When it came to leaving Tottenham Hotspur, Christian Eriksen was supposed to be joining Barcelona or Real Madrid in a big money transfer. That’s what the Danish sport media largely grasped at for years.
Even the smallest and least unreliable claim from Spain would be turned into a big story at times, getting full pages in newspapers and being talked about on TV.
Eriksen was outgrowing Tottenham and therefore the natural step was to move to one of the Spanish giants. That, of course, didn’t happen, and instead he ran his contract down and moved to Inter Milan for around €25m.
Despite the huge fanfare at the beginning, the switch hasn’t gone to plan and this season has seen his involvement get progressively less. For Inter’s first Serie A match, Eriksen started against Fiorentina, before coming off after 64 minutes.
In the next match against Benevento, he was given eight minutes, and he didn’t get off the bench at all as Inter faced Lazio.
Tipsbladet quote him as saying: “I did not hear anything from my agent, and if there had been anything around me, then I would have heard it from him or from the club, but there was nothing.
“I have gradually got used to the fact that a lot is written in the press. What is true and what is not true, I cannot answer. I only know what I have been told and there was nothing concrete at all. So Monday was just a day like everyone else for me, because nothing happened.”
That doesn’t mean he’s content with warming the Inter bench: “I certainly do not hope that I will sit on the bench all autumn. At least that’s not my intention. Nor do I hope it’s the club’s or the coach’s intention.
“Of course you become less patient when you have experience and have tried different things. Whether you are 20-years-old, 28-years-old or in your 30s, you do not want to sit on the bench.”
