Oaktree have allocated a €50m transfer budget – to be supplemented by player sales – for Inter Milan’s summer window, with head coach Cristian Chivu requesting two centre-backs, midfielder Marco Palestra, and a further midfield signing, according to Corriere dello Sport.
The report, cited via FCInterMilan on Reddit, names Hakan Calhanoglu among the outgoing players expected to generate sale proceeds that would supplement the base figure – a notable development given Inter’s previously stated reluctance to sell the Turkish international.
The €50m baseline aligns with Oaktree’s established operating pattern since formally taking control in May 2024 following Suning’s failure to repay a roughly €395m loan. The fund injected approximately €47m in new capital during the first quarter of the 2024-25 fiscal year and covered €40-50m in losses without demanding a marquee sale – a deliberate value-building approach rather than short-term cost management.
Chivu’s Shopping List and the Sales Required to Fund It
On the incomings side, Marco Palestra is explicitly named as a Chivu priority alongside two central defenders and a second midfielder. The coaching staff’s willingness to articulate specific positional needs suggests the sporting and ownership structures are aligned early in the window.
Oaktree’s medium-term strategy, as outlined by football finance analyst Marco Bellinazzo, targets an eventual sale of the club well above €2-2.5bn – meaning this window’s spending must strengthen both on-pitch performance and balance-sheet optics ahead of that exit. The €415m bond refinanced in June 2025 via private credit further reduces near-term liability pressure, giving the fund modest room to act without triggering a fire-sale elsewhere in the squad.
Chelsea didn’t have a problem dealing with Atalanta…
What a sad Oaktree
You have to understand for this case Inter took way too long to code the deal. Knowing full well they’re dealing with Atalanta and the defender of the season youth talent. I blame the management because they can’t close deals fast enough
Unfortunately Dumfries had a release clause and we only got a small $20m for him, big gap between what we received and what we need to spend to get a player of his caliber
if we sold Dumfries to Madrid. arent we able to buy a player of his status back? get hakimi back or wan bisaka .. someone who already proven strong. if you want talent. just get it from your own school. somehow we sell own talents for nothing. i dont get these things. we should have a palestra from our own club. and if we wanna spend 50mil than buy a player that already proven to be top tier.
nowadays 50 million is enough for one strong player, but we are organizing our entire summer transfer campaign around 50 million. it may be that even Atalanta and Como have budget budgets than us and I rally don’t understand what the issue is. Are we a penniless club, are our owners just stingy, are there any restrictions imposed upon us (as far as I know we have just exited that fair lay agreement with UEFA), is it because we don’t have sufficient i income due to the fact that we don not have our own stadium…a bit of everything of this? In any case, whatever the reason is we won’t buy any exciting and attractive purchases this summer. This is sad
So true
$50 million…. when teams like Chelsea and P$G carry on fake accounting, over spending, knowing no fine will ever come and if it does they are rich enough just to pay the fine. but they still get the player…
UEFA should force the sale of any player brought in under FFP rule breaking so clubs don’t get to keep a player they should have never been allowed to buy in the first place.
The Palestra saga shows serie A can no longer have nice things. no longer buy good potential kids because the PL and Arab clubs have so much money left over they buy quality players just to bench them so no one else can use them.
inter needs to really double it’s effort to grow our own kids and keep them as it’s very obvious now that we can’t buy anyone anymore….only the runt of the litter.