Milan hope Luka Modric will pick up his option and stay next season, but they have no choice but to make contingency plans if he doesn’t. The midfielder is mulling whether to continue at San Siro, return to Dinamo Zagreb, or hang up his cleats, Mediaset reports.
The 40-year-old has dominated the minutes in his role, but Massimiliano Allegri has begun resting him more and testing new solutions. It’d be beneficial if the Rossoneri didn’t have to sign a new player should the Croatian legend depart or retire. They made two significant investments in the midfield and wish to see them come to fruition.
In addition to Modric, Milan onboarded Samuele Ricci and Ardon Jashari, shelling out a total of €61M, last summer. The former Torino man hasn’t been a consistent starter but has been serviceable as a box-to-box, splitting duties with Youssouf Fofana and Ruben Loftus-Cheek.
Instead, the ex-Club Brugge starlet has missed months because of an early lower leg fracture and hasn’t been great afterward, struggling to find minutes in a team that has been functioning well without him. The management would gladly avoid another pricey addition to focus on the defense and the attack.
They’ll qualify for the UEFA Champions League barring an unlikely collapse, and it makes all the sense in the world for him to have one last run in such a competition. That also means that they’ll have to manage him carefully next season, so the question of whether they need another ‘regista’ will still be pertinent. Allegri has had different types of players in such a role, but he has had the best results with pure and brilliant distributors. Their other two options aren’t that.
