AC Milan CEO Marco Fassone has revealed that the club reached an agreement with Juventus to sign Leonardo Bonucci in "30 minutes".
The Rossoneri signed the defender in a surprise €40m deal, one of a number of high-profile, big money arrivals in the summer.
Fassone has admitted that bringing in the experienced Italy international had not originally been in the club's plans.
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“At the beginning he [Bonucci] was not in our plans," Fassone told Il Corriere dello Sport. "When Montella and Mirabelli told me we could have signed him I did not want to believe it.