KEISUKE HONDA is unlikely to join Milan this summer as CSKA Moscow have decided they will not sell the player.

Today was supposed to be the Honda day as the deal seemed to be closer to its conclusion with gaps between Milan and CSKA Moscow significally reduced, the Russian club surprised everyone and decided to reject Milan’s offer and keep him.

Honda told the club he wants to move to Milan and had agreed his Rossoneri terms a while ago but it seems that the move will not happen until January, which means Massimiliano Allegri will not have the player available for the UCL.

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The meeting between Honda’s agent Hiro, who was assisted by the FIFA agent Fabrizio De Vecchi, and CSKA Moscow’s general director Roman Babaev started at around 18:00 Italian time and in the evening the answer of Babev and CSKA was clear: they will not sell Honda to Milan in the summer. Keisuke will therefore join Milan on a free transfer in January.

According to the Italian press the reason CSKA won’t sell is because the player they had bought to replace Honda, the Bulgarian Georgi Milanov. got injured and so they want Honda to stay at the club so they can use him in the Champions League. This is obviously bad news for everyone but CKSA as Honda, his sponsors and Milan were all hoping that a solution could be found so he will join the boys of Allegri already in the next days but now acheiving such thing is a difficult.

According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Hiro and De Vecchi are set to leave Moscow and no further meetings are expected. But Honda refuses to give up a move and will reportedly meet with the CSKA President again today to ask to be sold.