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

[varmin]

2/10 mercato so far. It would be 0 if Gags stayed.

2/10?! Come on, it's definitely not 2 even 3. For me is more positive, something like 5-6. We downgraded in the goalkeepers, a bit in the defense for now. Midfield is better. Wingbacks are improved. Attack is a question mark because it looks worse on paper, but let's not forget that Dzeko and Lukaku scored less than 20 goals together in serie A. So, Thuram and Arnautivic don't have an impossible task to break ahead of them.
If we get rid Correa somehow, and get Sanchez + some good RCB (not tanganganaga), I'd give solid 7 to the mercato.

 

[Dave54]

Under the stingy budget, 6/10. if Thuram and Arna do well, then 8/10.

 

[brehme1989]

2/10?! Come on, it's definitely not 2 even 3. For me is more positive, something like 5-6. We downgraded in the goalkeepers, a bit in the defense for now. Midfield is better. Wingbacks are improved. Attack is a question mark because it looks worse on paper, but let's not forget that Dzeko and Lukaku scored less than 20 goals together in serie A. So, Thuram and Arnautivic don't have an impossible task to break ahead of them.
If we get rid Correa somehow, and get Sanchez + some good RCB (not tanganganaga), I'd give solid 7 to the mercato.

How is the midfield better?

 

[Adriano@10]

How is the midfield better?

I guess the assumption is that Brozo in terms of playing time was only our 4th choice.
So theoretically our starting mid has not changed...

Not that i agree with this notion but i guess thats the rational and also no more gags

 

[Palacio]

It wasn't management not selling Skriniar, it was Zhang.

Effectively Zhang forced the sale of Onana this summer because he didn't want to sell Skriniar for "too cheap" year ago. Well done.

Marotta should have given Zhang a piece of advice at the time. But he didn't. So who is to blame for most of Inter bad decsions, certainly not Zhang.

 

[bubba zanetti]

In every department except wingbacks we are worse than last season. But we were so close to be better in attack, midfield and defense. We needed to spend cca 70m for that(Balogun, Pavard, Samardzic). Fucking beelan spend and now almost have new line up. Watch us being destroyed in next derby. We are broke and pathetic. Terrible days for every Interista.

 

[varmin]

How is the midfield better?

For me Hakan-Frattesi-Barella > Brozo -Hakan-Barella. Asllani is also much suited to team's tactics than last year Asllani. And Sensi+Mkhitaryan are decent bench. No more Gagliardini is a huge factor as well.

 

[brehme1989]

For me Hakan-Frattesi-Barella > Brozo -Hakan-Barella. Asllani is also much suited to team's tactics than last year Asllani. And Sensi+Mkhitaryan are decent bench. No more Gagliardini is a huge factor as well.

I'm a bit confused here.

Sensi is not guaranteed to stay fyi and even if he is, we're not certain that we'll count on him for more than half a season. I also prefer him to Gagliardini of course, even at this state.

I don't get what changes with Asllani actually. If you're arguing that he's more settled in etc, perhaps true. But what exactly has changed or will change tactically for him?

Mkhtaryan a year older as well, so that's probably on the negative side.

I'd agree with you if we managed to clinch Samardzic.
I also agree that Frattesi is a good transfer and fits the team well, but I don't trust Hakan as a full time regista and I don't trust Asllani as his main understudy. Would like to have some more depth so that Sensi isn't the guy who has to step in when we need a different regista, but Barella and Mkhtaryan could play there from time to time, but that deprives them of their best characteristics.


I think no matter how we look at it, the mercato reeks of disaster and panic. We may salvage something off it, we may get the coach and team to do special things like last season in Europe, but overall we're underwhelming. I think we can safely cap the maximum at 6/10 and that's a best case scenario of getting Pavard (unlikely), sellin Correa (extremely unlikely) and signing a cheap veteran like Sanchez (likely only if we offload Correa in any way)

 

[IM21]

alexis and tanganga. here we go

https://twitter.com/x/status/1692872928788971682

 

[Corrode]

Luperto is better than Tanganga bitch.

 

[varmin]

There are many"IFs" but I don't get that disaster and panic vibes.
Cuntdrado is better than Bellanova, most probably he is better than Dumbfries too.
Augusto is supposed to be an upgrade over Gosens. He is a long term and cheap investment as well.
The goalkeeper's situation is clear - big downgrade no doubt. But, if we can find some decent goalie for the next season with Sommer as a back up, it would be great.
Bisseck is a question mark so far, but he is more lively than DD. Let's see how reliable will be.
Frattesi for me is very good transfer. We needed similar type of player who can attack successfully the opposition's penalty area. He is also useful in the defensive part.
Losing Brozovic is bad, but considering that he had some injuries last season, his age and that Hakan fits perfectly in his shoes, it was a risk well taken.
Asllani is more used to the formation, his teammates and the role he should fulfill. This reduce the room for possible errors in his game.
Sensi had ok season with Monza as rotational player. He has huge a risk factor but maybe it's worth to take it. Lukaku also looked better pick than Dybala in terms of injuries but the reality was quite different.
Thuram is risk transfer as well. He definitely will have a difficult start, but it his mentality is strong enough to overcome it, he will be a decent player for us. Anyway if the mark for his first season is last year Lukaku, I think he can keep on same level considering goalscoring, but he will be more useful overall.
Arnautivic - apart from the price (8+2mln) I think he is better than Dzeko. If he stays fit (another IF), he will prove many people here wrong.

 

[PHM1605]

Our newcomers are good but for this year only. The problem is that next year we have to start again from scratch. Maybe forcing to sell key players again because they have literally zero resale value.

One or two elderly is ok. But please count our first XI players whom ~35yo? Sommer, Acerbi, Darmian, Cuadrado, Mikhy, Arnautovic. Literally 60%. They can play well, then what? No big teams could have stability with such high ratio of nearly retired players.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Marotta should have given Zhang a piece of advice at the time. But he didn't. So who is to blame for most of Inter bad decsions, certainly not Zhang.

You have some kind of assumption Marotta hasn't done that earlier?

Our problems start and end at Zhang, ultimately.

 

[Adriano@10]

You have some kind of assumption Marotta hasn't done that earlier?

Our problems start and end at Zhang, ultimately.

To be fair that would probably be the conclusion even if we sold Skriniar last summer.....
It really all comes down to how much they believed that skriniar would renew...
Not saying this was not a huuge fuck up

 

[IM21]

 

[vex]

Couldn't have said it better, and finally some balls from him...

 

[IM21]

Couldn't have said it better, and finally some balls from him...

yeap, i think its clear that he wants Pavard, or another top defender and probably Alexis, which is better than Correa, so I don't really care for that spot.

 

[Meysam]

After watching first game, I felt so positive about new comers especially for Arna and Cuad but I think It's too early to judge whether the mercato is considered as successful or failure. Also we should be patient till the end of the mercato.

 

[PpanY]

This is the first time after 2-3 seasons, I feel that we have bunch of subtitute that can turn the game.

Arna
Fratessi
Cuntdrado
Augusto
Sensi

Last year we only have lukaku and gosens.

 

[Forzanerazzurri]

7/10 Mercato given the circumstances.

We got YOUNGER.

Cashed in by completely ripping off a Premium League team for a GK that cost us nothing. INCREDIBLE business.

Upgraded Serie As best midfield even more by adding young Frattesi who will comfortably be our second best midfielder this year.

Upgraded up front with Thuram over an aging Dzeko and didn't take the bait on Lukaku who sat on the bench all last year anyway.

And added a bit more capable depth in Augusto, Arna, Cuadrado, etc. We played over 50 matches last year and this was an issue.