FIF's dramatic last day of the mercato thread: summer 2021

I hope there is surprise for signing new back up CB.

This thread is kinda pointless lol

nelsonrivas2011 said:

This thread is kinda pointless lol

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Tradition, my friend.

ADRossi said:

Tradition, my friend.

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I guess Nelsonrivas wasn’t around when Modric almost signed for us

brakbrak said:

I guess Nelsonrivas wasn’t around when Modric almost signed for us

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I mean this specific thread.

nelsonrivas2011 said:

I mean this specific thread.

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as ADR said, it’s a tradition lol however useless it is like most traditions

The most dramatic thing is, would Jube get Icardi or not?

varmin said:

The most dramatic thing is, would Jube get Icardi or not?

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I hope so

Perhaps I was a litte rude in my original post. My apologies.

I think "uneventful" is more appropriate.

This thread should be used to discuss other teams' dealings on the last day rather than Inter's.

This tradition has been dead for so many year ever since we started to have a bit of money and planning.

qb4ever_2k said:

This thread should be used to discuss other teams' dealings on the last day rather than Inter's.

This tradition has been dead for so many year ever since we started to have a bit of money and planning.

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Never forget when our directors signed Forlan in late August 2011 to replace Eto'o without knowing that he was cuptied for UCL.

qb4ever_2k said:

This thread should be used to discuss other teams' dealings on the last day rather than Inter's.

This tradition has been dead for so many year ever since we started to have a bit of money and planning.

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Aren't we all anxiously awaiting the Valentino Lazaro loan announcement?

nelsonrivas2011 said:

Perhaps I was a litte rude in my original post. My apologies.

I think "uneventful" is more appropriate.

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Nothing rude about it, this year's thread is pointless as fucking shit. That said, it must exist.

I say this all the time, but one of my fondest memories from the mercato final days was back in 2010/11. We'd been incessantly (and annoyingly) linked with Lucas Leiva since Benitez took over following Mourinho. At the time of course, we were treble champions and the idea of Lucas Leiva seemed like a bad joke. Finally, some late rumors came through, reporting we were after "Pezzini."

Everyone was like, "Pezzini? You mean Pazzini?" People were excited as Pazzini was one half of a killer Samp duo with Cassano at the time. With excitement steadily rising, it suddenly became known that Pezzini was actually just Lucas Leiva's fucking middle name. I remember the incredulous irritation of that moment, I'm sure shared by many members. Ironically enough we ended up getting Pazzini later that season anyway of course.

Anyway, regarding this mercato, I've seen a few calcio personalities say things along the lines of "the fact that Inter aren't doing last-minute, deadline day deals is an indication of the great work and planning by Marotta and co."

I agree to an extent. Considering the budget imposed upon by Suning, we've had a very good mercato - with regards to arrivals specifically. The squad looks good to me, especially taking into consideration the performances of the first two games. That said, a lot will depend on the form and fitness of Vidal, Sensi and Vecino who have all shown usefulness (especially Vidal) in these matches. But if that fitness is inconsistent (which is an entirely realistic possibility considering the recent injury histories of these three) we'll be right back at square one with fucking Gagliardini as first backup and main rotation mid.

My main frustration lies with the root cause of these circumstances (i.e. Suning), but I'm not exactly thrilled with the departures either and I'm not talking about the big sales like Lukaku.

Despite all the credit management receives, I think they need to be judged harsher for the departures. People are being too lenient. We can't sell players for shit unless someone comes in with a significant fee, like they have for Lukaku, Hakimi and Lautaro. Despite the mitigating circumstances I feel like there's no excuses for the incompetence displayed at getting rid of unwanted players. Like it or not, this is an underrated and crucial part of operations as all clubs have their share of disaster transfers and unsellable deadwood - yet we seem to stand out as being one of the worst in dealing with undesirables.

I feel like they're just fucking cutting shortcuts everywhere to get shit done. Can't sell a player? Loan him out (while paying half his wages) with an option that the buying club is never going to redeem. All that does is kick the can down the road for a year. Can't even loan a player out? Pay him to leave with a fat golden handshake or terminate his contract while copping a fat capital loss. I'm sorry but that's simply not good enough.

Sure, at the end of the day you can say Nainggolan, Dalbert, Joao Mario and Lazaro have all left the club. But consider the fact that two of them are only loaned out and will return, and that we've made ZERO income from any of these fucking creatures. In fact, we've actually copped capital losses from offboarding them.

We were supposed to get €7.5m EACH for Joao Mario and Dalbert. We ended up getting ZERO. Lazaro was, credibly, linked to a 2 year loan plus obligation for 8-9m. The end result? 1 year dry loan, no obligation. What the fuck is that shit? I won't blame management too much for Dalbert as he refused to go to Trabzonspor (and I bet my house that Lazaro was responsible for the change in deal) but fucking come on.

Under Marotta, our incoming transfers have been particularly good. So we are doing well there in general. The outgoing transfers are still a big problem though. You can also give Marotta the benefit of doubt that the bad or not happeing outgoing transfers are for players that have been here before he came (with the exception of Lazaro), and next season onwards this should be better.

Either ways, for our last day of mercato, here's what I want to see.

- Clarity on Sanchez, get Belotti if the injury is going to be long term.
- Some kind of refusal or first rights deal on Vlahovic and Raspadori.
- Aouar in place of Gags/Vecino
- Confirmation on Onana
- 2-3 good youth signings

On the deadwood topic, I think all (big) clubs are facing this incapacity of getting rid of it :

Man U, like half the team is a deadwood and they can't sell anyone.
In France, Leonardo is criticized because he couldn't sell any deadwood (Paredes, Icardi, Draxler).
Real Madrid have Isco and Bale.
Juve have Rabiot, Bernardeschi, Sandro.
Barça have their share of useless players too they want to get rid but can't : Coutinho, Umtiti ...

So I think that's a common thing between big clubs to have useless players whom you can't sell because nobody want them or because they want to stay so they can keep sucking money whithout efforts.

rockball said:

Under Marotta, our incoming transfers have been particularly good. So we are doing well there in general. The outgoing transfers are still a big problem though. You can also give Marotta the benefit of doubt that the bad or not happeing outgoing transfers are for players that have been here before he came (with the exception of Lazaro), and next season onwards this should be better.

Either ways, for our last day of mercato, here's what I want to see.

- Clarity on Sanchez, get Belotti if the injury is going to be long term.
- Some kind of refusal or first rights deal on Vlahovic and Raspadori.
- Aouar in place of Gags/Vecino
- Confirmation on Onana
- 2-3 good youth signings

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Aouar would be an insane addition to our team sadly I don’t think we gonna sign anyone. Only offload some of our youngsters to various low tier Italian teams

@Universe @rockball @ath

I really believe that bad outgoing transfers are something to almost accept as a given as long as Marotta is in charge. His record at Juventus was similarly lacklustre and from what I remember it was one of the few gripes their fanbase held towards him.

It has always seemed to me that Marotta is more interested in finding the quickest route to shipping a player out than haggling with potential buyers, unless it's a competitor (which reminds me of the trouble he put us through in 2013 in our failed attempt to sign Mauricio Isla for Don Walter; or even the Vucinic - Guarin debacle a couple of months later).

Crotone president just confirms that Junior Messias will go to Milan

Their squad depth is terrible. I predicted similar outcomes as last season i.e. Milan playing good for some matches with the same lineup. Until they get tired and CL fixtures kills them out.

Just hoping rube merda wont bring anyone and me happy.