A summer of waiting, put aside by Inter, winking at Juventus, and now ended up in an increasingly narrow alley. The summer of Mauro Icardi, officially outside the technical project of Antonio Conte since 6 July, is still completely in the balance. And if until a few days ago it was assumed a HCL-like final, with the Argentine "promised" to the Italian champions but only at the end of the market, today Mauro's destiny is at a crossroads. On the one hand there is Naples, on the other there is Rome: only two teams for its future. Unless very surprising on the horizon there is no more Juventus, because if the exchange goes in Lukaku-Dybala will be the Belgian centravantone to put on his shoulders the number 9 Juventus. And there is obviously no Inter, even if the present is still Nerazzurri.

AT WORK - Today the former captain returns to train together with Conte and his companions in Appiano Gentile (including Nainggolan, now in the sights of Fiorentina), returning to work after the tour in Asia. Yesterday there was the appetizer, because Mauro, who remained in Italy for the "athletic reconditioning", also found Lautaro, Asamoah, Godin and Vecino at Pinetina, that is the two who missed all the first part of the preparation and the two who joined the group in China. From this morning there will also be the coach and he will go back a couple of weeks to the Lugano retreat, when Mauro played the first part of the training with his team-mates and then stepped aside during the tactical tests and mini-matches. Icardi will remain outside even the friendlies: meanwhile there will be no London Tottenham home on Sunday. Later, that is, at the Valencia test on 10 August, it is better not to look. Also because Inter hopes that then Maurito will wear another shirt. Yes, but which one?

NEW PLANS - Lukaku da Sarri has upset Icardi and Wanda's plans: for them the best possible solution, the most intriguing both economically and as a sports project, was Juve. And with Paratici, fans of the Argentine, it seemed like practically done, maybe with longer times to give a bit of annoyance to the former friend Marotta. Wanda, who is on vacation in Ibiza with her children, has always said that Mauro only wanted Inter, in reality his was a strategy that he took elsewhere. Now, however, the plans of Inter number 9 must change. Like those of the management, which does not want to fall below a valuation of 60 million. Here, then, that Naples and Rome are back in fashion, even if the player is not open to take the two clubs into consideration. Aurelio De Laurentiis, "burned" by the Pépé bluff, offers a Champions and Ancelotti card, a certainty for all players. To the Giallorossi, who will lose Dzeko and aim Higuain, Mauro likes it, even if the search for the super engagement (today at Inter earns 4.5 million more bonuses) scares. At the table, however, a more complex hypothesis is not entirely excluded, that is inserting Icardi in the negotiation to bring Edin from Antonio Conte to Inter. So the two clubs would be okay.