{"id":568129,"date":"2020-10-04T10:28:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T14:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=568129"},"modified":"2020-10-04T10:28:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T14:28:33","slug":"dalot-completes-move-to-ac-milan-on-season-long-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/04\/dalot-completes-move-to-ac-milan-on-season-long-loan\/","title":{"rendered":"Diogo Dalot Completes AC Milan Loan Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> defender <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/d9565625\/Diogo-Dalot\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diogo Dalot<\/a> has completed his season-long loan move to AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Ole Gunnar Solksjaer wanted a permanent transfer of the out of favour Portuguese right-back but talks accelerated on Friday allowing him to leave on-loan.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year old full-back signed for \u00a319 million in 2018 but has seen himself fall behind in the pecking order to Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Timothy Fosu-Mensah. With <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/29\/manchester-united-close-in-on-alex-telles\/\" target=\"_self\">talks on-going with Porto for Alex Telles<\/a> and the emergence of Brandon Williams, playing time is limited for a player looking to make the Portugal squad for the re-arranged European Championships next summer.<\/p>\n<h2>Dalot Completes Milan Loan Move<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">Official Statement: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DalotDiogo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DalotDiogo<\/a> \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AdXpg9EK2Z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/AdXpg9EK2Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comunicato Ufficiale: Diogo Dalot \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wd9Ur492jR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/wd9Ur492jR<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReadyToUnleash?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ReadyToUnleash<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SempreMilan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#SempreMilan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6O1pD74P0V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/6O1pD74P0V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AC Milan (@acmilan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acmilan\/status\/1312755503680966657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Smalling the Next to Make Serie A Switch?<\/h3>\n<p>Dalot may not be the only exit from Manchester United before the window slams shut with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/David_Ornstein\/status\/1311588127140700160\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Smalling potentially completing<\/a> a permanent switch to AS Roma.<\/p>\n<p>Ole Gunnar Solksjaer is keen to offload both defenders and with Dalot now on his way to Milan, it could free up space for late arrivals.<\/p>\n<p>The former Porto player made a rare <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/01\/carabao-cup-quarter-final-draw\/\" target=\"_self\">Carabao Cup<\/a> appearance in midweek against Brighton, with United running away with a 3-0 victory capping a much-improved performance. Dalot last made a starting appearance for United against Newcastle on matchday eight of last season before being out injured until the new year with a groin injury.<\/p>\n<h3>United send unwanted players to Italy<\/h3>\n<p>The 21-year old becomes the second player to leave the club this week for Serie A, with <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/10\/02\/lazio-loan-andreas-pereira-from-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">midfielder Andreas Pereira joining Lazio<\/a> on a season-long loan deal.<\/p>\n<p>Solksjaer has sent many of the players signed under the Mourinho tenure to Italy, with the likes of Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez ending up at Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"9g0QK3f2SUdMeS5Dzy7wBA\" 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\/1277621742\" 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:'9g0QK3f2SUdMeS5Dzy7wBA',sig:'-RHPktVT9bS7g7_6j7PysmiLJHZb-b01a0n_5AtqdJs=',w:'594px',h:'409px',items:'1277621742',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>Manchester United defender Diogo Dalot has completed his season-long loan move to AC Milan. Initially, Ole Gunnar Solksjaer wanted a permanent transfer of the out of favour Portuguese right-back but talks accelerated on Friday allowing him to leave on-loan. The 21-year old full-back signed for \u00a319 million in 2018 but has seen himself fall behind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3660,"featured_media":568279,"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":[3,1363,18,5,28],"tags":[49,381,1249,112,997,718,2087,138,36,1391,299,136],"class_list":["post-568129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-ac-milan","category-manchester-united","category-serie-a","category-transfers","tag-ac-milan","tag-alexis-sanchez","tag-andreas-pereira","tag-antonio-conte","tag-as-roma","tag-chris-smalling","tag-diogo-dalot","tag-jose-mourinho","tag-manchester-united","tag-ole-gunnar-solksjaer","tag-romelu-lukaku","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568129","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\/3660"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}