PAPER TALK: Kante pushes Matic towards Juventus. Candreva to Inter: the latest
Kwadwo Asamoah, Roberto Pereyra, Mario Lemina, Hernanes and Stefano Sturaro can leave the J Stadium for the right offer and despite the arrival of Miralem Pjanic from AS Roma, Juventus are still looking for a centre midfielder.
Sami Khedira’s precarious physical condition don’t guarantee that the Germany International will always be available each game of the 2016-17 campaign, whilst Claudio Marchisio will only return in November after a knee injury picked up at the end of the last campaign.
The future of another Italy International, Antonio Candreva is subject of intense speculations. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Inter will meet Lazio today during a meeting between all the Serie A clubs scheduled in Milan.
Suning has informed Piero Ausilio that he can’t improve the € 20 million offer he had already proposed to Lazio. New nerazzurri owners don’t want to invest too much money on a player who will turn 30 soon. Lazio have accepted Napoli’s € 23 million bid for Candreva, but the player has no agreement with the partenopei as he wants to join Inter only.
Meantime Davide Santon will undergo medical with Napoli in the next few hours, whilst Inter’s asking price for Marcelon Brozovic is more than € 25 million. The Croatia International is wanted by Liverpool and Tottenham.
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Adriano Galliani is trying to persuade Carlos Bacca to join West Ham as AC Milan can only buy new players with proceedings from sales until the Chinese consortium completes the club’s takeover (Gazzetta dello Sport)
Juventus and Napoli will have a first meeting today over Gonzalo Higuain (various)
Inter want to sign Lucas Vazquez from Real Madrid adding a buy-back clause, just like Juventus did with Morata two years ago (Corriere dello Sport)
MLS star Sebastian Giovinco hopes he can rejoin Italy national team under new coach Giampiero Ventura (Gazzetta dello Sport)
Napoli boss Maurizio Sarri is not going to swap the 4-3-3 formation with any other system next season (Gazzetta dello Sport)
The partenopei are planning to spend incomes from the sale of Gonzalo Higuain signing Icardi and Bazoer (Tuttosport)
Villareal defender Mateo Musacchio wants to join AC Milan only (Corriere dello Sport)
Arsenal and Atletico Madrid are also interested in Inter’s Mauro Icardi (Tuttosport)
Montella could try out Bertolacci as playmaker for one more game after his positive performance against Bordeaux in the first friendly of the season (Gazzetta dello Sport)
Juventus are considering a move for Andre Gomes and Nemanja Matic given that the Old Lady is still looking for a centre midfielder (Tuttosport)
AS Roma could offer youngster Sadiq plus money in exchange for Bologna star Diawara (Gazzetta dello Sport)
Iago Falque and Adem Ljajic have agreed terms with Torino. The granata are now chasing Napoli’s Mirko Valdifiori (Gazzetta dello Sport)
