The deadline has been set. By today, with midnight as the final and inexorable limit, Inter will know their future. Probably even a few hours early. Better: the fans ofInteras well as players, staff and managers, will know whether Inter will still be owned by Steven Zhang or if there will be the much talked about move to the Oaktree fund.
In fact, in these hours the terms of the loan activated by Zhang himself in 2021 expire, a loan of 275 million euros in total (not all of which ended up in the Nerazzurri club’s coffers, ed.). Annual interest of 12%, by today the Inter owners will have to repay with an amount of 385 million euros. Money that, at the moment, Zhang has not paid and on which he has been working for some time together with Goldman Sachs lawyers. In these last excited hours of waiting in Viale della Liberazione, there are essentially three possible scenarios.
1 – Steven Zhang finds the necessary funds, repays the Oaktree fund and keeps Inter. A difficult road given the timing, but one that the Nerazzurri number one would like to take.
2 – Steven Zhang manages to find the solution by further extending the loan and thus postponing the repayment of the loan to a later date (thus increased by further future interest).
3 – Steven Zhang is unable to return the money and Inter thus passes to the Oaktree fund, which would acquire 99.6% of the shares of the Italian champion club.