2023/2024 Forwards Rumours Thread

Sanchez also had his history with injuries let’s not forget that

Inter have failed in their recruitment for a starting Striker to partner with Lautaro. At the moment, Inter have 1 "Lead Striker or Target Man" in Arnautovic and 3 players who can play "Support Striker" in Martinez, Thuram, & Correa. This is not an ideal mix.

Some may suggest that its time for Martinez to become that "Lead Striker", but that is not his role. He hasn't played his best when tried in that role in the past (remember the games with Correa), but he is awesome in playing off the lead striker. So why waste him in a role he is not best suited for?

Some would suggest that Thuram is that striker, but don't get fooled by his height. Correa is tall too. But Thuram cannot play like Dzeko or Lukaku did, neither does he have the finishing or positional sense to play this role. However, he can be a far better deputy to Martinez than Correa ever was.

In Arnautovic, Inter finally have a player who can play this role. But he is 34 & his quality is at best that of a back up for this role at this level. Inter cannot go into this season with key player dependency on Arnautovic.

The way I see it, Martinez is the nailed on starter for the Support Striker role. Arnautovic & Thuram have the quality & suitability to be the 3rd choice & 4th choice strikers in the squad. Correa is a largely useless luxury. We still don't have our 1st striker.

Inter need to get rid of Correa & get a starting Lead Striker. But looks like that boat has sailed. At the very least Inter need to get an upgrade on Correa & pray that Arnautovic performs well & stays injury free. Like Dzeko did a couple of years ago.

Come on guys, Correa is not going anywhere, but I expect him to have a better season. 5 goals and 3 assists would be great.

And Cuadrado taking number 7 kinda symbolically ends Sanchez's chance to comeback. Listen to Inzaghi's presser. He clearly states that forward department is set.

Bluenine said:

Inter have failed in their recruitment for a starting Striker to partner with Lautaro. At the moment, Inter have 1 "Lead Striker or Target Man" in Arnautovic and 3 players who can play "Support Striker" in Martinez, Thuram, & Correa. This is not an ideal mix.

Some may suggest that its time for Martinez to become that "Lead Striker", but that is not his role. He hasn't played his best when tried in that role in the past (remember the games with Correa), but he is awesome in playing off the lead striker. So why waste him in a role he is not best suited for?

Some would suggest that Thuram is that striker, but don't get fooled by his height. Correa is tall too. But Thuram cannot play like Dzeko or Lukaku did, neither does he have the finishing or positional sense to play this role. However, he can be a far better deputy to Martinez than Correa ever was.

In Arnautovic, Inter finally have a player who can play this role. But he is 34 & his quality is at best that of a back up for this role at this level. Inter cannot go into this season with key player dependency on Arnautovic.

The way I see it, Martinez is the nailed on starter for the Support Striker role. Arnautovic & Thuram have the quality & suitability to be the 3rd choice & 4th choice strikers in the squad. Correa is a largely useless luxury. We still don't have our 1st striker.

Inter need to get rid of Correa & get a starting Lead Striker. But looks like that boat has sailed. At the very least Inter need to get an upgrade on Correa & pray that Arnautovic performs well & stays injury free. Like Dzeko did a couple of years ago.

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Your not going to get a starting lead attacker when you have as little cash to spend as Inter has. Those type you desire are almost all 50-200m players.

Inters budget only really stretch for huge question mark players that are development player, meaning not ready yet for any sort of lead role, past prime, injury prone, bosman or players with contracts expiration.

But that’s before we are spending 35-40m on Pavard if it goes through. Meaning you can scratch that development player from the list.

Also Martinez scored plus 20 in two seasons in a row, that’s lead number.

We all want a better partner to Martinez, but we need to be realistic as well. We are not getting one in this market.

Writing off Lautaro as unable to lead a line feels ridiculous to me. Let's see what he does this season as the undisputed top option, with a playmaking supporting striker beside him.

Yeah, Lautaro is Inter's talisman. He's knows he has to lead the line and make himself available to our midfielders and his forward partner(s). The only drawback is he may have to sacrifice some his other activities on the pitch. Someelse will have to assist him with that. Kinda looking forward to how he handles his "new" responsibilities , have confidence that by October he'll do it. It will take a little time for him to adjust. Forza Lautaro .

Can't we keep Esposito as 5th striker? He is that much terrible?
Can't Inzaghi sometimes change the formation to 3511 to use sb like Sensi as 2nd striker?
Maybe it's to time either change some player positions or the team formation.
We have done that before like changing Hakan and Persic positions. Can't we do it again?

Espo as 5th striker is not enough for Inter and is very bad for Espo himself. Thus it was much smarter to send him on loan.

idea: Alexis Sanchez

Oh wait, we’re actually trying to do that?

… only at inter.

Meysam said:

Can't we keep Esposito as 5th striker? He is that much terrible?
Can't Inzaghi sometimes change the formation to 3511 to use sb like Sensi as 2nd striker?
Maybe it's to time either change some player positions or the team formation.
We have done that before like changing Hakan and Persic positions. Can't we do it again?

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I think Esposito has already signed for Sampdoria. Loan + option/obligation for around 6-8mln iirc

RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot said:

idea: Alexis Sanchez

Oh wait, we’re actually trying to do that?

… only at inter.

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It can be worse, see Belotti and Petagna.

Gal said:

Your not going to get a starting lead attacker when you have as little cash to spend as Inter has. Those type you desire are almost all 50-200m players.

Inters budget only really stretch for huge question mark players that are development player, meaning not ready yet for any sort of lead role, past prime, injury prone, bosman or players with contracts expiration.

But that’s before we are spending 35-40m on Pavard if it goes through. Meaning you can scratch that development player from the list.

Also Martinez scored plus 20 in two seasons in a row, that’s lead number.

We all want a better partner to Martinez, but we need to be realistic as well. We are not getting one in this market.

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Agreed. But at least take a punt? Use your scouting department, find a young talent costing less than 30m? There are clubs who have done that.

Bluenine said:

Agreed. But at least take a punt? Use your scouting department, find a young talent costing less than 30m? There are clubs who have done that.

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Not easy as everyone are trying finding that player.

we should have signed Retegui

Gal said:

Not easy as everyone are trying finding that player.

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Its not difficult. We have had loads of decent suggestions even at this forum from us casual fans. But you need to have the willingness to spend, which Inter do not. I wouldn't be surprised if some of Marotta & Co's recommendations have been shot down by the ownership.

Even at this late stage, Spurs are buying Gift Orban for €30m & they have been only searching for a week.

There is a huge difference between scouting a big talent and a already more then well known player as Gift Orban… I’m not really all that convinced about him, I don’t really see him as some clear future thing.

We seen before young players scoring many goals in these type of leagues but then fail to impress after.

Maybe This is the time, we should once in a while change the formation to a 3511, if Correa gets injured (assuming that he would stay) and at least one striker can get some rest in order to avoid injuries in the future. I'm really worried about worried Martinez who plays too much and makes him vulnerable and if he got injured, we would get fucked up badly.

Bluenine said:

Some may suggest that its time for Martinez to become that "Lead Striker", but that is not his role. He hasn't played his best when tried in that role in the past (remember the games with Correa), but he is awesome in playing off the lead striker. So why waste him in a role he is not best suited for?

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I've put the important part in bold. I doubt Haaland or Vieri in his prime would look good when playing with Correa.

Lautaro looked good as the go to guy in attack the few times he played with Sanchez.

Nacka said:

I doubt Haaland or Vieri in his prime would look when playing with Correa.

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Bobo and Haaland are a tier above Toro, i won't even go into that. I refuse to, in fact.

Also, given the few minutes Correa played, he's not the reason Toro would go missing for weeks. Lest we forget, this is a recurrent problem Toro suffers from. He simply lacks the quality and consistency to be the main guy. Under inzaghi ball, opportunities to score are aplenty. The likes of Bobo and Haaland would feast under these conditions.