It will also be true that a swallow does not make spring, and that, on the other hand, the adage “who leaves the old way for the new …”, when there are millions and millions of euros at stake, often has good foundations on which to lean, and to prevail over greed of belly. In any case, between requests for and against a transfer of Armando Izzo in the Inter shirt, a prospect given as decidedly probable between winter and spring, the track that would bring the 28-year-old athlete from Campania to the Antonio Conte, just that technician who had branded him as almost perfect for his style of play, and who now risks, against all expectations, to terminate the relationship with the black and blue club much earlier than expected, appears closed, after the bad performance offered by the defender grenade Monday evening. Of course, the evaluations carried out by the club on the basis of the growth shown by Izzo, at least until last autumn, along the Mazzarri management remain standing; but it is reasonable to think that the managers of a company, moreover a company with a huge coat of arms and with a remarkable return prospect among the big absolute in Europe, are very unwilling to bet, and bet a lot, on a player who, just in front of that team that should go to strengthen and improve, has definitely disfigured, to the point of being the worst on the field.
Izzo, needless to deny it, has often been at the center of the Bull’s worst moments of this wretched 2019/20. Shade of himself fifteen months ago, or even just the sprint start of last summer, his wedding with the grenade club, especially if the adventurer – and misfortunes – anticipated him in the farewell Nicolas Nkoulou, it could even continue, for lack of pretenders available to touch at least those 15 million euros set as the minimum emolument that Cairo and Vagnati expect to let the ex-Genoa leave. If, however, the player gave his season a dizzying growth in terms of performance, starting from this evening, Inter, especially if Diego Godìn, despite an apparent agreement found with team and technique, could try to deal with the Toro a sale at reduced costs (10-12 million), plausible in the case Izzo imposed a farewell to the club (for which it is now budgeted for less than five and a half million). In the background, on the one hand, the clubs that had probed the player until last February (Rome, Seville, Arsenal, Everton), none of which showed signs of interest; on the other, goals that for the black-blue leaders have largely exceeded, in terms of popularity, the defender of Toro (Kumbulla and Garay among all). With a contract still valid for four years, an annual salary of one million 700 thousand euros, and a future to be written.
