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If he wants that much he needs to be more consistent than this. If he didn't have the last 3 months he had, I would say he deseves that. But despite his best season, he's not worth more than 8-9m per season.
I continue to say he did his job (scored 23 goals) in a shorter period, when it was needed. He scored against Atalanta that great goal, that was his last goal in the title race, but we had practically won it after that match already. Only thing you can argue is the two CL matches where he didn't score, other than that, he did enough for our title race. I mean, he lead the the team as captain to the 2nd star Scudetto, clinching it in a derby. To me those last 3 months are irrelevant. We didn't need his goals anymore.

Anyway, Lautaro is so much more than just scoring goals.
 

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9-10 is ok in my book. Prefer 9, but he is an important part of Inter. Without him, we may not even make top 4, tbh.
 

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We need to sell one player like always, right?
We don't. We only need like 20M (Dumfries). Next year we will need more if there is no Scudetto and/or solid CL run.
Which I think is fair. It's just a negotiation.
I swear half of this reports are to get fans angry at players and to ruin the atmosphere.
 

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Remember when Eto'o was making 9m a year? aaaaand he could hit penalties too

Pepperidge farm remembers 🧓🧓
 

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9 mil is ok but if he remains the same cold spell king afterwards then it’s not ok. I’m not confident that he will overcome his issues but we aren’t in a favourable situation right now.
 

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We don't. We only need like 20M (Dumfries). Next year we will need more if there is no Scudetto and/or solid CL run.

I swear half of this reports are to get fans angry at players and to ruin the atmosphere.
Precisely. :D

People just take away the words from these reports which they want, to get themselves worked up.
 

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9 mil is ok but if he remains the same cold spell king afterwards then it’s not ok. I’m not confident that he will overcome his issues but we aren’t in a favourable situation right now.
He is just entering his prime with age 27 season coming. Perišić and Brozović are greatest example. They was nowhere near earlier in their career what they was later for us (world class seasons). Especially Perišić.

If we don't give him 9-10 now it could be very possible next season he will be worth 12+.
 

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He is just entering his prime with age 27 season coming. Perišić and Brozović are greatest example. They was nowhere near earlier in their career what they was later for us (world class seasons). Especially Perišić.

If we don't give him 9-10 now it could be very possible next season he will be worth 12+.
I think this is genuinely a good argument. He’s growing exponentially season on season, despite his more frustrating characteristics.

Are we in a position where we can blow up our salary structure (if we have one that is) on a reasonable bet that he continues to improve though?
 

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give him a base with the structure for bonuses. i wasnt entirely kidding when i said 1m per CL group stage goal, 1.5m per CL knock out goal...
 

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give him a base with the structure for bonuses. i wasnt entirely kidding when i said 1m per CL group stage goal, 1.5m per CL knock out goal...
Just give him the latter (1.5 per CL knockout goal) and I’ll be personally satisfied.
 

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Just give him the latter (1.5 per CL knockout goal) and I’ll be personally satisfied.
Sounds good on paper potentially but I’d worry greed would factor in and he’d shoot in situations where the pass option is the best course of action.
 

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It doesn't work like that.

As much as he isn't worth the 12m per season, if the club can afford him, then so be it.

If we can't, just sell him now to avoid anything stupid later.
 

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If he wanted Haaland money he had a Europa League and Champions League final to show that he deserves that kinda money.

I was willing to forgive that Atletico game, but if this 🤡 thinks he can’t choke when it matters and miss sitters and penalties and get $$$$ he can fuck off

Grazie for the Scudetto. Ibra won us 3, and we old him to bounce. He’s nowhere near good enough to break this team’s structure
 

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Marotta has full control over transfers now right? Doesn't have to go through Oaktree to get approval? I trust him in selling him as how he did not let big names ruin the structure of the club like Juve
 

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I wish we had made captain Dimarco-Bastoni-Barella, who are not so obsessed about money...
 

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Giving him 12mln salary will alert the rest to ask for the same, or at least for bigger salaries when the time for renewal comes. Similar to Dumfries.
 
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Just so I can be clear, in our current state, this dude is not a 12 million salary player 😂 if we were the City boys it’s a no brainer with money to burn, but if we had money to burn would he even be our first option?

I’d give him the 9 with performance related bonuses like I saw some suggest earlier and the bonuses have to be like ‘score a knockout goal in CL to advance’ for €€€ or so. Guy goes missing in goal for 2 and half months like a serial killer between victims.
 
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