From the FC Barcelona They assured that they had margin until July 15 to pay the clause of Lautaro Martinez, but in the end it turned out not to be. From Inter Milan they insisted that the deadline ended this past July 7 and it has been so. He Argentine striker no longer has a clause and from now on Barça will have to negotiate directly with the Interistas if you want to get hold of it. But from the Catalan club they are not worried about this, rather the opposite.
At the Camp Nou it was believed that without a fixed price in between, Inter should lower its claims, and this has been the case. In the Italian newspaper ‘El Corriere della Sera’ they assure that from the Giuseppe Meazza they have confirmed that the one in Bahía Blanca now costs 21 million euros less. Of the 111 ‘kilos’ that the clause cost, it has gone to 90, which is what they would demand at the moment to sell his big star.
But this decline is not enough for a Barça that is going through a bad economic moment and it does not have too much ‘cash’ to sign. The Blaugrana have been very negatively affected by the coronavirus crisis and they will have to perform miracles to be able to incorporate the albiceleste international. The losses due to the break caused by the COVID-19 are going to be more than 200 million euros and are obviously going to have a direct impact on sports planning.
The Catalans cannot put 90 million on the Inter table right now and that is why this reduction does not mean too much to them. In Barcelona they expect Lautaro to pressure his club so that its price drops even more. In ‘Mundo Deportivo’ they indicate that Miralem Pjanic already used this tactic so that Juventus in Turin did not look at Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain, who offered more money than Barça. This is what the ex of Racing should do not to give Inter more choice.
However, for the moment Lautaro remains silent and that is not a good sign for the Catalans. The one from Bahía Blanca has not spoken for a long time and nobody really knows what he thinks, although there are sources that assure that he has already given his “yes” to Barcelona. In addition, he is going through a very delicate moment in Milan, since his performance has decreased considerably and that has caused Antonio Conte to question him. The coach sat at the fore in the last crash of the interistas after missing a penalty in the previous one and right now there is no talk of anything else in Italy.
Barça came to offer 70 more Junior Firpo
The Blaugrana offer was being said to be 70 million euros before the end of the term to pay their clause. In addition, to reach 111, the Barcelona players offered Junior Firpo, to the liking of Conte, whom they valued at 41 ‘kilos’. But el Inter rejected the proposal and right now is asking for 90 in cash and without footballers. It remains to be seen if the Catalans manage to lower the price to the 70s and if they can also save themselves having to offer to the side.
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