Internazionale is participating in the departure of Christian Eriksen, the club said in a statement during a shareholders’ meeting. The Danish midfielder, who suffered a cardiac arrest during the opening match of the European Championship last summer, has to play with a defibrillator and thus does not comply with the regulations of the Italian Football Association. Eriksen is allowed to play in another national competition, which is why i Nerazzurri open to a sale.
“With regard to the registration rights of the player Eriksen, it should be noted that due to a serious injury sustained during the European Championship in June 2021, the player is temporarily banned from sporting activity in the current season by the Italian medical authorities,” it wrote. Inter in a statement. Many other football associations, such as the KNVB, do not apply such rules, which means that, for example, Daley Blind is allowed to play for Ajax with a defibrillator.
Although Eriksen is only officially excluded from the current football season, the chance of this also seems great in subsequent years. Lucio Mos, a member of the medical committee of the Italian Football Association and also a cardiologist, already announced in July that Eriksen is not allowed to play in Serie A with a defibrillator. “Italian regulations are the strictest in the world and this is why the sudden death rate during physical activity is a lot lower than in other countries,” Mos said at the time.
However, the exclusion does not mean that the Milanese can no longer have anything left from a sale of the Dane, as is made clear in the statement: “Just like the possibility of fitness for top sport, it is not excluded that he can still be sold to a foreign national. team in a competition where current regulations do not exclude the chance of admission.” Eriksen was acquired by Inter in January 2020 for 27 million euros from Tottenham Hotspur.
In addition to the millions that Eriksen (who is still stuck in Milan until mid-2024), Inter expects a considerable amount of compensation from UEFA, since the cardiac arrest happened during a European football tournament. According to the Italian club, the playmaker still represented a market value of 18.3 million euros prior to Euro 2020, which will be significantly lower in the coming transfer period.