Fortress remain Inter’s likely source of investment in the coming weeks, according to a report in the Italian media.
Carlo Festa, a reporter for Il Sole 24 Ore, said the Nerazzurri’s owners Suning had three options to secure the €250 million they needed to make it through to the end of the year.
Fortress are in pole position to give Inter a loan which will help them cover their impending financial deadlines, but Bain Capital Credit are still working on seeking a deal with Suning too.
Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), meanwhile, are interested in buying a minority stake in the club and recently made contact via lawyers representing them from Freshfields.
Inter president Steven Zhang has effectively made it clear that Suning will not sell the club, the report continued, by setting an extremely high asking price for anyone wishing to purchase a majority stake: €1 billion.
BC Partners were interested in buying Inter recently but the British private equity firm only ever valued the Nerazzurri at €700 million.
Suning’s objective now is to make it to the end of the year while hopefully winning the Serie A title with Inter in the meantime.
They will then choose the best course of action for the future, although Festa warned that their current talks to find a loan deal were ‘complex’.
Inter are already heavily in debt and securing a loan would only go to increase that level of debt, with the Nerazzurri thought to have around €400 million of it now.
