Torino president Urbano Cairo has raised doubts about the club’s willingness to trigger the buyout option for Kristjan Asllani in their agreement with Inter Milan.
During his latest interview via FCInterNews, Cairo urged the Albania international to ‘convince’ the Granata to hand him a permanent contract.
Last season’s Serie A runners-up spent a large chunk of the summer trying to offload Kristjan Asllani.
Indeed, new boss Cristian Chivu deemed the deep-lying midfielder surplus to requirements immediately upon his arrival in June.
However, the 23-year-old made it difficult for the Nerazzurri to move him on, rejecting multiple opportunities before accepting Torino’s offer.
Asllani turned down Rayo Vallecano’s approach, even though the Spanish side had a verbal agreement with Inter.
When it looked like the former Empoli star would stay at San Siro for another season, Torino swooped in to sign him.
Furthermore, the Granata included a buyout clause, worth around €12 million.
Yet, Asllani’s permanent transfer to Turin is far from a foregone conclusion.
Urbano Cairo Casts Doubt on Inter Milan Loanee Kristjan Asllani Permanent Move to Torino
Asllani has found his footing at the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino this season.
Indeed, he has amassed nine appearances in Serie A, becoming one of the cornerstones of Marco Baroni’s midfield.
However, that’s not been enough to convince Cairo.
“With Albania, he’ll go to the playoffs, just like we Italians,” Cairo said. “He had a good second half in the derby.
“We like Asllani,” he added. “We brought him in on loan and he’s doing well.
“It’s up to the coach to decide whether to play him.
“Purchasing him? We’re not even a third of the way into the season: we want to see him in action.
“He’s doing good things and needs to keep it up to convince us to buy him out.”
I don’t get why people expect him to play as DM, when his talent is in the attacking phase of the game. As an AM he would be a dangerous player.
It is the same with Frattesi, he naturally is an attacking player but he is deployed as a CM.
Not all the blame is on others tho the player himself must prove what he can do. His problem is actually not making a case for himself by not taking risk going forward and scoring goals. Frattesi for whatever he is the guy knows how to score goals and that win you matches making him valuable to any team but it comes with a risk if it doesn’t work out
No, Frattesi is not “valuable to any team”. He is not Inter material. Both Frattesi and Asllani obviously are not good enough to play in high-level football.