Mercato Team (Ausilio, Marotta, & Co.) and Strategies

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I'd definitely spend big for Scudetto race. Why is this game even played if not for the championship? This season we have a good chance because Juve is weak. Also their focus is on CL. We have a chance to overthrone them but thst requires spending some serious money.
 

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I dont want to win everything every year. I dont even want to win the Scudetto or CL. I want to be competent, by competent I mean qualifying for the round 16 when you have everything in your hands.
Define "everything".
 

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Define "everything".

I explained it 5 times in 2 days, but I’ll say it again..

- home advantage
- playing against kids (Suarez-Griezmann, De Jong-Rakitic didnt play at the same time)
- they werent even playing good!!! see how many balls they gifted us
- we dont have to depend on anyone, we just had to win in order to qualify
 

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I explained it 5 times in 2 days, but I’ll say it again..

- home advantage
- playing against kids (Suarez-Griezmann, De Jong-Rakitic didnt play at the same time)
- they werent even playing good!!! see how many balls they gifted us
- we dont have to depend on anyone, we just had to win in order to qualify

- Home advantage is a myth in professional football. It's a thing (academically proven to a minor extent) only in modern stadiums, read EPL style ones, where the acoustics make the noise way louder. Fans are closer to the pitch and so on. The Meazza isn't one of those "intimidating" stadiums. We don't really have a home advantage anyway, this season we are way better when we are playing away.

- They didn't play at the same time, yet they did all play... all of Suarez, Griezmann, De Jong and Rakitic. Just combine their transfer fees and you'll get the caliber of players we're talking about, probably about 300M. At the same time we had NO adequate attacking substitute, if you don't count Politano who is probably on his way out for being useless and 17 year-old Esposito. We also had 4 of our 5 midfield starters (Asamoah - Sensi - Barella - Candreva) injured and had, once again, NO adequate midfield substitution for our midfield substitutions. Maybe Agoume should've been called, I don't know.

- They weren't playing good? Define "good". I think they played pretty damn good considering they beat us after all - we didn't score our chances and they create some and score some. Maybe they were shit but we were triple shit, it's subjective.

- Sure thing, that's where we agree. We should've beaten them but we couldn't. It's not like we didn't try or field the best possible team or slouched on the field. It is what it is - the current state of the team. We were at least as close as it gets. Unlike last year at least we gave it our all and didn't play for a draw.
 

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IN: Arturo Vidal (LOAN) / Marcos Alonso / Bring back Naingolan (i know this is the most unrealistic scenario of all i propose)

OUT: Matias Vecino / Borja Valero (buy his contract and fire him) / Christian Biraghi

Sell Dalbert and Gabigol and use that money to extend big contracts for Skriniar, Lautaro and Barella.

------Godin/D'ambro--DeVrij/Skriniar---Skriniar/Bastoni----

Lazaro/Candreva-----------------------------Alonso/K.Asamoah

------Barella/Vidal---Brozovic/Sensi---Naingolan/Gagliardini-----

--------------Lautaro/Sanchez---Lukaku/Esposito/Politano----------



SUMMER 2020:

IN: Milinkovic Savic / Kulusevski / Mertens (free agent)
OUT: Icardi / Vidal and Sanchez (finish loan) / Politano / Gagliardini / Ranocchia
Seems realistic to me to buy SMS with the 70m of Icardi.

2020-2021

-----Skriniar/D'ambro-----DeVrij/Godin----Bastoni/Godin-----

Lazaro/Candreva------------------------------Alonso/K.Asamoah

----Barella/Naingolan---Sensi/Brozo---M.Savic/Kulusevski-----

--------------Lautaro/Mertens---Lukaku/Esposito----------------

A midfield of Barella, Sensi, Savic, Brozovic, Kulusevski and Naingolan gave me an erection. We have strengh, fight, pass and vision and dribble: Everything we need.
 

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Inter-Verona summit, from Amrabat to Rrahmani: the players discussed

Inter are looking to the future despite the recent elimination from the Champions League which comes with a loss of potential addition revenue, but with Serie A, the Europa League and Coppa Italia still in play, the nerazzurri want to be prepared.

This morning Inter's brass met with Hellas Verona president Maurizio Setti, the two clubs have a strong relationship as demonstrated by the Eddie Salcedo agreement. The nerazzurri are particularly interested in midfielder Sofyan Amrabat whom Verona will redeem from Brugge next summer for €3.5 million to then sell for a figure above €15 million. Napoli are also interested in Amrabat, who cannot be sold in January since he already appeared for two teams this season.

Inter are also monitoring two of Verona's defenders Mariah Kumbulla and especially Amir Rrahmani, who is seen as a player reminiscent of Milan Skriniar- he would be a target for next summer. Inter and Verona held preliminary talks today with an eye towards the future.
https://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/inter-verona-summit-from-amrabat-to-rrahmani-the-players-discussed
 

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So the latest (by GdS) is that we're looking for a midfielder and a left flank player. Attacker hunt has cooled down because we would need to dump Politano and apparently he's not interested in moving out of Inter.

Wondering what they think of the attacker situation when Lautaro/Lukaku goes down in February for a month?

https://www.fcinter1908.it/copertina/marotta-conte-cambiano/
 

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So the latest (by GdS) is that we're looking for a midfielder and a left flank player. Attacker hunt has cooled down because we would need to dump Politano and apparently he's not interested in moving out of Inter.

Wondering what they think of the attacker situation when Lautaro/Lukaku goes down in February for a month?

https://www.fcinter1908.it/copertina/marotta-conte-cambiano/
Isent sanchez coming back in jan?
Also could we really get a striker much better than politano? I doubt it and instead of getting another eder i rather save the money for summer.

We desperately need another cm though!!
 

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Sanchez is the "Politano replacement". We need to add a target man striker so that Conte can take Lukaku off time to time and have a real target man out there.

But two mids is a must, hopefully the management agrees.
 

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Why am I not optimistic at all about the new January signings?
 

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Can these Zhangs stop being cheap fucks and hand Conte some serious budget. A world class manager cannot make players out of Vecino, Biraghi, PoLOLitano, Gags and more. Get Alonso and Vidal in the next window.
 

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I dont know how it can be more clear, but the reason we have shit players is because you cant sell shit players. Zhang's are not cheap at all, they want to win, they fully support Conte's plan, and the future looks bright if they stay the course. And as such, my ultimate fear is they give in to this scudetto dream, and make long term commitments to players who shouldn't have them. Buy young, develop, build a sustainable system, and pay no mind to the unrealistic expectations of immediate glory. We're simply not equipped.

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All signs lead to at least a couple of acquisitions this winter.
 

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Wouldn't be surprising since Marotta has took a lot of Ausilio's responsibilities. We need another talent spotter to replace Ausilio.
 

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I think the best we could do is De Paul and Giroud in the winter. And maybe we block Kulusevski for Summer.
We're not going to be able to get better players because their teams won't let them go.
De Paul could probably be a decent rotation player here (certainly a better option than Vecino) for years to come. Giroud would clearly be a vice-Lukaku for 1-2 seasons max.
 

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We are close to the title if we don’t spend in January and lose our shot at being champions of Europa league and Italy then we will never get anywhere with this current management
 

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Whenever someone draws a formation using future buys and sells I completely ignore his post.

100% completely ignore his post. And I know I'm not the only one.
 

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At this moment, yeah, I ignore, at the summer it depends on the poster, since a lot of rumours come out in the summer.
 
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