Inter Milan

We need contributors from other serie A teams. Not only fans of Juve or Milan. Diverse opinion is always better.

Yeh, the first point regarding our transfer break and our likelihood to sign some cool players is our manegement. Thohir would bring cash in and such cash can be diverted to our transfer break (I've read of 60/70 mln). Obviouly in that case there would be room to improve our current squad.

Otherwise I bet it's going to be hard signing players unless we don't offload someone first. The folloqing question is: which players can guarantee an important amount of cash? Guarin, Handanovic, Kovacic, Ranocchia, J.Jesus..and imho that's it. Granted that Kovacic MUST follow with us we can consider selling the others. Ranocchia hasn't proved yet to be the leader we hoped, but he's still a young and promising player. Same for J.Jesus who's even better I think. Handanovic? He has been great this season and he is def among the best players around but...what if we can get 30/35 mln? Shouldn't it be a good idea to launch Bardi into the senior team and diverting those money for an important striker (es:Sanchez)?

And Guarin? How do you guys judge him? I liked him a lot during the 1st part of the season, he seemed very enthusiastic to play for us and he did amazing things but later on looks like he got lost and I saw him playing in a very presumptuous and not committed. Also, it's not clear to me what kind of player Guarin is even though I would field him as a mezzala. Keeping him might be risky because if he keeps playing as he did during the past few matches next years none would sing him whilst atm he is still worth around 20 mln (and we might sign a gritty and athletic player flanking Kovacic).

Other good 'signings' (and sorry for stressing this point but I think it would be VITAL) would be the whole U-21 defense which belongs to us but currently plays elsewhere

I heard we're looking at rafael a GK, looks like the management are considering selling Handa (who is 30 yrs... we won't get a better offer than for him unless he has another great season with us and a great showing in the world cup)

guarin is replaceable and i don't think he can play with Kovacic unless we find a player that go well with them and guarin is willing to do the dirty work at the back, i think much of if he'll stay and become a hit or go will depend on Maz and guarins attitude towards his new role under the manager.

i'm still keen on schello and if we get Isla, then it would be a waste to let donati rotten on the bench... instead of buying Basta and offering half of Faraoni... i would let Donati get a chance with us, the same goeas for Peri, Nago and Biraghi... one of them have to go and sadly Peri and Nago are better than Biraghi at the moment. Samuel will be here for another year and Chivu could still stick around so it would be hard for Caldirola since we've got Campo and Andreolli coming in... well unless we sell Ranoch that is :S.

Caldirola can be sent on loan so that he can get some experience, obviously it's going to be impossible for all these players being starters next year but they are doing well so everyone deserves consideration. With this said I'd prefer seeing some of them next season instead of new signings (es: longo over gila and osvaldo)

I agree with N3razzurri's analysis however I must say I'm less positive on Schelotto than you are :/.

DONATI has already been sold to Leverkusen. Our management needs to all be fired!

I would only keep Samuel, Zanetti and both of them just recieved a contract extension of one yr so that's cool but Milito and Cambiasso have one more year left of their contracts and if it was up to be me I would let go of them along with Chivu, Stankovic... that's if Inter can find an adequate midfielder to replace Cambiasso, who is an exceptional player but are we to build the team around Kovacic or him?

as for the second part of players, i would keep Peri and Schello just for one more season! and out of the primavera players i would exchange Mbaye for Chivu, add Longo as a sub for Cassano, depending on if we get Isla or not I would bring in Donati/Schello for RWB and if we keep Nagatomo and Peri is still at the club it would be hard but if we sell Nago for instance... we could bring in Biraghi and have Biraghi/Peri as LWB.

sadly if the primavera players are to get any chance it seems it would depend on what players will remain at the club and also if Inter doesn't decide on buying 'experienced' players for the cheap but i can understand why they would do that as we're still a club in debt and we have huge outflow of cash, we need the cash from the CL and team needs to be competitive to attract suitors, inter won't be fine as a club if it only relied on hardcore fans who have patient with club and they bet all of their future on these younglings.

but the team has a good structure, we just need to find good replacements for Milito(a striker of 20 goals per season?), Cambiasso(Paulinho?) and if we don't have enough money to buy already made stars we could go for our own youth such as Chivu(Mbaye?), Stankovic(Crisetig/Bessa?), Samuel(Andreoli/Caldirola?)

and if we do sell Guarin, Ranoch and Handa, the team could survive without them (Bardi, Kovacic... Ranoch could be hard to replace without some serious cash but we still have Juan) we just need to invest that money wisely to strengthen the team and buy replacements for Samuel, Chivu, Stankovic or we could end up shooting ourselves in the foot - such as buying the new Jonathan, Kuzmanovic and Silvestre.

Kovacic and Cambiasso can play together, they are very different players inho and Cambiasso often played as a mezzala. The point is that Cambiasso isn't fully reliable as he was some years ago but I think he might turn useful another year either as a mezzala or CBD in needed.

Please, if u want Schelotto ok, take it, but..not Pereira...please..

I would go for Isla and Sanchez, those two together have a great understanding and they compliment each other so well! other than those, there is something about Osvaldo, on his day, he could be handfull for defenses but then again I have a hard time imagining a team consisting of Cassano, Osvaldo and Maz lol... that itself sounds like a recipe for trouble or the start of a bad joke lol.

Honestly I think discipline matters a lot in nowadays football which is why I don't want Osvaldo. Technically I'd get him over Gilardino but he has already caused too many troubles with his attitude. If an exception should be made the player must really be a top one otherwise I wouldn't consider to sign him.

Oh, I forgot Paulinho. I have heard abt Paulinho today. The thing is that Paulinho may come to us as long as there's no competition..I see it hard to sign him if an important team playing CL makes an offer

the guy is 34! one yr younger than Rocchi and the way he has been playing for us, it really doesn't show lol, i hope he hasn't lost his edge once he gets back to full fitness.

That's true however it wouldn't be the first time RM gives away someone they had paid much for. I'd prefer Modric over Guarin

that news started with rumours about investors in china but that fell through then you had the russians and that didn't work either but as of now the most you could read about are thohir but if that deal also fails then perhaps milan and inter will need to reconsider and do what's best in their interest and invest jointly for san siro.

I thought they already signed a contract to build the stadium based on the fact that months ago I read something about the site/location they chose to build it,but now?!

no, they set up plans on where to build it and drew up a financial package on how much it would cost and so forth but nothing conrete, they still need the 'mojo' hence where thohir comes in to play but i also read that moratti is still in talks with the chinese so it could happen but everything is still in the air nothing that's been set in stone... yet.

Yesterday I saw 4 Inter defenders plus the goallie playing for U-21. Seems we might have some very good prospects and I reckon it would be the case to rely on them for our future. I just hope we'll start considering them without putting the wrong amount of pressure. I would rather investing time on Bianchetti and Biraghi rather than 20 mn on Silvestre and Pereira

throw in donati, crisetig, bessa and longo and we have a wealth of future italy stars... however we've already lost half faraoni let's just hope we don't with any more, because talented italian players don't come that cheaply in serie a.

@N3RAZZURRI You're right I think

Today I heard Bargiggia (Gazzetta's director) talking about Inter's future and particularly about the innovations Mazzarri can bring. I think he was quite right in pointing out that Mazzarri has never really relied on youngsters and always preferred experienced players. Investing on your players can also mean taking a risk but it has to be done if we really wanna restart a team project

@VDAraf...We are gonna sell all of them to Milan and Juve and will get players like silverstre and Rocchi. Don't worry bro...

Thats the same thing I fear...

there were two things i liked about maz intreview...

1. he said that he believed that CURRENT inter team could've, should've done much better then what it achieved last year.... and im not gonna discuss all the injuyrs or give any excuses as i wasn't there but the fact still remains the same, we are capable of better than 9th place.

2. he'll try to work with whatever the club gives him, so he won't have much say as in 'how much' to spend or 'to what cost'. which i take it means he understands that the club can't afford to splash big money on players.

he also mentioned the 'project' saying that if your gonna start a project then you need to start off on the right foot, which is it a good thing but then again to what cost? there will have to be sacrifices and im not sure which is better, either selling our star players or giving up half/all of our youth players!?!

but then again he has been mentioning the training camp, so he should get a good picture of the team then BUT also we don't really need to splurge this summer as we only have serie A and if the team does well we could get top 3 with our current squad... but as it was with Gasp, ranieri and Strama, maz will need plus 2-3 players that fit well with his tactics LOL!!!!!!! and we're back to the club ending up with players of no use........... having lost out on our youth players...........

seems like we're in a vicious circle of losing money and falling down the latter of serie A.

i miss mancini that build the team nicely and then allowed mou to get the best out of them with the purchase of milito, motta and lucio BY BRANCA lol of all plp :P but i also suspect oriali had some to do with it.

It is not embarrassing man. His final choice looks kinda wrong to me.He dropped Rano and Ogbonna for astori. Osvaldo and Verratti are dropped from that list as well.

too bad that ranoch didn't get to go, it would've been a perfect moment to put him up on window display for interested clubs.

Window display for interested clubs? Yeah, let's sell him just like we sold Santon, and then let's buy a 30 year old.

We launched many players but for some wrong decisions we made we gave them away, think about Balo, Destro, Santon, Poli, Pirlo..All players who either play for Italy or are likely to be called up. Now we have a few players from U-21, I do hope they will enjoy some consideration and might we'll see the next Bergomi, Berti, Ferri, Zenga, etc...

Honestly? Not really but just because I am no longer following football as I was used to, I barely have time to watch serie a which means it's hard for me to concentrate on u-21. This should be our managers' business though, whether they start targeting good u-21 prospects or I can foreshadow some really nightmarish seasons to come..

lol who has time to watch that? I know I don't.

u guys realize there won't be any football matches on tv anytime soon right? besides do as i do and watch the games retospectivally by going online and watching full games that have been uploaded by various sites.

Im hoping our players give a good showing. Bardi is the one im looking at. If he keeps going the way he is, he could be our new #1.