Marotta ready to touch 43 million fixed part, but the game is played on the bonuses. Oaktree’s yes to the “different” investment
Crown that brings wealth: this, in the Yoruba language, means the name Ademola. Who knows if President Beppe Marotta knew it, when yesterday he explained the reason for the Lookman exception, of the ‘derogation’ Oaktree to an investment for a footballer who goes for 28 years. “With 11 young talents you do not win – said the president -. Next to the talent it takes experience. Lookman certainly is not a profile can be sold for his age. But the advantage he can give us is his quality and the fact that a good player transmits important concepts to the boys and also grows the value of the youngest”. Growth of value, therefore wealth. So, all about Lookman. Everything to the point that this morning, taking advantage of the Lega Council, Marotta will present to the CEO of Atalanta, Luca Percassi, a new offer for the Nigerian striker. “Yes, this is the decisive week -said Marotta -. I think that in 2-3 days we will arrive at the end of a comparison between Inter and Atalanta. If there are conditions, we will activate a complete negotiation and perhaps we will arrive at the conclusion. Otherwise there will be different choices”.
The situation
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But this is not the time to really think about different orientations. Because the meaning of Marotta’s words was not that of a ultimatum in the negotiation, rather responded to the desire to put a player considered central, both in terms of enthusiasm and on a strictly technical level for the tactical project that Chivu has in mind. Inter are not thinking of a plan B, there is only Lookman. And in fact today Marotta will break through the famous offer of 40 million and will approach the 50 asked by Atalanta. Inter would like to do it only through bonuses, perhaps including some practically automatic. It will not be enough. And therefore it is likely that today the Nerazzurri proposal will be at 43 million fixed part, with the addition of 2-3 other variable part. The game, Pardon, will probably be played on the negotiation on the entity and nature of the bonuses: the dialogue is open, there is the strong feeling of the Inter who in one way or another the right way to get to the signatures will be found. Maybe even going beyond the day today, considering that if on the one hand there is a haste and the desire to announce the Nigerian, on the other there is also the awareness that Lookman is currently injured and therefore could not however take the field immediately with Chivu. In short: the closure is in the air. It does not seem an insurmountable climb. Also because of the interview of last week between Marotta and Percassi, in fact the first sign of Disgeel, a preparatory passage to today’s announcement.
Agreement
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Inter moved strong in the agreement reached for weeks with Lookman and its agents: 4.5 million euros net per season (plus bonuses) until 2030. Agreement to which the Nigerian has always maintained faith, reaffirming the ownership of Atalanta and also to the technician Juric his will to leave Bergamo and reach the Nerazzurri of Milan. It is a correspondence of loving senses: on the one hand Ademola that it is not seen that Interista, on the other Marotta and aid who have put any other market negotiation on stand by in order to reach the attacker. Even by turning into the strategy, once understood to the end that the farewell of Calhanoglu would not have materialized and that therefore to turn it would have served more, that it would have been possible to invest the funds in another area of the field, stopping thinking about Ederson. Marotta recalled how on the name of Lookman there is maximum harmony with Chivu: “With the coach we shared the search for footballers who have a certain ductility and who give him the opportunity to play with multiple patterns”. At that point it was not difficult, for Marotta and for the DS Ausilio, to convince the ownership of the importance of a strong investment: Oaktree gave the green light to an operation that will make the Nerazzurri breakdown 100 million spent on the market. The goal is clear and it is good for everyone. Marotta certified it: “It is useless to hide behind free phrases as ‘we want to get to the top four’. We are Inter. And we are used to being clear, we want to win”. With Lookman.
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