AC Milan are preparing the next step in Alphadjo Cisse’s rise, with talks over an improved contract expected to begin next week. The club hope an agreement can be reached before the end of 2026, rewarding a player whose first months in Milan have rapidly changed his status.
Cisse only signed his current deal in January, running until 2030 and worth close to €800,000 per season. That package made sense when he arrived; after his early impact, Milan now see the need to revise it upwards.
Quick facts
- Milan plan to meet Cisse’s representatives next week.
- The 20-year-old’s existing contract expires in 2030.
- His current salary is understood to be near €800,000 per year.
- Cisse joined Milan in January after a late change of destination from PSV.
- He has scored against Torino, Juventus and Salzburg in his first spell with the senior side.
The move to Milan was born in the final hours of the winter window. Cisse had been close to joining PSV Eindhoven, with his trip to the Netherlands already arranged, while Verona were working to end his loan at Catanzaro and complete a sale.
Milan intervened at that point, in an operation pushed particularly by chief executive Giorgio Furlani. Cisse later described the sequence as swift: PSV was nearly settled, but Milan’s call left him with no hesitation.
He remained at Catanzaro for the second half of the season before an injury interrupted his progress. He subsequently joined Milan’s training camp and has since offered signs that the club’s decision was not merely one for the future.
His celebrations have already come in significant fixtures: the opening league match against Torino, the first meeting with Juventus, and his first European away appearance in Salzburg. For a player who will turn 20 on Thursday and is already an Italy Under-21 international, the pace of the adaptation has strengthened Milan’s conviction.
The proposed renewal also fits the direction outlined by owner Gerry Cardinale during the summer. He said Milan would put academy-developed players first, support their development and draw the maximum from their potential so that they could help the team succeed.
Cisse was developed at Verona rather than Milan’s academy, but he belongs to the same younger Italian core the club are trying to assemble. Davide Bartesaghi, Francesco Camarda, Christian Comotto and Lorenzo Torriani are part of that picture, with Cisse increasingly looking like another piece in a longer Milan project.
