Mateo Kovačić

[Fapuccino]

We need to stop buying young players. It's as simple as that. It's bad for them, and it sucks for us.

 

[wera]

Except that we handled Kova good enouh for him to be bought by Real Madrid and Icardi to be caponniere and one of the hottest younger strikers in the world. Most young players never get a proper chance in big clubs, what is important is not to buy whatever players like Gabigol. Let's not pretend that we always fuck up a young player at Inter and that most clubs are any better than us.

Now when i think about it even K-dog ain't that bad of a buy, just the environment wasn't good for him. Spalletti could change that.

 

[brehme1989]

Cambiasso was 24 and developed into a world class player from a rotation player of a top team.
Zanetti was 21 and I don't need to say anything else.
Adriano was 19 and returned at 22, one cannot argue that Inter fucked him up, when it was obviously psychological issues.
Ronaldo was 21 and it was fucked up injuries.
Maicon was 25 froman average league and developed into the best RB in the world.
Kovacic was 19 and became a transfer target for everyone in Europe and ended up at the most prestigious club.
Skriniar is 23 and I think people can easily call him a top 5 center back in the world at the moment.
Icardi came at 20 and he's one of the best strikers in the world now.

Given that Kovacic is 24 and he's still considered young, I'll assume the cut off age is 25 or something.

We suck at scouting, not at developing. We cannot make Ricky Alvarez turn into Kaka. We cannot make Gabriel Barbosa turn into even someone like Rodrigo Palacio. We cannot make Jonathan become Maicon. But we can get players to reach their potential, if there is any. Most transfers we made in the last were not of Inter's level. Juan Jesus is no Cannavaro, he'll just be Juan Jesus. We're also bad at seeing potential when it's in front of us.

 

[A.l.i]

Cambiasso was 24 and developed into a world class player from a rotation player of a top team.
Zanetti was 21 and I don't need to say anything else.
Adriano was 19 and returned at 22, one cannot argue that Inter fucked him up, when it was obviously psychological issues.
Ronaldo was 21 and it was fucked up injuries.
Maicon was 25 froman average league and developed into the best RB in the world.
Kovacic was 19 and became a transfer target for everyone in Europe and ended up at the most prestigious club.
Skriniar is 23 and I think people can easily call him a top 5 center back in the world at the moment.
Icardi came at 20 and he's one of the best strikers in the world now.

Given that Kovacic is 24 and he's still considered young, I'll assume the cut off age is 25 or something.

We suck at scouting, not at developing. We cannot make Ricky Alvarez turn into Kaka. We cannot make Gabriel Barbosa turn into even someone like Rodrigo Palacio. We cannot make Jonathan become Maicon. But we can get players to reach their potential, if there is any. Most transfers we made in the last were not of Inter's level. Juan Jesus is no Cannavaro, he'll just be Juan Jesus. We're also bad at seeing potential when it's in front of us.

Well we have developed Maicon, Zanetti, Ronaldo, Icardi, Ibra, Adriano, Vieri, Cambiasso, Stankovic, Skriniar and I can name others too.

 

[Sassuolu]

I think we were lucky to sell Kova for the price we sold him for, he did nothing in our colours.

 

[junior55]

I think we were lucky to sell Kova for the price we sold him for, he did nothing in our colours.

Has he done anything for Real though ? It's not that i follow Real that much but for the matches i've seen and he has played a lot of important matches he hasn't shown anything better from what i remember at his times at Inter. On the contrary i don't even see those through the middle runs he used to do with us.

Maybe Zidane didn't allow him to do that at Real (he wasn't so effective anyway) and forced him to play passing football



The figures above though show clearly why he would still be interested in coming back at us. He has played more minutes with us in less matches which clearly shows that he would a more important figure for us. Also he has been effective in term of scoring ( and i guess he would be even more under spallo). Winning 3CL as a non protagonist is probably enough for a player , he should try to win smth as a protagonist now.

That said he hasn't shown to be worth more than 40M ....

 

[Kenny]

He just needs to be played in the right position.
Spaletti could manage him, i guess.

 

[forzainter257]

he is far better than Countinho they said

 

[Sassuolu]

He's definitely won more trophies

 

[K.I.]

Well we have developed Maicon,Zanetti, Ronaldo, Icardi, Ibra, Adriano, Vieri, Cambiasso, Stankovic, Skriniar and I can name others too.

Some of these players were already great players though before they came here, the highlighted ones the most for me.

While we always talk about the transfer that Inter got wrong, the amount of great / WC / Young talent we have signed over the years is def an impressive list.

 

[chipschups]

Cambiasso was 24 and developed into a world class player from a rotation player of a top team.
Zanetti was 21 and I don't need to say anything else.
Adriano was 19 and returned at 22, one cannot argue that Inter fucked him up, when it was obviously psychological issues.
Ronaldo was 21 and it was fucked up injuries.
Maicon was 25 froman average league and developed into the best RB in the world.
Kovacic was 19 and became a transfer target for everyone in Europe and ended up at the most prestigious club.
Skriniar is 23 and I think people can easily call him a top 5 center back in the world at the moment.
Icardi came at 20 and he's one of the best strikers in the world now.

Given that Kovacic is 24 and he's still considered young, I'll assume the cut off age is 25 or something.

We suck at scouting, not at developing. We cannot make Ricky Alvarez turn into Kaka. We cannot make Gabriel Barbosa turn into even someone like Rodrigo Palacio. We cannot make Jonathan become Maicon. But we can get players to reach their potential, if there is any. Most transfers we made in the last were not of Inter's level. Juan Jesus is no Cannavaro, he'll just be Juan Jesus. We're also bad at seeing potential when it's in front of us.

This list missing Brozovic which sign at 22 years old, and Mancini era we actually have some good transfer like him, Miranda, Murillo, Llajic, Jojo, Perisic, and Candreva but then also some fuckup like Santon, Melo or Kdog and didnt trigger 8mil buyout for Telles is tragedy also we almost sign Salah only get cockblock by Fiorentina.

think the issue is not total in scouting area, we DID get some decent to good name but then we just didnt have patient to stick with them. And if you all notice, this season we can see in every club they have an ex-Inter player as their backbone.

Laxalt --- Puscas --- Caprari
Obi ------- Benassi
Duncan
Biraghi -- xxxxx - xxxxx - Mbaye
Alex Cordaz

subs : Miangue, Crisetig, Bessa
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some notable name, they probably not world beater but some of them grow in recent years and have a good price nowadays comparing how we sell all of them for Peanuts. Laxalt, Duncan and Benassi nowadays have 20mil++ price tag already I believe and pretty good as rotational player comparing with what we have now. I remember we almost selling Icardi after 6 month when Monaco coming to our door with Mazzari seems not too fond with him, but thxfully we have some sense to stick with him especially when Monaco sniffing his potential its no brainer if sells him that time, imagine we almost lost our 100mil player.

 

[Adriano@10]

Only problem with that logic is that they would not have grown to be the players they are today by simply sitting on our bench!
It s very hard for a young player to get enough time to develop in such a high pressure environement as inter even more so when the team is totally disfunctional as it was in the past couple of season! Only the absolute best will manage to develop in such a situation i mean even cou faild here even though he got quits some chances!

Yes i know there are big teams that seem to easily integrate young players but thats cause they have a great team play and if 10 of the guy know exactly what the other 10 do it s way easier to integrate and cover for a young kid whos not quite ready look at barca and bayern!
Fraking bojan and dos santos looked like great prospects at barca because their system made them look good!

 

[JJM]

Di Marzio says that we want Kova back now but Real are at the moment not willing to sell, However this summer could actually be the right time for his return to the fashion capital of Italy...

 

[varmin]

Di Marzio says that we want Kova back now but Real are at the moment not willing to sell, However this summer could actually be the right time for his return to the fashion capital of Italy...

If Real buy Neymar, definitely will sell somebody. One will be Bale for sure.

 

[pazza moratti]

I would take Kovacic back if price is right. I rate him more than Brozovic who has had like only two good runs at his Inter era. I see Kovacic more consistent than Brozo and much better vision and more solid as a person.

I think this would be like Cambiasso transfer when a good player comes to little smaller club with less pressure like you see Rafinha is really enjoying his game now with us. I think we would not talk Kovacic transfer now if he would be startin every game at Real but its very hard to push Modric, Kroos, Isco or Casemiro out your way! Eaven that Ceballos is eating bench who was beast at Betis!

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I think we were lucky to sell Kova for the price we sold him for, he did nothing in our colours.

He did nothing in our colours and Real just bought him at 30m blivious:

 

[chipschups]

Yeah I agree, 40mil is fair price for Kova and we are doing good business here but replacing him with kdog and give him huge wage is disaster. Thats why I wouldnt believe people want to sell Icardi with our mercato history so far.

 

[Wallace]

Yeah but that was Manshitni.

Everyone saw it from a thousand miles he wanted a physical brainless midfielder. Or let’s just say I saw it before we even sold Kovacic and before Manshitni arrived to destroy the club into pieces.

 

[rfU]

Rafinha, Brozovic, Gagliardini, Kovacic and one classy DM would be awesome midfield.

Kovacic is that "classy DM". We need a destroyer like Lucas Leiva though.

 

[forzainter257]

Kovacic would be a good fit for an established team. We are not one, we need really an alpha-male, mature players with winning mentality. We can't win trophies with full of prospects. I would do my best to bring Iniesta but we are late

 

[thoriq_r9]

The guy has won as many UCL trophies as we have in our entire existence.