Inter will try to get younger next year following the indications of Oaktree. They made just one signing following the takeover, Tomas Palacios. The brass and Simone Inzaghi wouldn’t have minded onboarding more experienced players.
The Nerazzurri will intervene in the back, TuttoSport informs. Francesco Acerbi is 37, while Stefan De Vrij is 33, and their deals expire in 2025. At this stage, there hasn’t been much urgency concerning their renewals. The mandate might have come from the top.
It’s highly likely that just one of them will still be at Inter next season. The Italian veteran is still going strong despite being older. The Dutchman has flirted with a possible move aboard in previous years.
The Nerazzurri have shortlisted primarily Jaka Bijol for the position. They’ll have to open their wallet to get him, though. Udinese will sign a prospective replacement, Oumar Solet, soon, perhaps anticipating the eventual departure of their star.
The Scudetto holders have several more players on their radar: Giorgio Scalvini and Perr Schuurs, who are out due to ACL tears at the moment, Bayer Leverkusen’s Jonathan Tah, who’ll be out of contract in the summer, PSV’s Olivier Boscagli and Valencia’s Yarek Gasiorowski, whom they already wanted in the summer.
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They are in a particular spot as, they should indeed ditch one and add a younger player, but the departure won’t fetch anything, and there doesn’t seem to be any profitable exit in the cards, while their targets, besides Tah, are expensive. It’ll be a problem if Oaktree imposes the same strategy as last summer, and re-upping with the duo is the cheapest solution.
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