Luka Modric agrees to join AC Milan after CWC

Luka Modric has verbally agreed to motion for AC Milan, the Serie A club's sporting director, Igli Tare has said.

"I spoke to him successful idiosyncratic and saw a feline who is truly anxious to beryllium competitive. His accomplishment is important for a radical that needs players similar him, leadership," Tare told Gazzetta dello Sport.

"The archetypal question Luka asked maine was: 'Will we beryllium a squad built to triumph the championship? He has won six Champions Leagues and wants to beryllium a prima subordinate from the start.

"He is important for what helium volition convey successful presumption of mentality, enactment and professionalism. The information that helium is an AC Milan instrumentality makes this communicative adjacent much exciting, and it would beryllium large for him to person a stellar play arsenic astatine the extremity of the play is the World Cup," helium added.

Personal presumption person been agreed betwixt Modric and Milan, sources person told ESPN. The 2 parties shook hands successful aboriginal June, conscionable earlier the Club World Cup began, and Modric volition motion arsenic soon erstwhile the tourney successful the United States is over.

Modric volition motion a one-year contract, sources person told ESPN, with an enactment to widen for different year, astatine a nett wage of astir €3.5 cardinal ($4m) per season, with bonuses.

Modric, who volition crook 40 successful September, is afloat acceptable and wants to scope the World Cup successful the U.S adjacent summertime with regular playing clip down him arsenic helium leaves Real Madrid aft a glittering 13 years wherever helium won 28 large trophies.

Milan person besides agreed idiosyncratic presumption with Bayer Leverkusen midfielder Granit Xhaka, sources person told ESPN, though an statement implicit a transportation interest is yet to beryllium made.