July is the month of sales, even on the transfer market. At least at Inter, who hope to buy back Romelu Lukaku from Chelsea at a much, much lower price than the one he sold to the London club two years ago: 113 million euros. But on the other hand, i.e. on the outgoing transfer market, the Nerazzurri executives themselves practically have sold off Marcelo Brozovic. The Croatian director was sold to Al-Nassr for 18 million euros.
In the same summer in which the English Declan Rice will go from West Ham to Arsenal for 120 million euros (bonuses included) and Sandro Tonali moved from Milan to Newcastle for 70 million, the same amount paid by Liverpool to Leipzig for Szoboszlai. The Premier League is it a world apart? So let’s take another midfielder bought from another Saudi Arabian club as a comparison: Ruben Neves, who moved from Wolverhampton to Al-Hilal for 55 million euros. The Portuguese is 5 years younger than Brozovic, who however boasts an international career of much greater depth. In fact, the Croatian has more than double the number of appearances in both European cups (70-33) and in the national team (87-41). Evidently Inter have decided to unload Brozovic and, in order to get rid of him, have entered into the order of ideas of accepting an offer lower than his value. The one who doesn’t want to know about (s)selling Inter is Steven Zhang. The Chinese president continues to overvalue (more than a billion euros) a company full of debt, because he has no intention of giving up the toy. Meanwhile, he gives the ok to the price increase for fans’ season tickets at the San Siro stadium and enjoys the good life around the world. After putting the usual stakes ai executives, forced into yet another zero-budget market and called upon again to pull the rabbits out of the hat: the watchword is always “self-financing”.
The same conditions that led Samaden to leave the leadership of the youth sector to move to Atalanta. In the long run, Marotta too (under contract until June 2025, as well as Ausilio and Baccin) risks being led to the same decision. With these premises, the Champions League final reached this year risks turning out to be an unrepeatable miracle. Other than “the starting point for growing more and more day by day”, as stated in Istanbul by Zhang. Who had added: “We are confident for the future with the strong foundations we have”. Words words words…
2023-07-04 08:00:00
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