Marco Benassi

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we are desperately short of cash. they arent.
 

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we are desperately short of cash. they arent.

We could have sold him with the buy back clause like Bonazzolli. The 3.5 million isn't going to be that useful. If Kuzmanovic and Santon are sold for the 10 then I suppose we'll have recouped nearly 15 million from those three which is good.
 

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Well the only part that bothers me about this is we gave half of him for an expiring contract for Dambrosio plus the face he is like the same level of talent as brozovic. I mean why not save some money and have some italian players.
 

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We have only received 5 mils in total for Benassi (1,5 for first half and now 3,5 for other half). Its to few for a player who was one of the best players in U21 championship. I mean there were rumors about some Premier league teams (Southampton) willing to pay 10 mils.

This is no doubt our first mistake in this mercato. I just hope we will not see him in couple of years in Juve or Milan jersey as new Marchisio or something like that...
 

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Well the only part that bothers me about this is we gave half of him for an expiring contract for Dambrosio plus the face he is like the same level of talent as brozovic. I mean why not save some money and have some italian players.

Exactly. We always value expensive purchased players better than our own home grown kids. Even if they're not really any better..
First mistake of the marceto, yeah. Giving him for free and having an option to purchase at 10M within 2 years or so is better.

What if Imbula turns to be a failure here and Benassi shines for Torino next season? Or we're forced to sell Kova next year?
It's better to not risk it because anything can happen. And I believe we can afford to hold on our best home grown youngsters, obviously there aren't many of them.
 

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3.5 M for half of a U-21 player that was never going to play much for us is reasonable currently.
 

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Have to remember that we also spent a couple of million to buy his remaining half from Modena (?) after he made his Serie A debut for us, then didn't play him much after that, and then included half of his contract in the purchase of a player with an expiring contract. We should try stand-up.
 

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Yeah, you are right. I totally forgot that. We spent 1,25 to sign him from Modena. Basically we are only those 3,5 mils good on him (plus salary that is not high for sure)...
 

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fucking idiot management
 

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lol

i love this

24 hours ago people were mental over kondogbia

now they're losing their shit over benassi

like wat
 

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full sale, no buyback clause they now have full 100% of Marco!

Can you dish out some of your furniture business money to get him back?
 

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Come on browha that not really fair or true. The reason we're upset is because we owned him already. Whenever you own a player and you lose him it feels much worse than never getting player for example. I don't see why we can't be happy we got Kondogbia whole simultaneously being a little annoyed we lossed a good talent.

The end of the world? No, but IMO we should have made more of an effort to keep him.
 

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Well,

what if Torino didn't accept buyback clause?

where are the U21 players Inter sold last summer?

After purchases like Inter have done you need to also sell and Benassi wouldn't have room in current Inter midfield.
 
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Come on browha that not really fair or true. The reason we're upset is because we owned him already. Whenever you own a player and you lose him it feels much worse than never getting player for example. I don't see why we can't be happy we got Kondogbia whole simultaneously being a little annoyed we lossed a good talent.

The end of the world? No, but IMO we should have made more of an effort to keep him.

I dont think we've lost much. He's better thna someone like obi, for example, with good upside potential, but is he really gonna rival kovacic, kondogbia, or imbula? Probably not.
 

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I dont think we've lost much. He's better thna someone like obi, for example, with good upside potential, but is he really gonna rival kovacic, kondogbia, or imbula? Probably not.

The question remains is he better or equal to brozovic?
 

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Buying imbula is not necessary since we've got medel and kondo for the starting dm roles. Bringing benassi back would be reasonable to be as an apprentice to them.
 

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I dont think we've lost much. He's better thna someone like obi, for example, with good upside potential, but is he really gonna rival kovacic, kondogbia, or imbula? Probably not.

We also haven't really gained much, it's not like we sold him for a huge fee. Also, don't see why the presence of Kovacic, Kondogbia, or Imbula means there's no point in keeping Benassi. None of those four are guaranteed successes.
 

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If pedobear browha says he's not pissed as hell for selling him then we all have no right to be.
 

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lol

i love this

24 hours ago people were mental over kondogbia

now they're losing their shit over benassi

like wat

dats life, one day it's sunshine and rainbows, the other it's up in your arse.
 

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Benassi just scored a stunner for storing against Palermo.
 
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