{"id":592338,"date":"2021-05-27T12:59:58","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=592338"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:59:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T16:59:58","slug":"ac-milan-confirm-mike-maignan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/05\/27\/ac-milan-confirm-mike-maignan\/","title":{"rendered":"AC Milan Confirm Mike Maignan Signing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/05\/25\/mike-maignan-medical-ac-milan\/\" target=\"_self\">AC Milan<\/a> have completed the signing of goalkeeper Mike Maignan from Lille. The Frenchman arrives at the club on a five-year deal and will replace the outgoing Gianluigi Donnarumma, who is set to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/04\/26\/mike-maignan-replacement-gianluigi-donnarumma\/\" target=\"_self\">leave Milan<\/a> as a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Maignan leaves a Lille side who were recently crowned as Ligue 1 champions, fending off <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/05\/08\/neymar-signs-new-paris-saint-germain-contract\/\" target=\"_self\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a>, Monaco and Lyon who were also in the race.<\/p>\n<h2>Mike Maignan Signs for AC Milan<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We&#8217;re in safe hands: M\u00b2 \ud83e\udde4 <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\/RSrIO3TZwT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/RSrIO3TZwT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AC Milan (@acmilan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acmilan\/status\/1397930939225808904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Maignan Happy to Join &#8216;One of the Biggest Clubs in the World&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Speaking to club media after his signing, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acmilan\/status\/1397953241762041858\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maignan said<\/a>: &#8220;I am very happy to join AC Milan. It&#8217;s one of the biggest clubs in the world with ambitions and projects for the future. I am very happy to bring what I have to this project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been the best season of my career so far. It&#8217;s a reward for having won the title in France. We won the league and being here is a reward for me.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like playing with the ball. This has been very useful to me as modern football requires keepers to use their feet too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">Absorbing the history, ready to defend the future \ud83d\udd34\u26ab<\/p>\n<p>Un tuffo nella storia, prima di scrivere insieme il futuro \ud83d\udd34\u26ab <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\/PCtQfAGUdP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/PCtQfAGUdP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AC Milan (@acmilan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acmilan\/status\/1397918009566527490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Replacing Donnarumma<\/h3>\n<p>Maignan comes in as a replacement for Gianluigi Donnarumma, who is set to depart after making over 200 appearances for Milan despite being just 22-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1397591067176935428\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a>, Donnarumma will decide on his next club soon. The goalkeeper was heavily linked with moves away from Milan last summer, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/04\/23\/gianluigi-donnarumma-move-would-make-sense-for-chelsea\/\" target=\"_self\">particularly to Chelsea<\/a>, but rumours have been scarce in this window.<\/p>\n<p>Maignan will help Milan compete in the Champions League after they made a return to the competition following a second-place finish in Serie A this season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"VcCknryYRlBFxSa33vqYFQ\" 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\/1312646542\" 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:'VcCknryYRlBFxSa33vqYFQ',sig:'l_Um2bCZehhWxvDnRQ_HH4yjOpsphj2l7zH0FLeVXic=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1312646542',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>AC Milan have completed the signing of goalkeeper Mike Maignan from Lille. The Frenchman arrives at the club on a five-year deal and will replace the outgoing Gianluigi Donnarumma, who is set to leave Milan as a free agent. Maignan leaves a Lille side who were recently crowned as Ligue 1 champions, fending off Paris [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":592343,"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":[30,1363,5,28],"tags":[1515,8513],"class_list":["post-592338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ac-milan","category-serie-a","category-transfers","tag-lille","tag-mike-maignan"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592338","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\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}