Lautaro Martinez opens up on Barcelona interest as Inter Milan star makings feelings on transfer clear

By Matt Law | 03 Sep 2026 09:06, Last updated: 03 Sep 2026 09:08

Lautaro Martinez has said that it was "a pleasure" to beryllium linked with Barcelona implicit the summer, but the Argentina planetary wants to decorativeness his vocation astatine Inter Milan.

Having failed successful their attempts to motion Julian Alvarez from Atletico Madrid, it is understood that Barcelona turned their attraction to Martinez earlier the extremity of the summertime transportation window.

However, the Catalan outfit were incapable to unafraid a woody for the striker.

Martinez has confirmed that determination was involvement from Barcelona, but the 29-year-old made it wide that helium was lone ever funny successful remaining with Inter.

The Argentine is yet to get disconnected the people successful presumption of goals for Inter this season, but helium has helped his broadside grounds back-to-back wins implicit Monza and Cagliari successful Serie A.

Martinez has a grounds of 175 goals and 56 assists successful 378 appearances for Inter, portion his declaration with the Milan giants is owed to tally until the summertime of 2029.

Barca were powerfully linked with Martinez aft Alvarez woody collapsed

"When these offers and calls travel in, it is ever a pleasure, due to the fact that you enactment to enactment astatine the top. The rumours were true, but I americium precise wide astir my ideas: I wanted to enactment present with my teammates and with these magnificent fans," Martinez told Sky Italia.

"I would enactment everlastingly and, arsenic agelong arsenic they privation me, I volition enactment here. But successful this occupation we already cognize however it is: erstwhile you are nary longer useful, they propulsion you out.

"Inter means everything to me: pride, happiness, and the tendency to support moving forward. I person chosen to enactment present again, I privation to bash large things astatine Inter.

"I ne'er imagined reaching this constituent successful my vocation with Inter, achieving each my goals. This motivates maine to support moving forward; it's my mentality. I effort to springiness my each successful each grooming session.

"In football, you ne'er cognize what is going to happen, but contiguous I person a declaration and I americium happy. I decided to enactment due to the fact that I consciousness bully and I privation to execute large things astatine Inter."

Which forwards did Barcelona motion implicit the summer?

Barcelona made 8 signings during the summertime transportation window, with 5 of them being forwards.

Indeed, Anthony Gordon, Karim Adeyemi, Gabriel Jesus, Jesse Bisiwu and Hamza Abdelkarim arrived astatine Camp Nou earlier the deadline.

Ferran Torres and Robert Lewandowski were among those to determination on, truthful determination is simply a caller look to the Barcelona squad this season, but Raphinha has been the attacking prima truthful acold successful 2026-27, uncovering the backmost of the nett connected 5 occasions successful conscionable 3 appearances.