Inter are looking to strengthen the fullback positions for next season. The Nerazzurri have been linked with a host of names, and Alfredo Pedulla reports that Inter have reached an agreement with Martin Montoya’s entourage. An agreement with Barcelona is close, as the Champions League holders want 8-10 million euros for the fullback. It appears as if Barca will accept Inter’s proposal of a loan with an obligatory fee to be payed after. The journalist also states that Gianelli Imbula is very close to Inter once again. Marseille are willing to send the midfielder on loan, with Inter having to pay a mandatory fee after. A deal could be closed in the coming hours. Pedulla has also reported that an agreement has been reached with Watford for Zdravko Kuzmanovic and Davide Santon. The English side have offered 10 million euros for the two players. For Mohammed Salah, Inter are still waiting for the Egyptian to veto a loan extension. The Mercato is heating up.
Source: FcInternews.it
what a joke !
reject an offer for ambrosio and selling santon,ffs
Santon has been a brick wall defensively. No point in selling him, he’s the only stable fullback we have at the moment.
plus he can play as a LB or RB,if we have to sell him then we have to go to darmian
his main weakness is his defensive play hasn’t much improved since he left few years ago
Montoya is pretty good, he can dribble, hes quick, he can shoot pretty well from distance and play fast passes, though his weakness is crossing, if he’ll work on that and improve his crossing skill he will be the perfect fullback since hes also defending pretty good, i rate him higher than santon, not by much but thats just my opinion…
And about the option of imbula being loaned- sounds great! I wish that will happen! i guess they are desperate to get rid of him quick, in that way we will be able to keep kovacic and let them rotate for this year before we make big decisions about selling him
all deals except montoya approved !!!
Why Santon? I dont think so it is a real news?!
his wife and children are from england. that might be the reason.
“Hello guys, I read all your comments and in this regard I wanted to tell you that I’m in the dark and my desire is to stay at Inter. your comments made me really happy and I embrace you all with affection. Forza Inter! ” this is what Santon has just said through his facebook profile 🙂
oh man then why would inter sell him WTF. i really wanted
zukanovic=murillo=miranda=santon next season…. wtf ausilio.
Santon is the only good full back in the team. Besides he has a history in Inter, he looks like more capitano than Ranocchia. Why sell him? 🙁
Selling santon for montoya isnt what we call as “strengthening”. We need Santon
Santon dint play last games in Serie A. Juan n DD so maybe Mancio doesnt like him
sold Santon for Montoya? i’d rather stick with D’Ambrosio and Biraghi as back up
Sell Kuz on his own. Santon has been a great signing who is getting stronger each game. To let him leave is ridiculous.
i don’t think Santon is a good player, but as it is right now he is useful for us. Montoya?! seriously? please don’t. he is nothing better and costs 3 times more, just because he is a la masia product
altho, from a business point of view selling Santon (and giving Kuzmanovic as an extra) for 10m is not a bad move – we paid only 3.8m to Newcastle. but then again, if the replacement is Montoya, that’s a definite NO
I agree, hes not good
Okay, so we sell 2 players for 10 million, buy 1 who is not as good as good as the player he’s being brought in to replace for 8-10 and then we’re back where we began(needing another fullback). In know way this can benefit the team unless someone has Darmian up their sleeve. This is shit, I really hope it’s nothing other than a shit article.
Sigh. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Santon proved himself.
I’m trying to remind myself that it could be worse, though. If Branca were still here, we’d sell Santon and bring in some ancient has-been.
“We sold Santon for 5m and bought… Ashley Cole! Remember how good he used to be? Wait, why does everyone look pissed?”
#SAVESANTON..he’s Treble squad
dont hashtag everything
This is madness. Getting Montoya is perfect, no comment here, but Santon must be intouchable/insellable as this is our best full back. In my opinion he is even better than Montoya.
Santon must stay and play left full back and Montoya right full back !!!
The only excuse for this maddness will be if Mancini buys Filipe Luiz + Montoya.
Exactly, it’s like inter trying to take one step forward and two steps back :/
If we sell Santon,then we will need two good full backs
exactly. if we sell him that’s just replacing an established player in the starting XI with a new guy who will need time to adapt to Italy, Serie A and Inter. would be such a stupid move
He’s also a homegrown player which is needed for UCL (next year).
Why is it most of you do not like Juan as leftback?.. He improved a lot over the low amount of games he had on the position and really helped stabilize our defense.
JJ is crap as a full back, he doesn’t make smart runs, and can not dribble nor cross. We need to waste 2 years on him so he learns the position.
It really depends on your football philosophy, a great team requires balance. You make it sound like what makes a fullback good is a playstyle like Marcelo. Looking at most big successful teams through time they do not have two this offensive fullbacks.
You also have to take formation and such into account. If we wanna play the 4-2-3-1 with a midfield of Kondogbia and Kovacic which have the same charactics as Chelseas midfield with Fabregas and Matic with one being creative and more oriented toward the attack and the other the defense. Looking how the team is otherwise put together you see, that their left back (Azpilicueta) which allows more space for Fabregas and Hazard in front of him. On the other side they have Matic, which allows Ivanovic to be a lot more offensive because Matic (and Willian to some degree) provide more security backwards.
We have seen that he can make powerful runs which makes space and while he is not good at crossing it is still (almost at least) on par with the likes of Nagatomo or Ambrosio.
I get what you say. Ivanovic is a great example of the type of fullback you are referring to. My point is JJ is far from becoming as complete as Ivanovic.
My point is that he DO NOT have to be like Ivanovic always going forward and scoring goals, he can be more like Azpilicueta which have a more defensive role.
Actually I see Azpilicueta more offensively gifted than Ivanovic. The whole point is JJ is well suited for 3-5-2, but he is no good for neither LB nor CB in a 4 man defense unfortunately.
what he mean is JJ can become Azpilicueta who play out of his position and cant cross or attack but give space to players like fabregas and hazard in the left flank but Azpi can defend well as a LB and i agree with that
Never ever !!!!!!!!!!!
Fucking shit Mancio.Fuck you bastard!Santon should stay..
i don’t like this article too.. but your comment is rather foolish to believe everything that media feed you… and show some respect for the man that already gave inter so much.. he is our legend!!!
No,He is not.Our legend is Mourinho!
No, he is not. Our legend is Herrera! Or… Perhaps all of them are our legends?
Herrera and Mourinho definitely is our legend,but Mancini is not.
what!? before mourinho, mancini already already gave us the title that we miss for so long..
do you even an inter fan? mourinho is a great coach and inter legend too, but so do mancini:
Serie A: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08
Coppa Italia: 2004–05, 2005–06
Supercoppa Italiana: 2005, 2006
with all this thing that he gave us you said shit about him!? fuck you!!!
Fuck of you are blind.Mancini always is a shit in CL.In years after Calciopoli with no competition Mazzari or Stramacioni would be a champions !
realy!? so after the calciopolli serie a was no competition… oo hear this a lot from rubentus fan.. are you one of them!? do you forget milan!? was milan a weak team to you back then!? roma!? lol do you even a seria a fan!?
some people doesnt worth talking. they are underage and was babies when milan won CL after calciopoli
yeah.. maybe i wasting my time to show our club history to them.. after all they said serie a was weak after calciopoli..:). inter fan should know in 2006 inter win serie a and milan win CL.. if serie a was weak, than whole europe was weak too.. hahahaha.. now i know rubentus was so important to european football.. because without rubentus, european football become even weaker than serie a..
The question is WHY do we need Mello? We have Brozovic and Gnokouri…. Also there is Medel and Kondogbia. How many DMs do we need?
that’s all just a rumour, and nothing real yet.. should we react to all shit that throw by media!? the only source that i believe is dimarzio news.. if dimarzio say nothing about it, i won’t believe it.. i don’t want to wasting my time for stupid rumour.. and than i believe in our management and mancini project.. he must have a clear and good plan for this season to be able to convince big names to join his project.. don’t you think so!?
relax man. mancini did us good no doubt about it with all the scudetti we won back then, but all agreed that we won because our great rivals weren’t in their great shape. but mancini will have his chance, this in his second spell so he should make it count. a season with no trophies will be counted as a big failure, and a failure to qualify for coming European games would meant getting axed.
but i agree that all should remained calm. the season hasn’t yet started. and please do respect our current coach (like how i always respected those that don the club captaincy.. be it Rano or etc.)
forza inter!
but to doubt mancini achievement with us, is like to doubt our scudetto back than.. i find it insulting to us, because that’s what rubentini always said to us.. btw serie a was not that weak.. we still have milan that even win champions league in that era.. is that look weak to you? not realy.. he gave us copa italia in his first year with us, and juve is still play in serie a.. so you can’t say his achivement was not great… and before mancini, life as inter fan was a hell.. you know that!? we have a lot of super talent but almost never win anything.. i hope you see my point…
You got a point i respect that. But trash talking one another makes us foolish like the jubes and mils ain’t it not. Anyway, Inter is all about passion and yes during those roller coaster days it was difficult being an Inter fan, we all been through it. The important thing is keeping the club and fans united.
trash talking!? realy!? are you sure you are talking to the right person!? shoudn’t you tell this to people that bashing mancini!? oh.. i forgot, you think seria a was weak back then when mancini win 3 scudetto with us because rubentus was not there.. and the absence of rubentus made milan win the CL.. lol a whole europe become weak too back then, i learn it today from you guys about the impertant of rubentus..
I will not further into these carried away tirades. History already go down into the books so i rest my cast.
there’s only one the special one!
you talk like you become an inter fans when inter won treble
I am Inter fan since 1999 when we lose by Manchester United i in CL.I cry in 2002 year when we lose the title in last match of the season after playing with Lazio and the beat us,same in 2003 year when we out in CL in semifinals with Milan after 2 draws.
When we got kondogbia, shaqiri, murillo, miranda, santon where were you bashing mancini?? He got us what 5 previous coaches couldnt since mourinho. So please just shut up
ban this child he just learned word “fuck” and is using it in every article
Haha Mancio retard fan detected..
you forgot to say fuck
What the Heck?! why Santon?
we need to get rid of some players. everyone doesnt want to get rid of anybody. we literally have 71 players in the organization and we need to get rid of 10+. We need to get rid of these people who really did not give much. in my opinion this is a good deal and we can use the funds for salah or another full back who can actually put a cross in for once. something we have lacked
Santon ? Can anyone explain why
montoya fits mancini better ?
montoya is foooool in defense
ausilio supposedly said “mayke (cruzeiro) is a good player but we’re looking for someone who’s good in defense” but two three weeks later he wants to buy montoya…. i don’t know what to think man. i was thinking zukanovic and santon for fullbacks but montoya isn’t any better than sonton.