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

[Armes]

^ I stopped reading at Icardi

 

[qb4ever_2k]

^ I stopped reading at Icardi

We have been out of CL for too long and some people may now be afraid of it and want to turn back immediately, it's understandable.

 

[Hasan]

^ I stopped reading at Icardi

His missed so many chances after Milan derby that we could be in CL without all this stress.

Many people saying how he scored 29 with Perisic and Candreva but truth to be told those type of wingers are perfect for his style of play.

 

[brehme1989]

This Sergej guy is sick, I would seriously sell Icardi to get him.

Few months ago you called him overrated

 

[Harpsabu]

His missed so many chances after Milan derby that we could be in CL without all this stress.

Many people saying how he scored 29 with Perisic and Candreva but truth to be told those type of wingers are perfect for his style of play.

Candreva? I dont see how he benefits from a player who offers no scoring threat and hasn't assisted in over 1100 minutes

 

[Sassuolu]

I've been a supporter of Candreva but in this second half of the season he was terrible, I don't see him being more than a bench option at this point.

 

[junior55]

Many people saying how he scored 29 with Perisic and Candreva but truth to be told those type of wingers are perfect for his style of play.

Actually this is a very true statement.
People tend to forget very quickly. We used to have wingers of the type that we all like , flashy/technical/goal scoring threats in Jovetic and Ljajic and Icardi used to complain all the time.

I've heard a lot of icardi interviews back then complaining that now we have in the team players who like to score rather than pass. And actually it was true as Jovetic/Ljajic never got along with Icardi .
Icardi is a positional striker who needs the others just to overload him with crosses/passes and Candreva-Perisic have done exactly that.

Putting martinez or someone else who likes to score along side him would mean that ICardi needs to move off ball a lot more and create space for the others. Something that he does very rarely. If spalletti convinces him its another story...

 

[Il Drago]

I don't think this is unrealistic, unless we have to sell 2 players to make up 40m for the FFP within 40 days, which will slightly change things.

Come on. This would be a great lineup but we both know it is is totally unrealistic. To make it possible we would have to spend 200m on transfers and i can't see that happening even with CL. Lotito wouldn't sell SMS to Inter for less than 100m. Especially after the De Vrij saga. Cancelo and Rafinha would cost 70m and Torreira/Barella would cost at least 25m. Btw, Strinic is Milan bound.

 

[brehme1989]

If Candreva stays, I'd like to see him in a more central role. He's wasted on the right wing as he has lost whatever explosiveness he had. He can be a useful internal midfielder or even a decent full back. That will also surround him with more players so that his decisions won't be "I have to get rid of the ball before there's more than two opponents around me".
The guy can still run a lot, so he can be used as a CM in a 4-3-3 even.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Yeah. If there are offers for SMS for the same ball park, we will never get SMS. Why would Lotito sell to Inter when he can dispatch SMS abroad? I seriously doubt SMS would force a move to Inter which just got itself back to CL, when you can get to serious CL victory contenders straight away.

 

[brehme1989]

Come on. This would be a great lineup but we both know it is is totally unrealistic. To make it possible we would have to spend 200m on transfers and i can't see that happening even with CL. Lotito wouldn't sell SMS to Inter for less than 100m. Especially after the De Vrij saga. Cancelo and Rafinha would cost 70m and Torreira/Barella would cost at least 25m. Btw, Strinic is Milan bound.

Well, since we have Gagliardini at 20m, Lautaro at 20+, Rafinha and Cancelo at 76m combined, I'm guessing your 200m is not far off. But we are in CL now and we can afford to spend big, assuming FFP will not bite us in the ass in June 2019. Why? Because we have the luxury of getting 4th place and going back to CL and if we make these moves we'll guarantee a Scudetto run, not just a top 4 spot which we barely got.

If we do not spend, we may very well lose this top 4 spot next season to Lazio, Milan, Fiorentina, Atalanta, Sampdoria or whoever manages to beat us to it. We have a very thin roster and not many leaders in the team. Sticking to what we have will be proven suicidal.

But let's break it up. FFP is apparently not going to bother us after June 30. So it's all about cash flow. Assuming we will have at least the same starting budget as we had last season, that'd be something like 60 million. That was something like Vecino 24m, Valero 6m, Skriniar around 15m, Dalbert 20m and Colido around 7m. We also had some sales, I won't include Caprari as I reduced Skriniar's price and also the fact that Vecino's up front cash payment was probably just 8m. But our sales were actually in late June for players like Banega, Dimarco and Taider as well as some kids with inflated values and we probably got a little over 10m from that. But we did clear a lot on wages.

Gagliardini 20m (done deal, even without CL)
Lautaro Martinez 20-25m (?) (done deal, even without CL guaranteed)
Rafinha, 35-38m we could negotiate this deal lower or get a loan extension. The player wants to stay here and Barcelona are keen on spending for their first team so that's in our favour.
Cancelo, 35-38m. Probably cannot negotiate it any lower but it's a doable transfer as things stand. He won't start counting against FFP until next season. Not sure on the payment timeline. I'm guessing we will agree to give them the Kondogbia equivalent this season and the remaining Murillo equivalent next season when that transfer is sealed at 13m.
de Vrij, 0m. Done deal
Asamoah, 0m. Done deal.

Milinkovic-Savic, around 90m, maybe 100m for us. A lot of money of course but I assume it's going to be paid in instalments. So at most, it will cost 50m in terms of cash flow.
Torreira, 25m. That's great value really. I doubt Barella will cost us more than 35m and we can give them players on loan or something.
Sansone, 15m. Something around that. He missed half the season due to injury and was slowly re-introduced, but they seem to be prepared for life without him. Other alternatives could be Verdi, Politano or Chiesa but they'll cost 30 or 50 for Chiesa's situation or whatever. And they won't really be any better than Sansone.
Martella, probably 3m should do it. Then you have the Strinic alternative who's on a free.
Faraoni, probably another 3m. 5 at most.

That's a 260m total expenditure. That's too much of course when you look at it this way, but the deviation from what the consensus says should be automatic is not that big. That would be Gagliardini, Lautaro, Cancelo, Rafinha deals alone which is half of that. Then if you actual the actual cash required, it looks more like 170m.

But we will also have sales.
Joao Mario can fetch us 25m, even more if he has a good World Cup.
Kondogbia is a 25m done deal.
Gabriel Barbosa could be sold for 10-15m realistically. Maybe back to Santos, maybe to Mexico, maybe to China, Ukraine or Russia. It's doable really.
Eder could also fetch us 10-15m if the right victim appears.
Candreva can also be sold for 10-15m.
Nagatomo will be sold for at least 5m.
We have a bunch of kids we want to sell for FFP purposes, it's not like we're gifting them away. We expect over 20m from them from what I understand but in cash it may be half of it, but still, that's another 10m.

That's around 100m in income from players sold. We're not getting everything in cash of course, but we should be expecting a higher budget than the 60-70m we had last season. And the difference seems to be covered when you add these numbers up. The only issue is with the salary budget as it is bound to increase, but at the same time we'll be offloading expensive players like Kondogbia, Barbosa (I'm guessing we'll be covering part of his contract), Mario and Candreva. If we can manage to reduce Rafinha's price or get a new loan deal, it's definitely doable. We also don't really need Torreira or Barella if we go for SMS, but it's something to make us strong enough to go far in CL as well as in the league.

If Suning wants to, they can make (something like) this happen.
With that being said, it will be suicidal to not do everything in our power to get Milinkovic-Savic. Use de Vrij, use Stankovic, use his brother, I don't care. Just try to make it happen and I'm confident that if we are serious about it, he'll end up at Inter. Key phrase: be serious about it.

Everyone in football knows that the winning strategy is to have at least one leader in every line. Goalkeeper (Handanovic), Defence (Skriniar, we also have Miranda), Midfield (we have zero), Attack (Icardi).

 

[DARi0]

Milinkovic-Savic, around 90m, maybe 100m for us. A lot of money of course but I assume it's going to be paid in instalments. So at most, it will cost 50m in terms of cash flow.
Torreira, 25m. That's great value really. I doubt Barella will cost us more than 35m and we can give them players on loan or something.
Sansone, 15m. Something around that. He missed half the season due to injury and was slowly re-introduced, but they seem to be prepared for life without him. Other alternatives could be Verdi, Politano or Chiesa but they'll cost 30 or 50 for Chiesa's situation or whatever. And they won't really be any better than Sansone.
Martella, probably 3m should do it. Then you have the Strinic alternative who's on a free.
Faraoni, probably another 3m. 5 at most.

In the real world, Mourinho will make sure he is getting SMS. He`s a beast, but Lotito would rather die than sell him under 100m to us. I`m not sure we are in the position to make such a transfer, but who knows what Suning has planned?

I think Torreira is a great deal for that kind of value and we should sign him until the offer is on.

Ausilio: "La UCL porta 40 milioni, costruiremo un'Inter migliore" UCL brings extra 40m vs EL. We`ll build a better INTER. Thanks to G Translate:

Inter again in the Champions League after six years, at the end of a season that took on a whole new sense thanks to the comeback made in a few minutes against Lazio in the play-off that took place yesterday at the Olimpico. Speaking on the Radio Rai frequencies with the Nerazzurri sports director Piero Ausilio, he begins: "Life changed yesterday evening, I'm happy with the 'partially', it's normal for the Champions to bring enthusiasm and satisfaction, then at the economic level they change the things of about ten million It is also true that we want to give continuity to the Inter project, the vintage has been positive, like the work of Spalletti and the boys, and from there we will build a better Inter, with even more force ".

Is Icardi staying?
"There's no piece to put in place, it has an important contract of three years, it's a long time to settle and stay as it is, instead ... Two months ago we said we'd sit down with him to talk about the future, the will is to improve the contract of this boy to give him the right gratification for what he has given together with his companions ".

Eight players from the east of 22 last night is a market that still attracts you?
"It's a fair observation, even if it's a bit of a case: the Eastern market has always given great talents, then they have to be integrated, three or four are good, if they're more of a problem, I'll always talk of quality, which this year has been glimpsed, and we would like to improve Inter. There are Italians, there is a historical group that suffered and managed to have some satisfaction: I think of Eder, Ranocchia and D'Ambrosio that They feel this shirt on in a special way, and then they are well talented players from other countries, the important thing bring something to our cause ".

Cancelo / Rafinha, who is staying?
"On the contribution they gave us we are happy, as we are happy to have taken them in the face of criticism, few knew Cancelo, some not believed in Rafinha for the period of inactivity, we will make economic evaluations, not technical, we must see other things. The Champions League gives a hand, but does not solve the problems of this budget to June 30. UEFA calls us to make capital gains, not to buy new players: now we will make the assessments, we will try to achieve the financial goals hoping to be able to retain these It's not easy, I want to be honest, there are important redemptions, there are companies that have no desire to discuss anything, so we have to find solutions, but I'm always confident, we have some time ".

How much is the qualification in the Champions League?
"The difference with the Europa League tells me to be 40 million for the groups, then the numbers change if you go ahead as a success in Rome".

Would you have let De Vrij play?
"Yes, also because the story is full of these cases, I have only stated that the famous contract that was discussed was filed in March, and in two months this boy gave so much to the cause of Lazio, we have to get out of these dynamics: it is right for these players to play because they are professionals - in Germany and England they would not have talked of chance ".

In recent weeks the form of Handanovic has dropped...
"I did not see this drop, I honestly saw a very important season of Handanovic, and I think Handanovic is one of the best goalkeepers in Europe, a champion that we keep close".

What is missing at Inter for the Scudetto? Spalletti wants Florenzi and Bruno Peres?
"I respond to the market by denying Spalletti's interest in these two players: in fact, something we have already done at the market level: we started earlier than the others, reinforcing Inter with these three players, apart from the official ones, everyone knows who I'm talking about (De Vrij, Asamoah and Lautaro Martinez) In reference to the Scudetto, I say this: the fact of the direct clashes is a great strength, beyond that match against Juventus on which I do not want to return, Inter with the first 7-8 Inter has never lost, on the contrary, we have won direct matches against Lazio, Milan and Rome, but it is also true that we lost matches with the small ones, we have to change the mentality in those matches. I have seen, we have had moments of difficulty, we have lost 6 times, but never deserving it on the field ".

Brozovic and Perisic remain?
"After yesterday evening I say that they all remain, then there is the rationality, We want to keep the strong players inside, the ones that proved to be important, and then add others to improve, so Brozovic and Perisic are two from whom we want to start again".

I still miss Sabatini, though.

 

[Hasan]

Few months ago you called him overrated

I have to admit I was wrong, he’s beast.

 

[Alex de Large]

Sms is too expensive for us at the moment, i guess. Arturo Vidal is getting old but it's more of a realistic target.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

If Candreva stays, I'd like to see him in a more central role. He's wasted on the right wing as he has lost whatever explosiveness he had. He can be a useful internal midfielder or even a decent full back. That will also surround him with more players so that his decisions won't be "I have to get rid of the ball before there's more than two opponents around me".
The guy can still run a lot, so he can be used as a CM in a 4-3-3 even.

Brehme back at it again.

From internal midfielder to decent full back. You know a full back must be able to intercept?

 

[brehme1989]

Brehme back at it again.

From internal midfielder to decent full back. You know a full back must be able to intercept?

Says the guy riding Cancelo's dick

 

[.h.]

I'll even do a bet - 3:1. I'll bet 20 euros. If he comes to Inter, I'll pay you 60, if he doesn't come to Inter, you pay me 20. Fair?

If we can really spend 35m on Cancelo and 35m on Rafinha I'd rather let them go back to their teams and spend 70m on Milinkovic-Savic, add Eder and Ranocchia if they're stupid enough to take them if 70 isn't enough.

so... my bet... are you gonna take it now?

 

[brehme1989]

so... my bet... are you gonna take it now?

As I said back then, I don't control Inter's finances, it's not up to me and I'm not the decision maker. So there's no 'bet' as you make it because you weren't even responding to what I was saying, just having a parallel monologue.

I'm completely certain that we will attempt to sign him. Whether we succeed or not is not in my powers. You on the other hand were saying that we have no chance, thus we won't even bother. If you're willing to bet on that, I'm in.

 

[.h.]

No, I wont bet that, because there's no official way to know if we will try or not. With signings, there's like a 35% chance we'll talk about it in public before its official, and I dont want a bet to come down to hearsay.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

Says the guy riding Cancelo's dick

Yeah, like Cancelo hasn't done it best out of all RB in this fucking league and you didn't answer my question. Do you know what a full back job is? With all those years of watching football since the 90s?

Talking about riding dicks, you still prefer Totti's dick over Henry's?