AC Milan already has two U.S. men’s national team stars in its squad and is reportedly targeting a third for a potential January transfer.
Gio Reyna is on the radar of the Serie A club, Spanish outlet Fichajes reported Tuesday. Stefano Pioli’s men are currently sitting in second place in Serie A after recently defeating Hellas Verona 1-0 last Saturday.
Reyna, 20, recently returned to the Borussia Dortmund squad after being sidelined since June due to a calf injury. He has dressed in each of the Black and Yellow’s last two matches, but is still seeking his first minutes of the new campaign.
The USMNT attacker last featured in June, registering two assists in a 2-0 Concacaf Nations League Finals victory over Canada. Reyna played 45 minutes from the start before being substituted at halftime.
Reyna enjoyed his best individual season yet in 2022-23, registering seven goals and four assists in 30 combined appearances for Borussia Dortmund.
AC Milan acquired both Christian Pulisic and Yunus Musah this past summer in permanent transfers. Pulisic has scored twice for the Rossoneri while Musah is recently coming off his first start for the club.
Reyna will be seeking his season debut on Friday when Borussia Dortmund visits Hoffenheim.
they play an evolution of our system is why they are interested in our players. but he needs to start not be a sub again. i don’t see this being that move. this is a little too “tim weah” who seems to be drawn like a tractor beam to title fighter sides who want him as a rotational guy or sub. i realize some of that is guys like this start to have a big price tag only so many teams can afford but they need out of the “loop” or why are you leaving dortmund?
I guess that depends on if they see him as an CM or a W. Pioli does at least some to like to rotate. Gio had trouble even getting into the rotation at BvB. So if Terzic isn’t going to play him unless up 2 or down 2, why not.
to me, make a move that improves your prospects. not “maybe,” more “i’m sure.” i will give italy some credit that unlike many of the EPL signees there seem to be fewer sign-to-loan kind of antics. but to me they can on a healthy day run out giroud pulisic leao. he might be an improvement on chukwueze. that gets you to the bench or rotating in. he just extended at dortmund now he’s moving. this doesn’t feel thoroughly planned out. [it feels like a parent called USSF and left a nasty message just to see what happened.]
i think like LDLT — only much better — he’d be a great fit for spain, technical, creative. i want to say holland would be perfect for his technical style but if he’s $20-30m they don’t pay those kind of transfers. and if he wants one of the elite leagues, there are 18-20 teams a league and you can pick one other than the first two top of the table.
That’s why I think it’s a good move if they see him in as a CM. Dortmund don’t seem to, bringing in several new CMs and keeping Brandt. Gio will hear the pitches of how Milan, BvB and any other suitors see his role.
Well…hello.
Hard to see how this is a bad thing…get at least three USMNT regulars used to pinging the ball around in a highly tactical system and league and teach them each other’s tendencies and preferences inside and out? Yes, please.
Assuming Gio can get and stay healthy – a big “if”, that – this is potentially the sort of thing that could well put the USMNT up to the next level. You just do not get Serie A sophistication on the national team level but this could change all that.
I don’t know – I can’t see Berhalter loving it when these five Serie A guys come back and try to explain tactics to him. He doesn’t strike me as a good listener. I think he’s just going to dig in on Berhalter ball, and squander this talent and experience as he has shown in the past. Reyna will be a back up wing to Weah, and Berhalter will tell him to go in and send in some crosses.
Coaches only control so much, and so much of soccer is about what a guy knows how to do. No coach is going to complain if his players make some elegant 1-2 combo with intricate, perfectly-timed movement or chip a finely-weighted ball just over the top that lands perfectly at the feet of a guy in stride…and that kind of thing is sort of the essence of Italian soccer. Look at how much more sophisticated Michael Bradley got, for instance, after playing a couple seasons in Italy…heck, to this day he can still chip and dink balls around better than almost anybody on the field and the dude is now 36 and often lines up as a center back. McKennie chips and dinks balls around very much the same way now too.
Get Pulisic and Gio and Musah doing the same, and get them all synced up and used to one anothers’ movements…well. It’ll likely show up on the field. A lot.
quozzel,
“It’ll likely show up on the field. A lot.”
There is nothing negative about having our Italians play together so much.
That does not mean Gregg will make any better use of them than he does now. There is this fantasy that somehow better talent is going to make up for Gregg being a comparative dullard.
Our talent is not going to improve THAT much. Gregg still has an endless number of ways to sabotage this team.
Let me guess – right wing back?
whoops before someone kills me I was thinking of Juve. [retract]
Hmmmm…….Juventus, now AC Milan on that USMNT player “High” lol. I love it!!!! I think Serie A would be great for Gio, to not only get regular playing time, but to also develop his game and confidence…….lets gooooo
Please make it happen. Milan needs a proper CAM in that system.
Would be great to see Gio as an ACM, Musah as a CDM, & Pulisic on the field together for AC Milan. We’ll have to wait to see if Gio stays healthy and starts getting regular minutes for BvB again.
At his best, the player Gio reminds me the most of, and the player I hope Gio can be as good as someday, is Kaka.
So having Gio at Milan would be pretty cool.
Pioli hasn’t played Yunus as CDM as of yet, even with there 1 and 2 at that position out with injury. Not saying he won’t be by January but hasn’t yet.