The fact that Athletic Bilbao’s Spanish international striker  Fernando Llorente’s contract is set to expire in June 2013 has hardly passed any-one of Europe’s top clubs unnoticed. Neither has the fact that the player is free to negotiate terms with a new club starting this January which has attracted a lot of attention from all of Europe’s top clubs. Turin-based Tuttosport report that Juventus have already a verbal agreement with the player to join the once his contract expires in June but that they need to be aware that clubs like Inter might try to steer the player away from them by offering the Llorente’s current club to buy him outright in January. This move is a very clever move by the Nerazzurri director Marco Branca as he positions Inter in a win-win position since if Juventus really want to sign Llorente, they will be forced to pay a transfer fee to Athletic Bilbao instead of signing him for free in June, and if Juventus can’t afford to pay a transfer fee as well as the players wages, Inter can go in and for a relatively low cost sign a World Class replacement to the aging Diego Milito.