Inter: sprint for Toulalan. AC Milan: Inzaghi confirmed
As explained by Rai journalist Ciro Venerato, Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini absolutely wants to obtain Manchester City 31-year-old midfielder Yaya Touré, and to accomplish him the nerazzurri are ready to sell an important player; on the contrary, they are not intentioned to make a great sacrifice to sign Paris Saint-Germain 29-year forward Ezequiel Lavezzi; in any case, the Lombard club’s first move will be signing on permanent basis 23-year-old winger Xherdan Shaqiri and 24-year-old full back Davide Santon, and this operation will cost about 19 million euros: to obtain such amount, Inter will have to sell one between 28-year-old midfielder Fredy Guarin, 30-year-old goalkeeper Samir Handanovic, 20-year-old midfielder Mateo Kovacic and 21-year-old striker Mauro Icardi: this latter has told Sportmediaset that there is still some distance with the nerazzurri regarding his new contract. Meanwhile, still according to Venerato, the Lombard club has carried out the negotiation for 31-year-old midfielder Jérémy Toulalan, whose contract with Monaco is about to expire, but, according to the Corriere dello Sport, Napoli still hope to sign the Frenchman. After another deceiving performance, the situation of AC Milan’s coach Filippo Inzaghi is once again extremely delicate: as revealed by calciomercato.com, the rossoneri’s president and major shareholder Silvio Berlusconi had decided to fire the 41-year-old, but finally his right hand Adriano Galliani has convinced him to wait at least until the game against Fiorentina.