Football transfer rumours: Sergej Milinkovic-Savic to Milan or Juve?

Today’s fluff starts with an earthquake

A little over a week after the drama, excitement and largely underwhelming-apart-from-Everton actuality of England’s transfer deadline day it is Italy’s turn to bring the curtain down on the summer market. They have until the clock strikes eight in Rome on Friday to complete their business, and the day dawns with one particularly big name – in more ways than one – the subject of heightened speculation.

It looks like Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, the young Lazio midfielder so frequently linked with the Premier League’s power hitters in the early summer, is going to make a big-money move. Milan are apparently in the driving seat, with rumours circulating that they have struck a €40m loan deal with Lazio that includes a right to make the deal permanent if they feel like it, though Tuttosport believes that Juventus will rival them for the Serb’s signature and the Gazzetta dello Sport thinks Adrien Rabiot could end up in Milan instead.

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