Milan Line Up January Move for Liverpool Starlet Suso

According to Football Italia (h/t Sky Sport Italia), Milan have reached an agreement to sign Spanish youth international Suso, who is currently owned by Liverpool. 

A former Reds youth player, Suso—who will turn 21 in November—broke into the first team in 2012 and played sparingly before being loaned to La Liga side Almeria for the 2013-14 season. 

At Almeria, the Spaniard didn't have the same talent with which to compete and quickly established himself in Francisco Rodriguez's starting XI. 

And it was good that he did—los Rojiblancos would almost certainly have been relegated without Suso's offensive contribution as the club finished just a single point above the relegation zone. 

Bleacher Report's Allan Jiang wrote a brilliant assessment of Suso's loan, so we'll turn our focus to the Spaniard's current situation with Liverpool and how he would fit in at the San Siro. 

Brendan Rodgers has amassed a host of uber-talented winger-midfielder hybrids, and it's curious that Suso was not sent out on loan again as he'll struggle to pipe any of the players in front of him. 

Raheem Sterling, Philippe Coutinho, Lazar Markovic, a healthy Adam Lallana and perhaps even Fabio Borini will be preferred, not to mention World Cup standout Divock Origi, who was loaned back to Lille after his summer transfer. 

This likely leaves Suso in the Oussama Assaidi-Iago Aspas group of superfluous attackers.

Milan has their own glut of attacking players, but Suso's path to a meaningful role seems clearer at Milan when you consider, because of their ages, Jeremy Menez and Keisuke Honda should not be counted on for the long term.

A left-footed player, deploying him as an inverted winger would open shooting lanes, perhaps the most apt utilization for a player who strikes the ball—albeit slightly—better than he crosses it. 

Stephan El Shaarawy, when healthy, is the unequivocal left-winger and offensive focal point. Summer signing Giacomo Bonaventura will presumably be the first man off the bench.

Menez, who moonlighted as a centre-forward in Milan's win against Lazio, is tipped to receive lots of time on the right wing, while Honda will too get his share of chances. 

French wunderkind M'Baye Niang also needs to play in order to realize his massive potential and has earned his shot after an impressive preseason. 

The players in front of Suso should not preclude Milan from making a move as it's not often a team can sign a technically excellent 20-year-old with a high ceiling on a club-friendly deal. 

Additionally, it's not as though he'd have to be immediately integrated into the starting XI as he would surely benefit from a loan to an Italian club, allowing him to acclimatize to a league in which Spanish players have traditionally struggled.

The Football Italia piece discusses Milan either buying him outright for a small fee in January or—and this is typical Adriano Galliani—waiting to acquire him on a Bosman when his contract expires in June 2015, per Transfermarkt. 

However the deal transpires, acquiring Suso would be a shrewd move. Though he's yet not a polished product, he's a quality young footballer and someone who coincides with Milan's seldom adhered-to youth policy.