Romelu Lukaku

[.h.]

Ridiculous if we sell Lukaku now. Might as well withdraw from Europe beforehand. This is becoming a Joke now. No wonder Conte got the vibes beforehand...

with conte we practically did withdraw from europe anyway...

 

[BasedGodPunk]

Suning bought the club with good intentions. That was proven the first couple of years they were here. However the pandemic and now Chinese restrictions have ruined pretty much everything and they’re now fighting for survival. They know they won’t be here much longer and are getting the finances in order as much as possible so they can sell us. 99% of club owners would be doing the same thing because 99% buy clubs for business purposes. People like Abromovich/moratti are a rare breed of owner. My issue with Suning is not selling Lukaku, it’s the fact they jumped the gun and sold Hakimi for no reason. Everyone on earth knew City and Chelsea were going to be buying a striker. A 100+ offer was always going to come for Lukaku. We jumped the gun way too early on Hakimi and are in turn getting BURNED for it. This is the one time I think it would’ve been acceptable for a club to wait til later in the window to do business.

 

[Bluenine]

Hakimi. Lukaku. Maybe also Martinez. Such unnecessary sales. The only sale Suning needed to make was sell Inter.

#SuningOUT

 

[.h.]

Suning bought the club with good intentions. That was proven the first couple of years they were here. However the pandemic and now Chinese restrictions have ruined pretty much everything and they’re now fighting for survival. They know they won’t be here much longer and are getting the finances in order as much as possible so they can sell us. 99% of club owners would be doing the same thing because 99% buy clubs for business purposes. People like Abromovich/moratti are a rare breed of owner. My issue with Suning is not selling Lukaku, it’s the fact they jumped the gun and sold Hakimi for no reason. Everyone on earth knew City and Chelsea were going to be buying a striker. A 100+ offer was always going to come for Lukaku. We jumped the gun way too early on Hakimi and are in turn getting BURNED for it. This is the one time I think it would’ve been acceptable for a club to wait til later in the window to do business.

Exactly. Any suggestion of money laundering, bad intentions, etc is baseless and frankly offensive. Their plans were fucked by a few different things, as we all know, but as far as anyone can critically evaluate from the evidence, they did try. They pumped in hundreds of millions (perhaps even more, if you consider chinese sponsorships etc and the various d2e conversisons) into the club over the years.

 

[Kramerica Industries]

Suning bought the club with good intentions. That was proven the first couple of years they were here. However the pandemic and now Chinese restrictions have ruined pretty much everything and they’re now fighting for survival. They know they won’t be here much longer and are getting the finances in order as much as possible so they can sell us. 99% of club owners would be doing the same thing because 99% buy clubs for business purposes. People like Abromovich/moratti are a rare breed of owner. My issue with Suning is not selling Lukaku, it’s the fact they jumped the gun and sold Hakimi for no reason. Everyone on earth knew City and Chelsea were going to be buying a striker. A 100+ offer was always going to come for Lukaku. We jumped the gun way too early on Hakimi and are in turn getting BURNED for it. This is the one time I think it would’ve been acceptable for a club to wait til later in the window to do business.

When the discussion was had about "sacrifices", Lukaku was my choice. If this were happening now, isolated from any other transfers that had happened, I would have no basis to complain in the sense that I would've gotten my "wish". Obviously the ideal scenario would've been no sacrifices, but that was obviously not realistic. Besides that, sacrifice requirements or not, it would've genuinely been good business as well. It wouldn't have been that hard to justify.

It's exactly that - jumping the gun on selling Hakimi. Forcing him out. Making decisions that make absolutely no sense when pieced together (hiring a manager who uses wingbacks when you're going to sell your world class wingback; hiring a manager in the name of tactical continuity over a more accomplished manager who will require a squad overhaul when you're completely prepared to overhaul your squad in the name of money). Their decision making honestly makes me feel like Walter Mazzarri from this scene in The Departed (NSFW):

 

[.h.]

Hakimi. Lukaku. Maybe also Martinez. Such unnecessary sales. The only sale Suning needed to make was sell Inter.

#SuningOUT

honestly, not really true, unless your plan is to get an elliott-style owner who throws 1bil+ at this club over 3 seasons. Even Juve have just recapitalised for 400m.

I do think, between financial issues and their domestic problems, a sale is coming though.

 

[qb4ever_2k]

Suning bought the club with good intentions. That was proven the first couple of years they were here. However the pandemic and now Chinese restrictions have ruined pretty much everything and they’re now fighting for survival. They know they won’t be here much longer and are getting the finances in order as much as possible so they can sell us. 99% of club owners would be doing the same thing because 99% buy clubs for business purposes. People like Abromovich/moratti are a rare breed of owner. My issue with Suning is not selling Lukaku, it’s the fact they jumped the gun and sold Hakimi for no reason. Everyone on earth knew City and Chelsea were going to be buying a striker. A 100+ offer was always going to come for Lukaku. We jumped the gun way too early on Hakimi and are in turn getting BURNED for it. This is the one time I think it would’ve been acceptable for a club to wait til later in the window to do business.

Lets be honest here, everyone thought it’s Kane and Haaland who were going to move. Literally nobody thought Lukaku would attract such a huge bid.

And we did have some discussion here on FIF on how much Lukaku’s worth. Most agreed that we would at best recover what we paid for him, very few thought his value would be close to 100m, let alone 130m.

 

[brakbrak]

Of course but basically it means Lautaro needs to score like Lukaku and Zapata to score like Lautaro (because Zapata won't score like Lukaku). Also we need reinforcements elsewhere as removing Hakimi is a big blow. Consider also rivals getting stronger.

Objectively and statistically speaking Lautaro, Lautaro CAN and did score like Lukaku, except for his penalty taking skill that he needs to improve. He missed 2 penalties I think since he's been with us (against Dortmund and that norotius Bologna loss) and scored 6, that's not very good imo whereas Lukaku has been clutch with 15/15 since he's been with us.

Our Rival isn't Juve, it's Milan, Napoli and Lazio, how are they stronger than us? While getting Zapata for 40m is a disgrace and stupid bussiness, he's not exactly a scrub. His stats for the past 3 years speak for itself.

 

[pazza moratti]

People do not realise we play with same formation but different system with Inzaghi and other players will step up

 

[Inter7]

Like I suggested in the fif whats app I would love to go for Isak he looks fantastic and shouldnt be too much

 

[pazza moratti]

Like I suggested in the fif whats app I would love to go for Isak he looks fantastic and shouldnt be too much

He look promising but I heard that he would cost more than €80 million? So I cant see that happening!

 

[Materazzi_23]

What did you think about Schick, Jovic and Piatek?

Different type of players for me. Piatek could only score goals and can't play actual football. Those players will never succeed at the topclubs. Same goed for Belotti. Jovic problem seems to be his mentality. Schlick is just not good enough. Vlahovic scored 21 goals, Schlick scored 11 goals before he went to Roma and by the way Vlahovic plays and the different kind of goals he scored has me believe that Vlahovic is a far better technical player than those 3 players you mention.

It's always a risk to take players who only did well at mid-table teams but I much rather take the risk on Vlahovic instead of overpaying for Zapata.

 

[CafeCordoba]

It's said this Lukaku bid from Chelsea surprised our management off-guard and it wasn't planned at all. I think that was the big mistake they did this summer. They should have planned this better. Indeed jumping the gun with Hakimi so early despite knowing the battle for forwards in the EPL and yet they were blindsided that Chelsea comes for Lukaku. Of course Inter cannot control when Chelsea make their moves but they should have probed it at least in some capacity, or AT LEAST anticipate it. It's not many weeks ago when Hakimi move was done.

 

[pazza moratti]

Maybe they trusted Lukaku’s words? ”Im staying”

Just a crazy idea?

 

[qb4ever_2k]

Different type of players for me. Piatek could only score goals and can't play actual football. Those players will never succeed at the topclubs. Same goed for Belotti. Jovic problem seems to be his mentality. Schlick is just not good enough. Vlahovic scored 21 goals, Schlick scored 11 goals before he went to Roma and by the way Vlahovic plays and the different kind of goals he scored has me believe that Vlahovic is a far better technical player than those 3 players you mention.

It's always a risk to take players who only did well at mid-table teams but I much rather take the risk on Vlahovic instead of overpaying for Zapata.

Ok, how about Belotti? 26 goals that season.

No comments on Zapata though.

 

[Eddie]

We are a tragedy.
Pretty soon South Park will make an episode about us.

 

[Materazzi_23]

Ok, how about Belotti? 26 goals that season.

No comments on Zapata though.

Belotti is even worse. Yes he was great that season but everyone can see that Belotti is not a technical player and mostly release on strength and determination. That's great for Torino but not for a club like Inter.

Zapata is a better version of Belotti but still not good enough to be 1 of the strikers as a back-up he would be good but never to lead the attack alongside Lautaro.

 

[Gaindé]

Tbh, Belotti is not just strength and determination, not at all. He is also a decent finisher with both feet and is a great aerial threat, he is cheaper and younger than Zapata while having similar number despite the fact that one plays for Torino and the other plays for a very high scoring Atalanta.

 

[YoramG]

Belotti, ahahahahaha.

Fuck me and fuck this.

 

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

meh, Zapata + talented youngster like Vlahovic/ Raspadori would be okay with me. There’s enough mix of readymade talent and potential in there to get us through the season.

Going for Zapata alone would be a huge mistake. Entrusting our success solely on youngsters would also be a mistake.

Hopefully we can also add a quality mid + fullback but I’m not gonna get my hopes up.