Lautaro Martinez

[PHM1605]

My point was related to a period when he was struggling for goals. He's been in a great form recently, but once his goals are missing, people will throw him under the bus, despite that he's still contributing in overall and his presence still makes us a better team.

That always happens when you receive the fattest paycheck. More money more responsibility.

 

[.h.]

My point was related to a period when he was struggling for goals. He's been in a great form recently, but once his goals are missing, people will throw him under the bus, despite that he's still contributing in overall and his presence still makes us a better team.

Well in some of his off games he was utter ass. In some of them he contributed broadly. But ultimately we don't need Lautaro to be a rounded contributor, we need him to be a goalscorer. Contribution is a nice secondary, but his primary is goals in the net.

 

[Besnik]

Well in some of his off games he was utter ass. In some of them he contributed broadly. But ultimately we don't need Lautaro to be a rounded contributor, we need him to be a goalscorer. Contribution is a nice secondary, but his primary is goals in the net.

Lautaro was never a typical goalscorer and our management knows this. Of course goals matter, but his contribution and influence in our style of play is a primary thing. I'm not saying the club doesn't demand goals, but for sure they knew what they were doing when they gave him a new adjusted contract with more money. Don't misunderstand my point, I surely want goals from Lautaro and everything else, but as long as he's being impactful on Inter's success, I'm completely fine even if he isn't consistently scoring. I'm glad the club backed him during the difficult period, and there was not a single sign of doubt in this matter.

 

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

But ultimately we don't need Lautaro to be a rounded contributor, we need him to be a goalscorer. Contribution is a nice secondary, but his primary is goals in the net.

don’t agree with this part. Great teams, especially in modern football, require every player on the pitch to serve a tactical function in the overall mechanisms and flow of play. Inzaghi’s inter are actually a prime example of this— his players are constantly switching positions and covering for one another based upon what’s happening. I don’t want someone who thinks “my job is to score goals so I’m going to do what I need to do to get on the score sheet.” I want a striker that’s primarily focused on performing their tasks according to the coach’s instructions within the tactics. Ultimately it doesn’t matter who the one scoring the goals is.

Yes, Lautaro is a streaky player goals wise but when he’s slumping, it’s much better for him to stay focused on what he’s supposed to do for the team than what is going to best lead to him getting his goal and shutting “the haters” up.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Precisely that. We don't have super star players who can make stuff out of nothing, those are too expensive for us. So we rely on coach's very well tuned system, which relies on each player to function as per the role defined for the player in that system. Lautaro is a great system player, almost exceptional. Not a super star striker who scores over 30 per season, but does his job in the system very, very well. He's still capable of scoring 25-30:

21/22: 25 total goals
22/23: 28 total goals
23/24: 27 total goals
24/25: 15 total goals so far (maybe lacking a bit behind?)

He's been lacking behind this season, yet we are the most scoring team in Serie A (not so much in CL, but that's a different story). System is what matters more than Lautaro's goal scoring numbers.

 

[.h.]

when we say they're too expensive for us, you know e.g. lewandowski doesnt earn *that* much more than Lautaro? he's on 33m/year (gross). Harry Kane is 25m a year gross from what I can see. Isak earns apparently 6.5m gross per season. On this list, he's one of the top 15 most expensive strikers in the world:

The 15 highest-paid strikers in world football have been revealed

🇳🇴 4. Erling Haaland - £525,000-per-week 🦁 7. Harry Kane - £403,904-per-week 🇩🇪 13. Kai Havertz - £280,000-per-week

www.givemesport.com

And that includes no less than 6 players at Saudi clubs including Ronaldo, Benzema, etc.

If you take them off the list, and look at European clubs, he's the 8th highest paid striker in the world (Lewandowski, Haaland, Kane, Vlahovic, Marmoush, Havertz, Lautaro).

 

[CafeCordoba]

Lewa is on 33M gross? That's almost double of Lautaro's gross. Kane is less, but still considerably more.

Isak is great yes (but next he needs to show it in a club fighting for a title), but do you think we could acquire him? I don't quite see your point. My point is Lautaro is not super star scorer, has never been and never will. And isn't paid as such, see Haaland, Kane, Salah, Lewandowski, Mbappe, Vinicius (he's closest to Lautaro, but still higher and will get a new contract).

 

[IM21]

Lewa is on 33M gross? That's almost double of Lautaro's gross. Kane is less, but still considerably more.

these two also need 2 times less chances to score.

 

[Neroazzurr4]

Just GTFO!!!!

 

[Nothing]

FUCK YOU GET THE FUCK OUT YOU OVERRATED CUNT

 

[Besnik]

You cunts need to chill the fuck down. He was probably our best player tonight. His chances weren't even that brutal.

Entire team collapsed in second half.

We've had far worse players tonight whom were bigger factors to our defead. I'm sick of reactionary people.

 

[Nothing]

You cunts need to chill the fuck down. He was probably our best player tonight. His chances weren't even that brutal.

Entire team collapsed in second half.

We've had far worse players tonight whom were bigger factors to our defead. I'm sick of reactionary people.

Best player? Nah bro you're biased. He did create chances only to fuck it up by himself.

 

[KevinB]

Acerbi was the best on the pitch though. Toro played great but as striker, we need to see some contributions.

We aren't even in the position to bench him.

 

[BasedGodPunk]

Sell. He’s a chance merchant. If he played for any other team he’d be a mediocre goal scorer who missed 90% of his chances.

 

[.h.]

Sell. He’s a chance merchant. If he played for any other team he’d be a mediocre goal scorer who missed 90% of his chances.

has there ever been really, genuinely serious big clubs interested in signing him since he 'hit it big' at inter?

I think Barca were allegedly chasing for a while? But Im not sure off the top of my head? Genuine question, not loaded. Just cant remember right now.

 

[Besnik]

Best player? Nah bro you're biased. He did create chances only to fuck it up by himself.

Come on, I get the frustration, but let's judge adequately and see where problems came from and how we managed to dominate them.

Second half was disgraceful, but most of our key players were non factor tonight.

Bastoni, Dimarco, Hakan, Mkhi, all of them were ass, some to less extent and some were very bad, and then Barella was kinda so-so.

We've always created plenty opportunities, but we managed to win matches. Tonight we just collapsed mentally, and like I said, most of key players crumbled, and some of them were through a poor form for a while now.

Thuram barely touched the ball tonight, and he's played half an hour. I mean, look at the bigger picture.

Don't you think I'm frustrated aswell? I could kill someone lol, but I'm still trying to prove a point despite everything.

 

[Nothing]

Come on, I get the frustration, but let's judge adequately and see where problems came from and how we managed to dominate them.

Second half was disgraceful, but most of our key players were non factor tonight.

Bastoni, Dimarco, Hakan, Mkhi, all of them were ass, some to less extent and some were very bad, and then Barella was kinda so-so.

We've always created plenty opportunities, but we managed to win matches. Tonight we just collapsed mentally, and like I said, most of key players crumbled, and some of them were through a poor form for a while now.

Thuram barely touched the ball tonight, and he's played half an hour. I mean, look at the bigger picture.

Don't you think I'm frustrated aswell? I could kill someone lol, but I'm still trying to prove a point despite everything.

Yeah very frustrated, we played well in the first half we totally controlled the game but this man kept wasting easy chances especially the last chance he when he tried to score a banger but failed comically. If you can't do a volley then hold the ball first ffs.

And he was missing for more than 6 months! I know he barely got rested but that wasn't an excuse. Barella ran much more kilometers than him and still performing consistently. Bastoni as well although he was underwhelming for the last 3 games. He already pissed me off when he stalled the contract situation, so much drama only to get small output from him. You can say anything you want but he's a striker and his job is to score and he wasted it. So yes imo he's overrated and overpaid. He's my least favorite player this year. Big money, big mouth and small output.

 

[Besnik]

Yeah very frustrated, we played well in the first half we totally controlled the game but this man kept wasting easy chances especially the last chance he when he tried to score a banger but failed comically. If you can't do a volley then hold the ball first ffs.

And he was missing for more than 6 months! I know he barely got rested but that wasn't an excuse. Barella ran much more kilometers than him and still performing consistently. Bastoni as well although he was underwhelming for the last 3 games. He already pissed me off when he stalled the contract situation, so much drama only to get small output from him. You can say anything you want but he's a striker and his job is to score and he wasted it. So yes imo he's overrated and overpaid. He's my least favorite player this year. Big money, big mouth and small output.

Lautaro has been best player lately and scored reguarly. Let's not act like his missed chances were that brutal. I mean, yes, good chances but not out of this world like you get shocked how it wasn't a goal.

That volley attempt wasn't even a great chance at all. In first half he should have done better, but that's just how it is. Football can be cruel. I wish I had more energy to make a compilation of incredible "critical" misses of world class strikers through years.

I even wrote that he's been very poor during that period of poor form, but these days he's so good. Missed chances aren't the end of the world. Like I said, frustration is understandable, but you guys are overreacting on his impact and ability as a player generally. He's an amazing player whom will remain in history of Inter.

 

[syrus]

Bro he's been on the longest draught of his career !!

Lautaro has been best player lately and scored reguarly. Let's not act like his missed chances were that brutal. I mean, yes, good chances but not out of this world like you get shocked how it wasn't a goal.

 

[Batman]

I will not overreact and say sell, but it’s time to at least find someone who can make him replaceable. The amount of fuckery he did is due to him not having a competition for years, not just this season. It’s unforgivable he didnt bury at least one those chances. I can easily say he costed us the game.