ESPECIALLY the news sources you’ve been citing
I'm not citing them, I'm just using them as an example of Handanovic name being thrown out in the media which was an argument used here.
Some of the ones I posted are actually credible but most are shit, sure. Still, they felt Handanovic is a nice enough name for clickbait - if you assume that there was no concrete interest.
Now the other person who was talking about top clubs, mid clubs, big clubs etc decided that he'd make a distinction between club/team as if it had any bearing on what the discussion...or if a player cares that much if the team is shit as long he's part of a great club (exhibit A, Manchester United).
Another member made a claim about Handanovic being an exclusive target. Thst was never mentioned by me, nor do I say it was the case. You don't see me throwing tantrums calling KevinB a liar for making that assumption.
Anyone who knows the basics of the transfer market knows that there is no such thing as an exclusive target, and there are hardly primary targets when it comes to goalkeepers.
Everything wera mentioned was debunked, that's why he's being a petty child.
1) No interest by big clubs. Same logic was used for Brozovic by another poster, which was another nonsense that was debunked.
It's also been established that top clubs tend to keep goalkeepers for longer and tend to buy from smaller clubs, so chances for Handanovic to leave Inter for another club were extremely slim unless it's Real Madrid or Barcelona. And we rejected a bid by both. You don't care if Real Madrid's bid wasn't discussed openly, good on you. Barcelona asking and bidding for him is more than enough examples. There wasn't anyone better to bid for you back then.
If you say no to them to stick with the 9th team of Serie A, what chances does anyone else have??
I guess Buffon was also not sought after. I mean, apart from 2006 when Juventus fell in Serie B and pre-Messi Barcelona called, how many times was he under bid? Probably less than 5 in a space of 17 years as a Juventus player... I guess that makes Morata a more desired player than both these guys.
2) Handanovic moved to Inter as a "cheap transfer".
He was the 7th most expensive goalkeeper transfer of all time in 2012.
3) The assumption that Handanovic was highly involved in the transfer market is just unjustified. You cannot be highly transfer bound when you don't want out and your club won't sell you.
That's like saying Totti wasn't wanted by anyone ever since he turned 24 because he had no intention of leaving and Roma had no intention of letting him go, especially after rejecting Real Madrid openly and publicly... Does that mean that no one ever asked again about Totti? Perez himself asked several times, Moratti tried, Berlusconi got his girlfriend a Milano job to lure him, Juventus tried, Barcelona tried, Alex Ferguson tried. But he wasn't moving. And the media hardly picked on that and anyone writing articles about Totti moving would be considered unreliable, even if he posted a picture with an official transfer bid that was signed by the bidding club...
4) Inter not having an appeal in world football because of a few bad seasons. That's a very naive statement. Especially for 2013 when we still had some legendary players in the locker room.
Short on cash flow and overall squad quality, yes, short on prestige, definitely not.
Just like Vidal didn't care that Juventus finished 7th the year prior he joined and prefered them to Bayern, another player wouldn't care if Inter finished 9th the year prior.
You don't lose pedigree so easily. It takes decades, not a couple of bad seasons.