AC Milan fans ‘will throw fake bank notes at Gianluigi Donnarumma’ when the goalkeeper returns to the San Siro for the first time since his acrimonious free exit for PSG in 2021

A group of AC Milan fans are preparing to give PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma a hostile reception when the goalkeeper returns to the San Siro on Tuesday, according to reports in Italy.

The Italian, who came through Milan’s youth academy to feature over 250 times for the red and black, was widely regarded as the best young goalkeeper in world football prior to his controversial free transfer to Paris.

Donnarumma refused to sign a new deal worth £130,000 per week with Milan in a bid to run down his contract — and instead penned a more lucrative deal with Paris Saint-Germain in 2021, effectively leaving his boyhood club with nothing.

Now, with Donnarumma set to face his old club for the first time at the San Siro since his acrimonious exit, Milan’s ultras in the Curva Sud are planning to throw fake bank notes and wear a No 71 shirt to highlight his betrayal, according to Italian outlet Sport Mediaset.

The shirts the ultras will wear are a reference to the Neapolitan system of interpreting dreams into winning lottery numbers — called Smorfia Napoletana — with 71 meaning ‘man without values’.

Milan fans are preparing to throw fake bank notes at Gianluigi Donnarumma on Tuesday night

The Italian star will be greeted by a hostile reception when he returns to face his former club

However, Paris Saint-Germain chairman Nasser Al-Khelaifi has moved to remind Milan fans of the years of service Donnarumma gave the club.

Speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport ahead of Tuesday evening’s match, he said: ‘Gigi is one of the best goalkeepers in the world. He’s still so young and such a great professional, he’s also a fantastic person. 

‘What he contributed to AC Milan over 215…