On Wednesday, we covered an article in Corriere dello Sport regarding Inter’s interest in Tottenham’s Mousa Dembélé, and their claim that Piero Ausilio, the Serie A side’s director of football, would be travelling ‘in the coming days’ to try and sort a transfer out.
Well, either ‘in the coming days’ has a new meaning or something has come up that’s excited the Italian side because he’s already on his way.
This is what the same newspaper are reporting 24 hours later, explaining that neither Ausilio nor Inter’s chief financial and operating officer were present for a board meeting regarding the ‘second squads’, having travelled ‘abroad’ to negotiate the Belgian midfielder’s transfer.
There had already been ‘contacts’ between club and player, and it appears whatever Inter were told was good enough for them to make travel arrangements to have a chat with Daniel Levy.
As to the details of any potential operation, the numbers haven’t changed overnight, with Tottenham still valuing their star midfielder at around €30m despite him only have one year left on his current deal.
Dembélé, down his end, has already said ‘yes’ to Inter, and the Italian side believe there might be room to negotiate his price down, which was already reported on Wednesday.
Some progress, it seems.
