{"id":598570,"date":"2021-08-08T09:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T13:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=598570"},"modified":"2021-08-08T09:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T13:14:50","slug":"tottenham-hotspur-lautaro-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/08\/tottenham-hotspur-lautaro-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur Lautaro Martinez Talks Ongoing With Inter Milan Looking to Keep Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1424342785298247681\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to Fabrizio Romano<\/a>, talks between Tottenham Hotspur and Inter Milan for Lautaro Martinez began days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garyjacob\/status\/1424325741077057537\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> agreed to a \u00a360 million fee for Lautaro Martinez, as per\u00a0Gary Jacob and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlasdairGold\/status\/1424335339091599364\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alasdair Gold <\/a>before Romano revealed that Inter Milan want to keep the forward\/<\/p>\n<h2>Tottenham Hotspur Lautaro Martinez Talks Reportedly Began &#8220;Days Ago&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h3>Inter Want to Keep Forward<\/h3>\n<p>Talks for Lautaro Martinez between Tottenham Hotspur and Inter Milan reportedly began &#8220;days ago&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/07\/27\/arsenal-enquire-lautaro-martinez\/\" target=\"_self\">This comes just weeks after arch-rivals Arsenal expressed their interest in the player<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs manager Nuno Espirito Santo has a preference to play two forwards. However, it appears as if Kane&#8217;s future is uncertain at the club at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Cash-strapped Inter are currently having a summer clear-out. <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/07\/chelsea-romelu-lukaku\/\" target=\"_self\">Romelu Lukaku has been reported to be heading back to Chelsea<\/a>. Now it would appear as if his strike partner Martinez could be following suit to the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez has made 100 Serie A appearances for Inter, scoring 37 goals. Last season was his most prolific campaign to date, netting 17 times, as Inter won their first Serie A title for 11 years.<\/p>\n<p>However, dark days have loomed over the Serie A champions, as they are in serious financial trouble, ultimately leading to a clearout of their title-winning squad.<\/p>\n<p>As for Spurs, they have been in a rollercoaster situation with striker Harry Kane. Reportedly expressing his desire to leave the club earlier this summer, the England international has been <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2021\/08\/06\/pep-guardiola-confirms-harry-kane-interest\/\" target=\"_self\">heavily linked with Manchester City.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Premier League&#8217;s top scorer last season also missed training this past week, before returning to Hotspur Way to complete five days of self-isolation, while privately training.<\/p>\n<p>A complicated situation has left the fans with many unanswered questions. But with Martinez&#8217;s links to Spurs and Santo&#8217;s desire to play two up top, it appears as if the club have no desire to let Kane leave this season.<\/p>\n<p>While a fee has reportedly been agreed for Martinez, it has also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thespursweb\/status\/1424341283708018694\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">been said that there is some way to go until the deal is complete. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"Ix78RaMIRFh44NnFSMXZbA\" 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\/1332539795\" 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:'Ix78RaMIRFh44NnFSMXZbA',sig:'uGk3eYKZ3r4CngXdHgJJQhqOD1EhxXNFP9y_g23I7Cc=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1332539795',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>According to Fabrizio Romano, talks between Tottenham Hotspur and Inter Milan for Lautaro Martinez began days ago. Spurs reportedly agreed to a \u00a360 million fee for Lautaro Martinez, as per\u00a0Gary Jacob and Alasdair Gold before Romano revealed that Inter Milan want to keep the forward\/ Tottenham Hotspur Lautaro Martinez Talks Reportedly Began &#8220;Days Ago&#8221; Inter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":598584,"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":[3,8438,7188,24,28],"tags":[3926],"class_list":["post-598570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-inter-milan","category-rumours","category-tottenham","category-transfers","tag-lautaro-martinez"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598570","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}