Sandro Tonali has been persuaded to sacrifice his lifelong dream of being an AC Milan legend to join Newcastle.
The 23-year old’s footballing mission was to play for the club his dad supports, and become one of the club’s legends like Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi. Tonali won Serie A with Milan in 2022, their first for 11 years and became one of their skippers, as his Milan supporting family lived the dream.
He even admitted last year: “I’d never make the mistake of leaving. I know what I went through to get here. I dream of becoming a ‘bandiera’, the flag-bearer, as Maldini, Franco Baresi were.”
