AC Milan Week in Review 1–7 September 2025

[u/Samkazi23]

Hey everyone, this post is meant to give a clear roundup of AC Milan news from 1–7 September 2025 for anyone who might have missed the updates.

1 September 2025
• AC Milan formally signed Adrien Rabiot from Olympique Marseille on a three-year deal reportedly worth €10 million. The French midfielder reunites with Massimiliano Allegri, his former coach at Juventus (Reuters).
• The summer transfer window closed at 20:00 CEST. On deadline day Milan secured several moves. Samu Chukwueze joined Fulham on loan with a buy option while Alex Jiménez moved on a conditional loan to Bournemouth that includes an obligation to buy under certain conditions (SempreMilan, Diario AS).
• David Odogu arrived in Italy ahead of completing a move from Wolfsburg as Milan’s deadline day centre-back signing (SempreMilan).
• Reports indicated Milan made a late attempt to sign Liverpool’s Joe Gomez, and although a €15 m agreement had been reportedly reached, the move depended on a domino effect involving Marc Guéhi’s transfer (The Liverpool Offside, The Sun).
• Transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano also noted interest from Milan in AS Monaco defender Thilo Kehrer during the final days of the market (Football Italia).

2 September 2025
• A joint training session was held involving the first team and Milan Futuro players not on international duty (AC Milan).
• Tickets went on sale for the first big Serie A clash of the season as Milan travel to face Napoli on 28 September (AC Milan).
• Coverage of Primavera action showed Milan losing again to Genoa in the U19 league with Romano scoring twice (AC Milan).

3–6 September 2025
• Analysis and feature pieces began to appear. Christopher Nkunku, one of Milan’s new signings, received a scouting report (SempreMilan).
• A full list of first team player numbers for the 2025-26 campaign was revealed, with the No 9 shirt now notably unassigned (SempreMilan).
• Reporting confirmed Milan’s continued interest in Arnau Martínez of Girona, monitoring him ahead of January 2026 (Football Italia).

7 September 2025
• Ruben Loftus-Cheek earned a surprise call-up to the England squad for the first time since 2018 following his early-season form with Milan including a goal in the Lecce win (Talksport).
• Christian Pulisic drew positive attention as Milan expressed confidence that he will sign a new contract despite his current deal running until June 2027 (Football Italia).
• Santiago Giménez confirmed his commitment to Milan after reportedly turning down offers from Roma and clubs in Turkey at the end of the window (Football Italia).
• Defender Strahinja Pavlović featured for Serbia in their 1-0 win over Latvia, playing the full match (AC Milan).

For full official details you can check AC Milan’s website or trusted news websites.

[u/marco21n]

I think it was a big mistake to loan out musah and Jimenez. They were perfect subs for wingbacks in the 3-5-2.

Now we don't have subs for this formation at wingback. (Bartesaghi and athekame aren't wingbacks but fullbacks)

[u/Agag97 → u/marco21n]

Jimenez was reportedly not in good terms with Allegri (arriving late to training sessions and certainly more), so he has to go if he can't be a professional, eventhough as a player he has a huge potential and could fit in our tactics well. Mussah definitely should go, but I wasn't expecting just a loan with a buy option, I was expecting a straight sell to have money to reinvest afterwards to strengthen the team.

[u/MVB3 → u/Agag97]

Regarding Jimenez: If arriving late to a few training sessions (and possibly having sent a text to a friend venting about the coach) is grounds to determine that he can't be professional, then what do we call having a fist fight with a teammate? I suppose the answer is grounds to sign the player at all cost.

Allegri could've easily embraced Jimenez and come to an understanding with him if he wanted to. Told him that he's counting on him this season to continue to develop and to fight to get regular minutes. That he decided to push him out the door instead is something I will hold against him for a long time.

[u/marco21n → u/MVB3]

Yeah 100%.

I think allegri kicking him out of training for being late was more to set the precedent and ensure it didn't happen again rather than meaning he never would play again.

[u/SfigaEbbasta → u/Agag97]

You cant expect player to be professional when the management is not

[u/Routine-Detail253 → u/SfigaEbbasta]

What bullshit claim — it assumes grown men are puppets. As if players’ entire behavior and professionalism depends on Furlani and they’re not career athletes who need to be professional because their career is very short and no clubs hire their services if they’re unprofessional or undisciplined. 

[u/milan_obsession → u/SfigaEbbasta]

Right? I mean even his manager... who not only was fired for the red card striptease act, but also threatening to cut a journalist's ears off. I feel like being late a couple of times is not nearly as bad as that. (especially without any known history of that behavior with the other 5 managers Jiménez worked with at Milan in the past 2 years.)

[u/mustbenice2win → u/marco21n]

Simply can't play that formation with no players for it.

[u/marco21n → u/mustbenice2win]

We can play 3-5-2 with a starting 11 but don't have subs to maintain it. 4-3-3 is our best option now imo.

[u/Frakula]

Nice. How did you do it?

[u/Samkazi23 → u/Frakula]

Pretty much went through the posts on the sub. Then went online to get additional info.

[u/Frakula → u/Samkazi23]

Manually? Or somehow instructed AI to scrape it?

[u/Samkazi23 → u/Frakula]

Scrape it in what way? Pretty much just copy and paste.

[u/delicious_a_vocado → u/Frakula]

Letting Jimenez go to me seems like a mistake. We have no right backs.

[u/grinreaper07]

This is a good initiative. Very helpful as a summary of the sub and other related news for the week. Good job, mods!

[u/milan_obsession → u/grinreaper07]

Yes, a great idea, especially during the end of the transfer window/international break. It can be more difficult to follow everything. Thank you!!

[u/lavverso]

Nicely done. What about futuro?

[u/Samkazi23 → u/lavverso]

Nice idea, will see how i'll add it or include it next week.

[u/milan_obsession → u/lavverso]

I got you. (You can always check r/MilanFuturo)

• Futuro won their 2nd Coppa Italia Serie D match 1-0 away to Gozzano on Sat. the 31st

https://www.reddit.com/r/MilanFuturo/comments/1n483j2/milan_futuro_win_their_second_game_in_a_row_66/

The goal was from Sala, called up from the Primavera, assisted by Cheveyo Balentien, who had debuted in Serie A the night before. (Sala played with the Primavera on Sunday as well.) Highlights here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MilanFuturo/comments/1n4q9c6/gozzano_milan_futuro_highlights/

• Milan Futuro have qualified for the Round of 32 in the Coppa Italia Serie D, and will play that round during the week of October 8th. They were scheduled to kick off their league matches this past weekend vs. AC Leon, however, too many of their players were called up for national team duty, so it has been postponed until September 17th. Therefore, their next match will be September 14th at Pavia.

• Milan also signed 16 year-old Luxembourg midfielder Ablaye Samb Thioune for the youth project this past week. Video here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MilanFuturo/comments/1n6vwgp/video_of_ablaye_samb_thiounes_signing_with_ac/

Edited to correct "past"

[u/lavverso → u/milan_obsession]

Great, thank you very much. I am subscribed at r/milanfuturo but this is a much needed little recap

[u/kaest]

This is helpful, thank you.

[u/Spiritual-Pen584]

Let's say that with this squad we can't push too much with the full-backs. We have interesting young central defenders and we hope for the best. In attack we are in terrible shape with reserves, 4 forwards who have to cover 4 positions. A couple of injuries 1 Co lateral and 1 with attackers and we're screwed

[u/BredIN919]

Typical Redbird week . No project no sense of direction !

[u/sesimmo7]

😏