Gonçalo Ramos set to depart Paris Saint-Germain and sign with AC Milan

Gonçalo Ramos has agreed to sign for Italian side AC Milan in exchange of €75 million, meaning that the Portuguese striker, currently taking part in the World Cup, will leave PSG this summer.

Ramos had mostly become a backup option for Luis Enrique in his front three system in which Ousmane Dembélé most often played through the middle. However, Ramos has been a useful option off the bench at times for PSG, and will have to be replaced at the Parisian club.

Ramos signed for PSG in 2023 from Benfica, after impressing at the 2022 World Cup, in which he scored a remarkable hat-trick in the round of 16 against Switzerland. Ramos, now 25, has spent a total of three seasons with the Parisians now, all of which have come under the tutelage of Luis Enrique. He has won 12 trophies with the French side, including back-to-back Champions League victories.

Ramos departs PSG towards AC Milan

Ramos’s record for PSG hasn’t been bad at all when played, totalling 45 goals in 131 PSG appearance, many of which have come from the substitutes bench. The issue for Ramos, and no doubt one of the reasons for his departure, has been his lack of game-time, with Enrique preferring other, more fluid, options in the front line. Ramos has been used more in Ligue 1 games in which Enrique prefers to rotate, but has made only very few appearance in the Champions League (something which will not change at least next season, as Milan have failed to qualify).

The transfer fee may raise eyebrows in some quarters, with Milan splashing out their all time record fee on a player whose minutes have after all been extremely limited. Italian clubs have generally been quite frugal in the transfer market over the last few years, and this is a remarkable risk for Milan, as they have no Champions League football next season. They will be relying on Ramos’s goals to fire them back to the top of Serie A, which in itself seems a risk: Milanese supporters will simply hope that Ramos can rediscover his very best form in Serie A, where he will no doubt be seen as Milan’s first choice number nine.

PSG will look to replace Ramos, with Ivorian winger Yan Diomandé reportedly close to signing for the Parisians: it’s not exactly like for like, but it is clear that in Enrique’s system there will be no traditional number nine, and therefore Diomandé will in fact be yet another attacking option in the rotating front line that consists of a number of tricky wingers: he could be a player far more suited to the Spaniard’s system than Ramos ever was.

Despite Ramos’ relatively few appearance towards the end of last season, he will depart a fairly popular figure among PSG fans: his transfer fee helps, of course, as PSG recoup their money with interest based on the fee they paid themselves a few years ago (around €65 million), but he also scored important goals over the course of his career, and his last ever kick in a PSG shirt was a brilliant penalty converted past David Raya in the Champions League final penalty shoot-out: there could be no sweeter goodbye.

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