{"id":566550,"date":"2020-09-19T19:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T23:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=566550"},"modified":"2020-09-19T19:25:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T23:25:28","slug":"inter-milan-set-to-complete-the-signing-of-arturo-vidal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/09\/19\/inter-milan-set-to-complete-the-signing-of-arturo-vidal\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Inter Milan Set to Complete the Signing of Arturo Vidal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/67cdbc0e\/Arturo-Vidal\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arturo Vidal<\/a> will fly to Milan tomorrow to complete his move to <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/squads\/d609edc0\/Internazionale-Stats\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Inter Milan.<\/a>\u00a0The 33-year-old has been heavily linked with a move to the Italian club and is set to put pen to paper in the coming hours.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claims that Vidal would leave Barcelona on a free transfer, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1307416955146645516\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano has confirmed<\/a> that a \u20ac1 million fee has been agreed between the two clubs.<\/p>\n<h2>Inter Milan Set to Sign Barcelona Midfielder Arturo Vidal in the Coming Hours<\/h2>\n<h3>An Incredible Career for Arturo Vidal Thus Far<\/h3>\n<p>Vidal started his career with local side <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/squads\/2ff539f3\/Colo-Colo-Stats\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Colo-Colo<\/a>, where he won three Chilean Primera Division titles. His performances for Colo-Colo earned him a move to <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/squads\/c7a9f859\/Bayer-Leverkusen-Stats\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> in 2007, where scouts for the German club labelled his technical ability and work ethic as exceptional.<\/p>\n<p>After four seasons with the German side, he moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/juventus\/\" target=\"_self\">Juventus<\/a>. It was during his time with the Italian club, where he became widely recognised as one of the world\u2019s best. During his time at Juventus, he won Serie A four times and picked up a number of personal accolades too.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Vidal returned to the Bundesliga, but this time joined <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/bayern-munich\/\" target=\"_self\">Bayern Munich<\/a>. In the three years he spent with the club, he again won the league three times. By 2018, Barcelona came calling and joined the Spanish giants. In the 2018\/19 campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona<\/a> won La Liga, which took Vidal to eight consecutive title wins. However, a below-par season for the Catalan club meant that Vidal\u2019s streak was over.<\/p>\n<h3>New Direction for Barcelona<\/h3>\n<p>Vidal joins a number of experienced players that have either departed or are set to leave the club this summer. Croatian midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/89f951b5\/Ivan-Rakitic?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ivan Rakitic<\/a> was one name who left Camp Nou. The 32-year-old re-joined <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/squads\/ad2be733\/Sevilla-Stats\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sevilla<\/a>, the club he left to join Barcelona six years ago. The futures of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/a6154613\/Luis-Suarez?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Suarez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/4601e194\/Jordi-Alba?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jordi Alba<\/a> are also unclear, with <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/d47c1765\/Ronald-Koeman?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ronald Koeman<\/a> preparing to turn the club\u2019s fortunes around once again.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"hVZeEi3pTTNk2FCGVfkpaw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1257184662\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'hVZeEi3pTTNk2FCGVfkpaw',sig:'duFBfK2_p_2WF1Zz3onnBPzKX6r8j0ZByBoVFYjVkfE=',w:'594px',h:'400px',items:'1257184662',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona midfielder Arturo Vidal will fly to Milan tomorrow to complete his move to Inter Milan.\u00a0The 33-year-old has been heavily linked with a move to the Italian club and is set to put pen to paper in the coming hours. Despite claims that Vidal would leave Barcelona on a free transfer, Fabrizio Romano has confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":566558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1365,378,6,30,5],"tags":[1630,464,361,53,6671,674,334,502,323,511,120,136],"class_list":["post-566550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barcelona","category-champions-league","category-la-liga","category-news","category-serie-a","tag-arturo-vidal","tag-barcelona","tag-bayer-leverkusen","tag-bayern-munich","tag-colo-colo","tag-inter-milan","tag-ivan-rakitic","tag-jordi-alba","tag-juventus","tag-luis-suarez","tag-ronald-koeman","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}