That's it! According to the revelations of Italian transfer expert Romano, Argentine striker Lauta Romadinez has successfully renewed his contract with Inter until 2026, and the two sides have signed the contract extension and will be officially announced in the next two days. It is worth mentioning that in the new contract, Lautaro's 110 million euros liquidated damages clause was removed. So far this season, Lautaro has scored 5 goals and 1 assist in 12 games for Inter, and remains an indispensable striker for the team. And his renewal also allowed the Nerazzurri's barbecue gang to pass on the tradition.
In Inter's team history, the Argentine is definitely a colorful landscape. Magic Herrera led the team to create the era of big international, Angelino held the team's single-season scoring record, and Inter's player record holder was the young player Sanetti, in addition, Cambiasso, Diego Milito, Samuel, Cruise, Icardi and others also left their own deep footprints in Meazza. Today, 24-year-old Lautaro Martinez has taken over the class of his compatriots and continues to shine for the Nerazzurri. On this pitch, he went from a young man to a famous player favored by many giants today.
In the summer of 2018, Inter signed Lautaro, then under 21, from Argentina for a transfer fee of 25 million euros. He had already played 105 games for the competition team and scored 49 goals and 12 assists, and Inter won him after beating Many competitions such as Dortmund, Atletico and Juve. Of course, investing 25 million euros in a 20-year-old was also a gift from Suning Group, which had just taken over Inter at the time.
In Inter's debut season, Lautaro played 35 games and scored 9 goals and 2 assists, including 6 goals and 2 assists in 27 Serie A games. In the second season, his stats soared to 49 games with 21 goals and 5 assists, becoming Inter's main striker. Last season, he and Romelu Lukaku formed Inter's indestructible double forward, scoring 19 goals and 7 assists in 48 games, including 17 goals and 6 assists in 38 Serie A games, making him the second team's top scorer after Romelu Lukaku and helping Inter lift the Serie A title trophy for the first time in 11 years.
In the Argentine national team, Lautaro also squeezed out big brother Aguero to become Messi's best partner. In this summer's Copa America, he scored three goals in six games and contributed to Argentina's lifting of the Copa America. In the World Preliminaries, Lautaro also had a stunning statistic of 5 goals and 3 assists in 10 games.
Lautaro is only 1.74 meters tall, but his confrontation ability is not bad, and unlike the traditional South American striker, he does not refuse to physically fight in the game, and even actively seeks hand-to-hand combat opportunities with opposing defenders, a passionate style of play that will obviously make it difficult for any manager to give up. In fact, in Inter's second season, he was favored by European giants such as Barca, Real Madrid and Manchester City, especially Barca, who was chasing him even more, because the signing of Lautaro was the hand-pick of Barca's number one star at the time, Messi, and Lautaro was also very interested in playing side by side with Messi at the club. But Inter CEO Marotta eventually shut barca out, keeping the promising Argentine rising star. Lautaro has since changed agents, while Barca, in a financial crisis, have lost Messi and their appeal to Argentina's rising star has faded. In this case, the renewal is already a matter of course.
After regaining the Serie A title last season, Inter lost top star Romelu Lukaku and right wing Ashraf, losing their strength. After 10 rounds of the new Serie A season, Inter milan ranked third with 6 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss, and there was already a 7-point gap between Napoli and AC Milan in front of them, and defending the title may not be an easy task. But by keeping Lauta Romandinez, Inter has retained hope of revival.