The Argentine striker Lautaro Martínez, currently at Inter Milan, circulated the message “Barcelona or nothing” in his surroundings, alluding to the fact that if his transfer to Lionel Messi’s team does not materialize, he prefers to continue in Italy and not be transferred to another club, the Spanish press revealed today.
“Barcelona or nothing. If I do not go to Barcelona I will stay in Milan,” was the message that ex-Racing downloaded to make it clear that he will not go to another club and prefers to stay at Inter, according to the Catalan newspaper Mundo Deportivo.
The striker, born in Bahía Blanca 22 years ago and emerged from Racing Club, is very close to moving to Barcelona, although he also received offers from other important clubs in Europe such as Paris Saint Germain (PSG) and Manchester City.
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“The Argentine dreams of playing next season with Lionel Messi and playing at the Camp Nou,” added Mundo Deportivo.
Lautaro Martínez has a termination clause of 111 million euros, and Barcelona negotiates with Inter to pay 60 million in cash and complete the rest with two players.
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Among the figures that he would offer in the Catalan club would be the Chilean Arturo Vidal and the Portuguese Nelson Semedo -he would go to the City, which would send the Brazilian Joao Cancelo to Inter-, while the bahiense would be offered a contract of about 10 million euros for year, from 2020 to 2025.
Negotiations for Martínez, who would become the most expensive Argentine in history, are well advanced. Both Barcelona and Inter want to step on the accelerator so that the operation takes place even before the season cut short by the coronavirus pandemic resumes.
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Missing? That the cash amount of the transfer is completed. Barcelona does not want to pay more than 60 million. And at Inter they want to pull a little more rope because they need the cash to tempt the German Timo Werner (Leipzig) and the Gabonese Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Arsenal), two that they have in their sights to supplant the departure of former Racing.
And it also remains to finish filing the details of another mega exchange that will star Barcelona and another Italian giant, Juventus. There the negotiation includes the landing of the Bosnian Miralem Pjanic and the Italian Mattia De Sciglio and the departure of the Croatian Ivan Rakitic and the Frenchman Jean-Claire Todibo.
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Although in the Vecchia Signora the repatriation of the Chilean Vidal is not viewed with bad eyes, something that would force to rethink the names of the operation that most interests: the landing of Lautaro Martínez and his goals.
