Milan tried prolonging the contract of Ivan Pulisic earlier in the season when he was scoring in spades, but the parties didn’t reach an agreement and haven’t talked in months at this point, Tuttomercatoweb reports.
The matter isn’t necessarily urgent. The deal runs out in 2027, but the Rossoneri have a one-year option. Despite his ongoing slump, which has been partially injury-related, the USMNT fixture remains the team’s leading scorer, having netted 8 goals in 16 appearances, plus 2 assists.
Pulisic expected a formal proposal from Milan, but it never arrived. The hierarchy has been busy tending to the January window and the Mike Maignan extension, which had a positive resolution.
The American marksman is happy at San Siro but isn’t thrilled with the turn of events. He’s making €4M at the moment, €2/3M shy of the highest-paid players in the squad. The club benefited from the defunct ‘Decreto Crescita,’ which permitted large tax savings, when he first came in. Though, the top Premier League sides, for instance, Liverpool and Arsenal, would be ready to pounce otherwise.
There was a ton of momentum while he was on fire early on, but it has been crickets since. There was likely some back-and-forth on the numbers, and then it fell to the back burner because of more pressing needs. They control him for two seasons, and it’ll likely all get resolved in due time by bringing his salary at the close or at the same level as their other stars, unless he’s adamant about trying to prove his worth in England, where things didn’t go great for him in the past.
