Recently, Lautaro is inter's most highly mentioned player.
There are four reasons for this. First of all, the derby was two times open, and the exposure rate was full.
Furthermore, playing Jose Mourinho's Roma next, playing Juve in the cup final, Lautaro's partner will be Dzeko or Correa, which is also a big deal.
Third, the Italian media bigwigs have always hated Inter, and are accustomed to talking about sports after Inter loses, and after Inter wins, they don't talk about sports to talk about finances. Derby Sengoku Rice's great victory made its face dull, and based on "stance" and "love and hatred", they first sold Inter's main force on paper.
Fourth, for months, the news from Milan and Nanjing confirmed that Inter needed a transfer profit of tens of millions of euros in the summer to cope with a huge deficit. As Inter's most expensive player, Lautaro will naturally be deeply involved in transfer rumors.
These days, in various groups and communities, many people repeatedly ask: Will Lautaro be sold by Inter in the summer?
There are always variables in the transfer market, and Inter cannot make a "say one or two" plan in advance.
Even if Inter makes a "never sell" plan, if there is a super high offer, the plan will become empty talk.
Even if Inter made a plan to "sell Lautaro in exchange for funds and then bring in reinforcements", if there is no super high offer, the Nerazzurri will not be able to sell cheaply.
Therefore, the Nerazzurri can only make two-handed preparations, and can only make an assessment after the offer comes to the door.
As a seller, you are destined to be a passive party. Until now, no offer has been made.
Transfer experts such as Di Marzio, Romano, Biasin, Pedola, and Stoopini (a reporter for the Milan Sports Newspaper) all believe that Lautaro is more likely to stay than to sell.
The reason is twofold.
First, there is Lautaro's personal inclinations.
In Today's Europe, the league with the most high transfer fee is the rich Premier League. However, Lautaro personally does not lean towards the Premier League, he prefers to go to La Liga.
In La Liga, Atletico have always been interested in Lautaro, but it is not clear whether Atletico have the conditions to offer high prices. Barca are also interested in Lautaro, but Barca's financial situation is not optimistic, unless Barça raises a large amount of money through the sale of players, they can only make a "player + money" offer, Inter is not interested in such an offer.
"If you ask me if Lautaro is staying," Di Marzio noted, "I personally feel that he is more likely to be at Inter next season." ”
Moreover, Inter did not have to sell Lautaro to get through the financial crisis.
It's no secret that the Nerazzurri do have the task of making a profitable ball market.
But multiple sources pointed out that selling Lautaro to cope with the pressure is only Inter's plan B.
Plan A is to sell some loan players to raise funds, such as Pinamonti, Sensi, Satriano and so on. In addition, the agent Raiola also promised Marotta that if DeFrey had no intention of renewing his contract, then there would be a good offer in the summer (the consensus was never to let Defrey leave the team for free when his contract expired).
Since Inter currently have a number of players on loan and have certain selling points, Satriano and others have even made offers. If this work progresses, there is no need to sell the backbone to get through.
"Inter need to raise around €60 million in the transfer market," Biasin noted, "but the team doesn't have to sell high-priced players, Osilio and Marotta have other options.".
Therefore, the market experts generally believe that If Lautaro is sold, it will only be "Lukaku second", not "Ashraf second".
Last summer, Inter sold Ashraf, Lukaku, in exchange for a large sum of money.
But the nature of the transfer of these two players is subtly different.
Ashraf's situation was that it had to be sold, it was a sacrificial sale for the team – at that time, Ashraf was willing to stay in the team. However, Inter was seriously short of liquidity and desperately needed an injection of funds to solve the financial difficulties, so they could only be forced to sell players at a price slightly lower than psychological expectations.
The offer made by Paris, what really makes Inter unable to refuse, is not the total amount of the offer, but the payment method - the transfer fee can be paid in a short period of time, without a long payment cycle. This was much needed by Inter, which was severely short of cash flow at the time.
In Lukaku's situation, it is not necessary to sell, but the offer is really generous, and the players are noisy, Inter made a decision.
Many people describe Lukaku as "loyal" because he now wants to return to China, but the team is greedy and ruthless. This is not the case. Inter initially had no plans to sell Romelu Lukaku last summer, and when Chelsea made an offer and promised a weekly salary of more than £300,000, Lukaku directly broke into the locker room of Inzaghi Jr. to apply for a transfer, and all the top brass of Inter mobilized to persuade him for two days, knowing that he could not stay unless he had a big salary increase, and was forced to push the boat.
To this day, experts still believe that if Lukaku had made a fuss sooner, Inter might not have sold Ashraf at all.
In short, Inter's current focus is to actively withdraw some funds through other transactions to avoid the recurrence of the "Ashraf tragedy".
But if the "Lukaku phenomenon" recurs, Inter will assess it.
In short: Inter is trying to improve its finances through other means, so as not to be reduced to having to sell Lautaro to get by, turning the Lautaro problem into a simple business problem - selling at a high price and staying without a high price.
This is the core guiding spirit.