Earlier on Friday, we covered an article from Italy looking at a couple of targets Tottenham had their eye on.
They were both players whose contracts are expiring in the summer, with Franck Kessie and Lorenzo Insigne seemingly on Fabio Paratici’s list.
Well, if Italian journalist Rudy Galetti is to be believed, Spurs and their director of football have made the first move to sign the Ivory Coast international.
That’s because he reports that both Paris Saint-Germain and Tottenham have put forward an offer of around €10m/year for the midfielder, which is why Milan are finding it so hard to renew him.
🚨📲 Rinnovo #Kessie, posizioni sempre distanti tra #Milan e #Atangana (€6,5M vs €9M).
L'agente del centrocampista 🔴⚫ non abbassa le sue richieste, forte delle offerte da c.a €10M ricevute da #Tottenham e #PSG. Anche il #ManUTD si muove con decisione per l'🇨🇮. 🐓⚽ #SerieA pic.twitter.com/xwOClcy3Ng — Rudy Galetti (@RudyGaletti) December 16, 2021
Because he knows he has these deals up his sleeve, which Kessie’s agent ‘has received’, he is therefore ‘not lowering his demands’, which Milan cannot meet.
So far, their best offer has been €6.5m/year, with the request standing at €9m, showing some desire to stay, since that’s €1m/year less than what Spurs are offering.
In the background, Manchester United are also ‘moving decisively’, but they appear a step behind Tottenham, since no contract offer has been sent from Carrington.
We’ll have to wait and see in all this, but it appears Paratici is ready to bring out the big guns to secure the midfielder’s services going forward.
