The people of Madrid are taking back the Argentine talent and the chances of seeing him back in Italy are not high. It’s the summer in which our championship is losing some of its most appealing players…
Real Madrid has decided that the growth path of Nico Paz it’s enough to get him home. If not to include him in the exaggerated roster of talents made available to Jose Mourinhoat least to monetize the talent of the 21-year-old Argentine international who dragged Como to the historic qualification for the Champions League. There White Housetherefore, will exercise the right to buy back at 10 million euros, one of the three steps agreed in the agreement with the Como club, and then put Nico Paz back on the market.
Destined where? In theory, Como could also take him back by putting 60 million euros on the table and granting Real Madrid a further buy-back right in 2027 at an increased price (80), but if the operation is not possible due to the limits that, once it has entered the sights of UEFA, president Suwarso’s club must begin to respect, the real risk is that a European-wide auction will start with the Italians left out.
The lesson of the “snatch” of Marco Palestra, who ended up at Chelsea one afternoon after Inter had negotiated him for months, going so far as to offer over 50 million in the belief that they had found the solution, must be a warning. Nico Paz is a cashier’s check in the hands of Real Madrid and only the enormous quantity of players with similar characteristics already present in the squad pushes Florentino Perez to think of selling him to the highest bidder.
With an open auction and without any further buyback constraint, a condition possibly granted only to Como with the price set at 60 million, the Argentine will hardly fail to attract the attention of the big names in Europe. This is why the association with Inter seems difficult to materialise, despite the fact that the Nerazzurri managers have been following Nico Paz’s growth trajectory for two years and boast friendly relations between the vice president Javier Zanetti and the player’s father as well as between Marotta and Perez.
It is possible that a thought and an attempt will be made, it is difficult to imagine a different ending than that of Nico Paz away from Serie A which risks losing some of the most appealing players of the last season in the same summer. Dusan Vlahovic has not renewed with Juventus, much has been written about Palestra and his arrival at Chelsea, Luka Modric may not return to Milan just like Romelu Lukaku may leave Naples. All signs of the now structural difficulty of our football in staying on the market.
