Antonee Robinson is reportedly set to join Serie A side AC Milan.
The Wigan Athletic left back was targeted by the club as a replacement for the departed Ricardo Rodriguez, who left AC Milan for PSV. According to Sky Sports, AC Milan have agreed to a £10 million deal with the EFL Championship side for Robinson.
Robinson has made 30 appearances for Wigan this season, since joining permanently in Summer 2019 from Everton. The 22-year-old spent the 2018-19 season on-loan with Wigan as well, totaling 26 appearances in all competitions.
Despite being with Everton from 2015, Robinson never made his senior debut for the Toffees, also seeing time with Bolton Wanderers on loan in 2017-18. In three seasons in the EFL Championship, Robinson has made 85 combined appearances while registering one goal and five assists.
Born in England, Robinson has earned seven caps with the U.S. Men’s National Team, last appearing in June 2019.
Robinson would be the first American player to play for AC Milan since Oguchi Onyewu did from 2009-11′. He would battle Theo Hernandez for the starting left back job, should he make the move official.
AC Milan are currently eighth in Serie A this season.
This goes to show that berhalter is an imbecile at noticing players. He left him of gold cup when clearly he was a very good prospect. In friendly vs mexico under sarchan he did well and showed great ability to get forward and showed tremendous athleticism as well.
So does that make Everton imbeciles too bc if i recall they wouldn’t keep him with their first team instead loanimg him to the second division, nor did they fight to keep him at Everton when Milan came calling. Listen, I’m all for criticizing Greg when its warranted but this is not that moment considering everything i said above
He was bad against Jamaica in that friendly we lost and that was not even their A team.
For what it’s worth, supposedly Lyon were also also sniffing around (if you believe all the Interesting, as Lyon and Milan share a reputation for being amongst the most analytics-driven clubs in Europe. So perhaps they saw the raw data from Robinson’s performances and figured he was worth a roll of the dice. Technique and tactics can be taught, after all. Speed can’t.
SUM goons “ah shit, now we can’t play crappy MLS players anymore if all of our best are in Europe”. “The Don is going to be pissed” quick create another rumor or Lovitz and Bradley to Real Madrid.
He did well vs mexico but rekt vs Brazil, at his age, Robinson still improve with Serie a experience.
He has raw speed and can cross a ball, the question is does he ever learn how to defend. I do think if GB thinks Lovitz is sufficient how did Robinson not outplay that. Kind of like when people smack talk CCV except who exactly is our CB bench, anyway. In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king.
My PS4 fifa 2019 career mode predicted him going to Serie A except it had him playing left back for Napoli and not AC Milan on my Angers SCO career mode.
Antonee Robinson “The Wigan Athletic player” sucks and is not all that good
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Antonee Robinson “The Serie A side AC Milan player” is amazing and should be in the starting line-up
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No foresight in spotting talent until a top club does it for us. Watch Robinson become a regular in camp all of a sudden, like he went to bed lame and woke up the next day with AC Milan caliber abilities….haha, all best in the next step of your career kid
I have the same feeling re Gio Reyna, Chris Richards, or even the way Josh Sargent got treated his first Berhalter period. We do not anticipate success, we reward career progression. So the club stamps their approval first. This is not based in factual necessity, as plenty of Pulisic/Green/Morris players did well from reserve teams or college. I am convinced it’s “analytics” over “scouting.” A player not on the first team consistently has little for a spreadsheet but might look good in person — if we ever watched. You look at some of the bizarre choices we make and they seem to favor first team nobodies over reserve team prospects, even if the former got cut trying out for the same YNT the reserve team kid was a star on. Perverse.
No one said Antonee sucks, Greg wanted him to work on some things and to get more experience, clearly so did Everton, but i dont see anyone calling Everton names….people nees to grow up amd tame this incessant need to criticize the USMNT manager, its become pathetic and tiresome
If he can focus on his craft, this is an awesome move. Looking forward to his crosses connecting w/ Zlatan. I’m a lil’ concerned though…. Italian fans are some of the most prejudice in all futbol! Good luck. Before anyone comes on my thread, and says “I’m bringing up race for no reason”, there’s been incidents in all Europe’s big 6 leagues. There’s been plenty of reporting of it.
Say WHAT!?
Wait how can a club with the history and reputation of AC Milan be interested in Robinson when there are much better players out there….Guys like Lovitz & Ream are clearly better. Right Greg….that is why you’ve consistently called them up ahead of Antonee.
He was with Everton from ages 11 to 22 and they sold him fairly cheap to keep 34 yr old Leighton Baines. To my knowledge there’s never been any other rumors of top flight club interest so it seems AC Milan might be the outlier here.
Not to be too cynical but they could have signed him to loan him around as an asset. Or as a project. Or to sell shirts. However, I do think particularly with the youth boom coming up it was bizarre how few people we had in Spain and Italy, even the bad teams.
One of the more out-there USMNT transfers I can recall. But I like it…. Robinson has potential and even though he will be very unlikely to play much (he will be behind Hernandez, who has been excellent), playing and training w top players in Serie A can only help fill in the gaps in his game. Plus he can fight Zlatan in practice in the fine tradition of Gooch. What timing!
Zlatan would dog walk Robinson ???