Beppe Marotta

[uzhang]

Some random EPL club sign 70 million Correa. Media headline will be :england club is rich club, good management with ambition bla bla...

Inter sign Correa 30 Million with installment : Suning Inter Bankrupt

 

[CafeCordoba]

My point exactly. Its silly to compare in such a selective & limited way.

Inter's mercato this summer has been pretty poor overall. Perhaps this is not Marotta's fault, but lets not try and sugar coat this shitfest.

I don't understand this comment at all. Our mercato has been pretty fucking good relative to the constraints we've got from the owner. Those constraints stems from the financial situation this club is in. We've managed pretty well in my books.

 

[bubba zanetti]

If we brought Belotti or Nandez it would be great mercato, given the circumstances. Its good,Marotta is The Boss.

 

[Kova10]

Everything Marotta has done Until now was Great. It‘s like Zhang repeatedly tries to throw some trees between his legs but he finds a way to stay balanced.

 

[capitano92]

I love him so much it's a little concerning

 

[Sassuolu]

Some random EPL club sign 70 million Correa. Media headline will be :england club is rich club, good management with ambition bla bla...

Inter sign Correa 30 Million with installment : Suning Inter Bankrupt

The narrative around Inter is amazing, who have Juventus signed? They're broke also but all the talk is about us. It's fucking annoying.

 

[brehme1989]

The narrative around Inter is amazing, who have Juventus signed? They're broke also but all the talk is about us. It's fucking annoying.

It's Inter, it's always been the case.

 

[Bluenine]

I don't understand this comment at all. Our mercato has been pretty fucking good relative to the constraints we've got from the owner. Those constraints stems from the financial situation this club is in. We've managed pretty well in my books.

Perhaps my post was not clear. For the money we have spent (what you called constraints), our mercato is very good. Marotta is a very shrewd operator. He knew we were skint, so for a Conte replacement he went for someone who can use the same squad. We have replaced Lukaku, Hakimi and Eriksen by spending only €13m on Dzeko, Dumfries & Calhanoglu. While it is a bit of a downgrade, its great business if the constraint on spending was 13m (or 43m if we include Correa). I guess that is what you are saying, and we have no disagreement here.

My problem with this mercato is that Suning got greedy and moved the goalposts midway during this window. The stated objective was to make 80m net cash flow from transfers. That was achieved with the Hakimi sale. This should have meant that Inter could invest the entire Lukaku money on new transfers. Marotta could have killed it with that kinda budget. But clearly Suning have changed the objectives and are trying to make more money from the mercato. That is unfortunately the main problem here. We could have become stronger as a squad, instead we look weaker despite Marotta masterclass on a shoestring budget. Our depth in most areas is still shite.

If we also sell Martinez, Barella, Skriniar and Bastoni for big money, and replace them with decent but not as good free agents, would you still say we had a good mercato "under the constraints"? No.

 

[Strale]

Imo we are weaker exactly for the difference in quality between Hakimi and Dumfries and Conte and Inzaghi.

The Lukaku deal was great. Lautaro is ready to step up imo and if Inzaghi can set other players up to be more clinical this squad will not miss Lukaku as much as we initially feared.

 

[qb4ever_2k]

Perhaps my post was not clear. For the money we have spent (what you called constraints), our mercato is very good. Marotta is a very shrewd operator. He knew we were skint, so for a Conte replacement he went for someone who can use the same squad. We have replaced Lukaku, Hakimi and Eriksen by spending only €13m on Dzeko, Dumfries & Calhanoglu. While it is a bit of a downgrade, its great business if the constraint on spending was 13m (or 43m if we include Correa). I guess that is what you are saying, and we have no disagreement here.

My problem with this mercato is that Suning got greedy and moved the goalposts midway during this window. The stated objective was to make 80m net cash flow from transfers. That was achieved with the Hakimi sale. This should have meant that Inter could invest the entire Lukaku money on new transfers. Marotta could have killed it with that kinda budget. But clearly Suning have changed the objectives and are trying to make more money from the mercato. That is unfortunately the main problem here. We could have become stronger as a squad, instead we look weaker despite Marotta masterclass on a shoestring budget. Our depth in most areas is still shite.

If we also sell Martinez, Barella, Skriniar and Bastoni for big money, and replace them with decent but not as good free agents, would you still say we had a good mercato "under the constraints"? No.

Trying to spin it on Suning all you want. It's from Marotta himself, in the interview before Genoa, that Lukaku's sale gave us the necessary financial stability in these times. In other words, he wouldn't throw us straight back to the financial difficulties by reinvesting all the money.

I mean he would reinvest all the money, if there were some guarantee in the market. Like if Halaand was available for around the same amount of money, I have no doubts Marotta would take that deal. But there weren't and it would be too risky to spend, say, 60m on Vlahovic.

Blame it on China, Suning, Covid, Lega Serie A or whoever you want for the situations we're in. But Marotta has made the right decision by himself and not under anyone's influences.

 

[IM21]

signing Marotta to a new contract should be our main priority for 2022.

 

[brehme1989]

There cannot be much to be said against Marotta this summer, assuming that the Hakimi sale was forced upon the club by ownership.
But his words made it sound different.

Either way, we'll only know the outcome from the results. Everyone was happy with the 2018-19 moves yet Spalletti lost the locker room after failing vs PSV and the rest is history.

 

[Il Drago]

The narrative around Inter is amazing, who have Juventus signed? They're broke also but all the talk is about us. It's fucking annoying.

Certainly. It's always and only crisi Inter for Italian media. I mean don't get me wrong. Our situation is far from great. We lost the coach who brought the Scudetto and 3 starters and it remains to be seen if their replacements can lead us to a Scudetto fight. But things aren't really rosy for our competitors in terms of transfer market.

Juventus spent an entire summer to get a player who couldn't have made it easier for them. They haven't offloaded any of their deadwood. They have an unsettled Ronaldo who doesn't want to stay at the club and is a bad fit for the coach but no club is willing to satisfy Juventus demands so far. Despite the signing of Locatelli their midfield situation is far from exceptional. Szczesny looks shaky and their decision to pass on Donnarumma looks like a huge mistake. They even downgraded their squad depth in defence by replacing Demiral with Rugani.

Milan have lost two of their best players for free which got praise from the media. They have improved their squad depth but in terms of starting lineup they have barely improved. Maignan is good but he's no Donnarumma, they have yet to sign a Hakan replacement while their options on rw remain unconvincing.

Napoli also have only signed Juan Jesus despite being on the market for a lb and a midfielder. Roma have made some interesting signings but they don't have the squad overhaul you would expect from a side that finished 6th and just hired Jose Mourinho. Lazio haven't really helped Sarri with new signings and Atalanta have the typical Atalanta mercato. They made some great sales and they made some signings that i am sure they will end up being good for them.

 

[.h.]

yeah i definitely expected more from Roma this window, tbh.

A key thing with Milan, too, they're relying on an already very old Ibrahimovic to carry them really.

 

[PHM1605]

I fail to see any benefits from the so-called "youth project" at Milan. What's the point of nurturing youths, if their best player (Ibra) is a 40yo, and the finished products (Hakan, Dollar, Kessie) simply walk away when their contracts finish?

 

[Harpsabu]

yeah i definitely expected more from Roma this window, tbh.

A key thing with Milan, too, they're relying on an already very old Ibrahimovic to carry them really.

Thing is, they've spent over 100m. Really surprising, I'm not sure if they are really any better than they were.

 

[.h.]

damn i'm surprised to hear that. I've not been very closely following them though.

I suppose Abraham is quite a large chunk of that, but still, 60m without him jesus I didnt realise they'd spent so much.

And they've had very little, if anything, back for that.



It'll be interesting to see what Jose does with that squad, if he lasts the year you can imagine some big changes coming right. There is talent there, though, a lot of younger players.

 

[.h.]

I fail to see any benefits from the so-called "youth project" at Milan. What's the point of nurturing youths, if their best player (Ibra) is a 40yo, and the finished products (Hakan, Dollar, Kessie) simply walk away when their contracts finish?

well, the first thing is to develop good talents, and once you've got good talents then you work out how to keep them

so far, inter does it the other way around - we have bad talents and we keep them too long

 

[IM21]

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[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

Hope we can convince Marotta and Ausilio to stay— our best chance of steadying the ship before an ownership change.