According to the Milan sports newspaper, Inter President Zhang Kangyang has reached an agreement on deferring repayment and Oaktree Capital, and Inter has reopened contract renewal negotiations for Lautaro and Barella.
In addition, if Inter do win the Serie A title this season, plus next year's Champions League qualification and Club World Cup qualification, the Nerazzurri will have at least €200 million in revenue in the coming season.
Do the above two points mean that Inter do not have to sell players because they have a loose cash?
Looking at Inter's current financial situation, they still owe at least 807 million euros, the highest for any Serie A team. Aside from that, Oaktree Capital's €275 million loan interest alone is enough to swallow up a large part of Inter's earnings. What's more, Inter also has plans to build a new stadium, and there are more places to spend money.
Therefore, as reported by Sky Sports Italia, Inter will be the same as in the past, with any player at Inter likely to be sold whenever there is a huge offer, including star players such as Lautaro and Barella, who are about to renew their contracts.
1. Lautaro, the player's professional attitude is undoubted, since he can bring the captain's armband, at least the current performance must be very professional, but Lautaro is now at the threshold of contract renewal, and the Inter management has to beware of the emergence of another Shik.
According to Lautaro's competitive state, he has absolutely no problem in the bottom line of Serie A, although it can't be said that it is so easy to chop melons and vegetables, but it is still not a big problem to rank in the top three scorers in Serie A, but it is a pity that the Champions League is too stretched, especially in key games, it is difficult to play the role of a needle, which Mbappe is much stronger than Lautaro.
No wonder even the former president of Inter Milan Moratti believes that Mbappe is the best player in his opinion, but unfortunately the current Inter Milan does not have the capital to sign the French striker, so they can only watch him fall to Real Madrid.
However, Lautaro's agent apparently does not think so, saying that with the player's performance in Serie A, Inter should give an annual salary of tens of millions of euros in the contract extension, as much as Napoli's Osimhen, AC Milan's Rafael Leao and Juventus' Vlahovic.
Although Lautaro's pursuit of a high salary has some truth, it is difficult to achieve at least at Inter, or the financial situation does not allow it. In addition, Inter still needs to consider the feelings of the main players such as Barella, Calhanoglu and Dimarco, and cannot stretch the salary too widely.
It is worth mentioning that Zhang Kangyang, as the chairman of Inter Milan, also attaches great importance to Lautaro, in order to speed up the contract renewal negotiations with the player, he specially approved the initiative to increase Lautaro's contract renewal salary to 9 million euros, which is also relatively rare in international football.
Although Lautaro has not given a positive reply to Inter's new contract renewal conditions, it is likely to accept it, but Inter Milan is only a stopgap measure, and now it is only temporarily stabilizing the player to be sold at a price, but there is no offer from other giants.
Lautaro's current value in Germany is 110 million euros, and it is almost impossible to want 150 million, but if a team is willing to send an offer of about 100 million euros, I feel that Zhang Kangyang will most likely agree. With the proceeds from this deal, Inter can take Zirkze and Gudmundsson at the same time, and they will definitely not be worse than one Lautaro.
2. Barella, although the player has not made many balls this season, he has at least taken on a large part of the defensive work that Brozovic has done before, and has also sorted out the midfield, and often plays an important role in connecting the team's defense to attack.
Many fans have called on Inter not to sell Barella, but from the time Inter signed Frattesi, there should have been such a plan. It's just that Frattesi is more than brave in attack, but he is still relatively immature in defense, and he still needs to be transformed by coach Inzaghi Jr.
And this season, Inter Milan has confirmed that it will be free of Napoli player Zielinski in the summer, and his comprehensive ability can be compared to Barella, which will be more conducive to Inter Milan to send the latter away.
Although Barella's contract renewal salary is only 6 million euros, which is not much compared with Lautaro, if it can be sold to the Premier League giants, referring to Newcastle's Tonali, it is at least more than 80 million euros, a large amount of income, which can help Inter solve a lot of problems.
It must be noted that De Bruyne, the core of Manchester City's midfield, is likely to accept an annual salary of 100 million euros to play in Saudi Arabia this summer, and Spanish coach Pep Guardiola has long had expectations for Barella, so it is still very likely that Inter will sell Barella to Manchester City this summer.
In short, Inter's current financial situation does not guarantee that they can retain a luxurious division for a long time, and can only continue to bring in players through visas or low prices, and then cash out at a high level. It is through this continuous blood circulation that we can maintain a certain competitiveness while maintaining the operation of the team.