Lautaro Martinez

Gaindé said:

That's 19 goals and 5 assist in 33 Serie A games.
Right, let's sell him.

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It's because of Lukaku

Hope his current "hot" streak continues till the end of the season, now 150M and a couple of players (not Maguire)

Or I dunno just keep him for the rest of his career.

People forget the pazzini days it seems.

Lautaro is boring. He is too hardworking and disciplined. The bastard never gets injured. No media involvement. His wife, can she even speak? I mean I don't expect her to show up in Tikitaka, but at least she could give interviews to Tuttosport about interests from abroad and that Inter doesn't value him.

if only he was so focused throughout this season

19 goals sounds cool, but we all saw those bad counters and bad shots - he can be a mess. I'm not saying he should be sold, but this mythical 150mil worth striker, it's not him. If only we chose to bring Dybala to be next to Lautaro...

wera said:

if only he was so focused throughout this season

19 goals sounds cool, but we all saw those bad counters and bad shots - he can be a mess. I'm not saying he should be sold, but this mythical 150mil worth striker, it's not him. If only we chose to bring Dybala to be next to Lautaro...

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Dude a few years back you had Lukaku with far more misses, especially easy chances, zero important game goals, negatively affecting our game causing counter attacks and what not and everyone was jumping to ride his cock.

Lautaro has his ups and downs in terms of conversion, but that's generally where the complaints stop.

Why the double standard? Just because one guy talks a lot of shit and the other only talks on the pitch?

I did say I wouldn't sell Lautaro. I also said if only Dybala was here (Dybala here means no Lukaku)...so why even mention Lukaku?

I like Lautaro, I really do. Just got this nagging feeling that he is playing at 50% of his potential at the moment. Which is also why I think he would do better with a different type of strikership partner.

It's not like I'm one of those posters that keep saying this player is shit, that player is shit

brehme1989 said:

Dude a few years back you had Lukaku with far more misses, especially easy chances, zero important game goals, negatively affecting our game causing counter attacks and what not and everyone was jumping to ride his cock.

Lautaro has his ups and downs in terms of conversion, but that's generally where the complaints stop.

Why the double standard? Just because one guy talks a lot of shit and the other only talks on the pitch?

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LoL. Lautaro misses a lot more than Lukaku, but I don't also understand all this negativism towards him? All of the forwards fail to score easy chances, even Levandovski for instance. I recall that Cavani and Higuain were quite wasteful as well.

Lautaro problem is not just his comversion rate. Can't believe we still have to debate that after watching him for years.

I'm not saying we'd score every counterattack that we fuck up with stupid passes, but at least we would have more shots on goals.

This is an area that players like Lautaro need to work on the most.

Saying that doesn't mean he isn't a good player for us. It's just an observation what clearly Lautaro can do, but doesn't do consistently enough.

wera said:

I like Lautaro, I really do. Just got this nagging feeling that he is playing at 50% of his potential at the moment. Which is also why I think he would do better with a different type of strikership partner.

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The 50% of his potential is also what I felt for so long until I finally realized it's just an optical illusion, you think he can do better as an overall player only because a certain aspect or two of his game are at an elite level. You want it to make sense but it won't. Maybe he can improve in another club, at another manager, with different teammates... honestly who can tell? But I don't think he will ever become a deadly striker here and what's the point of having a starting striker who at this point goes regularly invisible in Europe?

He is turning 26 this August, he should be in his prime ripping it up everywhere. Us Inter fans have a very short memory, it's likely some kind of evolutionary trait we developed as a defense mechanism for failure. He is in a good streak at the moment and everyone is all smiles for the time being, but it won't last.

For the record, I don't mind wastefulness as much as going on a 6-7 long match streak without scoring, 3 times per season. And you get pretty decent service so that's not the problem. And I am likely naive to some point but I believe we should be capable of replacing Lautaro with a player who would cost a fraction of his potential sale and have roughly the same output on the pitch.

If you want to make Lautaro work long term for Inter, then the crux of it realy is having a consistent goalscorer next to him. He's great for the spectacular goals and the streaky performances, but there's a reason why our best season in recent history was when he was playing alongside a red hot Lukaku - we still had a source of goals when Lautaro stopped scoring

That, or a more goalscoring midfield, something like that - and then you build the team around accepting one striker is never going to be a consistent goalscorer.

forzainter257 said:

Lautaro is boring. He is too hardworking and disciplined. The bastard never gets injured. No media involvement. His wife, can she even speak? I mean I don't expect her to show up in Tikitaka, but at least she could give interviews to Tuttosport about interests from abroad and that Inter doesn't value him.

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Nice bro.
Looks like people here will value Barella and Lautaro only when they are gone. Like with Hakimi.

brehme1989 said:

Dude a few years back you had Lukaku with far more misses, especially easy chances, zero important game goals, negatively affecting our game causing counter attacks and what not and everyone was jumping to ride his cock.

Lautaro has his ups and downs in terms of conversion, but that's generally where the complaints stop.

Why the double standard? Just because one guy talks a lot of shit and the other only talks on the pitch?

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Yesterday Lautaro scored the 4th and the 6th, which according to you are unimportant goals, and people ride his dick too. So there's no double standard.

Alex de Large said:

Nice bro.
Looks like people here will value Barella and Lautaro only when they are gone. Like with Hakimi.

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Nobody supported Hakimi's sale because 15m profit after a Scudetto was stupid. Nobody mentions Barella sale either.

While we are discussing ~90m range offer for Lautaro. Why some of you guys don't see the amount of money is playing a HUGE factor in yes or no decision, not just player A or B or C ?!?

The problem is where thos 90mln will be invested, or what part of them will be available to spend?
It we sell him and similar to Lukaku, replace him with another Correa and some old fart, it's better to stay

90 mil ? Fuck yeah, we can get 3 Correas with that kind of money

As has been mentioned, people need to get it out of their system that Lautaro will ever be some deadly finisher. He ain't gonna be that.

Fine, so that's now out of the system. Lautaro's value comes from the fighting spirit, the positioning, pressing, covering, general understandment of the game. He's doing what coach asks him to do. Not being injured all the time. Ability to withstand pressure like you experience at Inter level.

On top of that all, of course you need goals. And he has them: 23 total goals this season, something like 25 last season. And not many of them are useless like Verona goals yesterday.

Glass box said:

Yesterday Lautaro scored the 4th and the 6th, which according to you are unimportant goals, and people ride his dick too. So there's no double standard.

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No one's riding his dick. Most people want to sell him to get some Kolo Muani character they only saw exist on video games.

And yes, Lautaro's goals weren't significant. No one said they were. But they were good goals, not simple tap ins just because the other team gave up, that's what people may have highlighted.