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Selling Hakan for 50mln to Bayern last summer would have been a massive mistake.
The people are crying loud everytime when Asllani has to replace him, so imagine if we have gotten some shitty replacement if Hakan.
And please do not mention Ricci. He hasn't done anything yet.
 

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Selling Hakan for 50mln to Bayern last summer would have been a massive mistake.
The people are crying loud everytime when Asllani has to replace him, so imagine if we have gotten some shitty replacement if Hakan.
And please do not mention Ricci. He hasn't done anything yet.

absolutely, i still dont know why people keep mentioning of selling hakan. 30's not even that old, i'd be happy to keep him for 2/3 more years. only way we should even consider is if sucic turns out to be generational. even then we need to have hakan with him full season like with brozo and hakan
 

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absolutely, i still dont know why people keep mentioning of selling hakan. 30's not even that old, i'd be happy to keep him for 2/3 more years. only way we should even consider is if sucic turns out to be generational. even then we need to have hakan with him full season like with brozo and hakan
The rationale for selling Hakan is the fact he keeps getting injured and is indeed at the wrong side of 30 now. But, he's such a massive part of our best XI that it would be one kind of an end of a cycle if we sell him.

As @varmin pointed out, Ricci has done nothing, except entered the Nazionale. Ricci to be added to the current squad would be huge, it would be a gradual development for him, being behind Hakan, without the massive pressure to succeed immediately. I fear Milan might lure him with the starting spot promise which we obviously cannot do (if we want to keep the project going on and be serious).
 

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The rationale for selling Hakan is the fact he keeps getting injured and is indeed at the wrong side of 30 now. But, he's such a massive part of our best XI that it would be one kind of an end of a cycle if we sell him.

As @varmin pointed out, Ricci has done nothing, except entered the Nazionale. Ricci to be added to the current squad would be huge, it would be a gradual development for him, being behind Hakan, without the massive pressure to succeed immediately. I fear Milan might lure him with the starting spot promise which we obviously cannot do (if we want to keep the project going on and be serious).

yeah he's had some injuries here and there this season, but the main reason i want to keep him is because of the lack of replacement. sure ricci, rovella and some other guy maybe better than asllani but none of them are gonna be hakan level. mainly i want to keep the core together because there's more chances of winning more league titles and push for CL with hakan than without him
 

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yeah he's had some injuries here and there this season, but the main reason i want to keep him is because of the lack of replacement. sure ricci, rovella and some other guy maybe better than asllani but none of them are gonna be hakan level. mainly i want to keep the core together because there's more chances of winning more league titles and push for CL with hakan than without him
Kimmich is free in summer.
 

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Kimmich is free in summer.

Kimmich has never operated as a single pivot. He's always had either Thiago, Goretzka, Pavlovic, or Palhinha next to him.

Also, odds are he'd cost too much. And while I personally don't have any problems with this, Kimmich isn't afraid to speak his mind.
 

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Kimmich has never operated as a single pivot. He's always had either Thiago, Goretzka, Pavlovic, or Palhinha next to him.

Also, odds are he'd cost too much. And while I personally don't have any problems with this, Kimmich isn't afraid to speak his mind.
Hakan position has two, so why makes it a drawback? Hakan never plays DLP before joining us either; two different teams usually have different phylosophies. Kimmich is well-known for his intelligence and versatility.

Anyway,

Ofc we only consider selling Hakan in case the offer is too good to refuse. Should be enough to cover.
 

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Hakan position has two, so why makes it a drawback? Hakan never plays DLP before joining us either; two different teams usually have different phylosophies. Kimmich is well-known for his intelligence and versatility.

Anyway,

Ofc we only consider selling Hakan in case the offer is too good to refuse. Should be enough to cover.

Let me be clear that I rate Kimmich very highly, I was just mentioning that to say that the type of formations he's played at with Bayern (which have mostly been 4-2-3-1's no matter the manager) vary a lot from what we play here, including where he usually lines up when in midfield.

I'd love to have him, but I doubt he wants to leave Bayern and we wouldn't pay a suitable wage for him anyway, so it's all pretty irrelevant.
 

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Tuttosport sum up what i was saying before.
That we are looking in to inheritance positions

Acerbi-Beukema his cost is 25-30mil
Calhanoglu-Ricci competition from Bbilan
Mhikitaryan-Paz better for us if Real recall him than if he stays at Como
Arnautovic/Correa-Castro
Fratessi sold for around 45mil and Sucic his replacement
Pio Esposito to play in serie A on loan maybe even at Spezia.


 
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Kimmich has never operated as a single pivot. He's always had either Thiago, Goretzka, Pavlovic, or Palhinha next to him.

Also, odds are he'd cost too much. And while I personally don't have any problems with this, Kimmich isn't afraid to speak his mind.

Curious why you mentioned Palhinha :D

He has been shit for Bayern. He has played next to Kimmich in midfield in like couple games. Another overhyped EPL player like Douglas Luiz.

Even out of the project Goretzka has been better than him this season
 

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While I'm not suggesting we should be in any hurry to sell Hakan, I think it's important you are one step ahead of a player in anticipating when his career is taking a downturn and don't hesitate to sell him if there's an offer that represents a really good deal. It's not important with players like Darmian, Miki and Acerbi who cost little and would never be sold for anything, but if there's a market for Hakan then it's worth bearing in mind so as to avoid another Skriniar situation.
 

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Curious why you mentioned Palhinha :D

He has been shit for Bayern. He has played next to Kimmich in midfield in like couple games. Another overhyped EPL player like Douglas Luiz.

Even out of the project Goretzka has been better than him this season

He's been crap, just saying it's been double pivots regardless.
 

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Sky report from today: West Ham had asked for Arnautovic, Cagliari had explored Correa. Both refused. And Inter had already spoken to the agents of Joao Felix, Asensio and Rashford. Every path was blocked by the refusal of the two redundant attackers. The managers' favorite was Asensio.

Again, people can say nobody wanted them, we have to ride their contracts out, but this for me is just a behavior of two people who are comfortable in their roles of doing fuck all with zero pressure put on them. As I wrote yesterday if we made them just a little bit more uncomfortable maybe we would have seen at least one of them fuck off, coz contrary to what some people think there are always potential buyers when you are playing for a club like inter, no matter what we personally think of them as players.
 

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I literally can't even imagine Asensio fitting into Inzaghi's formation.

Winger, injury-prone, defensively lazy.

He's good for some amazing left footed goals from distance. That's about it.
 

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Sky report from today: West Ham had asked for Arnautovic, Cagliari had explored Correa. Both refused. And Inter had already spoken to the agents of Joao Felix, Asensio and Rashford. Every path was blocked by the refusal of the two redundant attackers. The managers' favorite was Asensio.
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