{"id":7256,"date":"2026-04-15T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/7256\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:22:00","slug":"inter-and-italy-legend-hints-that-bastoni-should-snub-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/7256\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter and Italy legend hints that Bastoni should snub Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inter and Italy legend Sandro Mazzola believes Alessandro Bastoni should not even consider a move to Barcelona and hopes Lautaro Martinez remains at San Siro forever.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"703\" height=\"486\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/849fbf7323de5f153923d622df88c8bd.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Inter and Italy star Mazzola advises Bastoni against joining Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The Italian centre-back is said to be<a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/italy-inter-bastoni-discuss-contract-barcelona\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:eager to join the Catalans;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;eager to join the Catalans&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> eager to join the Catalans<\/a> in the summer, even though formal talks between the two clubs haven\u2019t even started.<\/p>\n<p>According to Italian sources, one reason for Bastoni\u2019s potential exit over the summer is the hostile reception he receives at Italian stadiums following an incident that <a href=\"https:\/\/football-italia.net\/why-juventus-kalulu-red-card-var-inter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:led to a red card for Pierre Kalulu during Inter-Juventus in February.;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;led to a red card for Pierre Kalulu during Inter-Juventus in February.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">led to a red card for Pierre Kalulu during Inter-Juventus in February.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mazzola: Bastoni should not join Barcelona from Inter<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat has he done that\u2019s so serious? Mistakes can happen; every player on every team makes them, but only Inter players get this kind of treatment,\u201d Mazzola told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazzetta.it\/Calcio\/Serie-A\/Inter\/15-04-2026\/sandro-mazzola-intervista.shtml?refresh_ce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Gazzetta;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;Gazzetta&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Gazzetta<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I can say to him is: keep your head up and get back to work straight away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked on whether Bastoni should consider leaving Inter, the Nerazzurri legend replied: \u201cWhere should he go? Milan is even more beautiful than Barcelona. If Luisito [Suarez] were still around, he would have confirmed that too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mazzola went on to say that Italian players in the Inter team \u201cexcite\u201d him, \u201ceven though we failed to qualify for the World Cup, and that\u2019s a huge pain,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot so much for me, since I\u2019ve played and seen many of them, but for my grandchildren, who can\u2019t dream like kids used to. This time we were a bit unlucky, especially our Inter defender [Bastoni].\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"660\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/32cf3d676c260140f80b54e8a943d06b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>COMO, ITALY \u2013 APRIL 12: Lautaro Martinez of FC Internazionale looks on before the Serie A match between Como 1907 and FC Internazionale at Giuseppe Sinigaglia Stadium on April 12, 2026 in Como, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Just as he hopes Bastoni, who is contracted with Inter until 2028, won\u2019t leave the club in the summer, Mazzola wishes that Lautaro Martinez would stick around until the end of his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can only hope he stays with us for life,\u201d the 70-year-old concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Argentines sometimes want to return home, but Lautaro shouldn\u2019t get any strange ideas. In time, he\u2019ll surpass Altobelli in the number of goals, and just getting close to Meazza would already be an incredible achievement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inter and Italy legend Sandro Mazzola believes Alessandro Bastoni should not even consider a move to Barcelona and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[308,790,1749,1376,44,5373,5,3146,175,1515,5372,5374],"class_list":{"0":"post-7256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-barcelona","9":"tag-bastoni","10":"tag-como","11":"tag-como-1907","12":"tag-inter","13":"tag-inter-juventus","14":"tag-italy","15":"tag-lautaro-martinez","16":"tag-milan","17":"tag-pierre-kalulu","18":"tag-sandro-mazzola","19":"tag-suarez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}