2023/2024 Forwards Rumours Thread

[Corrode]

how much worth are Zapata, Lapadula and Petagna?

 

[Choppin Onions]

Lazio so far looks like they could surprise again.

They don’t have the depth to handle 3 competitions. It’s always the same with them.

€15m is ridiculous for 34 year old Arnautovic. But Bologna don’t need to sell and they aren’t gonna do Inter any favours out of kindness of their hearts.

Blowing €30m on Taremi is fucking ludicrous too. Guy has never played in a top 5 league and he’s 31. Porto, Benfica and Sporting are so much better than everyone else in that league that it’s not such a crazy accomplishment to score goals for them. We already wasted too much money on Correa. Another dud like him would be catastrophic considering the very small room for error in the first place.

I’d just offer Sanchez a contract, hope for Thuram to not be a bust and upgrade our defense.

 

[KevinB]

Correa won't leave, so just get indeed Sanchez and focus on defense.

Hopefully Lazar comes so we have a dynamic player. Not getting Kamada might be fucking us over this season

 

[wera]

Lazio will drop out of CL (and EL) anyway and then they will finish above us again.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Lazio will drop out of CL (and EL) anyway and then they will finish above us again.

...so that they can get to CL. They should give their euro spots to teams who are actually willing to actually compete there.

Can't respect that club at all, what a fucking shithousery, Sarri the moaner fits perfectly there.

/endrant

 

[NimAraya]

It's how things stand atm i'm afraid. Liverpool splashing 120 mln on Caicedo, Bayern spending 120 mln on Kane and Madrid speding 100 mln on Bellingham. If you want to sign a topplayer or toptalent you must pay 80 mln tops. We can't compete anymore. The whole Serie A can't.

Imo we must be the guys selling those players for 80 mln tops. Sadly we only have 3 players in our squad who represent such value. And selling one of them would probably mean no CL money. That will cost us 50 mln too. We are in a fucked postion financial wise. We must qualify for the CL, so we need players who are ready now. But we also must create value by develop young talents. The top talents won't come for our budget. Even the older topplayers prefer to go to SA recently. What's left are the Taremi's and Arnautovic's from this world. And upcoming Serie A talents like Samardzic or Italians like Frattesi. At least atm.

That issue is not just about us not having the money to compete with those teams, it also comes from us being slow, uncreative and prefering the safe experienced options instead of being more daring. This will burn down opportunities when they arise. We tend to hesitate when a talented youngster is at our reach and we lose the chance.

For example Julian Alvarez was available for 20-25m 2 years ago. We preferred to go for other (ready) options and you know the rest of story. Now we have the same case with Orban and Taremi/Arnautovic and I expect the same scenario happening again.

When you can't financially compete with many clubs out there, you need to be opportunist. But we're neither rich nor opportunist and that acts as a double blow on us.

 

[wera]

...so that they can get to CL. They should give their euro spots to teams who are actually willing to actually compete there.

Can't respect that club at all, what a fucking shithousery, Sarri the moaner fits perfectly there.

/endrant

Well yeah, that happens. Also poor Atalanta that has a great season and then has to pick themselves up for the next 2 seasons.

If Lazio and Inter both make it to CL next season, and Juve doesn't, I don't mind Lazio being a shithouse of madness.

 

[DiegoMilito22]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689913285313765376

 

[StefanNedelchev]

hahha 34 year old marko arnautovic to replace lakaka.. the joke is on us. We are fucked.

 

[rfU]

I was surprised his name has not shown up by now

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689770755414740992

I'm up for Martial, but he has a shitty, disinterested disposition. Also injuries. Would Man U accept a loan + option? I doubt very much.

 

[Corrode]

martial's contract is just one year left in 2024 (and one year additional option if Manu trigger)

 

[Stefan]

Do not want Arnautovic anywhere near this club. We shouldn't be even thinking about signing convicted racists.

 

[diamen]

Well done for all of you who voted for `Other` option. You chose Arnautović



I was absent here for quite some time, but current transfer window makes me want to join the meltdown.

 

[PHM1605]

how much worth are Zapata, Lapadula and Petagna?

40m, 30m, 30m, respectively.

Honestly, that's how I feel in today's Inter market negotiations The other clubs give zero fucks about common sense. Just slap some bullshit price and hope Inter will catch one of them and that team win the lottery.

How the hell Milan could find agreement 13m Okafor or Genoa Retegui 12m is beyond me. Had Inter knocked the door it would have been trippled, I swear.

 

[RotterdamNerazzurri]

That issue is not just about us not having the money to compete with those teams, it also comes from us being slow, uncreative and prefering the safe experienced options instead of being more daring. This will burn down opportunities when they arise. We tend to hesitate when a talented youngster is at our reach and we lose the chance.

For example Julian Alvarez was available for 20-25m 2 years ago. We preferred to go for other (ready) options and you know the rest of story. Now we have the same case with Orban and Taremi/Arnautovic and I expect the same scenario happening again.

When you can't financially compete with many clubs out there, you need to be opportunist. But we're neither rich nor opportunist and that acts as a double blow on us.

That's party true imo. I would have like us to go for Alvarez too. BUT; he was available 1,5 ago. At that moment we already had Correa, Alexis Lautaro and Dzeko. He costed 20 million in January. We had to spend 20 million, while we didn't got him imideately. Firstly we didn't have that money at that time. He is more of an ss in the system Limone uses. We already had Correa, Alexis and Lautaro for that position.

The Correa transfer bit us in the ass more than once....

 

[pupivn]

It’s not really that easy, sometimes it depends on agents, they can push clients to different teams or demand outrageous agent fee we don’t agree on bla blah. Definitely we missed some opportunities but not all always failed on our side.

 

[RotterdamNerazzurri]

martial's contract is just one year left in 2024 (and one year additional option if Manu trigger)

We can't pay his transferfee nor his salary.

 

[vex]

This dude has a point, our budget is constantly shifting depending on a striker we are trying to get, almost like we are sabotaging ourselves, which is inexcusable this late in the mercato. It was well over a month ago the whole lukaku fiasco happened, we had more than enough time to figure out what we want, and yet we look like all of that happened just yesterday.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689881065765093376

 

[RotterdamNerazzurri]

This dude has a point, our budget is constantly shifting depending on a striker we are trying to get, almost like we are sabotaging ourselves, which is inexcusable this late in the mercato. It was well over a month ago the whole lukaku fiasco happened, we had more than enough time to figure out what we want, and yet we look like all of that happened just yesterday.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689881065765093376

With our limited funds we must take a good look at every penny we spend. IMO it's not that strange we set ourself a strict maximum we would like to spend for every single player. It's not that strange we wouldn't want to pay 20 mln for Arnautovic, or 50 mln for Balogun if they aren't worth that amount. We don't want to overpay. Looking at Sommers transfersaga we are really penny picking on every euro spend.

 

[Corrode]

We can't pay his transferfee nor his salary.

Martial is 15M Arnautovic is 20M. Inter are ready to 20M overpay for Arnautovic, so why should Inter say no to pay Martial whose is cheaper?