Sneijder plays down £9.5m move to Liverpool as Inter Milan midfielder eyes January exit
By Graeme Yorke
PUBLISHED: 09:31 EST, 31 December 2012 | UPDATED: 09:31 EST, 31 December 2012
Unsettled Inter Milan midfielder Wesley Sneijder has moved to dampen speculation linking him with a January move to Liverpool.
Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport reported on Sunday that the Reds had made a £9.5million offer for the Dutchman.
Sneijder has been left feeling isolated at the San Siro after snubbing a suggested annual pay cut of £1.6million and then being dropped from the first-team.
But he denied there was any foundation in the story linking him to an Anfield switch when asked about it on Monday, telling a press conference: ‘Again, no truth’.
The 28-year old - who has also attracted interest from Manchester United and Tottenham - reacted furiously to Inter’s proposed salary cut and demanded a move, putting the pressure on the Serie A outfit to sell him for close to the same 15million euro fee they paid Real Madrid in 2009.
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‘Clearly it’s best for everyone concerned that in January I am transferred,’ he said defiantly. ‘If that doesn’t happen then I will stay. I have a contract with Inter until 2015.’
Manager Andrea Stramaccioni has since dropped Sneijder from the squad over the bitter dispute.
His wage bill is currently £200,000 per week and Inter will be relieved to offload the financial burden. Liverpool’s coffers, however, are unlikely to be able to stretch to such levels.
Talk of a move to Spurs for the Holland international cooled when his agent told Dutch paper Algemeen Dagblad:
‘There is nothing, absolutely nothing true about that.’
United are also thought to be weighing up a January bid for the former Ajax man.
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