Joao Cancelo is an increasingly hot name for Inter, who continue their work to make this return in the January transfer window
João Cancelo he is an increasingly hot name for Inter, who continue their work to make this return in the January transfer window. And they would like to do it quickly, as La Gazzetta dello Sport explains: “The club has chosen the Portuguese, they have decided that the opportunity is too good to miss, but in order not to be left empty-handed and to give Chivu a high-level alternative on the right it will be essential to play as best as possible with the time factor. The Milan-Riyadh axis is operational and this too on New Year’s Eve – a rest day for the team that will return to training in Appiano tomorrow – contacts with the agent of the Portuguese Jorge Mendes are frequent.
The phone rang on December 31st and will continue to do so in the next few hours, precisely because the desire is to quickly arrive at a white smoke. In the maze of close matches in a very busy calendar, the symbolic match to aim for (re)having Cancelo at Inter it could be Inter-Napoli on Sunday 11th: the first championship milestone of the year in which to give a signal to one of the contenders and, like a domino, to all the others. Premise: although the will is there, the arrangement is not the simplest and the main obstacle is the hiring Arabic of the Portuguese worth 15 million per season. The figure, clearly, would be divided in two but even half of it is out of reach, so financial help from Al-Hilal to support that salary will be essential to obtain.
But returning to the question of timing, closing in the short term is the objective and the reasons are twofold: to beat the competition from other teams with an eye on the occasion (Barcelona above all but also keep an eye on Benfica) and to immediately give Chivu an element in that orphaned portion of the pitch in Dumfries and in which Luis Henrique – despite improving – was unable to provide the security and continuity that the Dutchman instead guaranteed. January is the month of extraordinary times for Inter (8 games in 24 days, including the last two of the single group stage of the Champions League which are decisive to access the round of 16 through the main door and avoid two more playoff games), and a reinforcement at the start of the transfer window would make all the difference in the world.”
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