club is closing in on signing another Atalanta player after signing their star midfielder Franck Kessie.His agent also have confirmed.

Andrea Conti has settled on joining the Rossoneri and looks set to become their fourth signing ahead of the 2017-18 season having already signed Franck Kessie from Atalanta, in addition to the arrivals of Mateo Musacchio and Ricardo Rodriguez from Villarreal and Wolfsburg respectively.

Conti, 23, made 33 Serie A appearances as Atalanta impressively finished fourth last season.He had Impressive performances which attracted the attentions of the likes of Chelsea, Inter, Liverpool and Napoli, but has agreed terms in principle with Milan, according to his representative Mario Giuffredi.


Reports in Italy suggest that while Conti is happy with the five-year contract on the table, Milan's most recent offer totalling €20 million has been deemed too low by Atalanta, which is the last remaining issue.
"I met with Milan on Thursday," Giuffredi said to GazzaMercato.

"We have an agreement on everything and the player is happy, he wants to go to Milan. It is decided, at least for us.

"I cannot deny we had other important offers, but the Rossoneri wanted him most and made him feel important.

"Atalanta and Milan have a good relationship and there will be no problems - they already negotiated for Kessie."

They have also been linked with a host of targets including Diego Costa, Andrea Belotti, Nikola Kalinic, Balde Keita and Alvaro Morata.

Will they get their targets?