Inter’s current owners Suning and prospective buyers BC Partners are still in negotiations with one another, according to an Italian broadcaster’s report this afternoon.

As per Sport Mediaset, Suning leaking to the press last week that negotiations had stopped was simply a way of getting the British private equity fund to raise their offer to buy the Nerazzurri.

BC Partners have offered €800 million to Suning for a majority stake at Inter and it now remains to be seen what the Zhang family decide to do with the offer on the table.

The offer is still some way off Suning’s reported asking price of €1 billion, but the broadcaster argued that the €750 million offered by BC Partners was still a considerable amount of money given the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

BC Partners have already completed their due diligence on Inter’s accounts but are only one of several interested parties in Inter, who are suffering from a real lack of liquidity at this moment for a multitude of reasons.