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We must be the only club that manages to get PSG to play hardball.
agree, and we had best attack last year and second best deffense, well third...If we shake up this well oiled defense we will lose points because we will have to spend first third of the season to try to find a new working combo. It happend before when either Skriniar or Bastoni was absent.
Instead of improving from last season, with lets say better attack Lukaku/Dybala, we will do the oposite, destroy the defense and have more lost/drawn matches. In the end it will only make the fans angry by losing their fan favorite player.
I don't believe score more goals than the oposition is a working tactic if we leak goals left and right. I believe strong defense wins us the Scudett
is the financial year in Italy not the same as the calendar year?The capital gains excuse doesn't feel to make much sense.
Hakimi (July 6th) and Lukaku (August 12th) were sold in this fiscal season.
Don't sell him short man, I think it was closer to 40m.We've seen Ausilio turn trash into 30m worth of capital gains within 10 days. We have better trash now, we have players that actually attract interest from teams willing to spend millions on them..yet here we are behaving as if Skriniar being shipped out is business as usual!
I agree with everything else but even though I strongly dislike Marotta, I find this hard to believe. Are you saying he's selling Skriniar as punishment for... what exactly? Refusing to be sold previously?The capital gains excuse doesn't feel to make much sense.
Hakimi (July 6th) and Lukaku (August 12th) were sold in this fiscal season. For a combined 80m in capital gains. And now we're rushing for 60m more before the turn of the month?
It's not for FFP, it's not for Oaktree, it just doesn't make any sense.
We have reduced expenditure by a lot, amortization per annum is possibly at the lowest levels since Suning took over... It just doesn't make sense.
I think this is more of a message to players to get on board with what the management dictates.
They're still following orders of getting money from sales and having healthy (meh) capital gains, but picking Bastoni, Skriniar and Barella for this is something completely different.
We've seen Ausilio turn trash into 30m worth of capital gains within 10 days. We have better trash now, we have players that actually attract interest from teams willing to spend millions on them..yet here we are behaving as if Skriniar being shipped out is business as usual!
Football being about emotion now when we are short of money, but it was also about emotion when we were the ones spending like idiots. What happened with the likes of Moratti well over a decade is haunting us till now, and had football been only for the emotion for us Inter fans back then, I don’t know how many of us would have been here.You know around 60m is going to be 50m plus 10m bonuses.
I was avoiding this thread like the plague because if i express what i feel about this i would have to give a ban to myself. But this saga is making me lose any interest for this club. Club is losing its soul and players have become assets to meet financial goals set by the ownership. This isn't why i got into football and the reason i have been supporting this club for over 20 years.
For me football is above all emotions and they're killing it slowly but steadily.
I agree with everything else but even though I strongly dislike Marotta, I find this hard to believe. Are you saying he's selling Skriniar as punishment for... what exactly? Refusing to be sold previously?
is the financial year in Italy not the same as the calendar year?
The capital gains excuse doesn't feel to make much sense.
Hakimi (July 6th) and Lukaku (August 12th) were sold in this fiscal season. For a combined 80m in capital gains. And now we're rushing for 60m more before the turn of the month?
It's not for FFP, it's not for Oaktree, it just doesn't make any sense.
We have reduced expenditure by a lot, amortization per annum is possibly at the lowest levels since Suning took over... It just doesn't make sense.
I think this is more of a message to players to get on board with what the management dictates.
They're still following orders of getting money from sales and having healthy (meh) capital gains, but picking Bastoni, Skriniar and Barella for this is something completely different.
We've seen Ausilio turn trash into 30m worth of capital gains within 10 days. We have better trash now, we have players that actually attract interest from teams willing to spend millions on them..yet here we are behaving as if Skriniar being shipped out is business as usual!
Football being about emotion now when we are short of money, but it was also about emotion when we were the ones spending like idiots. What happened with the likes of Moratti well over a decade is haunting us till now, and had football been only for the emotion for us Inter fans back then, I don’t know how many of us would have been here.
It is time to recognize that the ownership tries to run the club self sustainable which is the bare minimum you’d expect them to do. Why should they invest in something for the sake of crushing money? And even if they did, wouldn’t we be just our former selves or like PSG and would buy the shit out off the emotions football provides?
I for once trust our current management to do the right thing, as they have done with Hakimi and Lukaku, and as they have done by buying someone like Sanchez, Darmian, Dzeko, Vidal, Calhanoglu, etc. Where the stakes were pretty high at this Transfers failing. We‘ve had remarkable successes in the last three seasons, so I‘ll trust them to do whatever it takes to keep the club running successfully.
This is just some serious angle shooting.Well, indirectly yes.
Skriniar is a locker room leader and was the favorite for the captaincy. He delayed his renewal by a lot, but the same happened with Perisic and Brozovic who were more urgent, so who knows...
Skriniar was also a player that vetoed his own transfer several times under Marotta. Bastoni did the same, Barella also rejected to move recently. Skriniar is viewed as untouchable, yet he's the one to leave. It gives a signal: everyone is expendable.
Marotta did this at Juventus, too, with Bonucci. It's not something new. But Bonucci didn't like that and pursued to leave, whereas Skriniar had opted to stick around for the bullshit shower thrown at him. Until now maybe. Chances he rejects this move seen very slim.