Mauro Icardi: Chelsea target refuses to travel with Inter Milan after being stripped of captaincy

Mauro Icardi: Chelsea target refuses to travel with Inter Milan after being stripped of captaincy
Mauro Icardi has refused to travel with the Inter Milan squad for their Europa League trip to Rapid Vienna after he was stripped of the club captaincy.The Argentine, whose current deal expires in 2021, is in the middle of a contract stand-off with the Serie A club as uncertainty around his future continues to grow.getty2

Inter boss Luciano Spalletti wants Mauro Icardi to focus on his football

He saw the captaincy taken away from him on Wednesday and was subsequently not included in the squad which travelled to Austria.And Inter boss Luciano Spalletti, who described the decision to strip Icardi of the captaincy as ‘painful’, has now revealed the striker decided to stay at home.“The decision to remove the captaincy from Icardi was difficult and painful, absolutely shared by all the club members and taken for the good of Inter,” Spalletti said. “He was called up for Vienna, but he did not want to be there.“Things around him have disturbed him and the team he captained.“Now we have to focus all our attention on Thursdays game.”Icardi’s wife and agent, Wanda Nara, has infuriated the Inter hierarchy with comments made to the Italian press. getty2The striker is reportedly wanted by a host of clubs across Europe, including Chelsea, and Nara has been vocal about husband’s future and Arsenal target Ivan Perisic.Of the Croatian winger, she said: “If he wanted to leave, maybe he has psychological problems.”GoalkeeperSamir Handanovic has subsequently taken over the captaincy.

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