CL LIST and Settlement Agreement BS

[Universe]

Random question, is Rafinha included in Barca's CL list?

 

[Delicate]

Okay I can see Spalletti's point if it was really Valero + Vecino or Gagliardini but how could it be so. Didn't Gagliardini cost around the same as Vecino?

28m vs 24m.

We can't know that for sure, we are not CFOs of this società. If we still had a 5-6 mln leeway with the balance of sales and purchases, we could probably include both Vecino and Gags at the expense of Lautaro, or maybe sell Emmers or Pina for 5-6 mln in August, not include Lautaro and be happy with plenty of midfield options in the CL. But if my information that CL was promised for Lautaro and his agent is correct then there wasn't much to do, we simply didn't have enough allocated space (finance-wise) for another 20+mln player. I wonder what is the actual purchase figure of Lautaro in our financial documents?

As to what ADRossi wrote above, Inter was in such financial dire straits after Moratti and Thohir that even Suning's bullshit (in good sense) sponsorship deals and Ausilio's bullshit fake inflated sales of Caprari and co (again in good sense) couldn't help us to a full extent, we still had to make sacrifices for CL. Imagine what would happen if we spent 75 m not for JM and Barbosa but for player of James's calibre, what could happen? Under such hard FFP restrictions Inter had to make exactly 0 mistakes when purchasing players and we did at least 3 major ones (Dalbert, Joao Mario and Barbosa). Other clubs like Bayern can splash 40m for some shit players like Renato Sanches and still can be unharmed, we don't have such privileges.

I wonder what would happen next year. We will definitely buy out Politano and Vrsaljko. Not sure about Keita. Even with CL and sponsorship money I still fear that the settlement agreement can be prolonged if we won't pull out some magical sales of youth like this year.

 

[Pravesh]

Damn, I feel bad for Gagli. I would have preferred him over Vecino if it was a pick between the two only.

 

[Choppin Onions]

I wish I could say I was surprised but alas I'm not. Many years of incompetence led to this moment as ADRossi pointed out. Maybe Vecino can, agaisnt all odds, transform himself into a useful player under the bright lights of Champions League nights.

 

[Delicate]

Goalkeepers : Karnezis, Meret, Ospina

Defenders : Albiol, Chiriches, Ghoulam, Hysaj, Koulibaly, Luperto, Maksimovic, Malcuit, Mario Rui

Midfielders : Allan, Hamsik, Rog, Ruiz, Zielinski

Forwards : Callejon, Insigne, Mertens, Milik, Ounas, Verdi

Just look at the Napoli's squad list. Alright, they don't have any restrictions but they have Insigne (easily the starting material) as a club-trained player hence free one, and Diawara included in the list B( again easily the starting material), list B is effectively infinite as long as you are 20 or younger with some years in Italy.

Our problem is not just financial incompetence of Moratti or Barbosa-type purchases but lack of decent club-trained players (we have Tommaso Berni and Di Gennaro,4 GKs in 21-player list) and guys like Diawara who are already promising players ready to play in CL (not 33-year old grandpas we have in the midfield). One Insigne-type player and we already could be much better than we are even with all the restrictions.

 

[ElDuccio]

the real question is

why there is no modric in the list?

kay:

 

[brakbrak]

for those of y'all bitching,do you think gags would make a BIG difference against the likes of Tottenham and barca? they will rape us with our pants on either way. Just calm your titties, hopefully vecino's CL inclusion means that gags will start over him in serie A which is the most important for us.

 

[SiamoNoi]

or having a coach that plays favourites (AGAIN, WHY DOES IT ALWAYS HAPPEN)

It happens in every club with every coach in the world.

But if my information that CL was promised for Lautaro and his agent is correct then there wasn't much to do

https://www.fedenerazzurra.net/news...will-be-included-on-the-champions-league-list

 

[M.Adnan]

for those of y'all bitching,do you think gags would make a BIG difference against the likes of Tottenham and barca?

Yes.

 

[Dogen]

Well, De Vrij-Miranda CBs and Skriniar DM (a role he's used to fill with Slovakia) next to Brozovic.

What's done is done: desperate lists, desperate measures.

 

[Wallace]

for those of y'all bitching,do you think gags would make a BIG difference against the likes of Tottenham and barca? they will rape us with our pants on either way. Just calm your titties, hopefully vecino's CL inclusion means that gags will start over him in serie A which is the most important for us.

Yes.

 

[Choppin Onions]

for those of y'all bitching,do you think gags would make a BIG difference against the likes of Tottenham and barca? they will rape us with our pants on either way. Just calm your titties, hopefully vecino's CL inclusion means that gags will start over him in serie A which is the most important for us.

Spurs just got beat by mighty Watford. They have a better squad than us IMO but let's not act like they're powerhouses that demolish all that get in their way.

 

[forzainter257]

Just imagine having both Biraghi and Benassi in the team bought back 2-3 yrs ago:
1) would have saved 40 mln spent for Joao + less paid salary
2) ditto, 20 mln spent for Dalbert
3) far better players, home grown players
4) cost savings on scouting useless players (Ausilio dinner, drinking, whores etc)
5) much healthier financial situation)
6) less stressed fans
7) less threads on fif
And so on...

 

[brakbrak]

Spurs just got beat by mighty Watford. They have a better squad than us IMO but let's not act like they're powerhouses that demolish all that get in their way.

and let's not act like gags is kante who is millions times better than vecino. It sucked that badly chose vecino over gags but it's safe to assume that he chose vecino and Valero over gaga;2 mids vs 1 mid. So just deal with it,its not like we are gonna qualify past group stage anyway.

 

[Universe]

for those of y'all bitching,do you think gags would make a BIG difference against the likes of Tottenham and barca? they will rape us with our pants on either way. Just calm your titties, hopefully vecino's CL inclusion means that gags will start over him in serie A which is the most important for us.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

 

[brehme1989]

Just imagine having both Biraghi and Benassi in the team bought back 2-3 yrs ago:
1) would have saved 40 mln spent for Joao + less paid salary
2) ditto, 20 mln spent for Dalbert
3) far better players, home grown players
4) cost savings on scouting useless players (Ausilio dinner, drinking, whores etc)
5) much healthier financial situation)
6) less stressed fans
7) less threads on fif
And so on...

We'd probably have sold them by now.

 

[Rain]

for those of y'all bitching,do you think gags would make a BIG difference against the likes of Tottenham and barca? they will rape us with our pants on either way. Just calm your titties, hopefully vecino's CL inclusion means that gags will start over him in serie A which is the most important for us.

I honestly don't understand the big fuss over Gagliardini's exclusion either. Reading this thread feels like we left Messi out of the CL squad, not Roberto Gagliardini. The guy had a good run partnering Brozovic for a couple of games in the second part of last season, but has been quite inconsistent besides that. Perhaps he has a higher ceiling and is a better overall player than Vecino, but he needs to play regularly to prove it.

In this case, I would much rather prefer that he does it and becomes a regular starter in Serie A, which is by far the most important competition for us this season. Given how unbalanced our squad looks (at least until we find a way to move Radja next to Brozo and play one of our many forwards as AM, or just change system), and the heavy restrictions we have for the CL list, I find it sensible to choose Vecino and Borja instead of Gagliardini. Borja is by no means a world beater and should not be a starter for a team with our ambitions; but like Cafe said last year, he still has usefulness in certain situations and imo is too underrated in this forum.

IMO, Gagliardini needs CONSISTENCY, playing week in and week out in Serie A, and depending on his performances and the context, he might get his shot in Europe in the spring. Until then, he simply isn't that much better than the duo Vecino + Borja to warrant being included in the CL list.

 

[Me2]

for those of y'all bitching,do you think gags would make a BIG difference against the likes of Tottenham and barca? they will rape us with our pants on either way. Just calm your titties, hopefully vecino's CL inclusion means that gags will start over him in serie A which is the most important for us.

What a shitty opinion. We were destroyed by the small teams last season (even many season before that) but we either slapped the big teams or it was very, very close. People are underestimating Inter, which can only be a good thing since Spalletti loves to play his counter football and that's going to work when the other team is very attacking minded.

 

[brakbrak]

What a shitty opinion. We were destroyed by the small teams last season (even many season before that) but we either slapped the big teams or it was very, very close. People are underestimating Inter, which can only be a good thing since Spalletti loves to play his counter football and that's going to work when the other team is very attacking minded.

That's the beauty of opinions,you dont necessarily have to agree,but when you try to insult one's opinions,please be prepared to support your points. Please tell me,how did we "slap" "big" teams? If my memory serves me right,last season we only played 3 "BIG" teams : Roma,Napoli and Juve. We haven't won against Napoli since 2016,we beat Roma 3-1 in the beginning of the season before we started choking as usual and we didnt win any games against Juve last season; all of these with only Serie A and 2 Coppa Italia games to play. Please enlighten me on how we can expect to miraculously beat Tottenham and Barca? This kind of expectation is what makes those complaining like little bitches keep complaining every little shit our team/management decides to do. All I'm saying is gags isnt that much better than Vecino that it warrants those little bitches complaining as if we excluded Kante. But if I'm wrong and if we win against Tottenham or Barca,I'll be the first one to admit that I'm wrong.

 

[junior55]

Our problem is not just financial incompetence of Moratti or Barbosa-type purchases but lack of decent club-trained players (we have Tommaso Berni and Di Gennaro,4 GKs in 21-player list) and guys like Diawara who are already promising players ready to play in CL (not 33-year old grandpas we have in the midfield). One Insigne-type player and we already could be much better than we are even with all the restrictions.

This post has been really undervalued .....

It is exactly this. It is laughable that a club that promotes to the media all year long how they are doing a "great" job with the youth system doesn't have any player of decent quality to include in the CL list as home grown so has to include 4 GK just to have Di Genaro there and Berni.

I mean there are 0 fucking justifications for being at this point. I follow our youths a lot and unfortunately i am now used to our way of working with youth . All we try is to win titles regardless of the quality of our play system , promote the youth through these titles and gain revenue from them. But even with this politic is unforgivable that we haven't managed to promote a single player in our 1st team since the duo Balotelli-Santon.