Mauro Icardi is ‘profoundly offended’ by how Inter have treated him this summer, Corriere dello Sport reported today.

The striker was excluded from tactical exercises at last week’s Swiss training camp and will miss the Nerazzurri’s summer tour in Asia.

Icardi has told close friends he intends to see out the remaining two years of his contract in Milan, but the paper assured this was unlikely.

“Staying on the sidelines for three seasons – last season plus the next two – would mean giving up your future and pretty much saying goodbye to top-level football,” Corriere wrote this morning.

“Icardi is too intelligent not to realise how serious that would be for his career.”

Juventus remain the club best positioned to sign Inter’s former captain but the Bianconeri are waiting for his price tag to drop.

Inter do not want to sell him on the cheap but Fabio Paratici is confident they will have to review their demand of €70 million as the end of the transfer window approaches.

Napoli are also interested, despite Aurelio De Laurentiis’ public denials, but the Partenopei are aware they face an uphill battle.