Inter Players’ Agents Could Step In & Recommend Rejecting Nerazzurri’s Pay Cut Proposal, Italian Media Suggest | OneFootball

Inter’s players could be influenced by their agents during talks with the club over pay cuts, a report in the Italian media suggested today.

As per Gazzetta dello Sport’s print edition, it remains to be seen what role the agents will play in the matter after their clients were asked to give up two months’ wages.

Agents are rarely in favour of anything which will cost them money and so it is possible they could advise the players to reject the proposal made by Steven Zhang today.

The Milan-based paper said it would be disappointing if they got involved and tried to thwart the club and players’ talks to reach a compromise agreement.

Football’s finances have been decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic since last year and it is in the agents’ interests to ensure the ecosystem doesn’t collapse, the report argued.

The question is whether they will be capable of ‘quenching their thirst’ for money and act for the greater good of both Inter and the game in general.

Inter’s players are said to be frustrated (to put it mildly) at the request to give up two monthly installments of their salaries, although the report assured that nobody had refused to cooperate for the moment.

They were widely reported in today’s papers to be against the idea of waiving that money – although the squad is thought to be open to renegotiating all their contracts, which would at least give Suning the chance to defer certain payments until a later date.