Contract extension agreement between AC Milan and Mike Maignan may change as it will depend on his overall performances at the end of the season..

Sky Sports' renowned Italian transfer journalist Fabrizio Romano, and his friend, Spanish media outlet Relevo's resident renowned Italian transfer journalist Matteo Moretto, jointly released a video and exclusively reported on Wednesday through YouTube, that the contract extension agreement between AC Milan and its undisputed first choice France international goalkeeper Mike Maignan may change.

Fabrizio Romano said in the video that he had seen a report last year, which claimed that Maignan had reached an agreement with AC Milan on the contract extension (our website's female rumour monger "Ms. Titan"), and the report was not completely wrong, because Maignan did have no objection to renewing his contract with the club until the summer of 2028, but he only said so verbally, so the two sides technically have ould not really reach an agreement.

But regarding someone claiming last year that Maignan "will receive an annual salary of €5 million to €6 million, the same as his teammate, Portugal international forward Rafael Leão, after completing his contract extension", Matteo Moretto had refuted that said claim. 

Moretto said: "I actually don't like to compare Rafael Leão's salary with anyone in the Milan team and talk about it in public, because I think it is really inappropriate, but in order to clarify this matter, I have to do it reluctantly."

"As Fabri said just now, Maignan has no objection to renewing his contract until 2028, yes 2028, not 2029 as stated in the report you mentioned just now, but that is definitely not because his salary will be doubled."

"Many people have mistakenly believed that as long as they are regarded as undisputed first choice players in the Milan team, their wages will really be doubled just because the person in the report I mentioned said that "all these Milan players should have the same salary as Leão, which is €5 million per year after tax, which is untrue. "

"However, in fact, even if two Maignans in the team had renewed their contracts at the same time, the total annual salary after tax they would receive would not be as exaggerated as the salary plus bonus clauses which had been claimed by the author, including Leão himself."

"Going back to the point you just made, Fabri, I would like to add that although Milan and Maignan seem to have reached an agreement in principle on contract renewal, the whole thing seems to be completed with only the signatures of both parties are left. But the problem is that the two sides have not yet completed the signing. "

"Milan now wants to take time to consider carefully before deciding whether to fulfill this agreement, because they must first know and confirm who the new Sporting Director is, so that they can decide what kind of decision-making power to take on the team's sporting issues and make important asset investments in players who are truly in their plans. "

"After all, this will dominate Milan's performance throughout the season and continue to play a key role, so this must wait until the team has a Sports Director, management and coaching team to communicate and agree on their plans before it can be formulated."

"The second point is, as you said, there are many people in the media and online who think that Maignan's performance this season has regressed. Of course, the club management is aware of all this, so they are also seriously discussing this issue internally." 

"Therefore, it is understandable that they want to wait until the end of this season to decide whether to fulfill the contract extension agreement with the player based on his overall performances. Now, what we can do is to wait and see patiently and see whether the agreement will change in the end."

This season, AC Milan's performance is like a roller coaster, with ups and downs and in an extremely inconsistent state. 

I Rossoneri can achieve a double over its city rivals Inter Milan this season, but then lose to Feyenoord, who had as many as 14 key players seriously injured and absent at the time, and was eliminated from the UEFA Champions League. This is really confusing. 

Although it is true that Maignan has not performed well this season, Milan's biggest problem is not entirely the fault of its former head coach Paulo Fonseca; current head coach Sergio Conceicao; or its club legend and former Sporting Director Paolo Maldini.

The one who is wrong is actually Gerry Cardinale, the American owner who acquired the club's shares through Redbird Capital Partners and became the largest shareholder, but never attended I Rossoneri's activities and publicly admitted that he knows nothing about football.

As well as the club's former Sweden legendary international striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who sometimes acts like a consultant, sometimes like a ambassador, and sometimes like a Sporting Director and CEO combined in one, but his official title is always unclear.

This is also one of the main reasons why the I Rossoneri fan organization chose to protest collectively at the commemoration ceremony of the club's 125th anniversary.

The 29-year-old Maignan joined AC Milan from Lille for €15 million in July 2021, becoming the successor to Gianluigi Donnarumma after he moved to Paris Saint-Germain.

Since becoming a member of I Rossoneri, Maignan has played 150 times for AC Milan in all competitions so far, conceded 157 goals, kept 55 clean sheets, and has won the Serie A once and the Supercoppa Italiana once with the club.