Times like this makes me wanna quit supporting any sports club altogether and just focus on nationalities. Seriously.
It's not about sales or financial troubles, but rather about keeping things in the dark. We have no clue what's going on. None. There is no "Finances" tab on Inter's website like in Football Manager. No clue WHAT-SO-EVER.
A few months back we were sold the story that we need a loan to help us get through. We all thought: it's not great with a loan like with 11% interest, but if that's what it takes to keep the coach and the team, even with free transfers to cover those bench options, then lets do it! We'll survive.
Then we get it (at least from what reports say). And then what? And then Conte is out and we hear we need to sell someone anyways! This can go on forever you know. After Hakimi, it might be Bastoni. And what would be the reason? Financial troubles. After that Lukaku. Why? Same thing.
This can go on and on. You go to bed thinking, "ok that's it and we're safe", then wake up the next morning and you find another news of "needing to sell player X". On and on, on and on.
If we knew finances, we would 1st, prepare for what's to come so there wouldn't be as many suprises, but 2nd part (of course from the owner perspective not so good) is that everybody would know finances, not only including fans but most importantly 3rd parties (sponsors, other team owners etc.). Good for us (fans) because we would know whether the club is managed correctly and more importantly how much truth is in that financial problems, not good for the club overall though. After all, we have no clue whether these problems are real, or it's just owner who is just doing some funny business. You have no idea, only the inside people know that. That was the same in the Moratti era, where there were some financial leaks, and we had a column titled "other" with like 200 or 300mln going out of the club every year. WTF
. It might be Moratti buying another island for all we know.
But it's even worse. Since you are loyal fan, we cannot apply the competition rule here. You should be with your club no matter what. NOBODY does that in real life with anything they buy. It's not like: "ok, my chevrolet is breaking down every week cause the manufacturer is making the cars now out of plastic to drain as much money as possible, and every repair costs half the cost of the car, BUT... I'm sticking with Chevrolet cause I'm loyal". No fucking way. You go: "fuck that company, fuck the owner, let him bankrupt that piece of shit, I'm buying Toyota now". You can't do that with sports club if you are suppose to be loyal fan cause otherwise you're a bandwagon fan and that's why you have all those leach owners for years in biggest teams like man utd, liverpool, arsenal etc even though fans are furious about it but they can't do nothing about it. And owners know it. Owners can do whatever they want. They can sell all the first team for all they know. They won't go to competition. They won't throw rocks at their house cause then the fans seem like cavemen. So what incentive the owners have to spend money on the club? If they are not passionate like Moratti etc, or are not owners of the club but presidents (aka Barcelona or Real where you know that if you don't do right with the club, you're fucking out the next elections), then pretty much none. And they don't have to tell anything to the fans, besides those moronic phrases like "we will still strive to compete at the highest level". For fuck sake, even Spezia can say that.
So to apply it to our situation. Every big club has like 70-100mln of losses due to tickets. What else? Sponsorship deals are I'm pretty sure based on those milions watching in TV, not 60k in a stadium. Merchendising can suffer a bit but it's not like all merchendise is sold on the site, most is sold online for sure, and besides for Inter merchendising was never as big as for real or barca for example. Marotta also mentioned 70mln loss from tickets. Fine. But taking that loan into account, I'm pretty sure we're still way on the plus side and with big margin. We had some losses before? Well, we would have losses now too even with those 70mln back in our coffers.
I'm fucking so sick of being kept in the dark and trying to support a club. Whenever shit like this happen, it's so frustrating, I'm feeling like taking a break from news cycle and just focus on my family. But then... I will come back watching Inter, not Roma so I'm back to square one. And I cannot even scream at Zhang at matches, because he is away like 11 months in a year. Otherwise they should be fucks flying at their faces all year long now (if I knew more and it would be justified, but again... we have no clue what's happening).
Sometimes I understand chicks who think we dudes are fucking idiots for supporting those clubs and a bit envy the bandwagon fans who don't give a shit and support the clubs who are best at the moment (aka, they are the most competetive - like if they bought the best car at the moment). Seriously.
On a side note. If it was indeed the case that Zhangs could sell the club (of course it's also a bit of unknown as the next guy might be worse than the current guy, but you cannot apply this rule forever as I'm sure nobody would say lets keep Stalin as the next guy would be worse) but didn't because they want to earn more money those greedy basters and took the loan and now will sell some guy(s) because they need to wait for higher offer but in the meantime destroy the great team they built (this credit has to go to them and cannot be taken away), then FUCK THEM IN THEIR STUPID MOUTHS THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS!!!