I found this long article to be quite interesting. I suppose this is why the transfer window for Inter hasn't contained any large kind of spending at all. But I was really shocked when reading this.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/442218-the-price-of-inters-success
(To be fair I stopped I think like in the middle)
Anyways it would be good article if not for couple of things, and I could list them all but there's no point I think, since the story is loosing credibility to me with every fault it makes (imo).
a) The guy is using two tables showing different figures, and then basing his opinions about stuff from 2 different tables showing different figures
b) Inter is private company; it is widely known that nobody knows exactly how finances work at Inter, and the most we know (to some degree) is how much Inter earns, not how much it spends
c) There is a phrase in it, that we lost 500 mln in 3 years, while couple paragraphs later the guy is backing up his story by the article which said that during Moratti era we lost 1,15 bilion (that part I don't deny). Moratti era last now about 15 years. If we take 500 mln that we apparently lost in last three years, we would have to loose "just" 650 mln in the 12 years. What made this drastic change all of a sudden ? If anything it should got better not worse, especialy since the times where Moratti spended like 50 mln on one player are long over, and from what I got since the time I've become interista was that this huge spending that Moratti did in his era (close to 1 bilion) was made during his early years, not after Calciopoli. Sure we pay more for players etc. but at the same time TV pays more, and there is more money from UEFA etc.
But lets think about it. This article claims that we loose like a 150 mln EVERY YEAR. That's simply insane. If that was true, no stadium, nothing could help us out from the fair play rule that is coming. How to close a gap of 150 mln every year in 2 years ? Impossible, and from what I remember, MM was talking about Inter becoming self sufficient by the time the rule is implemented.
Let me make one thing very clear. I have no problem with hearing/reading Inter being in trouble financialy, and to be honest I would love to read some from behing the scenes stuff, that nobody in the public knows. But only when it's credible and makes sense. If this article was made by say gazzetta, which would bring some "behind the curtain" figures, then it might be a lot more believable. But when something doesn't make sense it just doesn't. I mean 150 mln in red every year ? That's ridiculous.
It seems more to me, like some guy sat on a chair, got a bunch of graphs from the internet (from different sources) made some conclusions basing on them, and some points.
I also have the small problem that it's NOW. I see so many stories that say something AFTER the fact, not BEFORE it happens. I can bet that he got the idea of this article when he saw that we really didn't buy anybody for a large amounts of money. He would never think of this article say in june.
ps. He has 200 mln last year as a wages for the players. Gazzetta says it's 150 mln. Quite a difference.