Moretto: Milan was nearly an ‘impossible move’ for Morata – the details | OneFootball

AC Milan added Alvaro Morata to their front line in the summer, but a report has suggested that things were seemingly heading in another direction at one stage which would have made a move ‘impossible’.

It has not been all sunshine and rainbows for Morata in Milan so far. The team has started poorly, and he has not been able to change their fortunes after suffering an injury early into his start keeping him sidelined for around a month.

However, he has shown bright spells on his return, and perhaps, we saw his best against Inter with him playing in a slightly deeper role. It is possible that he may not have had a start for the Diavolo at all, though, if things in the summer had gone differently.

As Matteo Moretto recalls in the Daily Briefing, after missing out on Joshua Zirkzee, Morata was the Rossoneri’s primary target. However, the move may have not happened had he not backed out of a move to Al-Qadsiah in Saudi Arabia.

The journalist states that the deal was on the ‘brink’ of completion, and the Spaniard had almost agreed to go, but he declined at the last moment. Therefore, at one stage, it seemed a move elsewhere would have been ‘impossible’ but the attraction of Milan was too great.