Luciano Spalletti’s outburst, at the end of Fiorentina-Inter highlighted his annoyance in the face of the constant questions regarding the winter market, reiterating once again that the situation is clear, and Inter can’t spend without selling.

According to Fcinternews.it, Spalletti has expressed disappointment to the Nerazzurri leadership team, underlining how his requests, and the promises made by Suning in the summer, have remained unfulfilled. His perplexities have found full support in Ausilio and Sabatini, so much so that the latter will fly to Nanjing next week to tell the owners that the Nerazzurri squad is short on numbers, especially compared to direct competitors for the Champions League, and continuing in this way, the risk of staying out of the Champions League once again is very real.

Suning has already promised a larger budget for next summer, with considerable investment available to buy 3-4 important players. With this in mind, Sabatini, will clarify to Suning that missing out on a Champions League placement, will turn off many potential transfer targets, making it difficult to build a quality team even in the presence of funds. With this in mind, the former Roma director will ask for an ‘advance’ on the summer budget, a sum of about 20-30 million, which Inter could use this month in order to compete with a more complete and deeper squad to achieve fourth place. An injection, even if small would allow the Nerazzurri to achieve their goal with greater security, and therefore accelerate the return of Inter among the top European clubs relatively quickly.