Inter Milan president Giuseppe Marotta has received assurances from ownership group Oaktree that significant investment is coming this summer, with the club’s transfer budget potentially supercharged by player sales generating as much as €100 million.
According to Tuttosport, Oaktree have made clear to Marotta that he can target a couple of meaningful signings in the upcoming window.
The backing comes at a crucial moment as Inter prepare for one of their most extensive squad rebuilds in recent memory.
The scale of the task is significant.
Multiple players leave when their contracts expire.
Meanwhile, others depart after lengthy cycles at the club come to their natural conclusion.
Rebuilding the roster around Chivu’s vision for next season demands both quantity and quality in the market.
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The financial firepower available will depend in part on how much Inter raise through outgoings.
Tuttosport report that sales cannot be ruled out that would bring as much as €100 million into the club’s coffers.
Indeed, a figure that would give Marotta genuine room to manoeuvre at the top end of the market.
Bastoni, Thuram, Dumfries, Frattesi and Calhanoglu have all been linked with departures at varying price points.
If several of those moves materialise, Inter’s budget for incomings expands considerably, giving Chivu the tools he needs to reshape the squad in his own image for year two.
Oaktree’s message is clear. The summer will not be business as usual. Significant signings are coming.
What will be most important is not what signings are made as Inter will make some good signings (and bad ones), but WHEN the signings are made.
Inter usually make their signings at the end of the transfer window to try and avoid bidding wars and get players who others have overlooked.
This can’t happen this transfer window. Inter must buy everyone they need to buy in the first half of the window THEN sell the players not required.
Changing so many players as expected, will require a long preseason to blend the team together. If they bring in most the new starters too late Inter runs the risk of falling behind in the league and CL before the improving team cohesion brings the best out of the team.
It will be great to see a different squad, new players always create excitement. But I wouldn’t expect Inter to be as strong for the first 6-10 competitive games.
“significant signings” will be some cast-aways from top European leagues + some no names from the League 1. But, as some has rightfully concluded here, first we will need to sell!
We must Sell first before la la la.. Poor owner
These owners suck 100 million is not enough we need like 7 new players
Throwing a bunch of money at signings isn’t a guarantee of success. Long-term structural and cultural investment is what builds success. Yes, we need a big signing here and there but sustained winning is more about the infrastructure of the club.
These kids have no idea buddy. They grew up watching the spanish media game. Inter is building a stadium and working on plus. Let the haters hate
Yeah, as long as we are making “structural and cultural investments” we will keep buying cheap, useless players and keep racing to the bottom.
Believe it or not, top end talent and youth prospects are human beings and will be much more likely to join a club that has strong leadership, world-class facilities, and a stadium that isn’t made of crumbling fascist-era concrete.
Serie A is in the position it is because through the 90’s and 2000’s the owners were throwing money at splashing signings while the TV/stadium infrastructure was crumbling and the clubs were bankrupting themselves. England created a better business model while Italy was being “passionate” and look at the two leagues now.
Also, “racing to the bottom” is a weird way to interpret a club being in 1st place in the league and a two-time finalist in the UCL over a three year span.
@Stephen The team has weakened since Oaktree took control. We reached the final last year only to get the biggest humiliation in UCL history; we won zero trophies in the end. We are first this season in Serie A because the league level is ridiculous (maybe if Napoli was not decimated by injuries things could have been a bit different though); in UCL we were beaten twice by Bodo and failed to reach even the last 16.
We are surviving based on our old core and one or two good additions (e.g. Pio from academy). If Oaktree keep buying cheap players, we will soon reach the bottom. Then you can keep lying yourself about “cultural and structural investments”. West Ham and Tottenham have beautiful stadiums, but they are indeed at the bottom. Because they bought the wrong players.
In two transfers markets since Oaktree purchased Inter they have spent nearly 170m on incoming transfers with less than 70m outgoing. Not a single starter has been sacrificed.
The two years prior, 138m was spent on transfers while 150m was outgoing, including at least two starters from a UCL finalist squad.
Where is the data that Oaktree is ruining the squad? It’s the reality of a club that is in a league that has been leaking oil for decades and has to rebuild from the ground up.
100 mln is enough to buy 7 cheap, useless nobodies and hope one or two of them will work out. lol
Spending big on players like Joao Mario or Quaresma – very good in Portugal and with the national team didn’t bring any success. Cambiasso came to Inter for free and Julio Cesar and Maicon for low fees and all made history with Inter.
So no, it is not about sending big, it’s about finding the best players suited for your club.
Spending big on star players doesn’t mean they will play good – see Coutinho at Barcelona, Lukaku and Kepa at Chelsea, Hazard at Real. All of them big star players at their former clubs that flopped so damn big.
In the opposite direction – see great deals, real bargains or free transfers like Kante and Vardy for Liecester (coached by “always second” Ranieri), Kompani and Mahrez for City, or Pirlo for Juventus.
For sure, I would like to have this Inter team with Valverde, Vitinha, Mbapee, Saliba or R. Dias and Donnaruma or Raya. But eaven like this it wouldn’t be enough.