The bad news for Barcelona continues. From Italy, specifically the newspaper Corriere dello Sport, indicate that the great pretension culé for months, Lautaro Martínez, does not want to sign with Barça due to the situation the team is experiencing with the Messi case.
Lautaro Martínez was called to be the substitute for Luis Suárez as of this summer, being the great objective of the directive. But the earthquake that has been living in Barcelona since Messi's fax arrived requesting his departurewould have made the Argentine striker reflect that now he would prefer not to stop at the Camp Nou. In fact, the newspaper points out that the continuity of Antonio Conte It is a favorable situation for Inter Milan that now will try to tie Lautaro with a new contract.
Today the player has a contract until 2023 and had a clause of 111 million that expired last July, so the Italian team could ask for any figure to sell to their young star. Lautaro came to Inter in 2018 from Racing Club for 25 million and this year he has scored 21 goals in the 49 games he has played forming together with Lukaku one of the fashion forward in Europe. Thanks to their performances, the Italian team finished second, just one point behind Juventus in Serie A and they touched glory in the Europa League where they lost in the final against Sevilla. These numbers and their way of playing had caught the attention of Barcelona that they saw him as their next big signing, but the turbulence that Messi's departure is generating could also distance the Argentine forward from Can Barça.