Indirectly Milan getting bought is going to be good for us, as long as we have a proper plan and Suning decides what the fuck they're going to do.
It will create fuss around the league, hopefully Milan will make some big buys from other leagues rather than raid clubs domestically (like Lazio, Fiorentina, Sassuolo and Atalanta that have a number of talents to offer, such as SMS, Luis Alberto, Nico Gonzalez, Milenkovic, Raspadori, Scamacca, Frattesi, Ilicic, Pessina, Koopmeiners, Maehle etc). All these guys could be within their reach if they're willing to splash the cash. I'd much rather they focus on PL and Liga players, or even PSG rejects.
If they go after Chelsea, Liverpool or Man Utd players it will increase Serie A's profile in the investment world (funds mainly focus on the PL cause they're mostly American, that's what they know to watch and that's what's typically 'value investing' in football) which could lead to better tv and sponsorship deals. Hopefully it makes someone else decide it's a good idea to rival this new fund as an Inter owner.
The finances are not exactly comparable as others have stated. They're in a better position only because of their sporting situation. We were in a similar position for 3-4 years but didn't manage to secure extra revenue or do good on the pitch and no one wanted our players, while we kept overpaying them. They handled it better and they got lucky that Juventus shot themselves to the foot once Agnelli stopped receiving the Elkann benefits as they relied on FIGC's influence and Cristiano more than anything else.
On the other hand, Milan going for the rumored billion may be bad news if Suning assumes that Inter should be valued much higher and demand 1.5bn or something crazy like that.
I'm very curious to see how the summer mercato plays out. We're on the verge of offloading almost all big contracts, have made a self-imposed individual player cap, we still need to make a couple of important sales on top of cutting costs.
If we're not selling Lautaro or Barella (along with De Vrij who also doesn't want out but he's a goner), we'll need to find the funds from somewhere.
Selling De Vrij (~30) Dumfries (25?), Hakan (~35), Sensi (~10), Gagliardini (~10), Radu (~10) and maybe someone like Darmian (~5) could do the trick, on top of offloading Sanchez (-4m), Vidal (?), Dzeko (?), Vecino, Kolarov, Ranocchia (?) and Cordaz would require at least 10 new players in which would add costs but perhaps reduced to a large extent. So far the only confirmed signing is Onana who will earn slightly less than Handanovic's current salary and we're hoping that Handa will stay with a reduced salary, which would still far exceed Radu's current deal. Perisic's situation is still unknown. We're trying to get him to stay with a slightly reduced deal, yet he has offers for a pay raise from abroad. I'll assume he stays with the same salary for the sake of it.
That's around 125m in sales, 120 if we cancel out the Sanchez termination, with Dzeko and Vidal leaving being a slight mystery thus far as there's no confirmed cancellation clause. But even assuming that it's 5m each, we go to ~110m from sales, without considering Lazaro and Dalbert possibly leaving as well on a full transfer, so let's pretend it goes back to 120m. We allegedly need 60-70m in capital gains but we'd still need something to finance all these replacements. Probably Hakan stays if there's a chance as there's no point from a sporting perspective to let him go, but since he's pure plusvalenza it'll be intriguing.
Excluding Hakan leaving (ie 35m and a gross salary of 9.3m), we're freeing up 60m out of a total of 150m in our salary budget.
Leaves us 90m expenditure with a salary budget of 40m (to reach 130m total) for around 10 players. So the likes of Onana (5.5m gross), Bremer (5.5m gross), Dybala (20% chances, 12m gross), Scamacca (5m gross), Frattesi (4m gross) costing around 32m, plus the remaining 8m for two right backs (maybe Lazzarri and some cheap gamble transfer) and some roster fillers that could be Primavera guys (Esposito, Satriano, Agoume, Salcedo, Vanheusden, Pirola, Stankovic etc).
If Hakan goes, we'll have 10m more to spend but would need an adequate replacement. Someone like Aouar, Fabian Ruiz, Jorginho etc who won't be easy to bring over.
There's no player I'd like to see leave to be honest. Specially not those who can fetch over 50m (Lautaro, Barella, Skriniar, Bastoni, Brozovic). If anyone else manages to be a 50m transfer, I'll pack him myself.
We're finally getting free of significant amortization costs, so this should be the last summer we're having this kind of shit, as long as we maintain this sporting level (minimum of Top 4 finish + advance in CL) and not replicate the stupidity of offering big money and contracts to players who aren't up to the standards over the course of their contract (like Dzeko and Vidal).
The situation feels manageable but ownership is forcing the hand of management to come up with some quick cash and that means Barella or Lautaro to be sacrificed. Hopefully Marotta isn't as trigger happy as he always is and decides to take a more rational approach. In the meantime, the Milan deal hopefully closes soon, driving the new stadium situation before July and forcing Suning's hand in whatever way plausible.
The main problem is that we cannot replace any big sales. We've felt this last summer. The next one will be even worse. If we sacrifice our team's future for the bottom line of a financial season, we may regret it for a decade as it may be the start of a new banter era.