Tottenham Hotspur are continuing negotiations with Inter Milan for Milan Skriniar and could offer a deal worth more than his current £70,000-a-week wages, according FCInterNews.
While Martin Skrtel has implored his Slovakia team-mate to stay put and fight for his place at the San Siro, it would be no surprise if the man himself saw things a little differently.
With Diego Godin silencing the doubters and establishing himself at last as a key part of Antonio Conte’s starting XI, Skriniar has replaced the Uruguayan on Inter’s bench.
In fact, he has played just six minutes of football during the Nerazzuri’s Europa League clashes with Getafe and Bayer Leverkusen, while starting one of the final four Serie A fixtures of a difficult 2019/20 campaign.
Skriniar has struggled to adapt from Luciano Spalletti’s back four to the three-man system preferred by Conte and, according to Gazzetta dello Sport, the £45 million-rated centre-back is no longer viewed as ‘unsellable’ at the San Siro.
But if Inter are not going to offer Skriniar the first-team football he deserves, then Tottenham would be happy to come to the rescue of one of Europe’s finest defenders.
Reports from Italy today claim that Jose Mourinho sees the former Sampdoria ace as the man to take Jan Vertonghen’s place, if not his number five shirt, at the heart of Spurs’ backline.
The North London giants would offer Skriniar a deal worth more than his current £70,000-a-week contract, though a swap involving Tanguy Ndombele feels unlikely given that the Frenchman still has plenty of admirers within the walls of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Fast, strong, uncompromising and still young at just 25, Skriniar feels like exactly the kind of top-class centre-half the very best Mourinho teams are built upon.
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