Inter had an agreement with defender Milan Skriniar on a prospective contract extension worth €5 million net per season prior to the summer transfer window.
This according to Italian journalist Marco Barzaghi, who reported in a video on his YouTube channel that the Nerazzurri will now have to offer more in response to the fact that the 27-year-old received a much larger offer from Paris Saint-Germain during the summer.
It is far from clear whether or not Skriniar will extend his contract with the Nerazzurri.
The club have gone as high as they feel that they feasibly can with their offer, and they will have to hope that the player’s desire to remain at Inter and in the city of Milan will convince him to reject higher prospective offers from PSG and other clubs.
The situation could well have been avoided had a deal been agreed at lower terms before the start of the summer and the transfer saga between Skriniar and PSG.
On the other hand, the fact that the player had been ready to accept the Nerazzurri’s offer prior to the summer could well suggest a continued willingness to stay on.
“Bad luck meant that certain situations didn’t quite come to pass,” Barzaghi explained, “before the summer there had been an agreement for €5 million net per season to extend, and this is another reason why Inter showed strength in rejecting unsuitable offers for Skriniar.”
“Then PSG were ready to break the bank with their offer, which introduced doubts,” he added.
“If they offer the player €9 million net per season for four seasons plus a €10 million euro bonus, there’s a difference of about twenty million compared to what Inter are offering.”
“However,” Barzaghi noted, “the pre-Christmas meeting with the agent and the fact that they have made another appointment at the beginning of 2023 demonstrates that the talks are still very much alive.”
