No Wanda! Icardi bins ex-partner Nara as his agent over €1m claim

FT Desk

• 27 Oct 2022 12:19 BST
• 5 min read

Mauro Icardi has sacked his estranged wife Wanda Nara after she tried to claim a €1 million fee pertaining to his summer loan transfer from PSG to Galatasaray.

Icardi and Nara got together in 2013 when the latter was still married to Icardi's Sampdoria teammate Maxi Lopez, and controversy has followed the couple ever since.

Icardi got tattoos of Lopez's children after he and Nara had divorced, and Lopez refused to shake Icardi's hand before Sampdoria met Inter Milan in what became known as the "Wanda Derby".

She has acted as Icardi's agent since, overseeing his subsequent moves to Paris Saint-Germain from Inter and, most recently, his loan transfer to Galatasaray which was agreed this summer.

Icardi will be paid €750,000 for his stay in Istanbul, with another €75,000 to be received if he hits 20 goals this season as well as €3,000 for every win.

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The 29-year-old reportedly thinks the prospect of paying at least that to his ex is legally wrong, although she wants the money "as soon as possible," per Turkish newspaper Hurriyet.

Icardi and Nara appeared to break up last October before patching things up, and although the striker claimed to still be with Nara, she confirmed their separation on Instagram in September.

"It is very painful for me to live this moment," she wrote. "But given my exposure and the things that are transcending and the media speculation, it is preferable that they know about it from me. I have nothing more to clarify and I am not going to give any kind of detail about this separation."

Nara has since posted pictures of herself in bed with Argentine rapper L-Gante, who is 13 years her junior, to which Icardi said: "She is the laughing stock of the whole world with her behaviour, with her attitudes."

Icardi, meanwhile, is off the mark with Galatasaray, scoring in their 2-2 draw with Alanyaspor on Sunday, but he is some way off that €75,000 bonus.