Rafael Leao Trains in Corinthians Jersey Amid Exit Speculation

Rafael Leao is supposed to be on holiday. Instead, he turned up at Corinthians’ training ground in São Paulo, boots laced, working.

The Milan winger, fresh from the 2026 World Cup and due back in Italy at the end of the month, spent part of his break training at the Brazilian club’s facilities — and did it wearing a Corinthians jersey.

Corinthians shared the images on their official X account: Leao, 27, going through drills on their pitches, relaxed but focused, smiling with staff and posing with players. No grand announcement, no fanfare. Just one of Europe’s most dangerous wide forwards quietly putting in the work far from Milanello.

The pictures will only add fuel to an already simmering summer. Leao has already confirmed this week that he has spoken with Milan about a possible departure in the coming transfer window. The expectation around the club is clear: he is likely to leave.

The market, though, has not exploded yet. So far, only Fenerbahce have put a concrete offer on the table, and Leao is not prepared to accept it. For a player of his profile, that stand makes sense. He can wait. Bigger moves tend to arrive late.

For Milan, the sight of their No. 10 training in another club’s colours is a jarring image, even if it is nothing more than a professional keeping fit. This is the same Rafael Leao who has lit up San Siro, gesturing to the crowd in that familiar swagger during Serie A nights at the Giuseppe Meazza, the same player whose frustration showed in Dublin during Portugal’s World Cup qualifying defeat to the Republic of Ireland.

Now he is in Brazil, in black and white, not red and black. It means nothing in contractual terms. Symbolically, it lands differently.

Leao met Corinthians players and staff, chatted, posed for photos, then went back to work on the grass. No transfer talks are reported between the clubs; this is not the start of a negotiation, just a convenient training base for a star spending time in Brazil.

Still, the images carry a question that will follow him back to Milan: when he walks into preseason at Milanello at the end of the month, will it be for one more year as the Rossoneri’s attacking reference point, or merely a brief stop before the next chapter of his career finally opens?