You do know we can only buy if we sell, if not it means we have to get bosman of 30 year olds with no resale values or cheap players that likely won’t make it and those won’t give a large enough profit.
If we don’t sell our most valuable asset we won’t have cash to invest in quality that is needed. If we wait those assets loose value simply because of age and because they are unlikely to perform at any higher level then they currently are. If you let them stay and let them loose market value, you won’t ever be able to get anything of note eventually you lock yourself into only getting sub 10m players and 30 old bosman because you have no valuable assets you can sell to reinvest.
No one is going to take us out of Zhang hands, Italian football has no appeal to investors at large. The sponsors just means we won’t run as much in red as we currently are. At beat it will be questionable owners who might be no better than what we currently have.
No sugar daddy is coming and save us. We are those a feeder club and those have to sell our best players to keep the boat afloat.
If we have any rational sense we offload Martinez at first given chance.
Ok, I was busy earlier and could only use my phone, and I can't fucking write worth shit on my phone so I responded with a low-effort .gif expressing my view on that one comment you wrote. I can type now.
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So Martínez has been catching some flack after yesterday, not just for the missed penalty, but also from his generally underwhelming CL campaign this year. Two goals in eight games (apparently xG was his enemy in a big way, which can be a story all to itself) and his overall underwhelming Champions League statistics of 12 goals across 44 appearances, and only 7 in his last 35 appearances after his excellent 2020-'21 group stage performance. The "nuevo Higuaín" comparisons which I already wrote in the Lautaro thread are actually slanderous towards Higuaín if anything, and all of that is its own concern to be sure. Even during our run in the knockout stage of the Champions League last year, we scored nine goals in seven games which isn't impressive either, added on top of 10 goals in eight Champions League games in total this year...we haven't been lighting up scoreboards in Europe to say the least. It's a problem and if we're going to be a proper Champions League threat moving forward, we're gonna have to improve in some way or another.
Having said all of that...you want to write about doom-and-gloom for the state of Italian football vs. the state of European football and how hard it's going to be for us (or any Italian team really) to make a dent in the future. For the sake of argument, lets say that ends up being the case. A bit dystopian but given the late stage capitalistic nature of football right now with everything ultimately funneling its way towards the vacuum that is the Premier League it's not the most far-fetched thing I've ever heard. If that ends up being the case, then domestic dominance is just about the only thing we have left to try and hang our hats on then, isn't it? If Europe is just a pipe dream, then whatever we do there should be seen as a bonus and otherwise put our attention on Italy. (To a large degree, that's already what the case should be from the healthy perspective of any Inter fan, but I'm emphasizing that idea here for effect.) And if that's the case, right now we have the best XI in Italian football, quite probably the best team in terms of overall squad, and even if we're economically restrained, we can still add pieces here and there to try and improve upon that relative to our Italian opponents. We're 16 points ahead in Serie A right now, we're on course for our second Scudetto in four years after going over a decade without winning one at all. Your response to all of that is "realities is we need to Sell Martinez and for the next young player, don’t and they loose to much value meaning we get far less potential." For every single irritation we have right now about Lautaro, fact is he's scored 128 goals in 274 appearances as an Inter player, and we paid €20M for that. That's fantastic return on investment. "Next young player" is in no way at all guaranteed to be able to deliver that return, and we have no idea what "next young player" is gonna cost.
If you tell me some team is willing to splash a €130M+ investment on Lautaro? I'll listen, not because I want to, but because that's a steep price. But if we're just shooting the shit and saying "Lautaro needs to go, we need to rebuild", that's bullshit in my eyes. We can worry about trying to upgrade on Lautaro if we ever a) get economically healthy and b) are ready to take that next step in the Champions League (this meaning we've established ourselves solidly as the team to beat in Serie A, not just this season but in the season after this one and the season after that one and etc.). Getting to either of those steps on their own is a massive undertaking and in no way guaranteed to happen. So until or if we're ever in that position where we can say "yeah, we can do better than Lautaro", I'm going to say we keep the Argentine around because, if nothing else, he's going to help us compete for Scudetti, which still remains the #1 goal each season. Champions League success, ultimately, is just a bonus, and there's Real Madrid, Bayern, Manchester City, Barcelona, (next year) Liverpool out there along with us, and at a minimum 5/6 of those teams will fail to win the competition.