Due to financial pressure and the player's will, Inter Milan sold Achraf to Paris Saint-Germain for 68 million euros, but the Moroccan fullback was not happy at the Parc des Princes, and many media broke the news that he wanted to return to Inter, and even his agent gave a vague answer of "hard to say" in an interview with reporters.
After selling Achraf, Inter brought in Dumfries as his replacement. The Dutchman's first two seasons were mediocre, but with Inzaghi Jr.'s tweaking, the player has put in excellent numbers this season, scoring two goals and providing three assists in 14 league games, and is ranked as the best right midfielder in Serie A by the data company.
Inter Milan also changed his idea of selling him and wanted to renew his contract, and sports director Marotta gave the greatest respect and offered a new contract with the same annual salary of 4 million euros after tax as Dimarco, but the player and his agent saw that Lautaro could get 700-8 million after tax to break the team's salary structure and asked for a high salary of 5 million after tax.
Negotiations were at an impasse and, according to the latest report from the Milan newspaper Sport, Inter Milan have begun work on bringing in a replacement for Dumfries.
As mentioned above, Dumfries has always been on Inter's list of available for sale, so Marotta has been looking for a potential replacement for him, and after negotiations with the player to renew his contract failed, he put the signings into practice and achieved results.
According to the official announcement of Inter Milan, 24-year-old Brugge fullback Buchanan has officially joined.
The 24-year-old Buchanan is not a talented player, but he has his merits in being favored by Inter Milan from Canada to the United States to Belgium. This season, the Canadian has scored two goals and provided two assists in 12 appearances in the Belgian League. This player is fast, his physical fitness is not bad, and his passing is above the level, but his foot skills are very average, and he looks like a bankrupt version of Achraf, but the appearance template is Cuadrado, but I don't know how much it will shrink from Bi A to Serie A.
According to Fabrizio Romano, the total cost of the deal is €10 million, of which $7 million is a fixed transfer fee and $300 is a floating bonus.
Buchanan's addition cannot be said to be a complete replacement for Dumfries, but at least it is also a warning to him and his agent that the annual salary of 5 million euros after tax has exceeded Inter's bottom line, and the future is not unavoidable.