“He who pays what he owes knows what he has,” goes the saying. Inter Milan know they have a real treasure in Romelu Lukaku, but they seem to have forgotten that they have not yet paid Manchester United … and they can pay dearly.
The Daily Mail newspaper in England states that the British team will not give any more waiting time for the almost 50 million euros that the Italians have not paid for the transfer of the attacker, which was registered in 2019 in exchange for 87 million euros.
The condition is clear: either they fulfill Lukaku’s obligation with cash or two specific players will be accepted as payment, none other than Lautaro Martínez or Milan Skriniar.
United calculates these transfers as ‘compensation’ for late payment, which has obviously earned high interest. It may be that the Argentine, valued at a figure close to 100 million euros, is a little out of reach, but the English would be encouraged to see what happens. That of the Slovak, close to 50 million, would seem a little more realistic.
In fact, according to Il Corriere dello Sport, everyone thought about that at the time of Lukaku’s signing and that is why there is a clause between the two clubs that establishes that, in case of not paying the pending fee, the club that defaults will pay with the loan of a player.
The Asian firm Suning, a giant in the Chinese retail market, owns Inter Milan and has had significant financial complications in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, it is said that the company has already stopped operations in its soccer clubs in China due to financial problems and in the last hours it lost its sponsor Pirelli, which is why it is looking for allies that allow it to rebound in the market. Everything, in the end, is about silver.