Welcome Hakan! Emre wishes you well
Surprised to see how many people here underrate this transfer just because he is coming over from milan! Yes, he is a mercenary and probably didn`t believe in the milan project after Dollarumma left. But let`s not forget about creating value for the club by bringing in assests for reasonable money, aside from his consistent stats. Suddenly there was a gap in our squad which the club had to quickly fill with 0 budget available (actually minus). INTER will be paying him 40% less than Eriksen while he has better stats, how`s that not a great deal?
Milan payed €23.3m for Çalhanoğlu. He has played 172 games for Milan and was involved in 80 goals (32 goals, 48 assists). Hakan becomes the
27th player to transfer from AC Milan to Inter — 30 players moved the other way.
Marotta generating football history again
: with his current a market value of
€35 million, Calhanoglu is among the
ten most valuable free transfers in history — he is at the same level as
Michael Ballack (from Bayern to Chelsea in 2006).
I remember the last player we bought that had that expression and it didn't work out. Hopefully he will contribute more than one important goal for the CL qualification.
I do not endorse this, but let's hope we don't do any crazy shit like selling Hakimi and Barella.
He does not seem excited, indeed - probably received bad messages from upset milan fans.
I don`t see how selling Hakimi is related to this transfer and don`t understand how you can still hope that after Conte leaving, all the reports of club having to generate money from player sales.
Well seeing as we’re broke, this is a good signing considering we got him on a free transfer. He’s a decent player but nowhere near starting calibre in our squad. Wouldn’t mind him as a sub/rotation.
Exactly, as usual Marotta did his best given the circumstances. You are naive to think we are paying him that kind of money post-pandemic for him to sit on the bench.
Seems like a direct replacement for Eriksen:
free kick specialist.
Welcome Hakan!
Of course this was not a free transfer as free. Free agent transfer yes, not free. We paid 3.5m€ commission to his agent. So the total cost of having him per year is around 10.5m€ ( gross salary + 3.5m€ commission spread over 3 contract years).
Thanks for sharing this valuable info. Still an excellent deal for a player:
- already confirmed in Serie A, knows language
- settled in the same city (instant impact can be expected)
- great vision and assist ability (10 assists/season guaranteed)
- ideal age (mature enough with prime to come)
Wish him good luck and many trophies won in our club!