Wednesday 8th August will be the decisive day regarding Luca Modric according to todays Gazzetta Dello Sport. This is when the Croatian midfielder will officially return to Spain for the start of the new season with Real Madrid but above all to meet the President, Florentino Perez.
The Inter hierarchy, which at this stage can only sit tight, hopes that this is a weekend of tranquility before the “summer storm.”
The moral of the story is the same: the captain of Croatia, on holiday in Costa Smeralda with his wife Vanja, is reportedly pushing to leave the Spanish capital after five seasons and many successes, including four Champions League titles.
In recent days through his agents, he has given the willingness to move to Inter and join up with his national teammates Brozovic, Perisic and Vrsaljko. Everything, however, will depend on the meeting with Florentino Perez, who will have to “free” the best player of the Russian World Cup on terms that are sustainable for the Nerazzurri.
Two days ago in Miami, the president of Real Madrid, annoyed by the increasingly insistent rumours coming from Italy, hastily convened journalists and insisted upon an impossible amount for anyone: “Modric only leaves Madrid if you pay his €750 million release clause.”
Strong words, but it did not extinguish Inter’s mid-summer dream: Ausilio and Gardini, in short, look at the evolution of the situation, remaining patient and in the meantime do not push for their Mister X, the possible midfield alternative to be signed for Luciano Spalletti’s Inter.
There is in fact, a pact between Modric and Florentino Perez, reinforced by the many trophies won together with Madrid: a gentleman’s agreement, but not in writing, that more or less sounds like this:
If Luka goes by himself to the President of Real Madrid, and he says that he feels his time at the Bernabeu has come to an end and explains the reasons for his desire to bid farewell to Los Blancos, Perez will let him leave without hindering his future and without asking crazy figures from the new club.
Zara’s champion will make the difference, and his entourage knows very well: the team led by Vlado Lemic and including Beppe Riso and Predrag Mijatovic. have “offered” Luka to the Nerazzurri after bringing Vrsaljko to Corso Vittorio Emanuele. Nothing is impossible, if Modric, almost 33, chooses to leave Real, the Nerazzurri will sit at the table with the agents of the player to find an agreement for the engagement.