{"id":62774,"date":"2025-08-12T14:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/62774\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:48:22","slug":"inter-milan-pursuit-of-giovanni-leoni-suffers-huge-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/62774\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Milan pursuit of Giovanni Leoni suffers huge blow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite drawing inquiries from Inter Milan and Liverpool, Giovanni Leoni reportedly wants to remain at Parma for another year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Corriere dello Sport via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcinternews.it\/focus\/i-cds-i-leoni-vorrebbe-restare-un-altra-stagione-a-parma-difficile-per-l-inter-arrivarci-l-anno-prossimo-988913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FCInterNews<\/a>, the prodigious defender believes it would be in his best interest to stay put.<\/p>\n<p>Widely considered among the brightest European prospects, <a href=\"https:\/\/sempreinter.com\/2025\/08\/11\/liverpool-concrete-interest-inter-target-giovanni-leoni\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giovanni Leoni<\/a> has a bright future ahead of him.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Inter Milan and Liverpool have already entered a transfer tug-of-war to lure him away from Ennio Tardini.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 18-year-old seems to have other plans.<\/p>\n<p>Inter Milan Target Giovanni Leoni Keen to Stay at Parma for Another Season<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/parma-v-ss-lazio-serie-a-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/parma-v-ss-lazio-serie-a-1.jpg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-502500 has-webp size-large\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:4500\/2999;max-width:2048px\"\/><\/a>PARMA, ITALY \u2013 DECEMBER 01: Giovanni Leoni of Parma Calcio during the Serie A match between Parma and SS Lazio at Stadio Ennio Tardini on December 01, 2024 in Parma, Italy. (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Leoni established himself as a regular starter in the second half of last season under Cristian Chivu.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Romanian coach left Tardini to take charge of Inter earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Chivu was hopeful of reuniting with the Italian starlet at <a href=\"https:\/\/sempreinter.com\/2025\/07\/16\/what-is-next-ac-milan-inter-bid-tar-ruling\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Siro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, that has proved easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Parma\u2019s prohibitive \u20ac40 million asking price, Liverpool are eager to add Leoni to their star-studded squad.<\/p>\n<p>Now, another obstacle has emerged, with the youngster keen to continue his development at Parma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite drawing inquiries from Inter Milan and Liverpool, Giovanni Leoni reportedly wants to remain at Parma for another&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-62774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}