Milan still paying €4m contract to unseen former Liverpool star Origi | OneFootball

Milan are still paying a €4m-per-season contract to forgotten former Liverpool cult hero Divock Origi, who has not been seen at the club’s training ground since the beginning of the 2024-25 campaign.

Origi, who was part of Liverpool’s Champions League winning squad in 2018-19 and the Premier League winning side in 2019-20, left Anfield at the end of the 2021-22 season and joined Milan on a four-year contract running until the summer of 2026.

The 32-time Belgium international failed to live up to expectations during his first season in San Siro, netting twice from 36 appearances across all competitions in 2022-23, largely from the substitutes bench.

He was then loaned back to the Premier League to join Nottingham Forest for 2023-24, but failed to score a single goal from 20 appearances in the top flight.

Milan loanee Divock Origi of Nottingham Forest during the Emirates FA Cup Fourth Round Replay match between Nottingham Forest and Bristol City. (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images)

Milan still paying €4m contract to unseen former Liverpool star

Since then, the ex-Liverpool favourite has been out of the first-team project at Milan. Zlatan Ibrahimovic declared at the beginning of the season that Origi and Fode Ballo-Toure would play for the Milan Futuro side in Serie C as opposed to the first-team under then-head coach Paulo Fonseca.

However, Origi has not yet made a single appearance for Milan Futuro this season, and has not been involved in first-team training at any stage of the 2024-25 season.

He is still under contract, and according to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Milan are still holding up their end of the €4m-per-season deal, but are expected to seek a termination of the player’s contract in the near future.

Tuesday’s report suggests that Milan will need to offer a compensation package in order to pay Origi out of his current contract, unless a new buyer steps forward, which La Gazzetta dello Sport describes as ‘sounding like the plot of a SciFi movie’.