It would be easy to say that Inter should have accepted a €50 million offer from Paris Saint-Germain for Milan Skriniar in the summer, but this would be the bias of hindsight.
This is the view of Italian broadcaster Sky Sport Italia, via FCInterNews, who argued that the Nerazzurri’s strategy with the 27-year-old’s contract situation makes more sense if one considers that they felt confident that they could agree a new deal.
It now looks completely inevitable that Inter will lose Skriniar on a free transfer, ass the Slovakian has been reported to have agreed a deal to join PSG already, having clearly rebuffed the Nerazzurri’s offer of a contract extension.
Given the Nerazzurri’s financial situation, the prospect of losing a high-value player for nothing is a bitter one, and this is even more the case when one considers that there had been an offer of €50 million on the table just a few months ago, from the club that the player is set to join anyway.
The Nerazzurri decided to keep hold of Skriniar in the summer rather than sell him to PSG, because it had been felt that keeping the player would be essential to keeping the team competitive on the pitch.
Had Inter known that the 27-year-old would decline their offer of a new deal, however, it is very unlikely that they would have kept turning down PSG’s offers in the summer, right until the end of the transfer window.
The Nerazzurri, Sky suggest, had some reason to believe that they would be able to secure Skriniar’s future with a new deal over the course of the current season, and this is why they decided against selling him for any of the offers that arrived from PSG.
The club have now been made to look like they were operating with a very risk strategy, or without an strategy or whatsoever, in light of how the situation has blown up in their faces.
However, Sky argues, looking back to how the situation had looked in August, the club’s actions make somewhat more sense.
