{"id":3367,"date":"2026-04-07T15:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3367\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:07:19","slug":"roma-boss-gave-green-light-to-sell-france-midfielder-to-inter-milan-last-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3367\/","title":{"rendered":"Roma Boss Gave Green Light To Sell France Midfielder To Inter Milan Last Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serie A giants Roma were reportedly open to offloading French midfielder Manu Kone amid genuine interest from Inter Milan last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Cristian Chivu was keen to bolster his midfield options, but after failing to sign Kone, he had to settle for Andy Diouf.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>However, Inter are likely to make a new attempt to sign Kone after Diouf fell short of expectations at <a href=\"https:\/\/sempreinter.com\/2026\/01\/31\/milan-inter-begin-san-siro-construction\/#google_vignette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Siro;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Siro&quot;}\" class=\"link \">San Siro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Roma Were Ready to Sell Manu Kone to Inter Milan Last Summer<\/p>\n<p>Kone has played a prominent role in Gasperini\u2019s system this season, making 26 Serie A appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the former Borussia Monchengladbach star registered two goals and two assists from deep in the midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Gasperini was ready to sanction the Frenchman\u2019s exit in the summer, with Roma looking to secure the signature of Jadon Sancho.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Giallorossi had hoped to free up a significant portion of their wage bill to accommodate Sancho\u2019s salary demands.<\/p>\n<p>As such, they were ready to allow Kone \u2013 one of the club\u2019s highest earners \u2013 to join Inter at the end of last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serie A giants Roma were reportedly open to offloading French midfielder Manu Kone amid genuine interest from Inter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3307,874,2761,5,869,3263,3306,1109],"class_list":{"0":"post-3367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-andy-diouf","9":"tag-borussia-monchengladbach","10":"tag-cristian-chivu","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-inter-milan","13":"tag-jadon-sancho","14":"tag-manu-kone","15":"tag-roma"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}