The Croatian listens to the sirens of PSG and Atletico, but the Nerazzurri club is clear: an agreement must be found by the end of the year
We are inside or outside, the story of Marcelo Brozovic’s renewal cannot go too long. Inter does not want it: within the new year the question must be defined, in one sense or another. The point is, the more days go by, the more the feeling that the deal is damn complicated increases. And not for a matter of numbers, at least not only for this.
Surveys
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Brozovic and Inter have not yet found themselves around a table. And not by the will of the Nerazzurri, which also knows it has to deal with dad Brozovic and the lawyer close to the Croatian family. In theory, a meeting would be possible next week, perhaps after the return of the same midfielder from his commitments with the national team and before the match against Napoli. But there can be no absolute certainty, given the precedents. The club’s suspicion is that, in recent weeks, the player’s entourage is evaluating potential offers around Europe. He is probing the market, because he knows that at 28, the next one will be the most important contract of his career. It does not therefore exclude the possibility of leaving Milan.
Two clubs would not have closed the door, in the face of a survey, namely Leonardo’s PSG and Simeone’s Atletico Madrid. It should be remembered that PSG had been very close to Brozovic’s engagement only a year ago, at the beginning of October 2020: the exchange with Paredes had practically been defined, only to get stuck only for reasons related to the different engagement. Ergo: Leonardo’s esteem for Brozovic is proven. But even from Madrid the Croatian seems to have received more than one signal.
Clarity
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All legitimate, for heaven’s sake, after all it is the Nerazzurri club – for various reasons – that has come to negotiate the renewal seven months from the deadline. But on the other hand, the club claims to immediately understand the player’s orientation. By the beginning of the new year, Marotta and Ausilio want to close the conversation, with a signature or a divorce announced for the summer. To be excluded – unless unlikely offers – the third way, that of a sale of the midfielder in January. The haste of the club is the daughter of the desire for clarity: Brozovic is considered an important player, but at the same time it would not be a good thing to drag a negotiation throughout the season, a potentially negative factor also for Inzaghi’s work. Here, then, the inside or the outside: if the signature does not arrive in the next two months, it will be very complicated that it can materialize later. And on this point the company intends to be transparent.
Margins
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After all, it will not be difficult for the two sides to understand the real desire to continue together. Inter will immediately check whether Brozovic’s request will be considered out of the market, or equal to the 6 million just countersigned by Lautaro. If this is the case, the margins will be zero. The club has a different agreement in mind, a minimum adjustment for a player who already today, including bonuses, travels on the 4 million salary. The club should offer Brozovic the same type of contract offered to Barella, that is, a salary to rise starting from 4.5 million.
Savings
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Brozovic’s speech is grafted onto a wider panorama that sees Inter still committed to reducing the amount of wages. In perspective, regardless of the Croatian, the club’s coffers will lighten considerably: there are seven contracts expiring in June, which currently weigh around 40 million euros gross. Among these, the highest chances of renewal are those of Handanovic, who will play the place of the future with the Cameroonian Onana, already virtually Inter. The others will certainly be replaced, but it will be done with less expensive profiles, perhaps younger ones. Not a simple project, basically like Brozovic’s renewal. But the Inter plan cannot fail to take into account that word quoted by Steven Zhang in the last shareholders’ meeting: sustainability. Even at the cost of painful sacrifices.
November 11, 2021 (change November 11, 2021 | 09:03)
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