Inter is no longer extravagant. The spending-review is a strategy also applied by the club and the decrease in the upstream engagements in recent years is impressive. Tuttosport strongly emphasizes this: “It’s a sign of the times, the economic crisis in our society and consequently the world of football. But also the change in management philosophy between Moratti and the Thohir, with the latter who, in order to improve the balances, decided to bid farewell to all the senators remaining which is going to save something like 30 million euro on salary. Inter, to restart, to stand on their own legs need to reduce debt, build the brand, increase revenues from marketing and sponsors, to bring the team permanently into Europe, but the tycoon has also decided that to succeed they needed to use sharp scissors on the salaries. And this, with wisdom, has so far made the General Director Fassone and especially the Sporting Director Ausilio, protagonist of a transfer market that has been “imaginative”, but very profitable. We are no longer in the era of patronage, of crazy overlaps, there’s no more room for Eto’o (10.5 million net plus bonus) or Sneijder (6) but not even for Milito (5) or Cambiasso (4.5); it’s the time of M’Vila and Osvaldo who cut their salaries from 3 to 1.8 and from 3.5 to 2. Thohir would also prefer – but the evolution of the transfer market would not let them – to not pay the salaries of players from the first team who are sent out to play on loan or sold with the formula to streamline the squad.” And here’s the summary diagram presented by the Turin newspaper which provides a framework of the situation.
The diagram shows the total salary for the squad in 2010/11 (after the Treble), 2013/14 and 2014/15. Also shown are the five players with the highest salaries.
