Inter-Atalanta – Skriniar in the stands, the curve ignores him: he will go to PSG in the summer, but will he be in the derby?

Now that even the last hope has vanished, the operation begins for Milan Skriniar… recovery. The last day of the transfer market ended without the assault by PSG or, if you prefer, without the French proposal convincing the Nerazzurri managers to let the Slovak leave immediately. Milan will go to Paris from 1 July on a free transfer, but until that date he will wear the Nerazzurri shirt and not separately at home. Translated: Inzaghi will use him because he counts on his professionalism. All right, the number 37 will no longer wear the captain’s armband when Handanovic, D’Ambrosio and Brozovic are out, but he will not be placed on the edge of the squad as Roma are oriented to do with Zaniolo. Skriniar serves tremendously in the run-up to a Champions League place. Considering that he turned his back on the viale della Liberazione club that was offering him a renewal worth over 6 million net per season and seeing that there was no agreement to recover part of the money in the winter transfer window that Zhang had refused at the end August, the centre-back will at least have to make an important contribution to allow his team to enter the top four in the standings at the end of this season.

START AGAIN WITH THE DERBY

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Skriniar is clearly neither on the pitch nor on the bench tonight. After last Saturday’s disqualification in Cremona he could have played, but the uncertainty about his future in the last few days conditioned him during the last training sessions. Inzaghi, who has already paid a hefty price by using him against Empoli, when the defender’s head was at the no just pronounced regarding the renewal, did not want to concede an encore. He will talk about it again on Sunday, when the derby takes place at San Siro. If Milan will start… against Milan, we’ll see. He certainly needs important work on a psychological level and will have to immerse himself again in the Nerazzurri after he himself asked to be transferred immediately to PSG to try to win the Champions League with Messi, Mbappé and Neymar. In viale della Liberazione they have no doubts that he will fully honor his contract, which currently allows him to earn 4.2 million until June 30th. In these 5 and a half years at the Pinetina, in fact, the Slovak has never had any “slips” and has been an exemplary professional. It is inevitable for Marotta, Ausilio and Inzaghi to think that he will continue to behave in this way despite the fact that his future under the Eiffel Tower is written.

CURVE BANNER

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Rather, we need to understand how the Nerazzurri supporters will behave now. In the last few days there have been a lot of criticisms of the former captain on social media and, after the chants and applause for Skriniar after the red card against Empoli, yesterday the Curva Nord displayed a significant banner: “Footballers and clubs: L ‘Inter loves and respects each other”. A very clear message even if he didn’t directly bring up the former Sampdoria. On the other hand, Calhanoglu, one of the protagonists in the Riyadh derby and in the air of renewing his contract, was filled with affection and chants. Skriniar? This time it was ignored. We’ll see on Sunday.