Inter CEO Beppe Marotta told Italian broadcaster DAZN that the club is annoyed at the statements made yesterday by the wife and agent of former Nerazzurri captain Mauro Icardi, underlining that the club has not backed down and want him to leave.

Yesterday, during the TV show Tiki Taka where Wanda Nara is a regular pundit, she suggested that the Nerazzurri President Steven Zhang has asked Mauro Icardi to stay at the club.

“It is annoying for us, and I deny in no uncertain terms that any of Inter’s directors, and in particular Steven Zhang, having invited Mauro Icardi to stay at the club.”

“Our strategy is precise and we have communicated it in the correct time. We will go forward together until the very  end and no-one at Inter can change this line that we have taken together.”

“We are very proud and grateful to our fans for having arrived at the stadium today in such high numbers today, it is up to us to repay their faith.”