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Some Arab consortium are apparently bidding to buy Arsenal. I wonder if any of those ever have interest in an Italian club, since it seems Moratti is contemplating selling.

To be honest this is a dawn of a sad new era. The cost of running a competitive football club is shooting through the roof. Italian clubs will no longer earn a place as one of the best in Europe. They will be unable to compete with the spending power of Madrid, Barca, PSG, Bayern, Man U, City, Chelsea and now maybe Arsenal. With the new EPL funds then Liverpool and Tottenham will soon earn more than all Italian clubs.

If you consider our current spending is below Juve, Milan, Roma in Italy, and with less squad investment than Napoli makes us fifth in terms of financial strength in Italy. This is a club who 3 years ago lifted the CL.

I guess in a way it was nice to have been able to win the treble before the curtain closed. But in another aspect watching the Serie A become a feeder league to England and Spain is depressing. Even if Inter miraculously get CL revenue, that will barely be enough to keep the current ship afloat. They still need someone to help build a stadium which will only start paying dividends in 5 years.

In the modern footballing world, for Inter to be competitive they need an owner far wealthier than Moratti. But selling the club to the massively wealthy to play their version of football manager kills any form of identity clubs have.

For Italian football fans it seems we are entering dark times.
 

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Hope he sells the club, for Inter's sake. or atleast let someone else be the president, who know a thing or two about football, because he clearly has no idea, with all due respect.

Money isn't the only problem at Inter currently, even with the current amount we have to spend, we should be top 4.
Not only on table, but also by quality. We are nowhere close to that atm, and our quality is same of that to Bolgona.

Are you fucking serious? Every coach that has been in this club has said that Moratti knows actually a lot about football, more than most presidents...

I'm not against selling the club to some rich guy but I want a Moratti to be at the head of the club, at least someone who knows stuff about Inter... Zanetti? Bergomi? Baresi? Branca? :troll:
 

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Some Arab consortium are apparently bidding to buy Arsenal. I wonder if any of those ever have interest in an Italian club, since it seems Moratti is contemplating selling.

To be honest this is a dawn of a sad new era. The cost of running a competitive football club is shooting through the roof. Italian clubs will no longer earn a place as one of the best in Europe. They will be unable to compete with the spending power of Madrid, Barca, PSG, Bayern, Man U, City, Chelsea and now maybe Arsenal. With the new EPL funds then Liverpool and Tottenham will soon earn more than all Italian clubs.

If you consider our current spending is below Juve, Milan, Roma in Italy, and with less squad investment than Napoli makes us fifth in terms of financial strength in Italy. This is a club who 3 years ago lifted the CL.

I guess in a way it was nice to have been able to win the treble before the curtain closed. But in another aspect watching the Serie A become a feeder league to England and Spain is depressing. Even if Inter miraculously get CL revenue, that will barely be enough to keep the current ship afloat. They still need someone to help build a stadium which will only start paying dividends in 5 years.

In the modern footballing world, for Inter to be competitive they need an owner far wealthier than Moratti. But selling the club to the massively wealthy to play their version of football manager kills any form of identity clubs have.

For Italian football fans it seems we are entering dark times.

Serie A started declining in the early 2000's MANTA. 2006 was the self-inflicted bullet to the head and the leagues credibility went down the toilet.

I can't imagine why any 'Billionaire' would want to pour ludicrous amounts of money (like Man City, PSG) into an Italian club when the degree of difficulty for something as simple as building a Stadium in Italy is equivalent to sending a man to Mars.

Besides all that, even if a Russion/Arab billionaire buys the club it would be an ultimate sell-out. We hate on clubs like PSG and Man City for making a farce out of the game, yet this is what it may take to keep up with these new-born 'big' clubs.

What an absolute joke it has all become.
 

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Besides all that, even if a Russion/Arab billionaire buys the club it would be an ultimate sell-out. We hate on clubs like PSG and Man City for making a farce out of the game, yet this is what it may take to keep up with these new-born 'big' clubs.

What an absolute joke it has all become.

And yet Moratti spending a billion was okay? Nothing wrong there, he can spend as much as he pleases, since he is Italian. But if an Arab investor would do that, Inter would do an ultimate sell-out? I don't get it. You call yourself an Inter fan, have you saw the late nineties, early 00?

Most cups are won by teams with money. A rare Dortmund can come up here and there, but they are still not exactly world beaters. The italian clubs had money (remember Lazio?), used it and now they don't have it. Easy logic. Fuck it. Now Moratti wants to have a youth project, which is currently not working at all. Most of our team (that is performing good game after game) are still of the old garde. Currently I can't see Inter being consistent without Cambi, Zanetti, Cassano, Palacio, Handanović,...all over 30. And those are exactly the players (except the GK) that will soon have to go somewhere else or retire, in two, three years. We need a new spine to our team.
 

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And yet Moratti spending a billion was okay? Nothing wrong there, he can spend as much as he pleases, since he is Italian. But if an Arab investor would do that, Inter would do an ultimate sell-out? I don't get it. You call yourself an Inter fan, have you saw the late nineties, early 00?

There is quite a difference between spending almost a billion over 20 years on a historically big club which is owned by people of Milan for the city of Milan than clubs (PSG, Man C) that spent similar amount over 2-3 years which have been in existence for 5 minutes (PSG) or have been a virtual unknown to the world with only 5 trophies to their name (Man City) !

P.S. I started supporting Inter in 2010. What do you think about that ?

Most cups are won by teams with money. A rare Dortmund can come up here and there, but they are still not exactly world beaters. The italian clubs had money (remember Lazio?), used it and now they don't have it. Easy logic. Fuck it. Now Moratti wants to have a youth project, which is currently not working at all. Most of our team (that is performing good game after game) are still of the old garde. Currently I can't see Inter being consistent without Cambi, Zanetti, Cassano, Palacio, Handanović,...all over 30. And those are exactly the players (except the GK) that will soon have to go somewhere else or retire, in two, three years. We need a new spine to our team.

And ?
 

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P.S. I started supporting Inter in 2010. What do you think about that ?
You're such a liar you started supporting Inter in July 2011.


Btw, how is baby Milito doing?
 

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Great ! First words were 'fuck Milan' :awyeah:
:proud: I have a feeling my first kid is gonna be a Barca fan sadly.. every female I've dealt with in the past few years have supported them despite my efforts to convert them.
 

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:proud: I have a feeling my first kid is gonna be a Barca fan sadly.. every female I've dealt with in the past few years have supported them despite my efforts to convert them.

Stand by your guns...
 

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Was in the stands at London tonight. Hopefully made some useful notes with "SACK STRAMACCIONI" at very beginning
 

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Football isn't healthy for his age, I swear, especially not Inter.
And just because I admire you so much Mr. Moratti, and care about your health, please, move on and let someone fresh run the club.
It will do better for both your fav team and health.
 

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It's time to give up and sell the Club,please Massimo,make your last good move for the goodness of the Club and for the fans.
 

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It's something wrong with this entire club, from top to bottom. From MM to Strama to players. From treble to nothing. Everything has to be changed, even medical team who seems not helpful at all with all those injuries .. WHERETHEFUCKISOBI?!. Sad but I think Inter is going through another "Dark times".
 

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these are not the darkest times Inter saw in the last 20 years, but definately the brokest, plus too many injuries and stupid transfers

but not the darkest
 
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