Inter looking to pull off sensational move for Real Madrid star Modric

Multiple reports claim Inter are looking to pull off an audacious move for Real Madrid star Luka Modric.



The midfielder was awarded the Golden Ball at the 2018 World Cup for his performances for Croatia, and is considered one of the best players in the world in his role.

According to Sky Italia, Gazzetta dello Sport and FCInterNews, the Nerazzurri have contacted the agents of the former Tottenham Hotspur man, and they haven’t closed the door on a move.

Any deal would prove very difficult, not least because of Modric’s salary, but the Beneamata are keen to try and make the deal happen.

The transfer would serve as a response of sorts to Juventus’ capture of Cristiano Ronaldo, and with the arrival of Sime Vrsaljko, Modric would form a Croatian diaspora with Marcelo Brozovic and Ivan Perisic.

Sky reports that this is why a deal for Arturo Vidal hasn’t yet been officially confirmed, as Inter want to find out if it’s possible to move on to concrete negotiations.

It’s still more likely than not that Modric will sign a new contract with Real Madrid, but it appears there is genuine interest from the Nerazzurri.
Martial facing £180,000 fine after going AWOL from Utd tour
Anthony Martial faces being fined £180,000 fined by Manchester United after going AWOL from the club's tour of America.


Martial has not trained for eight days since leaving United's training base in LA to be at the birth of his baby boy in Paris.

Jose Mourinho called for the France winger to return to the US, but United flew home from Miami in the early hours of Wednesday having not seen Martial for more than a week.


Mourinho admitted after United's win over Real Madrid that he had 'no idea' if the player will rejoin the rest of his team-mates.

United believe the 22-year-old is in breach of contract and are ready to take disciplinary action over his unauthorised absence. The standard punishment would be a fine of a fortnight's wages for a player who earns £90,000-a-week.

Martial's future at Old Trafford now hangs in the balance after the issue stretched his relationship with Mourinho to breaking point.

The United boss wants to sell Martial before the August 9 deadline and Martial wants to leave the club after three years.

He left The Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills against Mourinho's wishes last week and flew to France to be at the birth of his baby son Swan with partner Melanie Da Cruz.
The player made it clear to friends that he had no intention of returning to camp even though the baby was born only 24 hours later.

The United manager responded by calling for Martial to come back following his team's defeat to Liverpool in Michigan on Saturday. 'He has the baby and after the baby is born – beautiful baby, full of health, thank God – he should be here and he is not here,' said Mourinho, having previously made a pointed reference to it being Martial's second child.

United were due to land in England on Wednesday morning, and Mourinho will give the players who went on tour Thursday off. They will re-assemble at Carrington on Friday and it remains to be seen if Martial returns to the club.


The latest issue for Mourinho comes at the end of a disastrous pre-season tour, in which his relations with the club have been stretched.

As revealed by Sportsmail this week, Mourinho's black mood is bringing down his players and unsettling staff on a troubled tour of the US - and he has moved into the bookies' favourite to be the first Premier League manager to leave his position.

The worst result of the tour came against rivals Liverpool in front of 101,000 fans in Michigan at the weekend, and immediately after the game the United boss said: 'The atmosphere was good but if I was them [the fans] I wouldn't have come.

'I wouldn't have spent my money to watch these two teams. I watched Chelsea versus Inter earlier and people had decided the beach was better. The stadium was empty.
This is not our team, not our squad. The majority of players that have played are not going to play. Some of them are not even going to belong to the squad. The accumulation of matches is killing progressively my brave boys because I have some brave boys.

'Reinforcements, you are saying players I'd like to buy and add to the squad. That is another thing, but this is not even 30 per cent of my squad, so don't look at this that way.

'We have four or five players that are dead because they care for the club, for the team, they try to give everything, even risking themselves because they don't want to let all the kids play by themselves against AC Milan, Liverpool and Real Madrid. They don't want to do that.'

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