GdS: ‘Old love has never faded’ – Tonali tells friends he would return to Milan ‘in a hurry’

Another journalist has claimed that Sandro Tonali harbours dreams of returning to AC Milan, and that he has told friends about it.

As La Gazzetta dello Sport recall, Zlatan Ibrahimovic explained Tonali’s time at Milan well in ‘Adrenalina’, stating: “The first year, Sandro was trapped in a dream. He looked around and said to himself: ‘This is the team I dreamed of as a child…’ This year he entered real life. Now he repeats: ‘I’m a Milan player’ and he plays. He’s a panzer in the middle of it.”

Tonali won the Scudetto in 2021-22, scoring some big goals to contribute too, and he seemed destined for 10 years with the Rossoneri. There was talk of him being a future captain and even a bandiera, due to his charisma and deep love for the colours.

Instead he flew to the Premier League. Milan needed Newcastle’s €64m, but Tonali wasn’t averse to a €7m net salary either. In the last couple of days, though, the midfielder’s words about his future with the Magpies has sparked intrigue.

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‘He’d come back in a hurry

Luigi Garlando goes on to say in the article: “Okay, Prince Sandro, a prisoner in the tower of the New Castle, isn’t very credible given his earnings, but his friends blurt out that he’d come back in a hurry and that the old love has never faded.”

Can Milan, who were forced to sell Tijjani Reijnders and are without Champions League revenue, afford him? That’s another issue. Instead, it is more romantic to imagine Nicolò Barella and Tonali walking toward the centre of the pitch in a new stadium before the derby.

They would be like Sandro Mazzola and Gianni Rivera in the old Meazza, back in the 1960s. Two pillars of the Azzurri, ready to do battle for their boyhood clubs. It doesn’t hurt to dream.