Inter could be forced to cash in on goalkeeper Andre Onana next season if they are to miss out on the Champions League for next season.
This according to today’s print edition of Rome-based newspaper Corriere dello Sport, via FCInterNews, who report that the 27-year-old could be the main candidate for a big summer sale in the event that the Nerazzurri cannot rely on the revenues from Europe’s top club competition.
With Inter’s hopes of finishing in the top four of the Serie A table now in serious jeopardy following yet another defeat in the league at the hands of Monza, the club are scrambling to plan for the contingency of not being able to count on the revenues from the Champions League.
Qualifying for next season’s edition of the competition had always been considered to be the bare minimum objective for Inter, if only because of its enormous financial significance.
Moreover, there is the fact that Inter must honour an agreement with UEFA, which would be all the more difficult without the revenues from the competition to count on.
As such, the Nerazzurri are searching for a way to balance out the financial impact that missing out on the Champions League would have on the team, and it could mean that a big name player sale is necessary.
Whilst wingback Denzel Dumfries had for some time been the player linked with a sale, with Chelsea having targeted the Dutchman and Barcelona recently asking for information, he is no longer the favourite to be sold.
The primary reason for this is simply that Dumfries’s form over the past few months has caused many of his suitors to become wary, and the former PSV man’s price tag has dropped.
However, Onana is a target for the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea, and could realistically fetch a price tag of €40 million.
It is for this reason that the Cameroonian may well be the player sacrificed for financial reasons if the Nerazzurri miss out on top four.