AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi insists he would turn down any offer for young goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, no matter how high it was.
Donnarumma, 17, forced his way into the first-team under Sinisa Mihajlovic this year and has been tipped to eventually take over from Gianluigi Buffon as Italy No. 1. However, with Europe's elite monitoring the situation, Berlusconi made it clear that he was not open to a transfer move.
"I think it's inconsiderate that it's possible to ask over €200 million for [Lionel] Messi, or that there's talk of €80m for our goalkeeper," he told radio station Radio Radio, reported by Gazzetta. "Having said that, if we got such an offer for Donnarumma, we'd reject it."
Berlusconi added he was concerned that negotiations to sell Milan to one of the "several significant Chinese investors (who) have shown an interest" may go on for too long.
"[I need] to have the certainty that whoever buys the club will invest to bring it back to the top, not only in Italy but also in Europe and beyond," he said.
"We met with about 10 groups who were willing to buy, but they were all rejected because they couldn't offer enough guarantees for the future -- I need to be sure that the club will return to the height of world football."
The former Italian Prime Minister also declared he has a "Plan B" where he'd try to copy Leicester City and win the title with passionate, hungry players if he can't sell the club this summer.
"If the negotiations do not take the direction we wish them to take, we'll start from scratch with Milan," he said. "We'll ask the fans to be patient and we'll commence a serious project for an entirely new cycle: we'll start again with young Italian players, likely coming from our own youth sector; players who are able to form a compact group and who are truly hungry for victory.
"I think that what happened in England with Leicester can be repeated in Italy."