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

[Jnr]

They spent 4M on Hauge, earn 8M from his sale, its not a miracle really. 21 yrs old, his attributes are good for Bundesliga.

 

[Il Drago]

Please fire our entire scouting department if these are the best names they can come up with.

Absolutely. I understand going for players past their prime when you have no money to spend but even when you get money from Lukaku the best you can do is Zapata, Dzeko and Scamacca? Fuck off! It's extremely frustrating they choose to play it safe by going for Serie A players instead of taking a rish with a promising player from another league.

 

[dynasty27]

Final letdown numbers coming up. According to [tier 1 source] Marotta will have a reinvesting budget of _ _ mil.

 

[Bluenine]

They spent 4M on Hauge, earn 8M from his sale, its not a miracle really. 21 yrs old, his attributes are good for Bundesliga.

Thats not surprising at all. He is a young player on a low salary with good potential. He looked talented whenever he got minutes for Milan. Inter could sell Dimarco for 12m too if we want. Thats very different to selling old players like Nainggolan or Vidal on enormous salaries. Or talentless players like Mario on enormous salaries.

Pandemic has every club watching their wage bill. Which is why there wasn't a bidding war when Donnarumma was available on a free, or even for Messi. Very few could afford those salaries. Which makes players like Nainggolan or Vidal or Mario almost impossible to sell. And this is also another reason I don't want Dzeko or even Zapata here.

 

[GenDire]

Final letdown numbers coming up. According to [tier 1 source] Marotta will have a reinvesting budget of _ _ mil.

Here's a dose of optimism because god knows we need some, maybe the budget limit will be leaked to the press so we can pull the poor man card in negotiations. Throw one back at Cagliari for example.

 

[vex]

Absolutely. I understand going for players past their prime when you have no money to spend but even when you get money from Lukaku the best you can do is Zapata, Dzeko and Scamacca? Fuck off! It's extremely frustrating they choose to play it safe by going for Serie A players instead of taking a rish with a promising player from another league.

I actually don't agree with this. In terms of lukaku replacement there is no scouting or unearthing some hidden gem, it's too risky, you could literally end up with a massive flop of a player who can't score to save his life. We have to go for a proven player, whatever his age or transfer fee, or else the consequences for the season ahead could be catastrophic. The downside of that is of course that those types of players have zero resale value, but right now, given our situation, I don't think we have the luxury to think about those things. It's one season at a time...

 

[Harpsabu]

I actually don't agree with this. In terms of lukaku replacement there is no scouting or unearthing some hidden gem, it's too risky, you could literally end up with a massive flop of a player who can't score to save his life. We have to go for a proven player, whatever his age or transfer fee, or else the consequences for the season ahead could be catastrophic. The downside of that is of course that those types of players have zero resale value, but right now, given our situation, I don't think we have the luxury to think about those things. It's one season at a time...

But zapata isn't proven!!! He was poor enough and only exploded at atalanta as many other players have!

 

[vex]

But zapata isn't proven!!! He was poor enough and only exploded at atalanta as many other players have!

Well he exploded, and he scored goals with atalanta, many goals in fact, that's as proven as you can get with limited budget. I'm talking about risk of ending up with someone who don't have even that in his credentials, and then what?

 

[brehme1989]

Give Messi a 20m contract, attention whore yourself out of that to earn 50m in sponsorship deals and offer a deal to Dortmund for Haaland.

Wait, this isn't the wishing well...

 

[Universe]

Or just get fucking Vlahovic.

I would consider this fucking apocalyptic transfer window to actually be a success if we get Vlahovic.

 

[M.Adnan]

Worst Inter transfers summer I've ever witnessed!

Not a single convincing transfer so far

 

[Harpsabu]

Jack grealish cost more than lukaku

 

[Darth_Ausilio]

Worst Inter transfers summer I've ever witnessed!

Not a single convincing transfer so far

Retaining Kolarov was like a new signing.

 

[crzdcolombian]

Retaining Kolarov was like a new signing.

Honestly

renewing him hurt me
More than letting Hakimi leave….

 

[El Matador]

Our team isn’t even that bad people are exaggerating.

Handanovic
Skriniar
De Vrij
Bastoni
Barella
Brozovic
Lautaro
Sanchez
Calhanoglu
Sensi
Perisic

We still have all but two of the players that won the league with 4 games to go. Yes, they were very crucial and the most important aspect of how we played and won. However the managers gone, we have a different way of playing now. I’m sure we can get right players to fill in the gap. Maybe we won’t be favorites but we can definitely compete. I’m not even being optimistic right now I just think a lot of people are exaggerating.

I agree we took a massive step back, and we probably will not win anything this year but hopefully this puts us in a better situation next summer and can sign players we want. The situation sucks but theres no use dwelling over it move the fuck on.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

Honestly

renewing him hurt me
More than letting Hakimi leave….

Stop man. Hakimi will not only hurt this summer, it will continue to hurt for years.

 

[pazza moratti]

What happened to Keita Balde rummours? I would take him. Should be cheap and he wants to come here? Inzaghi already knows him and he was good with Immobile at Lazio. Maybe Inzaghi would make similar shit with Lautaro and Keita?

But now try to snath Locatelli and make a move for Lazzari and Onana.

Brozo might be leaving so Locatelli would be perfect. Maybe trow Agoume in that deal? I bet Sassuolo would be interested, but dont know how big Juve supporter Locatelli is, so it might be hard to convince to come to Inter?

Lazio needs funds and Lazzari is already familiar to Inzaghi and his system.

Maybe Onana would be interested to come here cause Handanovic is at his last season at Inter and there is longterm starting position available?

 

[MKSerbia]

It's hard to bring in new players when they don't even know if they will receive salaries on time...

 

[andrei]

What happened to Keita Balde rummours? I would take him. Should be cheap and he wants to come here? Inzaghi already knows him and he was good with Immobile at Lazio. Maybe Inzaghi would make similar shit with Lautaro and Keita?

But now try to snath Locatelli and make a move for Lazzari and Onana.

Brozo might be leaving so Locatelli would be perfect. Maybe trow Agoume in that deal? I bet Sassuolo would be interested, but dont know how big Juve supporter Locatelli is, so it might be hard to convince to come to Inter?

Lazio needs funds and Lazzari is already familiar to Inzaghi and his system.

Maybe Onana would be interested to come here cause Handanovic is at his last season at Inter and there is longterm starting position available?

I thought about something like that. What I consider one of the strenghts of Inzaghi is developing and improving players.
Keita might be ressurected under Inzaghi.
We should try to snatch Locatelli. At least we can make life harder for those cunts of Juventus. Offer them Agoume and 40m for Locatelli. Who knows?
Vlahovic won't be sold this summer. Don't forget, Fiorentina's ownwer, Comisso is filthy rich and made many promises. He cannot just sell Vlahovic after the first good season. But everyone and their mother at Fiorentina know that sooner or later Vlahovic would be sold if he continues like that. To big fish for that pond. Loan them Sensi with option to buy for the first option Vlahovic's transfer next year.

 

[Universe]

I'm not saying his position is easy, but I'm not too far off on agreeing. With little of the window left, Zapata reeks of the 'easy', uninspiring and ultimately expensive choice - same stature, same strengths, just worse in every department.

Re: Marotta, he also hasn't managed to offload one single player for a transfer fee. When we've gotten rid of players, we pay for it (Joao Mario, soon to be Nainggolan and Vidal), or loan them out, paying some of their salary (Pinamonti, shortly) even though we have a bloated squad with players we don't need. Why isn't Vecino or Gagliardini on their way out? What is Lazaro still doing here? What's the deal with Perisic? He was giving a (admittedly, cowardly and disgusting) order to gain 80 million, and did so by selling the best wing-back in the world, and now soon one of the best strikers in the game (although not his choice). Maybe we could at least try to offload players that have no use to us? Even Milan are getting 12 million for Jens Petter fucking Hauge, but it seems we don't even try.
If Lukaku is sold, his statements of no more stars being sold were outright lies - allthough, again, not due to him, but still.... bad, bad optics.

We also have some urgent contract situations that need attention, namely Barella, Skriniar and most importantly Brozovic. And yet, no news.

One of his hands are tied behind his back, but still I'd expect more from supposedly one of the best sporting directors in the game. This is turning out to be a wretched transfer-window pretty much no matter how you look at it, and no matter how much you want to blame Suning.

Brilliant post, agreed with every word.

This criticism isn't specifically aimed at Marotta but the entire management has consistently failed in two particular categories over the years which really annoy me:

1) No matter who our manager is we're always linked to the same fucking cunts year in, year out. It's like we don't have scouts, or they severely lack imagination. 5 years from now, our manager will be some guy no one has ever heard of and yet we'll still be linked with Florenzi and Emerson.

While I'm loathe to take Conte's side on matters related to recruitment, the guy asked for a backup Lukaku for two full years - that's FOUR transfer windows they failed to fulfil this request. How fucking hard can it be? I'm aware target-men are a thing of the past but is Dzeko the only suitable Lukaku backup on the planet? Absolute inexcusable they couldn't get a single 4th forward who wasn't some shithead kid we already owned.

2) Selling. I feel like I don't even need to elaborate, but I will. We get "acceptable" amounts for big players like Lukaku or Hakimi, purely due to their naturally high valuation. Even then though, we fail to truly squeeze the sponge dry and get every last penny like we should - like a club desperate for cash must. We ABSOLUTELY should have got €120-130m for Lukaku and €80m guaranteed for Hakimi.

I understand that cunts like Nainggolan and Joao Mario in particular are close to unsellable because they're shit and earn ludicrous wages. But even still, other teams have had far more success than us offloading their disaster transfers. On that note, we don't fucking learn from these mistakes either. Zapata, a declining 30 year old for FORTY million? For a team that is so fucking cash-strapped, we sure do like to waste a ton of money on fat contracts for old players, outbound loans, golden handshakes, and by underselling when we do manage to sell. It's fucking pathetic.