AC MILAN have offered a new contract to in-demand goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.
The 18-year-old is believed to being tracked by Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea after a sparkling season between the sticks for the Rossoneri.
But after an impasse in negotiations, the Italian club have upped the stakes and offered the wonderkid £3million a year to stay.
They could even go up to £4.5m a year with added bonuses, so desperate are they for their number one to stay at the San Siro.
Only days ago, SunSport reported how Milan have given Donnarumma two choices: either sign a new contract or sit on the bench all of next season.
The 18-year-old has been in a contract stand-off with the Rossoneri hierarchy for months since breaking through as a fresh-faced youngster last season.
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And according to Gazzetta Dello Sport, the club are happy to make him sit on the bench for the whole of next season.
Donnarumma is one of the most promising young players in the world and there will be no shortage of suitors for the young stopper’s signature.
And with his agent Mino Raiola, the situation seems to echo Paul Pogba’s initial departure from United, when he left on a Bosman but returned for a world record fee four years later.
Jose Mourinho has been said to be keen on the Italian, with manager Vincenzo Montella saying he is “doing everything” to keep the teenager.
He said: “The club are making enormous efforts to ensure his outstanding quality is recognised.
“I love him like a son, but now he needs to make a decision and realise what he wants to do as a grown-up.
“But he must do this with the utmost serenity because the club is doing all they can to keep hold of him.”
The bearded 6ft 5ins keeper was the youngest keeper to start a match in Serie A when he made his Milan debut aged 16 years and eight months.
And he is now the youngest player to be called up to the national team since 1911.
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