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The key is Champion league football if the lads perform well for sure their price will skyrocketted even more. Lazio can sell bum like Anderson for 38mil and put 100 tag for SMS just because EL same goes with Roma able to sells Allison for more than 70mil due to CL exposure. For sure Icardi, Perisic, brozo, Skriniar and De vrij will doubled their price tag after get CL exposure. There is also exciting talent like politano, karamoh and Lautaro who ready to bloom this season.
Here's the way I see it - at 70M Euro, I'm very tempted to sell Perisic. 29 years old now, inconsistent performance over the course of a season, and you've got an English club with more money than they know what to do with giving you the funds to be able to get Chiesa or Malcom or whichever young prospects (that's plural) you fancy and fancy you in return. It definitely gives this club more finances to play with.
BUT - we've been wandering in the wilderness since 2012. We finally just got back in the Champions League and, frankly, there was a lot of luck involved in that. 4th place only became good enough this past season, and on top of that it took a late comeback in the final game to get there. No apologies, and sometimes you need a little luck to get yourself going in the right direction again, but what I'm getting at is that we haven't really accomplished anything yet. Many teams can get into the Champions League once in a while, but it takes consistent appearances, and consistent success once you're in there, to build up your financial coffers and to build up the prestige of your club in a modern context. Do guys like Malcom and Chiesa excite me? Of course. Tantalizing talents who could push this club forward. At the same time, we're talking about unproven players at the Serie A level (in Malcom's case anyway) and unproven players in the Champions League, on a team already lacking in players with Champions League experience. It creates a risk, selling Perisic that is, of having too much turnover in the starting XI from what we saw in Rome on May 20 and the first matchday in August. And there's zero guarantee that Chiesa or Malcom will ever exceed what Perisic is today; there's a famous NFL coach, can't remember who, that when told about a player's potential responded by saying "your potential is going to get me fired". It's easy to dream on players with the tools, but not all of them figure out how to properly use them.
There's also an argument about what selling Perisic might say to Spalletti about ambition for the club and such but this is very clearly an after-thought I just inserted after writing that whole paragraph above and I'm not going to edit that in or expand on it; I've said enough as it is after the next paragraph below.
If you told me right now that Inter would still be a top-4 lock at the end of 2018/'19 after selling Perisic for 70M Euro, I take it. I think that is outstanding business, frankly. But, very obviously, no one here could guarantee that we're top-4 without Perisic next season, and neither can I. And, for that reason, let me just say that I don't envy Ausilio on this. When you're getting a quote on a player for more than he's worth (IMO), it's tempting to take it. But if we sell Ivan and miss the Champions League? We're setting the whole project back. There will always be more Malcom's and Chiesa's but we need consistent Champions League appearances if we're ever going to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Juve.