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

[CafeCordoba]

I don't think head management cares about it. They don't seem to have an idea how football strategies work and Marotta has his hands tied. Doesn't look promising, unless Oaktree decides to get the fuck off sooner than later.

I mean, things could get even worse. Think of selling Barella or Bastoni and replacing them with Matteo Ruggeri and Giovanni Fabbian.

Nothing points to this though. I bit fear-mongering, no?

 

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[crzdcolombian]

I don't think I can name 1 west ham player.... but their value is almost as much as Atletico Madrids?

 

[CafeCordoba]

I don't think I can name 1 west ham player.... but their value is almost as much as Atletico Madrids?

That's what EPL broadcasing deals do to you.

 

[Kramerica Industries]

And player recognition. West Ham being in the Premier League, playing in London, and playing in a big stadium brings them visibility. Obviously nobody in their proper minds thinks they're as valuable a club player-for-player as Atleti, but TM values are crowdsourced.

 

[Hikonyán]

Average age will drop abit when Arna and Corea gets replaced and players like Acerbi, Mkhitaryan, Sommer and Darmian are inflating it.

But its a genuine problem that Inter has ZERO starting quality players below the age of 25. Even as backups, we only have 3.

Something needs to happen here.

 

[CafeCordoba]

And something is going to happen. People need to calm the fuck down a bit.

 

[.h.]

And something is going to happen. People need to calm the fuck down a bit.

I think people assume we are just gonna keep the same players until Bisseck is 40

 

[Hikonyán]

No one is assuming that.

People, however, are worried we only will sign 2nd/3rd rate players below the age 25 and the overall quality of new players signed, due to financial restrictions. But i guess everything will be fine and dandy just because we are making a u23 team...

Show me some other top clubs in europe who doesnt have a single starting quality player below the age of 25 please. Mentioning that it is worrying has nothing to do with being in panic mode or whatever these arrogant "calm the fuck down lmao lolol" - esque comments indicate from certain people here everytime someone mentions anything of the sort.

I guess some people just have a lot of confidence is the current owners, which they base on..... well absolutely nothing. Each to his own.

 

[.h.]

i guess we're just ignoring the fact that bisseck has been starting for us?

this summer will need real action from the owners, so let's wait to see what they do before we panic?

signs are good, though, I'd say already. Palacios has gone straight into the Monza starting line up - somethinge everyone's favourite wonderkid (Carboni) couldnt do - they've spent 14m on Sucic, who is only 21 years old, we've got Bisseck getting reasonable game time, clearly putting SOME kind of plan together for Pio Esposito...

Lets see how the summer goes, eh. We've got owners who didnt really 'expect' to get Inter, so they're probably panic-reacting rather than a big plan - note they honoured all of the deals Suning had lined up e.g. sponsorships when they didnt need to, and had very little change in staff - give them a chance to wrap their head around it and start to action their plans.

 

[Conan the Barbarian]

Asllani ,Sucic and Argie boy who went to Porto...I wonder what makes them more special than Salvatore Esposito ?

 

[.h.]

Asllani ,Sucic and Argie boy who went to Porto...I wonder what makes them more special than Salvatore Esposito ?

well, Esposito right now has been languishing in Serie B for a couple of seasons, no one from A really trying to sign him, and he's 24, not exactly 20 year old still on the up
at least asllani has been playing Serie A for much, much longer than Esposito

Sucic, I dunno, never seen him play, but he#'s already playing games in the champions league, that alone is a good sign

 

[Conan the Barbarian]

well, Esposito right now has been languishing in Serie B for a couple of seasons, no one from A really trying to sign him, and he's 24, not exactly 20 year old still on the up
at least asllani has been playing Serie A for much, much longer than Esposito

Sucic, I dunno, never seen him play, but he#'s already playing games in the champions league, that alone is a good sign

I mean, if we had given Esposito the same chance, we would probably have saved millions of euros. I don't think Esposito is lower in quality than the other three.

 

[.h.]

I mean, if we had given Esposito the same chance, we would probably have saved millions of euros. I don't think Esposito is lower in quality than the other three.

well, we didnt sign tomas perez, so i think its a bit of a false equivalence to draw the parallel between him and esposito as being good enough for inter

in terms of asllani or sucic... well, i dont think esposito is gonna transfer for 15-20mil, which is the price of both of those players, nor will he ever get much CL/etc experience. I dont particularly rate Asllani, but there's a big gap between ok/decent in Serie B vs mid-table level in Serie A

For Sucic, lets give the guy a chance at least before we judge him? He might be amazing. He might be a complete waste. Lets find out before we start suggesting we should have signed/kept Salvatore Esposito over him.

 

[ADRossi]

Sure feels like this summer is going to be a revolution for the squad.

You've got players like Acerbi, Arnautovic, and Mkhitaryan who are in obvious decline or injury prone. Players like Sommer and Darmian probably have one year, at most, left at the top level. The obvious holes in attack that will open up once Correa joins Arnautovic in oblivion. And that's even before you get into players who we should be looking to sell, like Frattesi, Asllani, and Taremi.

It will be interesting to see what we do with a lot of these young kids that are excelling on loan or that we have buyback options for.

 

[Kramerica Industries]

Sure feels like this summer is going to be a revolution for the squad.

You've got players like Acerbi, Arnautovic, and Mkhitaryan who are in obvious decline or injury prone. Players like Sommer and Darmian probably have one year, at most, left at the top level. The obvious holes in attack that will open up once Correa joins Arnautovic in oblivion. And that's even before you get into players who we should be looking to sell, like Frattesi, Asllani, and Taremi.

It will be interesting to see what we do with a lot of these young kids that are excelling on loan or that we have buyback options for.

And it's going to say a lot about Oaktree, for better or for worse. This is the summer that's going to define their transfer and spending policy. We have the CL revenues coming in (and hopefully another round or two's worth of games to follow...obviously the best outcome would be to win the competition but lets be realistic for the time being). As much as I hate the competition's existence, we have the Club World Cup revenues coming in. We'll have two overpaid forwards clogging roster spots off the books.

There's money coming into the club to spend, there's needs to address, open roster spots to work with, and attainable players on the transfer market to fill those spots/needs. Milan might be getting their shit together a bit? Some transfer windows are more important than others. We could maybe slide a bit last summer from where we were. However, even if we win the Scudetto this year, the gaps have tightened and our team has gotten older and more stale. Especially with the CWC, we need some fresher legs and depth to help us navigate next season after essentially having no summer break in the meantime. (The CWC in this form is, frankly, criminal.) If we screw things up this summer, our 2025-'26 season is going to be a massive headache. We have to get this one at least 8/10 right.

 

[.h.]

what gaps do we think we need to fill?

CCB, clearly
Probably a new GK unless Martinez suddenly appears for the second half of the season - and even then, Di Gennaro probably needs replacing at some point
Sucic already signed, Palacios
We probably need a Mkhi replacement, and a Frattesi replacement. Possibly we lose patience with Asllani or try him in a different role
Two new strikers

there's going to be some work done this summer. Lets hope its done correctly.

a new RWB wouldnt hurt, but I can see we'd probably stick with Darmian another year (and, tbh, probably Mkhi another year as much as I think it'd be a mistake)

 

[Il Drago]

Sure feels like this summer is going to be a revolution for the squad.

You've got players like Acerbi, Arnautovic, and Mkhitaryan who are in obvious decline or injury prone. Players like Sommer and Darmian probably have one year, at most, left at the top level. The obvious holes in attack that will open up once Correa joins Arnautovic in oblivion. And that's even before you get into players who we should be looking to sell, like Frattesi, Asllani, and Taremi.

It will be interesting to see what we do with a lot of these young kids that are excelling on loan or that we have buyback options for.

I don't know why you guys put Mkhi among possible departures. You may see him in an obvious decline but that's not how Inzaghi sees it. Among our midfielders, Mkhi is the one with the most minutes on the pitch despite the fact he's the only midfielder with a quality backup. Inzaghi has showed with every way possible that Mkhi is extremely valuable to his game.

Mkhi will be at Inter next season. 100%. And he will probably go into next season as a starter once again.

 

[.h.]

I don't know why you guys put Mkhi among possible departures. You may see him in an obvious decline but that's not how Inzaghi sees it. Among our midfielders, Mkhi is the one with the most minutes on the pitch despite the fact he's the only midfielder with a quality backup. Inzaghi has showed with every way possible that Mkhi is extremely valuable to his game.

Mkhi will be at Inter next season. 100%. And he will probably go into next season as a starter once again.

i broadly agree with this, i think its just worth flagging that inter does have a cheap termination clause in mkhi's contract ( was it 700k?). I dont think next year he leaves the club, but potentially takes on a rotation/bench position. Right now, though, I'd be surprised if even that was true, I'd expect him to be a starter next year. But he is fucking old.

 

[Il Drago]

what gaps do we think we need to fill?

CCB, clearly
Probably a new GK unless Martinez suddenly appears for the second half of the season - and even then, Di Gennaro probably needs replacing at some point
Sucic already signed, Palacios
We probably need a Mkhi replacement, and a Frattesi replacement. Possibly we lose patience with Asllani or try him in a different role
Two new strikers

there's going to be some work done this summer. Lets hope its done correctly.

a new RWB wouldnt hurt, but I can see we'd probably stick with Darmian another year (and, tbh, probably Mkhi another year as much as I think it'd be a mistake)

Obviously a middle cb.

I don't see a necessity to go for a GK unless Martinez asks to leave. Sommer is still at a respectable level. We have other priorities. We need to regain control of Deki Jnr though.

If we keep Zalewski, i don't see space for Palacios. Probably another loan for him. If Zalewski returns to Roma, maybe we push Augusto to lwb and Palacios stays as Bastoni backup but i wouldn't bet on it. Of course it will also depend on Palacios performances at Monza. We also need to decide what we're gonna do with Buchanan.

Susic is probably Frattesi replacement though i am expecting Inzaghi to be reluctant to give him playing time straightaway. We take for granted he will have a spot in next season squad but perhaps Inzaghi wants to send him on loan to learn Serie A. Then we need to decide what we're gonna do with Asllani. It would determine the kind of midfielder we're looking for.

And obviously a forward. We would need to offload Taremi to sign a second forward and it would be very complicated. He has a contract till 2027.

So all in all a very busy summer. And that's if we don't sell any starter.