{"id":341324,"date":"2019-01-22T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T21:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=341324"},"modified":"2019-01-22T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T21:07:20","slug":"report-ac-milan-sign-krzysztof-piatek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/01\/22\/report-ac-milan-sign-krzysztof-piatek\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: AC Milan Sign Krzysztof Piatek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest revelations in world football,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/17f3620a\/?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Krzysztof Piatek<\/a>, has signed for <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/clubs\/ac-milan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AC Milan<\/a>.\u00a0 The Polish striker was a \u00a34 million signing for Genoa over the summer.\u00a0 Now he will be the new striker for roughly \u20ac35 million plus bonus, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1085666973621633026\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweets from Fabrizio Romano.<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>AC Milan Sign Krzysztof Piatek<\/h1>\n<p>It has been a meteoric rise for the now Polish international striker.\u00a0 The 23-year-old had spent his entire career playing at various clubs in the Polish league.\u00a0 His most recent club was Cracovia, where he bagged a pretty solid return of 11 league goals in his first season, and 21 league goals last season, earning his move to Genoa.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Krzysztof Piatek to AC Milan, done deal! Agreement reached for \u20ac35M to be paid immediatly to Genoa, 5 years contract to the player. No other players into the deal. Here we go! ?\u26ab\ufe0f\u2714\ufe0f\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xx5puDe0Ho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/xx5puDe0Ho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1087756023576887297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Since moving to Genoa he has really hit the ground running.\u00a0 He&#8217;s\u00a0already got 13 goals in his first season in Serie A, second only to <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/dea698d9\/?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a>, but what has been more impressive is how much Genoa have relied on him.\u00a0 His 13 goals are over half of Genoa&#8217;s tally all season.<\/p>\n<p>This is why they are so keen to get a pretty penny for Piatek.\u00a0 The reported \u20ac40 million fee would mean a roughly \u20ac31 million profit, the type of money a club like Genoa are over the moon for, but Milan might be even happier.<\/p>\n<p>They are not happy to be spending the money but, after their striker <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/01\/17\/report-gonzalo-higuain-completes-chelsea-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gonzalo Higuain decided to leave for Chelsea<\/a>, they need a replacement, and the 23-year-old Polish punisher might just be the man they have been looking for.\u00a0 He is a lethal finisher and great at using the machinations\u00a0around him.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, he&#8217;s\u00a0great at connecting with balls into the box.\u00a0 Gattuso&#8217;s Milan <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonfootball.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2019\/01\/07\/ac-milans-mid-season-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has found most of their success using a 4-4-2 system<\/a> and Piatek should slot quite well into the lead striker&#8217;s spot next to Parick Cutrone. The move would also create plenty of depth for Milan should they decide to play with one striker through the middle.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"NIxKZOb4QhdKUgPJ2OfE5Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1074312988\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'NIxKZOb4QhdKUgPJ2OfE5Q',sig:'mNaMtuCbLV2RSXj9zRHYbQCSZMIuHq7m5hZJ_EZYe5A=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1074312988',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest revelations in world football,\u00a0Krzysztof Piatek, has signed for AC Milan.\u00a0 The Polish striker was a \u00a34 million signing for Genoa over the summer.\u00a0 Now he will be the new striker for roughly \u20ac35 million plus bonus, according to tweets from Fabrizio Romano. AC Milan Sign Krzysztof Piatek It has been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2573,"featured_media":345338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1363,5,28],"tags":[49,1808,2978,2920,2557,48],"class_list":["post-341324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ac-milan","category-serie-a","category-transfers","tag-ac-milan","tag-gennaro-gattuso","tag-genoa","tag-krzysztof-piatek","tag-patrick-cutrone","tag-serie-a"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2573"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}