Inter will have to deal with any number of major financial restraints in their future planning if the team are to miss out on qualification for next season’s edition of the Champions League.

This is highlighted in today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Corriere della Sera, via FCInterNews, who note that the Nerazzurri will likely be forced to make a big name player sale, whilst contract talks with a number of key players will become complicated if they don’t have Champions League revenues to rely on.

Inter had gone into this season with a top four finish in the league as their minimum objective for the campaign.

Whilst the team had at least looked on track for this even after a few rough patches, the form that they have shown over the last month in the league has meant that it is anything but a foregone conclusion that Inter will be playing in Europe;s top club competition next season.

The reason that this is a problem is not just that the Nerazzurri will be outside of the highest level of European competition in terms of sporting prestige.

Rather, the club are very much reliant on the revenues that come from playing in the Champions League, needing to at least make the group stage of the competition year on year to bring in the revenues to both cover operating costs and the substantial debt burden.

Without the revenues from next season’s Champions League, it is all the more probable that Inter will be in for another summer much like the one which saw Achraf Hakimi and Romelu Lukaku sold for big fees in 2021.

Moreover, the status of contract talks with Hakan Calhanoglu and Alessandro Bastoni, both priorities for the club would become much less certain within the financial constraints imposed by not having Champions League revenue.