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I am very sad with our Croatian friends here. Damn you guys for not giving a clear picture on how the hell is this Brozovic guy. Reading some of the comments here, it seems that we have wasted our money. Then, some of the comments bring up some hope. Thanks to you guys, I am not so excited with this signing at the moment and will have to wait for some time to know what kind of player we might have signed.
We can't expect to sign one hell of a player for 8 million for sure but we can at least hope for a better version of Guarin/Kuzmanovic. I would be more than happy with that as well.
That's because you have occasional glroyhunting(for the lack of the better or more polite term) football fans on one side that eat everything that media serves them and people that actually understand what's going on and call it like it is. The second group is often labeled as ''haters'' because the debates with the first group end very quickly and painfully for the ''gloryhunters''. I would demonstrate that myself but since this isn't ''Croatian football'' thread I don't think people should be reading about this stuff in here.
What people should be reading about is how does Brozović actually perform on the pitch.
As I said earlier he has never, and I mean never strung a series of consistent quality perfomances against serious opponents.
Dude is an attacking CM that can defend, box to box if you like who scores very few goals for his role. One freaking goal in HNL this season!! ONE!
To illustrate how full of shit people are when claiming he is some Xavi holding type MF or such crap I'll remind everyone that Brozović was used as an AM for the NT in some games with Rakitić playing DM. In his job description is to score or create goals which he does it on an average/below average level. His defensive duties in his club really shouldn't have prevented him from scoring more goals since he always played with a DM alongside him.
His defensive game is obviously solid but it also isn't anything special. He is kind of jack of all trades or master of one.
Inter bought hype, youth and some potential here. The transfer fee is in the line what was expected for him since players with such physical attributes are in demand in todays game. I'm surprised that some lower PL team didn't top this offer to be honest. 8M is nothing for a potentially good player these days and he would fit like a glove in PL, Inter being broke is another story. So it's not like this is an outrageous sum for him, Inter have wasted money on worse for years.
Fans like to see new, shiny(pun intended) players in their clubs and alyways hope for the best but there is simply not enough evidence that this player improves our team right away. It's obviously possible that he grows into a better player than Guarin or Kuzmanović one day but he'll need patience. It's always a question with clubs like Inter would they be able to afford such patience with high goals set. Do I even need to list numerous young players that were supposed to be future key members of a new era Inter? Now sold or loaned all over Europe or Italy.
