As reported in the last days, AC Milan would like to extend the contract of 30-year-old midfielder Nigel de Jong, one of the key players of Filippo Inzaghi’s team and tracked by Manchester United; similar situation regarding 27-year-old right back Ignazio Abate, considered a target for Juventus; today during the Italian League’s meeting, the rossoneri’s Chief Executive Adriano Galliani has been quite elusive about the players’ future, by declaring that the two “won’t run away”; the Lombard club’s number two has also outlined that all the players who have joined during the last transfer window are doing very well, and has admitted that the real problem for his team is the defense, and that the club will do something about it. In Turin, Abate should replace 30-year-old Stephan Lichtsteiner, who is also about to become a free agent and that could be part of a swap with Paris Saint-Germain involving 19-year-old midfielder Adrien Rabiot: as reporyed by Sky Sports, the Switzerland international himself has denied such possibility. Meanwhile, interviewed by Tuttosport, 21-year-old Ghanaian forward, co-owned with Genoa and actually on loan at Atalanta, has expressed his will to rejoin Juve; tomorrow the youngster –as well as 22-year-old right back- will play against the bianconeri themselves.
