This evening’s Serie A clash between Roma and Inter Milan will pit the two Serie A clubs with the highest-investing owners against one another.

This is highlighted in today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, via FCInterNews. The newspaper notes that Suning and Dan Friedkin have pumped a total of €1.6 billion into Inter and Roma respectively.

In the past few years, Serie A has seen both ambitious spending and major financial restrictions at the top clubs.

Perhaps no club have been more of portrait of this dynamic than Inter.

The Nerazzurri’s financial issues are well-known. They have had to sell a number of big name players in the past few years in order to bring in key revenues.

But as the Gazzetta notes, Inter’s owners Suning have also invested big to bring up the level.

The Nerazzurri owners have invested €732 million of their own money into the Nerazzurri.

The largest part of this came during the period between 2016, when Suning bought out the shares of Massimo Moratti and Erick Thohir in the club for €128 million, and 2018.

Roma Vs Inter – Clash Of Two Highest-Investing Owners In Serie A

The Gazzetta notes that Suning invested right around €500 million into Inter between 2016 and 2018.

After that is when the financial problems started to mount.

These were the result of issues with the parent company of Suning in China. The beginning of the pandemic was what really exacerbated these.

That caused Suning to take on a massive loan from Oaktree Capital in May of 2021.

That loan was vital to cover operating costs at Inter. But it’s also left Suning’s future at the Nerazzurri in doubt.

The Inter owners’ priority remains to refinance that loan, the Gazzetta notes.

But there is less and less time in which to do so for Inter’s owners. The due date for the loan is in May, and there are only months – or weeks – to sort out a refinancing plan or other idea for the future.