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·20 June 2025
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The future of Hakan Çalhanoğlu at Inter could soon take an unexpected turn.
Galatasaray has set its sights on the Nerazzurri midfielder with concrete interest, but for now, the situation remains in the exploratory phase. There are no official negotiations, but the next few days could be decisive.
According to Fabrizio Romano and Matteo Moretto, Galatasaray is ready to enter the scene for Çalhanoğlu. His agent, Gordon Stipic, is expected in Istanbul in the next few days for a direct meeting with the Turkish club's management. There is no formal proposal to Inter yet, but Gala wants to understand the margins and costs of the operation.
The knot remains the price of the card: Galatasaray will hardly invest high figures for the purchase, preferring to make an effort on the player's salary. For now, the only certain step will be the meeting between the club and the agent, which will clarify the real feasibility of the deal.
La Gazzetta dello Sport talks about a Nerazzurri request between 35 and 40 million euros, far from the 20 million that Galatasaray would be willing to offer. The player, meanwhile, has not yet taken a clear position on his future.
According to Tuttosport, instead, Inter values Çalhanoğlu between 25 and 30 million, and the midfielder would have already opened up to the possibility of transferring. The feeling that emerges is clear: if the right offer were to arrive, the deal could really materialize.
From Turkey, SporX relaunches: there are no negotiations between Galatasaray and Inter, but Çalhanoğlu would be pushing to lower the price of the card to 15 million. His will could prove decisive: a declared fan of Gala, he would be ready to force his hand to return to his homeland.
To give weight to the rumors, even his father Huseyin, who on Instagram has fueled the enthusiasm of the fans: "I hope that one day you will come to Galatasaray", he wrote in a story. Words that do not go unnoticed and that increase the tension around the future of the Inter midfielder.
To clarify the situation, the president of Galatasaray, Dursun Ozbek, also thought, who in a press conference did not deny the interest in Çalhanoğlu, but specified that he had not contacted him in a market perspective.
"Hakan Çalhanoğlu is the light of our eyes. He is an important player, every team would want him. My meeting with Hakan was not a market meeting. A group of friends were talking to him on the phone, they passed me the cell phone. We greeted each other, he told me that since he was a child he has been a Galatasaray fan. I wished him the best".
If Çalhanoğlu were to really say goodbye to Milan, Inter would not be unprepared. According to the Italian media, two names have already ended up on the Nerazzurri management's notebook.
Ederson from Atalanta, fresh from a great season and valued at 50 million, and Nicolò Rovella, Lazio midfielder, protected by a termination clause always worth 50 million euros.
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