Over the past few days there’s been several reports from Italy making Milan Skriniar to Tottenham sound like a near dead deal. A potential transfer had hit the rocks after Spurs started to give Inter Milan the silent treatment.
As we explained at the time, that could have been a tactic, with Jose Mourinho’s club potentially returning with an offer closer to the deadline and hoping that in the pressure of the moment the Serie A club would accept.
Inter then made their own chess move, with sports director Piero Ausilio going public to say the defender wouldn’t be leaving: “We reiterated that Skriniar is not on the market and no offers have arrived in this sense, rather than reiterating that he will stay here I don’t know what to say.”
Given the stage of the window, it’s explained seeing ‘white smoke’ on the transfer will be difficult, partly because Inter would have to find themselves a replacement.
If Tottenham are waiting to pounce then it’s probably best they do it sooner rather than later.
