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Ex-Racing youth chief: Lautaro won't let Barcelona pressure affect Inter Milan form

Fabio Radaelli is confident Inter Milan striker Lautaro Martinez can handle the pressure around Barcelona's interest in his signing.

Radaelli worked with Lautaro as junior coach at Racing Club.

Now Aldosivi youth director, Radaelli told TMW: "Lautaro does not think of Barcelona today, he only has Inter in his head because he still has many goals to achieve with the Nerazzurri and wants to end the season in the best way.

"Not only at Barça, in the last two months he's been linked to the most important clubs of the world and we can only be proud of it, we as well as him. But Lautaro is already in one of the strongest teams ever and every time he is called into question he responds in a magnificent way.

"We also saw him well in the last championship match against Sampdoria."

He added: "I am not the one who must advise him in this choice. Lautaro has his agent and I just want him to be happy, playing where he wants to play. Whether he is in Inter, in Barcelona or in Aldosivi (he smiles), if he wants to come and give us a hand for a year ... When I met him I immediately suggested him to choose Racing because I knew very well what we could have given him, and also how much he could have given us ... But today it's certainly not for me to him what to do, the final decision is entirely up to him."

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