AC Milan are serious about signing Lloyd Kelly from Bournemouth and the player might be tempted to make the move to Italy, a journalist has suggested.

There have been a few reports suggesting that Milan have Kelly on their list of centre-back targets ahead of the January window and also next summer given that his contract will expire at the end of the season.

With Pierre Kalulu out for the best part of four months and Marco Pellegrino unlikely to be back before the new year, the defensive department has been stretched very thin leaving the Milan management with the desire to intervene.

"The ones that are really quite serious at this stage are AC Milan and Juventus. AC Milan had scouts watching Lloyd Kelly. Even their technical director went to personally watch Lloyd Kelly as well," he said.

"The Italian clubs, in recent history, have got this habit of going to the English clubs and bringing them to Serie A to offer them Champions League football and regular first-team football.

"The likes of Fikayo Tomori went from Chelsea to AC Milan, and he has gone from strength to strength. What an advert he would be to other English players who were deciding whether to stay in England or go to the Italian league."

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