Andrea Ranocchia

That goal saving header is what they used to talk about when they said Italian defenders are different class.

The Frog did good today!

Blocked almost sure header from El Sharaawy today.

Looks alike Materazzi in that moment.

Well player frog.

Glad to see him redeem his Inter career, played his part in the scudetto and today had prob one of the most impressive defensive headers i ever saw. Not to mention he was stripped of his captaincy for a clown at the time. Should stay actually, something i never thought i would say.

armendsh said:

Damn hes been good and improved in these 3 years with spalleti and conte .. he has become a monster

Click to expand...

I think he's probably the best non-starter CB in the league.

He was always a beast tackling and in aerial play, but now he has the composure and positioning to go with it.

armendsh said:

Damn hes been good and improved in these 3 years with spalleti and conte .. he has become a monster

Click to expand...

Italian defenders age like wine.

K.I. said:

Should stay actually, something i never thought i would say.

Click to expand...

Feel the same, club should extend Rano for 1 more year.

It's a crime not extend Rano contract, Rano and Darmian the best non starter defender for me. Look Darmian assist today to Brozovic, and Rano blocking header. World class.

Way too old, we need to find someone else. Will only manage to play on high standards when there is no pressure like now.

There is a strong possibility Zinho and Dimarco come back, along with Darmain who can also play CB that should prob suffice but also having Ranocchia in the mix wouldnt hurt at all.

Whatever happens after this season I'm just glad this guy got a scudetto. He's seen his fair share of critics, went on some questionable loans, but he remained a fair servant to the club. You can tell he deserves that armband when he wears it.

Deserved every single critic he got.

Willing to sign a one-year extension with his wages dropping from 1,5 million to 1 million plus bonuses and wants to end his career with us, according to FCInternews.it. Sign that dotted line now, FFS. You won't find what he brings anywhere else for that kind of money.

He's gone from promising youngster, to captain, to ridiculed, to fringe player, to dressing room leader and now, a Champion. Pazza Inter personified.

At 1 million not bad but he planning to retire next season ?

Seems young. Wasn’t laughably bad when used this season like in previous ones. Should play for free next season considering how bad he has been for so long but o well. This one is a no brainer. We aren’t getting a 4th/5th choice CB for less wages and for free.

Yeah, totally no-brainer signing if he's fine with that wage reduction.

Add Dimarco to replace Kolarov + Young. Add new CB to the rotation (in actual rotation, not like this season as we didn't really rotate). Keep the big three. Call it a day regarding the defence.

CafeCordoba said:

Yeah, totally no-brainer signing if he's fine with that wage reduction.

Add Dimarco to replace Kolarov + Young. Add new CB to the rotation (in actual rotation, not like this season as we didn't really rotate). Keep the big three. Call it a day regarding the defence.

Click to expand...

That’s thing our backup CBs sucked. Why keep D’Am and Rano if we don’t trust them at all. We need to rotate with champions league next season.

I mean relying on Rano and a youngster against a team that will be demoted is fine but we need someone we can trust when our starting 3 cbs

Have 2 league games, champions league, and international duty. They can’t play every game and every minute

crzdcolombian said:

That’s thing our backup CBs sucked. Why keep D’Am and Rano if we don’t trust them at all. We need to rotate with champions league next season.

I mean relying on Rano and a youngster against a team that will be demoted is fine but we need someone we can trust when our starting 3 cbs

Have 2 league games, champions league, and international duty. They can’t play every game and every minute

Click to expand...

We are not Manchester City, PSG, Real Madrid or Barcelona. We already fucked and need cutting our salary, How we can buy better CB than Rano if we bankrupt ?

At least Rano want accept salary cut extension. We can't buy 4th striker, let alone good backup CB.

Good deal if true. The old Inter would have extended Rano's contract 3 more years with the same salary, and wondered why all the money disappeared.

Grazie Marotta.

Frog was great today! Well done.

All I can say or do is:

of Rano.

magnesium said:

We are not Manchester City, PSG, Real Madrid or Barcelona. We already fucked and need cutting our salary, How we can buy better CB than Rano if we bankrupt ?

At least Rano want accept salary cut extension. We can't buy 4th striker, let alone good backup CB.

Click to expand...

We certainly aren't, because those teams actually play their youngsters, we never do. And BTW that doesn't mean that we would be getting champions from our youth but we had spend so much fucking money for average players

For example, in defense we brought Dalbert, Lazaro, etc., had we used our youth we would have played Biraghi, Faraoni and Dimarco, we would have gotten the same return or actually probably better but without spending €40M+. Right now we have Pirola, who we should have started integrating into the squad instead of signing fucking Kolarov.

In midfield Vecino, Gagliardini, João Mário, Nainggolan, etc., had we used our youth we would have played Agoume and Zaniolo, and came a little short but we would have gotten a top player Zaniolo in without wasting so much money, we could have easily gotten a worldclass MF with all that money plus we would have kept Zaniolo.

Now both when it comes to keepers and forwards we have top prospect so we should actually give them a chance and actually fucking play them.

If we really want to replace Handanovic it can't be with fucking Musso, it has to be either Donnarumma or Nübel. Can't or don't have the money to get them, then fucking bet on your highly rated GK prospects, we have 3 FFS, Radu, Di Gregorio and Stankovic are all highly rated.

Choose two of the three as 2nd and 3rd keeper for next season, and actually fucking play them, Handanovic should never ever again play a Coppa Italia match with us, even the odd game in Serie A for them wouldn't be be bad at all. One of those three ought to become at least a decent keeper (at least we'll have backup GK for free) and with some luck a top one.

Both Pinamonti and Esposito are highly rated and sough youngsters, yet we're fucking wasting them. Make Conte choose one or the other as 4th choice, and demand that he actually gives them consistent minutes.

He doesn't want to, you say? You fucking whined about the likes of Vidal and Kolarov, we fucking gave them to you and they were actually extremely detrimental to our season, you didn't want Škriniar, you didn't want Eriksen, it took a year each for you to give each of them an actual real chance, and guess what happened you fucking cunt.

Plus there is always the very real possibility than even is we spend €20-30M on a Lukaku, the fucking stubborn cunt we have as a coach still won't ever rest Lukaku. We're in a budget we'll have to improvise.

We're basically the only top team in Europe that never ever ever plays their youth, it's ridiculous. Stop fucking wasting money on average players, quality over quantity.

Seriously even Real Madrid have the likes of Nacho Fernández, Carvajal, Odriozola, Valverde, Lucas Vázquez, etc., most of them aren't exactly world beaters but at least provide decent options for the bench, and then they can spend hundreds of millions on a few actual top players instead of buying millions of average players that end on the bench or worse loaned forever and never getting any interest from other teams.

As a rule of thumb if a player is over 23 and costs less than around €30M, he's probably not worth it.

Don't sign players over 27 years old, unless it's a massive opportunity like Young, Darmian, Eriksen and even Sánchez who while on massive wages came for free and despite his injuries contributed quite a lot for the Scudetto.

If you get top talented youngsters (U23), you have to actually fucking play them, yes even if they make mistakes, are frustrating and cost us points. Guess what? Experience doesn't guarantee the opposite, just look at Vidal and Kolarov in a very limited time they costed us a lot more in disastrous mistakes and loss points than any youngster ever has.

Look at Lautaro for example, if we didn't have the Icardi fallout, it's very likely we would have fucking wasted him despite the fact that he costed us €25M.

Never ever sign players over 30, unless they're free or basically free and under reasonable wages.