Making it clear he wanted a change of air from Tottenham, a club he had spent six and a half years at, Christian Eriksen got a £25m or so more to Inter in January of this year.
The move was largely seen as a coup, despite the fact he only had six months left on his contract at Spurs, yet it’s been anything but since his arrival.
The Denmark international has hugely struggled to convince Antonio Conte he deserves a spot in his team, to the point where the player himself said the move wasn’t the dream one he’d expected, which was quickly followed by Beppe Marotta, Inter’s CEO, suggesting he expected the playmaker to ask for a transfer in January.
Well, that’s exactly what Ekstrabladet in his home country are calling for, with a whole page dedicated to the matter, baffled as to why ‘Conte repeatedly chooses to ignore Eriksen’.
Written by Allan Olsen, the newspaper’s chief of sport, the report explains the manager’s decision to bring the attacking midfielder on in the dying seconds of the game against Bologna was the ‘ultimate humiliation’.
While this shouldn’t be ‘necessary’, since it’s likely to ‘happen anyway’, Olsen points out the player ‘MUST (in capitals) leave Inter’ in the upcoming transfer period.
The biggest issue for the former Tottenham player regarding a move in the next window would be a loss of funds, as he ‘will have to wave goodbye to a considerable million if he leaves Italy in January due to some tax technical issues’, but even ‘without having access to Eriksen’s bank accounts’, Olsen says ‘and so what!’.
The journalist points out that ‘he has probably already earned more than he can spend in a long life, and with at least five years left to gather some more, it should work’.
The ex-Spurs star wouldn’t be short of suitors, either, because he is a ‘so called proven player’, and ‘the big clubs should be interested’, and while wages could be an issue, ‘Eriksen has to pack his bags, give Conte the finger and then find a club where he can play football’.
