The Serie A league body has blocked Pisa's attempt to exercise their purchase option on Ebenezer Akinsanmiro, the 21-year-old midfielder on loan from Inter, effectively voiding a transfer that would have generated €7.5 million for the Nerazzurri. The operation had already received approval from Pisa before the intervention halted it, leaving Akinsanmiro's future unresolved heading into the summer window.
The financial stakes make the collapse significant for Inter, who had been counting on the fee as a clean profit entry. For Akinsanmiro himself, the situation is more complicated: a permanent move to a club that finished 20th in Serie A 2025-26 with 18 points from 37 matches — two wins, twelve draws, twenty-three defeats — was never the obvious next chapter for a player with a projected potential of 72 out of 100 on current assessments. The league's intervention, whatever its technical basis, may ultimately redirect his career toward more competitive environments.
His season at Pisa under coach Oscar Hiljemark told a story of steady presence in difficult circumstances. Akinsanmiro appeared in 23 matches, contributing one assist and carrying an average rating of 6.80 — respectable numbers for a young midfielder embedded in the worst defensive unit in the division, one that conceded 69 goals across the campaign. The raw output was modest, but the context was extreme: Hiljemark's side scored only 25 times all season, offering midfielders little platform to accumulate attacking statistics.
With the Pisa route now closed, interest from clubs in England and Germany has been reported. At 21, with a season of Serie A exposure behind him and room to grow into his assessed ceiling, Akinsanmiro enters the window as a free agent of Inter's planning rather than a settled asset — which, given where Pisa finished, is precisely where he needs to be.