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Nostradamus
Most Passionate MemberOnce again, Conte didn't do shit about these deals.
Both were deals the management had planned long ahead. Sensi was an opportunity at that point, as a perennial target for us that we never went for seriously, that we decided it was worth the gamble. Why? Because we had the 60m to commit for both these players! We haven't even paid shit. We're paying Cagliari 1m a month for Barella and didn't pay shit for Sensi's loan fee. But at the end of the day we'll spend 37m on Barella and 20m on Sensi + 5m that was the cost of the kid we sent there. Stop being irrational please, I don't want to repeat this but your insistence makes it seem like it's debatable or anything. We could not have made these deals in 2017 or 2018. Plain and simple.
And Radja was 23m + Santon + Zaniolo. They wanted 38m. Zaniolo's cost was 4.5m. Do you get that? Nobody rated this kid so high. We got 8m for Bettella and 5m for Odgaard. Zaniolo was 4.5m and Roma was like "okay, I'll pay 9.5m for Santon"... No one wanted to see Zaniolo play the season before. No one wanted to see Zaniolo play the season we sold him either until people started seeing him starting for Roma due to their injury issues. The kid grabbed his chance and showed his worth. Great for him. But let's not pretend as if we never rated him ever, we were reluctant to let him go, but at the same time no one expected him to make any noise before the 2020s.
Now getting to the real point, Inter's net spend:
2019-20: ~150m net spend, where you can argue Politano's 20m, Salcedo's 8m and Radu's excess 4m were agreed upon in 2018. Still 110
2018-19: ~10m net spend
2017-18: ~40m net spend and that includes the Gagliardini obligation that we made 1.5 seasons prior and a weird Bastoni deal (net spend 25m), a player we had loaned away right after signing so it shouldn't even count.
Essentially 2017-18 was break-even and our most expensive cash deal was Dalbert (20m, which was something like 12m + 4m + 4m and I'm not sure we've reached the second 4m bonus tranche actually but he is considered a 20m deal) whereas Skriniar was 12m + Caprari.
And in 2018-19 we barely spent 10-20m depending on how you view cash flows.
With 2019-20 we've exceeded 150m and if you include the delas that will close and the bonuses to be paid, it exceeds 200m net spend and there's just the hope from our management that they'll get 65m from Icardi, 20m from Perisic, 18m from Gabriel Barbosa and 18m from Joao Mario. But we're also willing to spend 20-30-50m this winter it seems. So best case scenario is we end the season with net transfer spend ~50m.
I mean, I don't even know why this is a discussion.
Both were deals the management had planned long ahead. Sensi was an opportunity at that point, as a perennial target for us that we never went for seriously, that we decided it was worth the gamble. Why? Because we had the 60m to commit for both these players! We haven't even paid shit. We're paying Cagliari 1m a month for Barella and didn't pay shit for Sensi's loan fee. But at the end of the day we'll spend 37m on Barella and 20m on Sensi + 5m that was the cost of the kid we sent there. Stop being irrational please, I don't want to repeat this but your insistence makes it seem like it's debatable or anything. We could not have made these deals in 2017 or 2018. Plain and simple.
And Radja was 23m + Santon + Zaniolo. They wanted 38m. Zaniolo's cost was 4.5m. Do you get that? Nobody rated this kid so high. We got 8m for Bettella and 5m for Odgaard. Zaniolo was 4.5m and Roma was like "okay, I'll pay 9.5m for Santon"... No one wanted to see Zaniolo play the season before. No one wanted to see Zaniolo play the season we sold him either until people started seeing him starting for Roma due to their injury issues. The kid grabbed his chance and showed his worth. Great for him. But let's not pretend as if we never rated him ever, we were reluctant to let him go, but at the same time no one expected him to make any noise before the 2020s.
Now getting to the real point, Inter's net spend:
2019-20: ~150m net spend, where you can argue Politano's 20m, Salcedo's 8m and Radu's excess 4m were agreed upon in 2018. Still 110
2018-19: ~10m net spend
2017-18: ~40m net spend and that includes the Gagliardini obligation that we made 1.5 seasons prior and a weird Bastoni deal (net spend 25m), a player we had loaned away right after signing so it shouldn't even count.
Essentially 2017-18 was break-even and our most expensive cash deal was Dalbert (20m, which was something like 12m + 4m + 4m and I'm not sure we've reached the second 4m bonus tranche actually but he is considered a 20m deal) whereas Skriniar was 12m + Caprari.
And in 2018-19 we barely spent 10-20m depending on how you view cash flows.
With 2019-20 we've exceeded 150m and if you include the delas that will close and the bonuses to be paid, it exceeds 200m net spend and there's just the hope from our management that they'll get 65m from Icardi, 20m from Perisic, 18m from Gabriel Barbosa and 18m from Joao Mario. But we're also willing to spend 20-30-50m this winter it seems. So best case scenario is we end the season with net transfer spend ~50m.
I mean, I don't even know why this is a discussion.
