Retegui-Inter, today the meeting in Milan. There is also Eintracht Frankfurt-Corriere.it

Mateo Retegui, in art El Chapita, 24 years old in exactly one month, returned yesterday at dinner time in Argentina with a big smile like this and quicksilver on him. Happy, excited, convinced that he was about to make a change in his career. Sunday night, landed in Fiumicino with the charter of the national team, slept in the hotel opposite the airport, but struggled to sleep and spent a few hours on the phone with friends in Buenos Aires, talking about his first week in the blue shirt: A fantastic and intense experience, the my companions welcomed me and I felt at home. I thank Mancini for the opportunity.

He already feels a little Italian and has promised the coach that between now and June, when he returns for the Nations League Finals, he will study our language. But she is already doing it and has learned a few words of Mameli’s anthem and hasn’t been afraid to sing it with some mangling in the Maltese night. His contagious enthusiasm has balanced Italy’s difficulties in these days of passion. Mancini not happy: Italy lost against England and played badly against Malta. The restart lasts. With Retegui, perhaps, it will be easier. Before greeting the center forward, Mancio gave him some advice that he had anticipated in the small press room of the National stadium: Mateo would do well to come to Serie A so he would learn the language and our football more quickly.

Father Carlos’ contacts

For the centre-forward, another game has begun, even more important, the one concerning the future. Pap Carlos landed in Rome early in the morning and will stop in Europe until tomorrow to make a tour of the horizon that will take him to Milan and Madrid. The Premier League is not an option at the moment. The Bundesliga, on the other hand, s. Yesterday, in the presence of his son, he met the directors of Eintracht Frankfurt and had contacts with Bayer Leverkusen. But the crucial day will be today. Carlos Retegui, escorted by his friend Diego, will move to Milan and
I’ll talk to the Inter managers, who have been following Mateo for a few months and would like to take him to Pinetina together with Lautaro Martinez in place of Correa, destined for Spain. Dario Baccin, the deputy director sportsman of the Nerazzurri, was in Naples and flew to Malta on Friday evening together with father Retegui, it is easy to guess that on Saturday, away from prying eyes, the two have already planned the Milan summit.

There is no shortage of difficulties due to the exaggerated attention gained around the boy and the proliferation of prosecutors who are proposing themselves. Not only. His team, the Tigre, will redeem 50% of the price tag from Boca Juniors by June. Whoever wants Retegui will have to find an agreement with two clubs. A juniper, in short. Mateo, in unsuspecting times, had been followed by Udinese and Lazio, who thought they could sign him for an amount not exceeding 6 million euros. Now, of millions, it costs at least 15.

Lots of suitors. Lazio itself, still in the game, and Atalanta. Milan and Juventus have also been informed and Atletico Madrid are ready to make a substantial offer. Inter have an important card to play, another Argentinian player, the young Facundo Colidio, a second striker on loan right at Tigre. But Retegui wants Italy, also to give substance to his blue project. The new blue sniper trusts the intermediation of his father, a former field hockey coach. El Chapita very close to the family. His mother Maria and his sister Micaela also followed him in this Italian week and he dedicated the goal in Malta to them, four fingers as if to draw an M, which also stands for Mancini and Macedonia, the next challenge, on 9 September in Skopje . Another goal from Retegui would bring us closer to the European Championship in Germany.