INTER’S CHIEF EXECUTIVE Giuseppe Marotta says the club are annoyed by comments from Mauro Icardi’s wife and agent Wanda Nara.
Icardi has been told he is free to leave Inter, having been stripped of the captaincy during last season, and he was left out of their squad to face Lecce on Monday.
Nara has regularly made headlines for her outspoken views and she has indicated Icardi still feels his future lies at San Siro.
“It’s true — he has said ‘no’ to every destination that is not Inter,” she said on Mediaset show Tiki Taka.
“Everyone has known his choice since the start of the summer and that is the case for any team that has shown interest. In my view, at the end of the day, he will remain at Inter.”
Ahead of Inter’s Serie A opener against newly promoted Lecce, Marotta hit back at Nara.
For us it is a bit of annoyance, both for the timing and for the way [she spoke],” he told DAZN.
“I absolutely deny that any Inter manager, and in particular [chairman] Steven Zhang, has invited Icardi to stay.
“We have dictated a precise strategy and communicated it at the right time. We will go on until the end and nobody from Inter can distort this common line.”
Juventus, Monaco and Napoli have all been linked with the Argentina striker, who hit 17 goals in 37 appearances in all competitions last term.
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So Madrid’s possible front 6 is Kroos, Modric, Rodriguez, Bale, Ronaldo and Benzema. Bonkers.
Yep, and benzema looks like the weak link in that line up!!
You have to wonder how theyll fit all the best players in one line up
It’ll add to the competition in the squad, which will improve the overall level of performance as each individual player will have to keep improving and maintaining the quality of his own game in order to have a chance of being selected and maintaining his position in the 1st XI.
80 million is madness
Being obsessed with jonjo shelvey is normal in comparison
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Thought your wife was Brian.
Something like 9 goals in 35 games for Monaco. Mad sthuff altogether
This fella is going to the top, what a talent! What a squad of players! Ridiculous
Madrid go from doing some fantastic business (Kroos) with some poor.
He had a good WC but can’t see him being worth close to that money. Great potential he could flounder under the weight of expectation. As a Madridista i would have preferred they looked for an established defender.
Any self confessed “Madridista” would know that he’s been lighting up world football for the last 3 years with Porto and Monaco… Rodriguez sitting in front of Kroos and Modric with Bale and Ronaldo either side is any manager’s dream. Unreal business from them.
I wouldn’t call scoring 9 goals in a fairly average French League “lighting up world football”. Very good player, but not worth €80m in my opinion.
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Lighting up the world???
What with a massive 9 goals from 34 appearances? I see your easily impressed!
Not bad but at the same time not particularly impressive stats. Porto and Monaco are grand, as are their leagues but La Liga and the Champions League and more so Real Madrid are a much, much bigger step up.
Time will tell if it is ”unreal business” from Real. Can’t help but feel they are trying to match Barca in signing as many top forwards as possible. Their defence is their weakest point and I’d rather 80mil be blown on someone like Kompany myself.
This is gett
Football has gone mad. UEFA talk of fair play, but the rules in Spain allow the two big guys to receive maybe 95% of TV money…. Watch Atletico sink this year.