Inter's Financial Situation

[Il Drago]

The thing that pisses me the most with these guys is the timing. You don't make a decision about such a drastic change of policy at the end of May. You make it on March or worst case April in order to give time to the management to plan ahead. The management could have communicated to the agents everyone is available for the right price and asked them to bring offers for their clients. They could have also set targets who could be available at a low price and could replace the departing players. Instead the management couldn't do anything because they were waiting for Suning to decide what they want to do with the club.

At the end of the day if they couldn't afford to run the club and keep a decent level of competitiveness they could have sold the club. There was an offer on the table. Instead they had unreasonable demands.

Another thing is if they want to turn Inter into a selling club they need to bring someone who knows how to find hidden gems and sell them at a profit. Recruit Luis Campos who wants to leave Lille. Ausilio isn't the guy for the job. He can make some great deals here and there but he isn't the guy who has a high success rate with signing good players at a low cost. You need someone like Campos, Rangnick or Zorc. Guys who know how to make money from sales.

The worst thing is the whole world knows Inter desperately need money. The last time we were in a similar situation we had Man Utd lowballing us for Perisic. The situation won't be much different now. Everyone will try to take advantage of our situation now that shit has hit the fan. It won't be easy to get good money for our players, even for the best of them.

Future looks really grim.

 

[rockball]

There is no way we can reduce wages by 20% AND be competitive.

 

[IM21]

There is no way we can reduce wages by 20% AND be competitive.

if they do it the only thing this team will compete for will be the conference league. Goodbye Champions league.

this should have been done months ago. But no, Steven was busy in China and came here just for the photos after we won. And we still dont have a plan for the future, no coach as it looks like and no sponsor. Oh and he's going back to China in 10 days, so yea, if anyone feels optimistic, i am jelous of you.

 

[CafeCordoba]

The thing that pisses me the most with these guys is the timing. You don't make a decision about such a drastic change of policy at the end of May. You make it on March or worst case April in order to give time to the management to plan ahead. The management could have communicated to the agents everyone is available for the right price and asked them to bring offers for their clients. They could have also set targets who could be available at a low price and could replace the departing players. Instead the management couldn't do anything because they were waiting for Suning to decide what they want to do with the club.

At the end of the day if they couldn't afford to run the club and keep a decent level of competitiveness they could have sold the club. There was an offer on the table. Instead they had unreasonable demands.

Another thing is if they want to turn Inter into a selling club they need to bring someone who knows how to find hidden gems and sell them at a profit. Recruit Luis Campos who wants to leave Lille. Ausilio isn't the guy for the job. He can make some great deals here and there but he isn't the guy who has a high success rate with signing good players at a low cost. You need someone like Campos, Rangnick or Zorc. Guys who know how to make money from sales.

The worst thing is the whole world knows Inter desperately need money. The last time we were in a similar situation we had Man Utd lowballing us for Perisic. The situation won't be much different now. Everyone will try to take advantage of our situation now that shit has hit the fan. It won't be easy to get good money for our players, even for the best of them.

Future looks really grim.

Yeah, this is also my biggest regret in this debacle. Timing is fucking awful for the sporting management.

What was the most odd thing was Marotta talking about the 20th Scudetto in the post-season celebrations (or was it in the pre-match interview against Udinese don't rememeber). So odd comment from a guy who's quite reserved with his comments always.

 

[Il Drago]

Yeah, this is also my biggest regret in this debacle. Timing is fucking awful for the sporting management.

What was the most odd thing was Marotta talking about the 20th Scudetto in the post-season celebrations (or was it in the pre-match interview against Udinese don't rememeber). So odd comment from a guy who's quite reserved with his comments always.

He said it after Crotone when we secured the title. Marotta probably thought worst case scenario he needs to sell one starter. Nothing he hadn't done before. So he thought with the presence of Conte and most of the starting lineup staying another Scudetto was a realistic target. If only he knew what the owners had in store for him.

 

[Universe]

There is no way we can reduce wages by 20% AND be competitive.

Reduce wages by 20% AND raise €80m from sales

Good one.

 

[.h.]

You guys are crazy if you think Marotta didnt know what is likely to be done. These guys *prepare* the books for the owners, ffs. They'll know exactly where the year's P&L will close long before the owners do.

Anyway, as an exercise, what's your priority on our players if we had to start selling? I think for me its:
Perisic
Brozovic
Eriksen
Handanovic (only here because I think it'll be harder to replace him, otherwise he'd be higher - albeit not raising much anyway)
Hakimi
Lukaku
Skriniar
De Vrij
Lautaro
Bastoni
Barella

 

[PHM1605]

^better to make a list of "list of most likely selling". I want Dalbert and Lazaro out the most for instance, but it doesn't mean shit if there is no offer for them.

 

[.h.]

^better to make a list of "list of most likely selling". I want Dalbert and Lazaro out the most for instance, but it doesn't mean shit if there is no offer for them.

I'm only looking at the first team. I'm just curious to get a view on people's priorities. Bastoni keeps getting mentioned in the press, but for me, he's pretty much the most unsellable player (in terms of my desire to sell)

 

[CafeCordoba]

Yeah that's a pretty good priority. If you take first 3 out from our payroll with the deadwood and Vidal (without golden handshakes), that would cover the salary reduction need and MAYBE the net sale need (depends how much we could get for Brozovic).

Then the issue would become, we've removed three starters and we need to replace them.

Handanovic leaving would make no sense, since he isn't making that much and has zero market value as transfer fee.

 

[Il Drago]

I hate doing this as i don't want any of them gone but if Conte is really gone, out of the 6 "untouchables" (Skriniar, De Vrij, Bastoni, Barella, Hakimi, Lautaro, Lukaku) i would prefer selling Lukaku and De Vrij. I don't think Lukaku will be as good with another coach and he's already 28 so this is probably our only chance to cash in on him. With Conte gone we will probably move to a back 4 so i would prefer selling the oldest cb and the one who always looked better in a back 3 than a back 4.

Sadly at least one of them needs to go. We can't make 80m from Brozovic, Eriksen and Perisic.

 

[CafeCordoba]

IF Conte leaves, then Lukaku is the obvious choice for me too. If he could fetch like 100m€ from let's say Chelsea. That would allow us to retain all the others important pieces and buy some adequate, of course lesser though, replacement.

 

[.h.]

IF Conte leaves, then Lukaku is the obvious choice for me too. If he could fetch like 100m€ from let's say Chelsea. That would allow us to retain all the others important pieces and buy some adequate, of course lesser though, replacement.

what's an interesting exercise is how we look in a flat 4

GK
Darmian Skriniar Bastoni LB
Barella Sensi
Hakimi Eriksen Sanchez
Lautaro
​

I slightly worry about the lack of clinicality in that line up, but considering there's no real spend, its not bad.

 

[PHM1605]

I'm only looking at the first team. I'm just curious to get a view on people's priorities. Bastoni keeps getting mentioned in the press, but for me, he's pretty much the most unsellable player (in terms of my desire to sell)

Similar for the first teams, two lists are reciprocal. The more you prioritize a player to leave, less money you would receive.

Perisic and Eriksen top of the desire list but there is zero offer for them up to now. Even if there are, we would not collect much money as the buyer already pays all the budget on the salary. So we would not do the sell anyway as we still can't cover a part of +80m surplus request.

The ONLY solution is selling players with the most market price. Lautaro top of the list then. But again, no fans want that.

 

[Il Drago]

I don't trust Lautaro as a lone striker. His finishing is simply not good enough. We should stick with an attacking duo.

 

[.h.]

I don't trust Lautaro as a lone striker. His finishing is simply not good enough. We should stick with an attacking duo.

yeh, my financial concern is if we offdload lukaku can we afford to sign a good enough replacement. I dont want some Guiard nonsense, I want at least a reasonable striker who can score reliably.

Fark, I can think of one name who ticks that box (Dzeko) that isnt outrageously expensive..

 

[brehme1989]

The financial stuff can be solved by:
- Selling: Lukaku, Perisic, Vecino/Gagliardini, Nainggolan, Lazaro, Mario, Dalbert.
- Relieving: Conte, Kolarov, Vidal (loan I guess), Young.

Pinamonti will be very hard to sell or loan out, we'll have to pay some of it, so we might as well keep him, he's an Interista anyway.

Thing is, we can afford to take capital losses on Nainggolan, Mario, Lazaro and even Vidal if we sell Lukaku for an inflated amount. We're not in dire need for capital gains anyway.

Switching to a 4-3-1-2, all we will really need is a left back (Dimarco?) unless Bastoni becomes it. Keep D'Ambrosio for backup, have Darmian as an alternate backup, they can both play right and left anyway.

Get someone like Belotti and get a couple of loan deals for midfield spots and backup striker and you're set.

Reducing the salary budget is something we need to do regardless due to stupid spending, extravagant amounts paid out and the sort.

The main thing is to have a proper coach and not Sinissa.
As I said in another thread, trying to get someone like Marcelo Gallardo could be a great option. But honestly I'd also take Crespo with Cambiasso as his assistant if it means the alternative is to get Sinissa.

 

[javier_zanetti <3]

The FFP hasnt been canceled?

 

[.h.]

The FFP hasnt been canceled?

Our problems arent FFP, its actual cash now

But officially, no. It's not. It will definitely be changed, but no one is sure how yet. It's quite possibly going to be a salary cap as a % of income. But let's see.

 

[javier_zanetti <3]

Our problems arent FFP, its actual cash now

I understand it and of course i think its worse. FFP has some limits that must be respected, but without that the company have more freedom to spend. If suning doesnt have the money to own a big club, they must sell the club. They just got 275M from oaktree and still need more than 100m? So they need to sell the club.