A contract extension is ready for wingback Denzel Dumfries at Inter Milan when the Dutchman returns from the international break.
This according to today’s print edition of Turin-based newspaper Tuttosport, via FCInterNews.
At this stage, Dumfries’s contract saga has already dragged on longer than most had expected.
For the time being, the 28-year-old is under contract with Inter until the end of next June.
The Nerazzurri, of course, do not want to lose Dumfries on a free transfer at the end of the season.
For this reason, Inter have been working to try and extend the former PSV wingback’s contract for some while. The talks began seriously last winter.
Initially, it had seemed as though Dumfries would not be willing to accept Inter’s offer.
The Nerazzurri have long made it clear that they will not offer wages of more than €4 million net per season. Initially, Dumfries’s demands were higher than that.
But the Dutchman wants to stay. Therefore, he has agreed to those terms.
Denzel Dumfries Contract Extension At Inter Milan Ready For After International Break
Dumfries did not put pen to paper on a new contract during the summer.
Inter had reportedly been hoping to secure the 28-year-old’s future by the end of the transfer window, to avoid another Milan Skriniar situation.
And it is now a couple of months into the new season. And Dumfries still has not actually signed an extension.
But according to the Gazzetta, there is no worry at Inter.
Everything is in place as far as an agreement between the Nerazzurri and Dumfries. It is just a matter of the Dutchman signing on the dotted line.
The one thing that Dumfries has made clear to Inter, the Gazzetta reports, is that he hopes for more playing time.
So far this season Matteo Darmian has been the regular starter at right-wingback.
However, the Gazzetta anticipate, the main reason for this has simply been that Dumfries has not quite been at his best physical condition yet.
