Inter’s loan deal with Oaktree Capital could be great news for the Nerazzurri’s summer transfer campaign, according to a report in the Italian media today.
Tuttosport’s print edition said the €275 million deal would help Suning keep hold of the team’s key players, despite Inter’s well-documented financial problems.
Inter are not out of the woods completely despite the agreement with Oaktree Capital, although there are still conflicting reports about what will happen in the summer.
Another report on Friday, for instance, said it was still ‘a real possibility’ that one or two members of Antonio Conte’s starting XI could be sold.
Inter’s announcement of the deal with Oaktree Capital raised a lot of eyebrows, the Turin-based paper added, after they restricted themselves to a very short statement via Italian news agency ANSA.
The report argued this was ‘a very unusual’ way to present such an important operation, because normally clubs would provide a detailed explanation of the deal.
Suning’s name did not feature anywhere in the announcement, but this is because they are trying to keep a low profile after they were forced to recruit help from the Chinese state to solve their financial problems.
Inter’s statement referred to problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic but, as TS noted, there have also been a lot of problems caused by China’s government and their restrictions on exporting capital abroad.
