The Slovakian defender is not part of Luis Enrique’s plans and wants to look for a new position: here are the interested teams
And to think that at a certain point PSG was willing to pay him up to 60 million just to have him immediately, despite the fact that he only had one year left on his contract. In the space of a year and a half, however, everything changed for Milan Skriniar who went from the role of Inter captain to redundant. Taken out by Luis Enrique who doesn’t consider him compatible with his football. The failure to be called up for Saturday’s match against Lyon was a sort of point of no return. A humiliation for the Slovakian. And farewell is now a necessity. The January market will therefore be decisive in finding an outlet worthy of the status and salary. Maybe in Italy, or in any case in some of Europe’s big names, between La Liga and especially the Premier League, where Tottenham is a plausible destination.
CYCLE
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In the summer of 2022, Skriniar was President Al Khelaifi’s priority target. The negotiations with the Milanese club, however, had not found common ground, despite the generous proposals that were systematically rejected in a risky upward game, which turned out to be a losing one. Six months later, the centre-back decided that his time with the Nerazzurri was in any case at its end, arranging the transfer as a free agent to the Ville Lumière. A deal for PSG and also for the player who logically obtained a more important salary, worth 10 million euros net for five years.
HIERARCHY
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The beginning in France was positive. Skriniar had established himself as a starter in Lucho’s defense. Last January’s injury to his left ankle shattered his momentum. Thanks to a return, a little early due to technical needs, which started a process of marginalization. Luis Enrique gradually did without it and around August 20, without any warning, the player was asked to find another place to live. The too tight deadlines reduced any serious prospect and in the end the Slovakian remained, making himself available to the coach, guaranteeing maximum commitment, regardless of the new defensive hierarchies.
MISUNDERSTANDINGS
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So far, however, Lucho has managed it downwards and on Saturday the exclusion came. A lack of call-up justified, in an unconvincing way, with the fact of “not being able to bring more than 20 players to the match”. For Skriniar, an unequivocal message, corroborated by the fact that then against Lyon, PSG played with the left-footed and immature Beraldo as a right-back. In short, in Paris there are no more prospects for the 29-year-old who in recent months has lived the situation without ever protesting, adapting to technical choices that have become incomprehensible even to his colleagues, as the newspapers L’Equipe and Le Parisien have explained in recent days.
OUTLETS
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Regardless of the call-ups for tomorrow’s match against Monaco, Skriniar is now at a crossroads. To break away from PSG you also need to understand the indications on the negotiation conditions. The defender has three and a half years left on his contract, and to return to Italy he would need an opening on an expensive loan. Also for a possible arrival in Naples, where Bongiorno has just been injured and would find Conte again, despite the worsening relations between the clubs over the Osimehn case. In Spain, a trail leads not to Real Madrid, the enemy club, but to Atletico Madrid, more compatible in terms of playing philosophy with the characteristics of the player. However, a relaunch in the Premier League, in first-tier teams, is more credible. Like Tottenham where he would enter an active rotation with Romero and Van de Ven.
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