Incredible shot for Cristi Chivu » The player who could transfer in the summer free of contract to Inter!
Article by Daniel Scorpie – Published on Tuesday, 25 November 2025, 18:51 / Updated on Tuesday, 25 November 2025 18:53
Cristi Chivu's Inter is looking for a goalkeeper to replace Yann Sommer at Inter, who will turn 37 next month. The Italian press reveals that the Nerazzurri would try to take advantage of the situation of Mike Maignan (30 years old), who is asking for a salary that is too high for the availability of AC Milan, to sign him in the summer at zero parameter!
Inter lost Il Derby della Madonnina on Sunday (0-1) also because of the goalkeeper. Yann Sommer made a mistake on AC Milan's only square shot, deflecting Saelemaekers' ball in front and Pulisic poked it into the net from near the box.
1565 penalties in his goal have been saved by Mike Maignan in his career, including two in a row by Paulo Dybala and Hakan Calhanoglu
Maignan asked for a salary increase to 5.5 million euros!
While, at the butts of the Rossoneri, Maignan was able to neutralize Hakan Calhanoglu's 11-yard shot after making another decisive save, deflecting Marcus Thuram's header onto the crossbar.
Mike Maignan guessed the corner of the goal where Hakan Calhanoglu sent the ball from the penalty in Inter – AC Milan 0-1 / Photo: Imago
Corriere della Sera writes that, after the Turkish midfielder, another AC Milan player could “betray” and leave for the opposing camp, also free of contract. “Mike Maignan's monstrous performance highlighted Sommer's slow dive at Saelemaekers' shot with much remorse.
The Frenchman will almost certainly leave Milan in July, at zero parameters, after what requested a contract extension of 5.5 million euros (which the AC Milan management rejected, offering him a maximum of 4 million, compared to the current 3.2 million) and is the mercato dream on the other side of the Naviglio canal.
As always, the Champions League is the medicine. AC Milan are aiming to bounce back in style but Maignan, who is preparing for his first World Cup as a starter for France, wants to be a key player. A status that Inter has won in the last three years and that it has no intention of losing
– Corriere della SeraItalian daily
“Sommer's mistakes seem to undermine the confidence of a defense, placed by Chivu a few meters ahead”
Maignan is a dream that is not quite so forbidden, unlike Donnarumma's this summer, also on a free transfer but with a double-digit salary in front of millions,” writes the Milan daily.
Mike Maignan (left) AC Milan goalkeeper. Photo: Imago
Corriere della Sera wrote that “Maignan may not be the profile that the owners of Oaktree are looking for (the Frenchman is 30 years old and on a high salary), but the kind of opportunity that would have great technical and psychological value for Milan, there is only one rule: never say never.
Because a goalkeeper is too important and worth as much as an excellent center forward. So much so that Sommer's greater reaction times, which were crucial in reaching the Champions League final in May, they seem to undermine the confidence of a defense that is ready a few meters further in front. Not to mention the dominance in the box at the high balls”.
