Inter will have to sweat for a couple of weeks because they had to insert a release clause in the relatively recent Denzel Dumfries renewal to end the impasse. It’s worth €25M and is valid only for foreign teams in the first two weeks of July, Mediaset reports.

Barcelona have been keeping tabs on him, but they haven’t tabled a formal bid nor approached the player or the club yet. They’d obviously only need to convince the fullback to join. Their financial troubles could be a hindrance.

In the meantime, Dumfries switched his representatives, leaving the Wasserman Group and hiring powerful agent Jorge Mendes in a move that might impact his permanence at Inter.

The 29-year-old transferred to San Siro from PSV for €14M back in 2021. He has put up 22 goals and 26 assists in 179 tilts with the Nerazzurri.

Our Take on Inter and Dumfries

Manageable release clauses are never a good thing, but they evidently had no alternative to get the deal done. It explains why a negotiation that looked dead in the water got reignited and resolved in a time when he appeared set to depart.

There’s not a lot of traction regarding his departure at this stage, but the uncertainty was enough to convince the management to sign somebody overqualified to be deputy like Luis Henrique early in the summer, so they wouldn’t have to scramble or add two guys in the same role if their star got poached. He had the chance to leave in the past, but his attachment to the team kept him in town.