Olivier Giroud’s extension with AC Milan beyond the current season is not a formality, as the striker has requested time to consider his options.
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport (see below), Giroud renewed his contract for another year in April, earning €3.5 million net every season, and while he remains Milan’s starting striker, some perspective is required.
Giroud, 37, wants to wait until the spring to see how his body reacts, if Milan will be in the Champions League in 2024-25, and if he is in good enough shape to play two games a week. Above all, he will consult Jennifer, Evan, Aaron, Jade, and Aria, his wife and children who are currently at home in Milan.
To summarize, it is too early to predict what he will do. Milan have yet to make an extended offer to Giroud, but there are clubs in Major League Soccer interested in signing him in the meantime.
Giroud has had offers from Europe, the United States, and even Saudi Arabia, which he turned down in order to continue with Milan, a team he has admired since he was a boy, and with whom he was glad to sign a new contract in 2021.
The MLS is worth paying attention to more than the others. The Rossoneri No.9 is already looking ahead. In November, he told Le Journal de la Dimanche, “Will I be a coach? I don’t think so. “I want to be a sports director.”
The United States could be an excellent starting point: a different sporting universe with regulations that differ from those of Europe, a commercially developed but less sporting globe.
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