The Italian sports pages are hot off the press and they have taken some time to discuss some of the things taking place with our beloved Inter. Specifically, the mercato was a hot topic and the Gazetta dello Sport writes that Thohir will be working on three fronts. First with Moratti, second with Mancini for the mercato and last with Pisapia for the stadium. Meanwhile, Podolski is on his way out.
Next, Tuttosport reports that Mancini may sacrifice Kovacic for Pedro and Song. Barca observed Kovacic in the derby and Inter are willing to sacrifice him but in return they will ask for both players.
Source: FcInterNews.it
IN:
1) Dybala/Jovetic [17-25m] or Konoplyanka/Ayew [FREE !!] or worst case scenario Pedro/Lavezzi [hope not].
2) Murillo [reportedly done deal]
3) Darmian [worst case scenario Kolarov]
4) Yaya Toure – or similar strong tall midfielder [Guarin upgrade]
5) Allan [Kuzmanovic+Obi upgrade]
6) Cech [(FREE) LOAN until 2016]
7) Dragovic/Schär/Vida/Glik/Zhang [if needed/opportunity]
+FC Porto scouting staff 😀
OUT:
1) Podolski [expiring contract]
2) Campagnaro [expiring contract]
3) Jonathan [expiring contract]
4) Guarin [sell him for good money] 12-14m
5) Kuzmanovic [we have Gnoukouri for backup role + others like Crisetig] 5m + Obi 3m
6) Handanovic [sell him for UCL, he deserves it] 15-18m
7) Juan/Andreolli [if better CB comes in].
am not gonna name every great player Inter let go, honestly its hard to keep track of them, but Pirlo is enough example, kovacic obviously going to be one of the greatest players in the world, maybe inter just can’t deal with good qualities and more or directors are completely blind. sell Icardi if you must good striker should come from youth academy and am sick of inter management
it’s hard to see kovacic leave, for the truth is, watching him play give me a glimmer of hope to see this kid bringing inter back to the top.
i hope thohir and the management make a wise decision, only the best for inter
sorry for my bad english 🙂
Kovacic has to stay we don’t want to repeat coutinho’s mistake. Kovacic is a great prospect and has great potential. #savekovacic
Kovacic for Pedro and Song, that will surpass even the stupidest deal ever Guarin for Vucinic!!! One promising young player with huge room for development for one finished player (Song), who can’t play regularly in club like West Ham and one “headless chicken” over his prime (Pedro)! Even genius Branca can’t create such a hilarious deal.
Inter will not get back to top in just one season, not after 5 shockingly bad ones, deal with it. If Thohir said that our project is developing around young players like Kova, Icardi, Juan, Brozovic and other than that is what we have to do. We can’t start a new project every season, Jesus Christ just try to stick with one for at least two season.
Pedro and Song are not the players that will get Inter back to top, I can guarantee that. We have good young players, just stick with them, it will pay off, it must.
I agree But we need money to get more young players and money reqires CL ! We need players to get us back into CL . I’m not saying we can compete with bayern and real and barca in the next few years but at least we can be where juve and atletico are now.
Whats the point of selling one young player to buy another one.. Again no one can guarantee that he will suceed, especially at Inter.
We need to keep our young players, and buy new players with money that Thohir gives, if it is true that he will invest 60 mil. That is enough money to buy 2-3 quality players and fight for CL spots. This team is not 10th place bad, Mazzari was 5th with weaker team than this, enough said. We can’t buy eleven or eight new players, we can buy 2 or 3 and Mancini must find a way to make it work.
Personally I don’t believe that he can do it, I thought that he’s not good enough when he was here first time and especially not now..
Well i’d be happy if we kept kovacic . I don’t want any of our stars being sacrificed . Specially icardi . And yes mancini wasn’t the best option. I said that from the beginning . We need someone like klopp or simeone or de boer to get the best out of youngsters. But anyways we still need a player like yaya or pedro in our team.
Mijalovic was who I wanted in all honesty
Disagree
I’m speaking about back then xD
how naive to think a club can develop young players and still make CL. even arsenal had to buy sanchez and ozil, cazorla, giroud etc to get anywhere near CL. if you think a club can get high on the table using young unproven players you live in fantasyland.
You missed the whole point of my post.
Arsenal have been playing in CL long before they bought Sanchez, Ozil etc., I don’t know what are you talking about.
I’m not saying that our team should have 11 players under 20 years of age, I’m saying that if we can’t develop young players that we know have huge potential, we were never be big again.
There are two ways of getting back to top, getting good young players and develop them + invest cash in couple of quality proven players. The other way is to spend 100 mil euros every year on top-class players.
Which one sounds realistic for Inter.. If Inter can’t develop young players that the whole world knows are talented, then we should quit right now and end the suffering.
You are living in fantasy land if you think that Inter can get 2-3 top-class players this summer or invest 100 mil for the next five transfer windows.
how many top teams actually develop young players? i will tell you, none. talented and hyped youngsters get send on loan to lower league teams in the hope they will get better. if not they get sold. getting kova was HUGE gamble it is not paying off. it would be retarded to keep him in the hope he gets better instead of selling him now for big bucks and to get a quality replacement instead. it would be beyond stupid to keep him while inter keeps suffering because we cant keep up with the rest of serie a.
Bayern- Muller, Alaba, Bastian, Lahm..
Barca-Xavi, Iniesta, Messi, Pedro..
Arsenal-Ramsey, Wilshere, Coquelin (you will probably mock this one if you hadn’t been watching Arsenal this season)
Juve-Chiellini, Marchisio, Pogba
I guess that’s none.
I’m done discussing with you.
yes, but lets not mention the boatload of worldclass players those teams already had who did everything. what ridiculous reasoning you have.
Jesus Christ, what, are you just trying to iritate me.. You said that top clubs don’t develop players, I have proven that to be wrong.. No one said that they didn’t had top players already..
Like I said, you didn’t get what I was saying, so you can’t say what is my reasoning.
Goodbye and good luck.
no, you said we should keep kova because you think he is talented. I said that it would be stupid to retain an average overhyped kid while the rest of our squad is absolute shit and we desperately needed some quality. you started crying.
i also pointed at arsenal how even they consistently add starplayers to their squad even though they are known to use youngsters. fucking nerd
Arsenal f.ex
Yaya toure was interviewed and said :” i need a new challenge . And there is at some point that money isn’t the most important thing.” I think that means he is willing to reduce his salary to change team. I hope by “new challenge ” he meant serie a and inter !
I don’t mind selling Kovacic even though it hurts knowing his potential but since he is not delivering at us what can we do . :/ But at least don’t ask for Song.
I have seen him playing and he isn’t that much of a top midfielder, we already have midfielders with his quality. What we need is better ones, upgrading not getting the same thing.
Barca has a lot of other players that they don’t use and could be very useful to us so why go for Song. And they would be ready to sacrifice a lot for Kovacic since clearly he can be the next Iniesta for them if they manage to make him mature as a player which Inter has failed somehow or Kovacic has i can’t tell.
I just hope the best of Kovacic since i really love the guy but he isn’t maturing anytime soon with us so better if he goes into a club where he can develop and also get some cash or other players for us.
Or maybe Mancini could start really trying to give his best and find the ideal position for Kovacic, convince him and make him mature and be the best midfielder in the world which he clearly has the potential to be. This would be the best scenario though, but it looks very unlikely at this time unfortunately…
I’m with the second part of your comment, Keeping Kova and wait a little more to see what will happen
kova = pedro +15m
This is what we need, no need to sell Kovacic for Song and Pedro we can get only Pedro, Darmian, Dragovic, Jovetic and Yaya Toure without sell Kovacic or Icardi! Thohir will add 60 million in club so no problem!
Dude, have you taken any shrooms lately?
Sell Guarin, Handa, Nagatomo, Kuz, Obi, Khrin, Bennassi, Mbaye, Dunkan, Bonazzoli ? We can get money for this players! Yaya Toure, Pedro and Jovetic are so near so trust me no shrooms no joint 🙂
Inter is finished mr et. We will not be a top team in 100 years.
how about this ?
Lol
absolutely I.D.I.O.T !!! what project exactly do u want thohir??!!
Tutto always suck when it comes to news… we sacrifice kova so we can buy pedro and FRICKING SONG!? What the hell kind of news is that?
what song is this a joke the player is garbage even I can be better than him with some work ROFL okay that was a lie but he is really bad even west ham said his form is bad not worth that salary and buying.
he has been great for West ham this year
kova will be a star in spain. hate to see him leave but i dont think he’ll reach his full potential in the style of football played in Italy.
Inter really has no patience in developing young player
no we are not Atalanta or Udines, or are YOU saticfied with beeing number 10??
We are not chelsea,man city or any other rich clubs either
we are not, we are a club with rich tradition and historie and therefore are obligated to always try to reach for the stars and win it all, and that doesn’t include developing a lot of youngsters!
Kova doesn’t know where to play on the pitch, he doesn’t play for Croatia, he struggled under Ranieri, Mazza and now even under the former “Mr Number 10 Himself”- Mancini!
If someone is ready to pay up for him, we should sell him, for the good of him and the club!
Seeing Kova go would be the absolute worst, most painful experience of my life. Inter Milan can’t just do that to us, make us fall in love with the kid and then wave goodbye…
Players come and go but the fans, colors, and badge will always stay… many of us have seen the likes of Ibra and Ronaldo come and go… Kovacic is nowhere near the status of these players or done anything special to warrant me to care if he gets sold… if it’s what’s best for the team ill help him pack his bags…
hmm its best for team to sell kova but keep guaro, rano, nagatomo, kuz and all other shitty players. wtf is wrong with mancini???
noone said that we keep nagatomo or kuz. maybe rano will leave aswell.
I think young Assassin means that no player is bigger than a team.. That’s all to it !!
We aren’t keeping them neither
agree! I want my beloved Inter back to the top ASAP and players who do not deliver should be sold this summer. Pedro and Song would be two great signings and with Jovetic, Yaya and a couple more in we would need to sell as well and if someone wants to pay big money for Kova, who doesn’t have a clear position in the team and only have shown a couple of times his potentiel, then fine! Icardi on the other hand is a must-keep, because he is yong too but is showing that he is ready to gamble on!
agree, having potential is not enough for kid to become worldclass player. it took right mentality to live the expectation. are we rush?nope, we already try to put kova in any position but he fail. maybe its the best for both club and kova himself. if we keep him too long, he will waste his time and potential like recoba
Amen!
I prefer we got Sergi Roberto plus Song than Pedro if we have to sell Kovacic
pedro has won everything with Spain and Barca and we need quality players with experience, winners and he is a winger fit for Mancio’s 4-2-3-1 system.
for left winger there are FREE available quality players such as Konoplyanka and Ayew! Why not take at least one of them, for FREE?! Add value to the club, do not trade with great potential risk.
are you asking me? Do I look like Ausillio to you? I’m simply commenting on a rumour linking us to a fine winger like Pedro. The players you mentioned are both fine players I guess, but Pedro’s CV is much better than the two others’! and we need players who can add experince and quality to the team not just rotation-players
KOVACIC TIDAK UNTUK DIJUAL, BAPAK TOHIR YANG TERHORMAT!!!!
SETUUJJUUUUU…
maaf … english please !!! 😀 sacrifice Kova if we must… than build inter with quality player !!