At the moment the second best technical midfielder after Rafinha is a rapidly declining Valero.
So buying 4-5 of those you mentioned would only cost us 35 million?
I'm not talking about them, those were midtable Serie A transfers. Those should be done when you're already covered with your main squad and depth and you're just trying to change a few things up.
Catasgne of Atalanta falls into this category. (4m)
Karlsdrop of Roma. (14m)
Under of Roma is also one of these examples. (14m)
Milenkovic of Fiorentina. (5m)
Kownacki of Sampdoria. (4m)
Barak of Udinese. (3m)
Centurion of Genoa. (5m)
Remove one of the two Roma transfers and you have 35m worth of transfers. (both were around 15m)
You will argue that Rafinha is better, but as I debated in the previous page, he's not a game changer. He's not a world class talent. He's not worth 35m. You can add needed depth with that figure. And you can also play the odds. One could argue that at least 30% of the transfers do not work out. I'd rather see it happen with 3 players out of 10 that are on average costing 15m than see it happened with 1 player costing 35m out of three similar transfers.
We have a good enough core squad, we just need a few major improvements and most of all we need depth.
I think one way we can keep rafinha here is by renewing his loan agreement for maybe at least 6 more months. The same might apply to Cancello but I think Valencia would be much harder to convince.
Either way, how about this: we redeem Cancello and try to convince Madrid to extend Rafinha's loan for another year, paying his salary and maybe even a loan fee?
I'm saying that Rafinha has come from Barca where everyone is competent at passing and he can blend in, if we can bring that spark to Inter and supply him with a couple of more similar ilk players then I think we will see a very good player.
Yeah, but is it really that we need to pay 35m€ for a player who needs equally leveled players around him to be worth that money? Because I think we can do better in the market. We simply need to do better. Rafinha is raising the level of this team but sometimes it's not enough. I really have mixed feelings about him almost after every game. He has skill, he moves a lot, he can pass. But is that enough?
Extending the loan would be a gift from Barcelona, so I'm sure they won't accept it. However if we make it to CL, I think we can push it to 2019 summer with obligation to buy clause.
ICould we conclude that it's not only Rafinha we need to our midfield but also Brozovic.