Inter welcomed two new faces through the doors during the recently closed winter transfer window in Rafinha and Lisandro Lopez. They also bid farewell to three players in Joao Mario, Yuto Nagatomo and Zinho Vanheusden.
Despite their being five deals being completed involving the Nerazzurri, Gazzetta dello Sport have labelled Inter’s winter transfer window “a month of illusions.”
Ramires and Javier Pastore were continually linked but Inter ultimately missed out on the pair. Ramires was deemed an easy target to acquire due to the fact he plays for sister club Jiangsu Suning but his move was blocked. As for Pastore, Inter tried and tried according to reports but could not meet Paris Saint Germain’s demands for the player.
The South American duo would have solved many of the problems in Luciano Spalletti’s side but Inter will have to ultimately wait until the summer before they can spend big and address the problems, given they manage to raise €60 million for financial fair play purposes.
Many other names were of course linked but no moves ever came to fruition further cementing Gazzetta’s view of it being a month of illusions.
Looking at our limitations and resources, I think it was fair mercato.
Rafinha is a utility team player with high footballing IQ and certainly is an upgrade comparing to Mario, and we got him without any obligation to buy!
Lisandro is good lad and a good back up CB.
We have 16 games left to play, so not gonna need massive squad size.
And the brightest point of this mercato is sending out that guy after 7 fucking years of brain farts! It’s a victory for all the Interisti .
Brain farts would have been easily accepted by us the fans.. those he did should be called brain diarrhea since they brought us nightmares
Our current FFP runs untill june 2019, so unless we sell a big name like Icardi or Skriniar, we will have to comply with FFP for additional year and a half. So, no big investments in summer either.
I have lost my faith in Inter. I do hope Spalleti manages to turn the season around as he is the only smart person at Inter compared to the rest of the clowns. yes he have his faults but he did fantastic job till decemeber and I heard reports even in summer that he was not happy with Inter mercato, wont be surprised if he leave us like he did Roma if a better managed team calls.
P.S I want sunning to show ambition and no I dont want gabigones but established stars.
I love what I just read. A fair description of Inter this season. Personally I won’t watch any game for Inter this season, it was a big waste of time until now, thank God I didn’t buy the season ticket and I definetly won’t buy it next year. I loved this team since I was a little boy and I will never stop loving it but it seriously gives u headaches watching these games
True, it hurts to see Inter like this. Each and every year we hope this year will be ours but come Januaray we are back to our old self and say maybe next summer we will buy smart blah blah. Comes summer and Aussilio buys trash, Management are over crises on manager and lots of hectic decision (over travelling, waiting till deadline day, sacking manager in august etc).
This is not how a professional team should be run, yes mistakes happen but if they keep repeating then something is spoiled.
Beijing Guoan just spent 40m on cedric bakambu. There’s no basis behind Suning’s claim that they can’t spend due to government restrictions. Maybe they’re just trying to comply with FFP. It’s time for them to prove their ambitions next summer transfer.