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We don't have money at all and we are spending 12 mln on two lads, who will be ready in 5-6 years if we are lucky. And we all know that they will be sold much earlier before that. With the 15mln wasted on Martinez, we already have 27mln in total. This sucks
How did you come up with 5-6 years? We don't know how talented they are, how they would develop or how quickly they adapt. We have one of the oldest squads in Europe and we don't generate enough money to spend alot for the new players. How are we supposed to act on the market then?

Sure there is a risk to it, but I rather be it this way than waste tens of millions on the likes of Arna, Taremi and Correa with zero resale value.
 

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How did you come up with 5-6 years? We don't know how talented they are, how they would develop or how quickly they adapt. We have one of the oldest squads in Europe and we don't generate enough money to spend alot for the new players. How are we supposed to act on the market then?

Sure there is a risk to it, but I rather be it this way than waste tens of millions on the likes of Arna, Taremi and Correa with zero resale value.
Could you point me even one young player (except Bastoni), who broke trough the first team of Inter, last 10 years?
Even Dimarco, who is one of the best LWB in the world at the moment, became a starter around 23-24, and that happened only because we were broken to buy someone else.
If someone is a huge talent on the age of 18, I doubt that he will cost us couple of millions only.

As we don't have money enough, we should keep mixing old and young players, and free agents. Spending our budget on a bunch of very young prospects is not a solution in my view.
 

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Re. Younger players being targeted (?).
We're not exactly known as a club that uses young talent - except to sell to buy established players. I've no idea why any young player would come to us - Inzaghi wont pick them unless he has zero other choice.
I can only imagine the future is the sustainable (?) idea of getting younger players in which to me means Inzaghi will move on in a couplo seasons if thats the way the club is heading. That and older (cheaper) players plus frees.
Good luck trying to find a manager who can balance bringing younger players through with some success. Its rare. Not even clubs like Monaco are succesfull all the time doing that.
 

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Could you point me even one young player (except Bastoni), who broke trough the first team of Inter, last 10 years?
Even Dimarco, who is one of the best LWB in the world at the moment, became a starter around 23-24, and that happened only because we were broken to buy someone else.
If someone is a huge talent on the age of 18, I doubt that he will cost us couple of millions only.

As we don't have money enough, we should keep mixing old and young players, and free agents. Spending our budget on a bunch of very young prospects is not a solution in my view.
Bisseck.

Do you really expect to see tens of young players break into the first team when they hardly get any chance of regular football in this club?! The blame mostly goes to the attitude which Inter and Italia in general have toward the young players.

I don't mean to say these young players are the next Messi or Ronaldo, but acting like these young players are not good enough to be even in Inter's squad while we wasted shit tons of money for washed up useless older players is not something I buy.

The panic people have toward the new approach in the market is understandable, as we're used to see a very different approach from this club for a long time. But at least wait a few years to see how it will turn out before making hasty judgment.
 

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I think we made a couple of mistakes selling certain " youth" because of financial concerns. Both Agoume and Pirola had/have promise Inter may have pulled the trigger to quickly with them.
 

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Bisseck.

Do you really expect to see tens of young players break into the first team when they hardly get any chance of regular football in this club?! The blame mostly goes to the attitude which Inter and Italia in general have toward the young players.

I don't mean to say these young players are the next Messi or Ronaldo, but acting like these young players are not good enough to be even in Inter's squad while we wasted shit tons of money for washed up useless older players is not something I buy.

The panic people have toward the new approach in the market is understandable, as we're used to see a very different approach from this club for a long time. But at least wait a few years to see how it will turn out before making hasty judgment.
Bisseck was 23 or 24. This completely match my statement that if we buy someone 18 years old, we can start using him after 4,5,6 years at least.
Actually we bought Asllani at young age, and he is still far away from earning a regular spot.
I don't mind to buy some talents, but not if this cost us most of our not existent budget.
We had some players like Pirola, Oristanio, Seba Esposito and Fabian, which could have been optional back ups, but we sold them for what? To buy more of the same, with the hope that someday we will find the new Messi?
We've just bought Palacios, and now there are already rumors that he will go on loan. After couple of loans he will be sold to Parma or Genoa for some peanuts just like many before him.
 

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Bisseck was 23 or 24. This completely match my statement that if we buy someone 18 years old, we can start using him after 4,5,6 years at least.
Actually we bought Asllani at young age, and he is still far away from earning a regular spot.
I don't mind to buy some talents, but not if this cost us most of our not existent budget.
We had some players like Pirola, Oristanio, Seba Esposito and Fabian, which could have been optional back ups, but we sold them for what? To buy more of the same, with the hope that someday we will find the new Messi?
We've just bought Palacios, and now there are already rumors that he will go on loan. After couple of loans he will be sold to Parma or Genoa for some peanuts just like many before him.
I have a comment on the bolded part. I think that the management sees those guys not being ready to play for Inter. They were not ready, when we sold them. Pirola playing okay for some lower teams do not mean he can pull off the same at Inter. Oristanio, Fabbian, Esposito, it's the same thing. Inzaghi has seen these kids in the trainings (well maybe not Seba, not sure if Seba has had some preseason with Inter in recent years?), trainings is the place, or the event, to prove yourself if you can get minutes in the actual matches, can you be counted on.

So yes, I think the logic is just like what you said, we sell the promising kids, who are not THAT promising they could actually perform for the first team already. We sell them to generate funds, to buy the next crop. hoping maybe someone from there picks it up and shows enough promise. And now, we are doing these buybacks, resale-% deals, to perhaps get some of these kids back if they show enough promise elsewhere, to be able to get a spot from our first team.

It's a bit ruthless, players seen just as future transactions. :D Because most of the time, that is the case. One thing we need to hope is we get better at recruiting these young players. But I think the U23 team will help our cause in this aswell, since we can groom them better there. We can guarantee them playing time at Serie C level at younger ages compared to now when we can't know when they get playing time when we loan them to whatever clubs.
 

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Do you really expect to see tens of young players break into the first team when they hardly get any chance of regular football in this club?! The blame mostly goes to the attitude which Inter and Italia in general have toward the young players.

I don't mean to say these young players are the next Messi or Ronaldo, but acting like these young players are not good enough to be even in Inter's squad while we wasted shit tons of money for washed up useless older players is not something I buy.


The panic people have toward the new approach in the market is understandable, as we're used to see a very different approach from this club for a long time. But at least wait a few years to see how it will turn out before making hasty judgment.
I completely agree with this. And I don't get why some are refusing this idea (or for example how they refused idea about younger players during banter era instead of buying mediocre shit that got us nowhere every time...people always talking back then about "immediate success" lame excuse and "we don't have time for that" like all that mediocre shit got us anywhere anyway or we didn't waste too many time building nothing with mediocre shit) cause "oh but we never did that and we shouldn't do it now"...so we never did things right and why exactly we want to stay that way instead of change for a better?

But what must be said is that Interisti,for all their talk about younger players and how club is not giving them a chance,have literally zero patience for younger players. Zero. They don't understand developing curve,time needed or anything about that,they just want immediate result and if player is not giving that he is shit and needs to go. Even Bisseck was bashed at the beggining of this season and people was calling him shit and not good enough. I don't need to talk about younger Lautaro. Or Brozovic. I saw this scenario plenty of times with this club during the years with many players. Inter fans have zero patience for younger players that are not immediately ready to contribute on a high level game after game (fuck,they even don't have patience for proven players and want to get rid of them as soon as they enter some slump for whatever reason) We have that and then at the same time we have people blaming coaches for not giving younger players more time. Hilarious.

Also I'm not sure people really understand that not every younger player that is at this club need a chance. People always complaining how that and that and that player is not getting chance and what is the point to just loaning them without realizing that it's perfectly fine to buy them,loaned them out and then sold them for more money for a plusvalenza. As @CafeCordoba perfectly explained. Same goes for Primavera guys. It's already success if we developed them in Primavera to play at Serie A level for others and we got money for that. That's what succesfull academies are doing. They have lot of their former players playing first league football all over the Europe. And that is also success. Not every young player need to become star or a high level starter in his club to be a success.
 

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U23 will be a big thing for us IMHO.
 

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Juventus last summer got like 40M just for solding players from their U23 Next Gen team.
This is going to be what we're trying to do so that we dont have to sell starters or key rotation players. Spend big on a quality player once or twice every couple of years to slowly keep the squad fresh once players like SDV, Hakan, Acerbi, Mikhi age out. Other than that it'll be free transfers.

I should specify i dont hate this approach as long as we use buy back clauses and at least occasionally give someone a chance. The issue is going to be knowing this club were just gonna sell off players of any quality to the highest bidders like we did with Casadei.
 
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Juventus last summer got like 40M just for solding players from their U23 Next Gen team.
But as Inter fans are not known to be patient, any euro invested in this U23 team is labeled as huge waste of money, because we need players to our first team NOW.
 

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Where I can agree with people is that I'm not sure I have enough trust in our scouting department that we are investing this millions in right guys and not some randoms. But this remains to be seen. I certainly not agree with people claiming you can't find great talent for a cheap,there are always opportunities if you know what you are doing. It's just that I for now don't have that trust in us for doing that. So I can understand some concern here.
 

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Sign a striker now.
 

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Sign a striker now.

Offense did its job scoring 2. Needed to be better defending today.

Only way we get a good striker we won’t try to ship out in the summer is selling a starter
 

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U23 will be a big thing for us IMHO.

They have said they want Inter B to be competitive. I don't know what exactly their plans are but for me the most important thing is developping our youngsters. If not for the first team at least enough to bring profit to the club.

Results shouldn't be our priority.
 

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They have said they want Inter B to be competitive. I don't know what exactly their plans are but for me the most important thing is developping our youngsters. If not for the first team at least enough to bring profit to the club.

Results shouldn't be our priority.
If our u23 youngsters aren't competitive at Serie C level they have no hope anyway.

But I otherwise agree
 

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If our u23 youngsters aren't competitive at Serie C level they have no hope anyway.

But I otherwise agree

I don't know about that. Juventus Next Gen aren't exactly impressing in Serie C but they have got good money for some of them while they have also promoted a bunch to the first team.
 
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