Repubblica: Tare given €35m to sign two full-backs – the current frontrunners

AC Milan must sign two new starting full-backs this summer, and the budget for both positions has reportedly emerged.

There is just over one month until the first competitive game of the season in the Coppa Italia against Bari (17 August), and Massimiliano Allegri still finds himself without a starting full-back to work with at Milanello.

It looked like Theo Hernandez’s replacement would be Archie Brown until the Englishman changed his mind on Friday night, convinced by the big contract offered by Fenerbahçe. On the right side, Guela Doue has been most insistently linked, but Strasbourg have set a high price.

€35m to work with

La Repubblica (via MilanNews) report this morning that Milan are working to secure the two missing full-backs this week before the team leave for Singapore on Saturday. It will not be easy, but the sporting director Igli Tare hopes to have good news for Allegri.

The paper adds that the first name on the list for the left-back role is now Miguel Gutierrez of Girona, while the preferred right-back is Marc Pubill of Almeria. The budget available (combined) for both signings is expected to be no more than €35m, so it remains to be seen if that is enough.