According to TMW, Napoli made a €50m offer for Juventus target Mauro Icardi, but Inter have decided they’ll sell only for €80m to pay for Romelu Lukaku.
The Nerazzurri have made it clear Icardi is not in their plans and left him out of their pre-season tour of Asia.
It was assumed by many that this treatment would significantly reduce Icardi’s value on the transfer market from €110m down to approximately €60-70m.
With this in mind, Napoli made their first formal bid to Inter for the striker at €50m, according to Tuttomercatoweb.
However, the same report states Inter rejected it outright and won’t even sit down to negotiations unless their €80m asking price is met.
Napoli were seemingly surprised, hoping for preferential treatment from Inter compared to arch-rivals Juventus, who were hoping to wait it out for just €40m in late August.
This version of events suggests Inter have decided not to sell Icardi for less than his market value and to hope his €80m fee can be used to purchase replacement Lukaku from Manchester United.
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when Napoli wanted to sell a player : Koulibaly €120 .... When napoli wanted to buy a player : James for loan, icardi for €50