The Al-Hilal on Barella: 35 million a year! But Nicolò only wants the inter

At the moment Nicolò Barella has Germanic thoughts, as well as Italic: think back to the blue elimination in the Nations League, always against the Germans designs a Champions League revenge in Inter shirt. Then he prepares for Sunday, given that the Ruvida Udinese arrives at San Siro and the third Scudetto of life is at stake. For Nicolò, Interista di Titanio, Saudi Arabia is a distant, not particularly attractive world.

the situation

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But it is also golden, rich without apparent limit and, above all, interested in him: among the desert dunes they are ready to do follies (literal, it is not a hyperbole) for the Nerazzurri midfielder. The Saudis would like Barella among the next stars of their championship, and even beyond. Specifically, the Al-Hilal, reigning champion, is the team that is looking for an Italian engine and is ready to use, in due course, the usual lever: it is the one with which the westerners often convince Riad. An avalanche of sound money, up to 35 million per season multiplied by four. The (in vain) hope is to shake the blind faith of Nicolò, who, however, in this particular moment of life sees nothing but Nerazzurri

great maneuvers

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The Board of the Al-Hilal, recently gathered, has confirmed an international project, well beyond the limited boundaries of his home league. He decided to place at least a blow to effect immediately: he would be a player in the middle of his career, not one at sunset called only to winter. It would mainly be used as a business card for the United States, historic allies of Saudi Arabia in every field. The idea is to arrive with a new purchase at the Club World Cup, the showcase expected to definitively plant a flag where it counts, in the heart of FIFA. The Al-Hilal will also face the great Real Madrid, against which he would not like to disfigure too much and the extra transfer window, from 1 to 10 June, is there on purpose. Barella is among the very first on the club’s list and the budget available is, as per tradition, exaggerated. In January, Riad’s blue had reasoned on a salary for Nicolò from 18 million, without going to the actual assault, but instead designed to double the mail. They have not yet sent an official proposal, neither on the Barella table nor on that of Inter, but in Arabia it swears that in the spring we will move on to the operational phase. It is still one of the 4 clubs of direct emanation of PIF, the endless safe of the Emir, and with a certain habit of handling Italian training players, from the former Lazio Sergej Milinkovic-Savic to the former Naples Kalidou Koulibaly. If anything, in the squad of the Portuguese coach Jorge Jesus, Nicolò’s first admirer, there is a large technical and economic space: he left him by Neymar, after the termination of the contract at the end of January. The Brazilian, who returned to Santos with 200 million more on the account (took 100 per year), will be replaced at all levels. If Momo Salah is courted in front, in the middle the dream is Italian.

Solda perspective

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With the renewal signed in 2024, from 6.5 million per season until 2029, Barella is already the most paid Italian in the whole A, the second of the Inzaghi company together with Calaha behind Lautaro. The most paid Italian footballer in history could become by far (the Chinese Pellè stopped “only” at 15), but it is not a perspective that interests him in any way: it is not a story of money, this, but of love and belonging. Nicolò in Milan has planted roots, built a happy family with four brats and it is here that he wants to stay still to design new successes with Inzaghi. So far he has never even listened to the courtship of Big European, despite being always pleased to receive appreciation around the world, including Arabia. At the end of the next season, 2025-26, he hopes to play the first coveted career worldwide in blue and, perhaps, after that BOA round, he will be able to look at his career from above. In any case, in addition to the more general life project, the desire to compete in the elite will always weigh. It goes without saying that not even in the Inter house there is the slightest desire to deprive yourself of Nicolò, deputy chief and polar star for the fans: no price will be done, not even to the rich Saudi, usually people who are not very compliant in the negotiations. The sinuous dunes on the gulf will also be able to seduce, distort the perspective of many, but that of Nicolò certainly not: it is firm, in the Nerazzurri.