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If we get to keep Skriniar, that'd be our biggest signing of the summer. Same with how we got Perisic back before
really our biggest signing of the summer is

Lukaku - takes dzeko to the bench who ruined a lot of our offensive footballl
Skri staying- heartbeat of the backline but who goes now?
Asllani- means if brozo is out one game we dont become a serie d side
 

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Sky - Skriniar will stay and renew, as 70M is no longer enough to get him.


lol, i'm pretty sure that if there's a 70M offer, Zhang will drive him to Paris by himself.

We put him on the transfer block twice in 2 years last year was 30m to Tottenham….. this year 60-70 to Psg …… next?

100m to Real?

If I was him I wouldn’t resign. especially for less than PSG were offering.
 

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If we get to keep Skriniar, that'd be our biggest signing of the summer. Same with how we got Perisic back before
Contract extension as the biggest signing is one of the most disgusting corporate jargon. Keeping your best player is a common sense and it should be a bare minimum for a club aiming for the top. If anything, top clubs will keep their core and try to improve their squad every year which is contrary to what we have been doing for 2 seasons in a row :lol:.
 

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We put him on the transfer block twice in 2 years last year was 30m to Tottenham….. this year 60-70 to Psg …… next?

100m to Real?

If I was him I wouldn’t resign. especially for less than PSG were offering.
I agree with you.. Why must he resign? He could just move for free next year.. Since if he resign inter will try to sell him again next year anyway..
Skriniar should only consider resigning with inter if they offer him the biggest salary in inter..
 

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I can't express how glad I am to keep Skriniar. Fuck Bremer. Most of us didn't want to him to replace Skriniar to begin with.

All of our transfers plans will change with Skriniar's renweal which is what they should've done in the first place instead of wasting their time. We've lost many options by this time of the market.
 

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In retrospect, Bremer not coming and Skriniar staying is just perfect. Skriniar over Bremer, anytime anyday for me.

Skriniar. A world class centre back. A proven Interista. A captain material. He looks badass too. Someone that you would love to have as the face of the team. Excuse me for sounding like a homo, but Skriniar is alpha as fuck. Look at the man. He is the epitome of a viking beast. Not only in look, but his mentality as well.

Don't bring the 'oh but we will replace him with a younger quality centre back in Bremer' argument. The difference in age is only 2 years for fuck's sake. It's not like Bremer is 19 years old and Skriniar is 34 years old. Skriniar is in his prime and he can yet be better. He can be our future captain.

Probably I am a bit bitter because I wanted to have both Skriniar and Bremer at Inter. The ideal situation is we sell De Vrij and replace him with Bremer. But we all know that was impossible due to us being broke and thrifty as fuck.
 

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In retrospect, Bremer not coming and Skriniar staying is just perfect. Skriniar over Bremer, anytime anyday for me.
This is where the frustration lies - it should have been BOTH Skriniar and Bremer. Not one or the other.

Seriously. The MVP defender of last season was available for a mere 30m. We had a deal with the player nice and early. We even had tradeable assets Torino were willing to include in the deal. But then we completely shat the bed due to our incompetence and our failure to plan ahead coming back to bite us in the ass.

In the end poor interisti have to tell themselves "I prefer Skriniar" in an attempt to cope or justify this unjustifiable failure.

Probably I am a bit bitter because I wanted to have both Skriniar and Bremer at Inter. The ideal situation is we sell De Vrij and replace him with Bremer. But we all know that was impossible due to us being broke and thrifty as fuck.
Marotta did an excellent fucking job of devaluing our own asset (de Vrij) and making it hard to finance other moves through his sale.

Marotta has known this entire time the specifics of our financial situation. He should've had a robust long-term strategy to selectively renew and sell players at max value but he failed to demonstrate any existence of such a plan, let alone execution.

Example:
  • We didn't want to commit to a long term contract and a big pay raise for de Vrij at his age. We decided we wanted to cash in on him instead. So why the FUCK did we enter contract negotiations with him in the first place? We sat down at the negotiating table then changed our minds and walked away, letting de Vrij run down to just a year remaining on his current deal. (Same with Skriniar and Brozovic by the way. It's unacceptable that we let our best players run down to their final year before renewing them)

  • The uncertainty over his future contributed to de Vrij having his worst season in an Inter shirt culminating in capitulation in crucial moments such as the derbies. Obviously, a significant part of the blame is on the player himself for being a mentally weak bitch. But we destabilized his frame of mind with our treatment of him.

  • de Vrij would've easily fetched 40m following our scudetto campaign. Fast forward a year, now, the result is we have a 30 year old player whose market value has plummeted following a disastrous season (in terms of his personal performance) and whose expiring contract situation handicaps us further.

  • Now? Most of us would gladly accept 15m for him. I've personally lost all my trust in him as a defender to even begin with. The guy got fucking humiliated by fucking Giroud of all people. How is he going to fare against Vlahovic, Di Maria and Chiesa? Abraham, Zaniolo and Dybala? Leao? I'll be surprised if de Vrij isn't a complete liability this season.

Despite everything I've written above, we STILL should've been able to sell him this window. Despite his dogshit season, are you telling me there isn't a team out there who wouldn't take a chance for 15m for an experienced international?

This is just one failure where we can point to the origin and it's long-term effect. It's bullshit like this happening on a wide scale which is why we "have to" try and sell our best players to keep the fucking lights on.

I see it this way. Let me break it down this way:
  1. Failure to develop or execute any kind of long-term, collaborative plan where all branches of the club work towards a common goal
  2. Failure to develop saleable assets due to spending significantly on old players like Dzeko, Kolarov and Mkhitaryan who will not bring us any potential resale like a younger player would
  3. Wasting enormous sums of money terminating these old players mentioned above. Sanchez and Vidal alone will cost something like 10-15m gross and Dzeko should've been terminated as well
  4. Wasting even more money on disastrous signings like Correa (and IMO Gosens too)
  5. Failure to properly manage the few non-core assets we do have such as de Vrij as described above. We should've also been far more proactive in selling the likes of Pinamonti, Calhanoglu, Correa, Dumfries etc. Calhanoglu especially should've been a prime candidate for sale considering he joined on a free and he's entering his late 20's on massive wages
  6. Failure to raise ANY money from all the promising youth we've loaned out FOR FREE. Esposito, Satriano, Mulattieri, Vanheusden, Agoume, Pirola have all left the club without bringing a single dollar in.
All the above puts us in a fucking ludicrous situation where the only way to buy even some 15m shitters like Milenkovic requires the sale of one of our precious few crown jewels. Another issue being the plan to begin with: that Marotta would immediately jump to the sale of a Skriniar or Bastoni instead of addressing the above and implementing changes.
 

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This is where the frustration lies - it should have been BOTH Skriniar and Bremer. Not one or the other.

Seriously. The MVP defender of last season was available for a mere 30m. We had a deal with the player nice and early. We even had tradeable assets Torino were willing to include in the deal. But then we completely shat the bed due to our incompetence and our failure to plan ahead coming back to bite us in the ass.

In the end poor interisti have to tell themselves "I prefer Skriniar" in an attempt to cope or justify this unjustifiable failure.


Marotta did an excellent fucking job of devaluing our own asset (de Vrij) and making it hard to finance other moves through his sale.

Marotta has known this entire time the specifics of our financial situation. He should've had a robust long-term strategy to selectively renew and sell players at max value but he failed to demonstrate any existence of such a plan, let alone execution.

Example:
  • We didn't want to commit to a long term contract and a big pay raise for de Vrij at his age. We decided we wanted to cash in on him instead. So why the FUCK did we enter contract negotiations with him in the first place? We sat down at the negotiating table then changed our minds and walked away, letting de Vrij run down to just a year remaining on his current deal. (Same with Skriniar and Brozovic by the way. It's unacceptable that we let our best players run down to their final year before renewing them)

  • The uncertainty over his future contributed to de Vrij having his worst season in an Inter shirt culminating in capitulation in crucial moments such as the derbies. Obviously, a significant part of the blame is on the player himself for being a mentally weak bitch. But we destabilized his frame of mind with our treatment of him.

  • de Vrij would've easily fetched 40m following our scudetto campaign. Fast forward a year, now, the result is we have a 30 year old player whose market value has plummeted following a disastrous season (in terms of his personal performance) and whose expiring contract situation handicaps us further.

  • Now? Most of us would gladly accept 15m for him. I've personally lost all my trust in him as a defender to even begin with. The guy got fucking humiliated by fucking Giroud of all people. How is he going to fare against Vlahovic, Di Maria and Chiesa? Abraham, Zaniolo and Dybala? Leao? I'll be surprised if de Vrij isn't a complete liability this season.

Despite everything I've written above, we STILL should've been able to sell him this window. Despite his dogshit season, are you telling me there isn't a team out there who wouldn't take a chance for 15m for an experienced international?

This is just one failure where we can point to the origin and it's long-term effect. It's bullshit like this happening on a wide scale which is why we "have to" try and sell our best players to keep the fucking lights on.

I see it this way. Let me break it down this way:
  1. Failure to develop or execute any kind of long-term, collaborative plan where all branches of the club work towards a common goal
  2. Failure to develop saleable assets due to spending significantly on old players like Dzeko, Kolarov and Mkhitaryan who will not bring us any potential resale like a younger player would
  3. Wasting enormous sums of money terminating these old players mentioned above. Sanchez and Vidal alone will cost something like 10-15m gross and Dzeko should've been terminated as well
  4. Wasting even more money on disastrous signings like Correa (and IMO Gosens too)
  5. Failure to properly manage the few non-core assets we do have such as de Vrij as described above. We should've also been far more proactive in selling the likes of Pinamonti, Calhanoglu, Correa, Dumfries etc. Calhanoglu especially should've been a prime candidate for sale considering he joined on a free and he's entering his late 20's on massive wages
  6. Failure to raise ANY money from all the promising youth we've loaned out FOR FREE. Esposito, Satriano, Mulattieri, Vanheusden, Agoume, Pirola have all left the club without bringing a single dollar in.
All the above puts us in a fucking ludicrous situation where the only way to buy even some 15m shitters like Milenkovic requires the sale of one of our precious few crown jewels. Another issue being the plan to begin with: that Marotta would immediately jump to the sale of a Skriniar or Bastoni instead of addressing the above and implementing changes.

Long ass post but I stopped reading after Bremer was available for 30m. Everything indicates he never was.
 

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This is where the frustration lies - it should have been BOTH Skriniar and Bremer. Not one or the other.

Seriously. The MVP defender of last season was available for a mere 30m. We had a deal with the player nice and early. We even had tradeable assets Torino were willing to include in the deal. But then we completely shat the bed due to our incompetence and our failure to plan ahead coming back to bite us in the ass.

In the end poor interisti have to tell themselves "I prefer Skriniar" in an attempt to cope or justify this unjustifiable failure.


Marotta did an excellent fucking job of devaluing our own asset (de Vrij) and making it hard to finance other moves through his sale.

Marotta has known this entire time the specifics of our financial situation. He should've had a robust long-term strategy to selectively renew and sell players at max value but he failed to demonstrate any existence of such a plan, let alone execution.
I do kind of agree with most of your post the thing that bothers me it all makes so little sense.......
If i remember correctly until the beginning of the Transfer season reports were we re gonna sell de vrij bring in bremer and dybala....
We also quite obviously did work on both dybala and bremer for some time and convinced them of our project and then nothing fucken happened....
I just dont really buy the narrative that we had all lined up and then beppe or who ever completly fucked it up by staling over a few millions.....
Most baffling thing is that we went into this window with both skriniar and de vrij with only 1 year left on their contract
Neither did it make sense that we did not sell players before we had to close our books for last season.

I guess my point is imho something changed during our transfer window that our directors did not expect... Wether that was Zhang not greenlighting deals or wether that was Lukaku or us chasing some other BS we could not pull off remains to be seen. Might even be that teams pulled out of deals we thought were just a formality.....

But i do think we had a very clear plan going into this transfer window we just for some reason did not go through with it......
 

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I don't see keeping skriniar as a signing...We shouldn't even have to consider selling him...
 

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In the end poor interisti have to tell themselves "I prefer Skriniar" in an attempt to cope or justify this unjustifiable failure.
Sad but true.

Missed out on sensational transfer targets. Dybala and Bremer. To make it worse, losing both of them to our direct rivals. Getting shat on and ridiculed by their fans. Oh my. The humiliation.

What can we do about it? Just pretend that Skriniar is our new signing. Just pretend Lukaku is a better player than Dybala. Ah shit, just thinking about this farcical Lukaku dry loan deal makes me feel even more depressed now.

An opportunity to sign a world class forward like Dybala for free doesn't come too often. He would have solved our search for an established striker to partner Lautaro for at least 3 more years. But of course we fucking blew it. After this season ends, it is very much unlikely for Lukaku to remain. We are broke as fuck to resign him on a permanent deal. Regardless of how well he performs this season, he will surely return to Chelsea. If he had a stinker of a season, we wouldn't want to extend his loan for sure. If he had a solid season, Chelsea would want him back and give him a second (or technically a third) chance for sure. After all, they wouldn't want to look like total idiots after spending crazy money on him.

What happens then? We sign Higuain.
 

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I do kind of agree with most of your post the thing that bothers me it all makes so little sense.......
If i remember correctly until the beginning of the Transfer season reports were we re gonna sell de vrij bring in bremer and dybala....
We also quite obviously did work on both dybala and bremer for some time and convinced them of our project and then nothing fucken happened....
I just dont really buy the narrative that we had all lined up and then beppe or who ever completly fucked it up by staling over a few millions.....
Most baffling thing is that we went into this window with both skriniar and de vrij with only 1 year left on their contract
Neither did it make sense that we did not sell players before we had to close our books for last season.

I guess my point is imho something changed during our transfer window that our directors did not expect... Wether that was Zhang not greenlighting deals or wether that was Lukaku or us chasing some other BS we could not pull off remains to be seen. Might even be that teams pulled out of deals we thought were just a formality.....

But i do think we had a very clear plan going into this transfer window we just for some reason did not go through with it......
I can get on the train that Zang didnt aprove the deal more than Beppe stalling, and I know his style
 

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I don't see keeping skriniar as a signing...We shouldn't even have to consider selling him...
But thats just ignoring realities.....
Like yes we can keep the club alive without selling him this season but in our situation we cant make losses season after season and think we wont have to sell star players...
 
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