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PAPER TALK: Inter to give up on Yaya, Raiola responds to Lineker’s comments on Pogba
The first one is that the nerazzurri don’t want to invest too much money on a player who is close to retirement and would prefer to put money on a younger prospect. Secondly, Manchester City are not willing to let Yaya leave the Etihad Stadium for free even if his contract expires in June 2017. The Premier League side don’t want bags of money, but they are not even open to let the player leave for nothing.
It will be very disappointing for Roberto Mancini, but his dream of seeing Yaya wearing the nerazzurri shirt could be broken already.
The future of Paul Pogba is also a matter of interest. The player agent Mino Raiola has responded to Gary Lineker who had labelled Pogba as the ‘world’s most overrated player’.
“If one’s paid to talk about football, it doesn’t necessarily mean he knows about football. How does he know Pogba’s value? If I look at how much player’s are paid, like Batshuayi to Chelsea for € 40 million, than I think Pogba is undervalued”, the powerful player’s agent told Rai
“Pogba’s worth the maximum that a club can pay for him.”
Real Madrid and Manchester United are being linked with welcoming the player’s services even if Juventus have already informed the player and his agent that Pogba is not for sale. They might only sell the Frenchman if he asks to leave the club.
ALL THE RUMOURS
Adriano Galliani has denied that he made contact with Adem Ljajic (Gazzetta dello Sport)
Atletico Madrid are in the race to sign Gonzalo Higuain (Corriere dello Sport)
Kamil Glik is set to complete a move to AS Monaco (Tuttosport)
Stefano Sturaro will replace Daniele De Rossi in Italy’s quarter final tie against Germany (Gazzetta dello Sport)
AS Roma have yet to find economic agreement with Manchester City over the sale of Pablo Zabaleta (Corriere dello Sport)
Chicharito Hernandez’s is on Juventus’ shortlist, but Arsenal are not willing to sell the Chile International (Tuttosport)
Massimiliano Allegri wants to sign one defender, one midfielder and one striker to boost Juventus’ chances to win the Champions League next season (Gazzetta dello Sport)
Inter winger Rej Manai could join Pescara on loan (Corriere dello Sport)
Belgian fullback Meunier is close to joining PSG, which mean Napoli will make an attempt to sign Widmer (Gazzetta dello Sport)
Napoli will try to convince Higuain to stay at the club, signing some top players in the summer. The partenopie have shot down an offer of € 45 million from Atletico Madrid (Tuttosport)
Bruno Peres has refused to play for Italy national team, since he has both the Brazilian and Italian passport (Tuttosport)
Napoli have offered € 18 million to Porto to sign Mexican midfielder Herrera (Gazzetta dello Sport)
Torino have matched AS Roma and Adem Ljajic’s economic request and are waiting for a final decision of the winger (Tuttosport)
Genoa dream of signing River Plate striker Alario who has a € 15 million price-tag (Gazzetta dello Sport)
