Noah Okafor flew to Germany to complete a move to RB Leipzig yesterday, but a report has suggested he will soon be on a plane back to Milan.

Okafor was spotted at Milan Linate yesterday getting on a flight to the east of Germany, where he would undergo a medical and (it was hoped) sign a contract with the Bundesliga side.

This morning some figures from the deal agreed emerged: it was to be a €2m loan with a €26m option to buy, at least as per La Gazzetta dello Sport. The Rossoneri directors had negotiated high figures, therefore.

However, there is now a spanner in the works. Philipp Hinze of Sky Germany reports that Leipzig have pulled the plug on the deal because the results of the medical showed that Okafor is not able to help immediately.

The Swiss player is not ready for action physically, as Leipzig were hoping for. As a result, the Saxony-based club have cancelled the transfer and the deal has collapsed.

It is not the news that anyone wanted, especially given that Okafor made some statements to the journalists who were present and basically bid farewell to the Milan fans.

“In life you never know, maybe we’ll see each other again. For me it was the best choice. Thanks to the Milan fans, I leave a place that will forever be in my heart,” he said.

In his 18 months in Italy, the Swiss played 52 games with the Diavolo, scoring seven goals and providing five assists.

Noah Okafor bid farewell to AC Milan for the time being yesterday, boarding a plane to Germany where he will join RB Leipzig.

As this morning’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) confirms, Okafor boarded a plane at Milan Linate yesterday which was bound for east Germany. He will do a medical with Leipzig and then sign a contract for what will be an initial loan deal.

The Swiss forward will head there for six months but it could become permanent, given there is an option to buy inserted into the deal. Leipzig will pay a loan fee of around €2m – quite high given it is a six-month loan – and the buy-out option is set at €26m, so a potential total of €28m.

Yesterday, shortly before leaving, Okafor gave some statements to the journalists who were present and he admitted that he does not consider the Milan door completely closed as a chapter in his career.

“In life you never know, maybe we’ll see each other again. For me it was the best choice. Thanks to the Milan fans, I leave a place that will forever be in my heart,” he said. In his 18 months in Italy, the Swiss played 52 games with the Diavolo, scoring seven goals and providing five assists.

Calciomercato.com are reporting meanwhile that the loan fee is actually €1m and that the option to buy is €24m, so a €25m package. A four-year deal is ready in the event it becomes a permanent move.

From the bits that have emerged in Sergio Conceicao’s early tenure at AC Milan, it would be fair to say that he will not be going easy on the players.

This morning’s edition of Corriere della Sera (via MilanNews) talks about the ‘Conceicao strategy’, adding in their headline that the squad will be subjected to ‘training in the cold and individual interviews’.

The Portuguese coach still disappointed by the home draw against Cagliari a few days ago, which came a few days after the high of the Supercoppa Italiana triumph in Saudi Arabia. Many believed that would give a jolt to the season, but the Rossoneri reverted to type with a disappointing result.

Conceicao wants to put the players against the wall and to do so he is not sparing them anything. Yesterday, the day before Como-Milan, the Portuguese coach moved training from morning to evening, in the dark and cold.

The ex-Porto coach sees it as a way to toughen up but also to get used to tonight’s climate, with the thermometer expected to be around zero for the game in Como. He has given a series of very precise rules and is also having individual discussions with all the players in the Milan squad, too.

Speaking of tonight’s game, La Gazzetta dello Sport are reporting this morning that Conceicao will make three changes to the starting line-up to try and freshen things up a bit.