AC Milan and Bologna were busy looking at Jorgen Strand Larsen’s €50m move to Crystal Palace on deadline day with a hint of regret.
That’s at least according to Tuttomercatoweb. The website reports that both sides could have had the striker themselves a few years ago.
According to their information, Strand Larsen could have ended up at Bologna when he was at Celta Vigo. He was on their list, and the Italian side even made a trip to watch him play against Atletico Madrid. Negotiations were held, but they failed to close it and he remained in Spain.
Milan, meanwhile, are regretting their decision to let Larsen leave their U19 team. He signed for them in 2017 but struggled and left on loan for Sarpsborg on 08 in 2018. By 2020 he had been sold to FC Groningen.
He managed 27 goals and nine assists in 71 games for them, before joining Celta Vigo. 18 goals and nine assists followed for the Spanish side before he then joined Wolves on loan. An impressive first year in the Premier League saw them sign 26-year-old permanently last summer for €27m.
Newcastle then offered big money in the summer before signing Nick Woltemade instead. Strand Larsen got his move on deadline in January instead, joining Crystal Palace for €49.7m. That’s an impressive profit for a year’s work as far as Wolves are concerned.
AC Milan and Bologna, meanwhile, are left to watch on with a hint of regret. That could have been money in their pockets if history had gone differently.