Serie A side Sampdoria are to offer striker Patrick Schick a new contract with a bigger buy-out clause to ward off interest from Inter Milan, as reported inGoal.
The 21-year-old is only in his first season at Sampdoria having joined from Sparta Prague in the summer. He has scored six goals in 18 appearances, 14 of which have been from the substitutes bench. Schick has been capped three times by the Czech Republic, and scored one goal in the process.
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Schick himself stated: "Of course it is nice to be appreciated by other teams.I am flattered like all other players in my position. That is not my job, though, and I will leave it to my agents.I am just thinking of Sampdoria.
"Besides, I am happy here, the fact that there are so many youngsters here from other countries has fostered integration in the group.
"Next year when we have had a season's experience, I am sure we will do better and get important results.[In Italy] they play a totally different game here to the one in the Czech Republic.
"It is more tactical and technical and also faster.In my first two months I struggled to integrate with the squad but now I feel better in every sense. I think and act much faster."