Sebastiano Esposito

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We got burnt in this one, and it's not a big deal. No one complained about the deal when it was made. Thing why people keep following particularily this player is his youth academy status. He's doing well now, but can he do it at Inter? It's a different world.

If he truly blossoms this season and we reconsider, we can surely make a deal with Empoli but it's not going to cost us 20m. The deal we have with them now, pushes the price down anyway.

And can they really make the money with him easily? They first need to buy him from us and then find a buyer who Seba wants to play for and so on. Maybe they can find buyer for 15m which would make their profit 15m - 5m - (15 * 0.2)m = 7m. I think we can pay them 10m right away without all the hassling and dangling about prices.

If there's buyer for 20m, that's a bit better, but the profit is still just 11m, we can match easily.

The ultimate question will be, will we want him back? Because if we do, it's totally doable financially. Maybe the rest of the season tells us the answer?
Price will be impacted, too, given his age. If Pio esposito is 20m, I cant see Seba being more than 15 right now. Agree with this post entirely.

RIGHT NOW I'm not entirely against bringing him back actually, IF the circumstances are right (eg if both Correa and Arnau leave). As a backup support striker with some goals, his current performance levels work for me - and I think he'd get reasonable game time to justify it. At the start of the season, he wasnt going to get enough time, and tbh, with the current squad, he'd not get enough time either.

As said elsewhere, I'm not against bringing him back, the idea of two espositos leading our front line is great, and despite what a lot of people think, I'd love nothing more than an Inter-primavera-XI for this team. We're kinda short on defenders, butb etween 2x Stankovic, 2x Esposito, Ebenezer, you could actually see how we get some proper blood into the team alongside Dimarco.
 

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If this guy wasnt from Inter academy none of you would pay him any special attention and treat him as some shoo-in to be a future big team player.

Most likely he is a dime a dozen and if he came from Lazios academy or something, no one would give a crap.
Him being from our academy is an excellent reason to give him extra attention.
The way he is playing, we would definitely be seeing articles about him given that people are even talking about that Castro guy fromBologna.
 

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The guy got dropped on 3? 4? Of the loans he went out on and made very little impression at any of those clubs. It's only really on the last season or so he's really showing anything other than "potential"
He was actually very good at Basel on the field, but he has disciplinary issues there. The only bad loan spell for him was at Belgium. Last season he was decent for Sampdoria as well.
 

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We got burnt in this one, and it's not a big deal. No one complained about the deal when it was made. Thing why people keep following particularily this player is his youth academy status. He's doing well now, but can he do it at Inter? It's a different world.

If he truly blossoms this season and we reconsider, we can surely make a deal with Empoli but it's not going to cost us 20m. The deal we have with them now, pushes the price down anyway.

And can they really make the money with him easily? They first need to buy him from us and then find a buyer who Seba wants to play for and so on. Maybe they can find buyer for 15m which would make their profit 15m - 5m - (15 * 0.2)m = 7m. I think we can pay them 10m right away without all the hassling and dangling about prices.

If there's buyer for 20m, that's a bit better, but the profit is still just 11m, we can match easily.

The ultimate question will be, will we want him back? Because if we do, it's totally doable financially. Maybe the rest of the season tells us the answer?
Generally I agree, but our management takes weird decisions sometimes. For example Di Gregorio. We had some sell on clause there as well, and we could have brought him back, but we decided to spend same money (more or less) on Martinez.

I can see the same thing happens again. We will buy someone like Castro for 20-25mln instead to bring Esposito back
 

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so Jonathan David wouldn't come? He would be available on free, and he is firing at Ligue 1 right now.
 

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the thing is, look at all these juve prospects coming through. All got decent experience in Serie C before being given a shot at Juve first team

No buy back clause seems to be a strategy atm on a few players. Not entirely sure why, dont really approve of it, though. I think as a general principle, if we're loaning someone out, we should retain a buy back clause. No matter how bad we think they are, because you never really do know.
Yeah i can understand why Inzaghi won't take risks playing youngster, he's here to win trophies not developing youngster anyways but at least give them a shot whenever we're leading 2 goals at least.

I guess it's hard to offload our youngster with buy back clauses, club like Empoli aren't charities. It's really sad situation.
 

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so Jonathan David wouldn't come? He would be available on free, and he is firing at Ligue 1 right now.
I guess he won't come unless one of Thuram and Lautaro is sold. He's still young and he knows he can go somewhere else and starting regularly. I bet he'll go to Arsenal.
 

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Esposito would not be any worse than Correa or Arnautovic. Personally, I feel he would be better than both because of his determination and hunger to stay at Inter, would push him to heights that neither Correa or Arnautovic have reached in their respective Inter careers. More than anything, when I think about both players, I think of the chances they have been given and their apathy,.
 

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Generally I agree, but our management takes weird decisions sometimes. For example Di Gregorio. We had some sell on clause there as well, and we could have brought him back, but we decided to spend same money (more or less) on Martinez.

I can see the same thing happens again. We will buy someone like Castro for 20-25mln instead to bring Esposito back
We must not forget the player himself has an important saying also. I can fully understand that in the case of Di Gregorio if, and that’s an important if, both Inter and Jube where interested Di Gregorio would choose Jube above us. He was promised to be the 1st gk there, while with us he would be the second one after Sommer. If Esposito has more changes to be a regular starter at, let’s say Napoli, he will go there instead of us most probably.
 

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We must not forget the player himself has an important saying also. I can fully understand that in the case of Di Gregorio if, and that’s an important if, both Inter and Jube where interested Di Gregorio would choose Jube above us. He was promised to be the 1st gk there, while with us he would be the second one after Sommer. If Esposito has more changes to be a regular starter at, let’s say Napoli, he will go there instead of us most probably.

That's true, I read on reddit that some people had thought di Gregorio hadn't been particularly good this season though so perhaps we made the right decision re him anhway
 

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No one complained about the deal when it was made.

I was complaining about this deal since August.

A dry loan would actually be better than this shitty deal. It's a lose lose situation. If he doesn't do well they won't activate the option and he will be back to the club. If he does well 5m will be far below his fair value. 5m for a forward is nothing in today's market.

And it wasn't hard to see why it was a bad deal from the beginning. Lose lose situation for the club from every aspect.
 

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You guys are really downplaying how much being a regular starter means in a young players career.
Let's keep signing 33 years old then. So that we're sure the starters don't get any competition and that they're overplayed.

We should get talented young players because they're cheaper, are hungryand can progress into being starters... Especially when they are ours and we just need to manage to integrate them in the team.
 

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They aren't cheaper tho? Any talented young player with demand is expensive fast - palacios nisseck etc are kinda the exception
 

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They aren't cheaper tho? Any talented young player with demand is expensive fast - palacios nisseck etc are kinda the exception
They are though, unless you are looking for players that are already hyped and whose price is skyrocketing, they won't cost you the 10M + higher wages you pay for the likes of Arnautovic who always overstay their welcome, imo.
And if like Seba or Pio they are yours, well... No transfer fee and relatively low wages.
 

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They are though, unless you are looking for players that are already hyped and whose price is skyrocketing, they won't cost you the 10M + higher wages you pay for the likes of Arnautovic who always overstay their welcome, imo.
And if like Seba or Pio they are yours, well... No transfer fee and relatively low wages.
but anyone half decent who has a real shot at making the inter first team is gonna be way higher. i mean talk about people like scalvini? if you say its esposito, then right now, he'd probably cost 20mil? we paid 13mil + a bunch of swaps to get Bastoni and he didnt have any real experience before we signed him?
 

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but anyone half decent who has a real shot at making the inter first team is gonna be way higher. i mean talk about people like scalvini? if you say its esposito, then right now, he'd probably cost 20mil? we paid 13mil + a bunch of swaps to get Bastoni and he didnt have any real experience before we signed him?
Scalvini is already too well known, and Atalanta is an expensive place to shop at.
For me, if you offload Correa and Arna you can get a young striker for 15-20M and even keep Taremi if you want UCL experience.
These young guys will be hungry and want to show that they can challenge Lauti and Marcus. With the bad period Lautaro is having it's really telling that he still can't be dropped because the rest of the bunch is that trash.
I like Taremi's play but he never gave me, even for one second, the impression that he has that fire in him to go and be a nuisance to the starters. Arna and Correa I'm not even sure they are alive so...
 

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Let's keep signing 33 years old then. So that we're sure the starters don't get any competition and that they're overplayed.

We should get talented young players because they're cheaper, are hungryand can progress into being starters... Especially when they are ours and we just need to manage to integrate them in the team.

Dont think you really understood my point.
 

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You guys are really downplaying how much being a regular starter means in a young players career.
Yeah, the regular playing time time and TRUST despite failing is usually the key with the young players. When they are trusted by the coach, meaning they'll get minutes, no matter what, they develop, because they get experience. In this one, experience means get to play in different situations, face different plays constantly to build routine how to play those certain plays and in broader context, how to handle mentally different situations in games/season.

Seba is at the perfect spot for himself right now. He's getting all the minutes he can play, he's scoring goals, coach trusts him. Only pressure in the table is to survive from relegation. Not a small thing, but basically 38 draws would usually do it. That's never going to happen to any club but just some context, when you compare to playing in a club looking to win every trophy there is to win, the requirement level is a bit different. As a young player, you'd need to be very tough, very mature, mentally, to handle the situations during the season, specially as you wouldn't play as much as in a lesser club.

I might repeat myself but if the management sees Esposito ready for Inter, I'm sure they can work out a decent deal with Empoli. But him play for Empoli, and doing well, doesn't mean he's ready for Inter.
 
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