AC Milan are determined to buy CSKA Moscow's Milos Krasic, but will have to wait until next summer to do so, an Italian paper reported.

Serbian international Krasic, 25, has been in excellent form for the Moscow club and scored 4 goals as the side progressed from their Champions League group.

The Corriere dello Sport paper said that the Italian club would prefer to see Krasic join them in the winter transfer window, but that CSKA's participation in the Champions League knockout stages meant the Serb would stay until after this summer's World Cup.

The paper also said that CSKA were asking 15 million euros ($21.8 million) for the player.

"I have the desire to test myself at a top club," Krasic told Russia's Sport Express paper earlier in the month. "But I can't say I am desperate to leave CSKA as soon as possible. Everything suits me here and I love this club. I'll only leave if a top club comes in for me with a good offer."

"I know that AC Milan, plus a few other club's are interested in me. But right now I'm a CSKA player," he added.

"I've spoken to Krasic and he doesn't intend to go anywhere until the summer," CSKA president Yevgeny Giner told the Russian paper in an interview published on Monday. "And he's right. There's no hurry. If he plays well at the World Cup, he'll earn himself a completely different type of contract."

Serbia have been drawn with Australia, Ghana, and Germany in their World Cup group.

MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti)