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Inter: Icardi did everything in the summer to return as fifth-choice striker

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Sensational transfer-market backstory, but the door remained closed.

For a moment in the last summer transfer window, Mauro Icardi and Inter really could have come back together. The Argentine striker became a free agent after 4 years at Galatasaray and, among the clubs he sounded out, there were not only Lazio, Parma and even Juventus.

According to Fabrizio Biasin on the podcast "The Table", a return to Milan was actually the option the former captain had put right at the top of his wish list.

  • Today Icardi would make different choices

    "I think the narrative around his farewell has been wrong: he paid for a series of decisions for which he is responsible and things went badly because of him. Today, he would make different choices"

  • He fought to come back

    "But I got to know him and I can tell you I have rarely seen a striker so attached to the Inter shirt. And you don't know this: in the summer of 2026 he fought tooth and nail to go back to being Inter's fifth-choice striker"

  • Even with the basic salary

    "He would have come back even on the basic salary, but unfortunately for him there were no places left".

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