{"id":617987,"date":"2022-09-19T10:37:22","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=617987"},"modified":"2022-09-19T10:37:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T14:37:22","slug":"paris-saint-germain-milan-skriniar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/09\/19\/paris-saint-germain-milan-skriniar\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris Saint-Germain Are Leading Suitors for \u2018Complete Defender\u2019 Who Manchester City and Chelsea Overlooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano <a href=\"https:\/\/caughtoffside.substack.com\/p\/subscribers-only-whats-on-christoph#%C2%A7whos-showing-the-strongest-interest-in-milan-skriniar\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has issued<\/a> an interesting update on the race to sign Inter Milan&#8217;s Milan Skriniar via Caught Offside.<\/p>\n<p>Romano reports: &#8220;the most interested in Milan Skriniar remains&#8230;.Paris Saint-Germain&#8221;. He goes on to mention that Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur have yet to make an approach for the Slovak, while Chelsea were focused solely on picking up <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/31\/official-chelsea-sign-wesley-fofana\/\" target=\"_self\">Wesley Fofana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Paris Saint-Germain Interested in Milan Skriniar<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35 Chelsea are CLOSE to an agreement to hire Christoph Freund as their new director of football! <\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd14 Is this the right appointment? And who should be on his transfer target wish-list?<\/p>\n<p>Full story \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CaughtOffside (@caughtoffside) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/caughtoffside\/status\/1571760684098113536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>High-Level Defender<\/h3>\n<p>The Serie A winner has established his spot at the heart of the defence at the San Siro since joining in 2017. The 27-year-old has been dubbed a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sempreinter.com\/2021\/03\/26\/inters-milan-skriniar-now-a-complete-defender-after-adapting-to-back-three-italian-media-argue\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">complete defender<\/a>&#8221; who revived praise for his transition to playing in a back-three under Antonio Conte. His excellent displays in Italy have seen him named Slovak Footballer of the Year for three years running.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/08\/15\/serie-a-transfers-of-the-summer-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Serie A Transfers of the Summer: Must Watch Players in 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The defender has currently racked up 224 appearances for Inter Milan, winning the Serie A, Coppa Italia, and Supercoppa Italia in that time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf0 Milan Skriniar was 100% in his passing completion (96\/96), accurate long balls (5\/5), ground duels (1\/1) and successful tackles made (1\/1) for Inter against Viktoria Plzen. <\/p>\n<p>Ice. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#UCL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Inter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Inter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ViktoriaInter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#ViktoriaInter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1lLnZ8VfZl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/1lLnZ8VfZl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mozo Football (@MozoFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MozoFootball\/status\/1569765785504972801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Overlooked<\/h3>\n<p>Interestingly, Romano&#8217;s report indicates that Skriniar&#8217;s talent hasn&#8217;t attracted sufficient attention from England&#8217;s top clubs. With centre-backs always in high demand, it seems foolish to let a player of this quality slip through the cracks. With the wealthy Parisian club circling, it may be too little too late for other teams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/30\/the-serie-a-title-is-changing\/\" target=\"_self\">The Serie A Title Will Be Different Next Season<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s even more confusing about the lack of interest in the 27-year-old is that he could be available for free next summer. The Caught Offside report outlines that his current contract expires in 2023 which means he can agree to a free transfer from January onwards.<\/p>\n<p>We are currently in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/02\/23\/free-agent-football-transfers\/\" target=\"_self\">era of the free transfer<\/a> and it&#8217;s no doubt that many top clubs will duke it out for his signature come January but all signs currently point to Paris Saint-Germain fending off the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano has issued an interesting update on the race to sign Inter Milan&#8217;s Milan Skriniar via Caught Offside. Romano reports: &#8220;the most interested in Milan Skriniar remains&#8230;.Paris Saint-Germain&#8221;. He goes on to mention that Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur have yet to make an approach for the Slovak, while Chelsea were focused solely on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":618000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[8438,11,7,17,1367,7188,5],"tags":[2250],"class_list":["post-617987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inter-milan","category-chelsea","category-ligue-1","category-manchester-city","category-paris-saint-germain","category-rumours","category-serie-a","tag-milan-skriniar"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617987","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}