News on the transfers: Ivan Perisic was threatened by the Arsenal transfer offer, insists Luciano Spalletti

Inter coach, Luciano Spalletti, insists that Ivan Perisic has been threatened and that the club needs to get him back on track after the midfielder was shot by the coach. Arsenal interest during the transfer in January.

Spalletti players lost Thursday against Lazio at the expense of a grueling quarter-final against Lazio. Perisic was an unused replacement.

According to reported information, the Serie A club had rejected a loan offer for the Croatian international, which included an option of a permanent contract for an amount of 40 million euros (35 million euros). pounds sterling) this summer. The director of Inter, Piero Ausilio, had revealed to have received no proper offer.

In addition to the annoyance of the saga surrounding Perisic, Inter's midfielder Radja Nainggolan struggled after suffering an ankle injury early in the campaign.

Addressing Rai Sport after losing to Lazio, Spalletti said: "We need to put Perisic back on track, but also Nainggolan, because he has had injuries, setbacks and various problems. He needs time on the ground and patience.

"As for Perisic, there was this story on the market, but he is a professional, understands his role and yesterday, the atmosphere was already very different. These things happen in the transfer window, the player has received an impressive proposal and has been tempted. However, he then realized that it was not a real offer, that it would have been missed and that he had taken a step back.

"Now he will resume training and as soon as his mind returns to Inter, we will let him play."

Inter interceded at the last minute of overtime against Lazio after a VAR intervention that determined that Sergej Milinkovic-Savic had fouled Danilo D'Ambrosio in the box, allowing Mauro Icardi to score a penalty late.

Stefan Radu received a red card for protesting against this decision in a dramatic case, but the Rome-based club managed to qualify when Lucas Leiva scored the decisive penalty in the shootout.

"You should do me a favor and ask someone else to say if it's a penalty," added Spalletti. "If the free kick has not been taken yet and someone hits someone in the box, it's still a penalty."

"It's better to talk about game development. I'm not in a position to badyze these incidents.

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"We started a little tense, but the game started to develop, we were in the game, but we became a bit frantic and it does not work against Lazio.

"We lacked precision in our pbades and when Lazio welcomed us, we had to move from right to left, otherwise they would have five defenders behind the ball. You will never hurt them without doing it.

"It seemed like a game totally in the balance and could only be decided on penalties."