Usual loan with option to buy, with buy back clause for Inter. Ideally at 21 he would play for a Serie A side already, after his moves to Cagliari and Utrecht fell through, Serie B is the next best choice to get minutes.
He will meet former Inter Luca di Maggio there. Hopefully he does well.
He only played the last 20 minutes🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Predicted eleven:
Martinez
Akanji Stones Bastoni
Diouf Barella Calhanoglu Zielinski Dimarco
Bonny Esposito
He moves from the Inter Academy (which is a separate entity from the club) into our U15 💙🖤
Reports from many sources in italy talk of a total package of 15m between the loan fee and the obligation to buy. This seems shockingly low, considering that in january rumors of Lazio's approach talked about a 30 m package.
Many sources are talking about it as a basically done deal for 15 m or "a fee that goes above 15 m", which is a weird way to say ~17m.
Offers of 5/6 million from PSV and Bayern Leverkusen have been rejected, any sale of the player would involve a buyback clause in Inter's favour.
In my opinion, the fact that these clubs are interested in the kid is a great sign, because they really go for youth talent. He is quite raw in his technique, so a year or two in the dutch league would help him massively.
Luca Bendoni works for Di Marzio and Sky sport, so a reliable voice. I wonder who they will be going for on the left now, no names have popped up yet.
Permanent sale for the young attacker. It is not clear what formula Inter set up for his buyback, wheter it's a 50% resale clause, or a buyback clause similar to Stankovic's deal, what is certain is that he is a Parma player from now on.
Talented left winger from Inter u20, he impressed me in our game vs Koln in the Youth League. This is a very ambitious move on his part.
For those in doubt, it is being reported as a move for Parma's first team, he will not play for their u20.
"I don't know why there is always talk about me leaving, I'm waiting for the club's call about a renewal. We are strong and we want to defend our teophies. The dream? Another european final. I had a hair transplant. My teammates, even Modric the other day in the derby, they mock me, but it's fine with me, I feel better about myself now"
He's got new hair, hopefully he'll get a new contract soon 💙🖤
"We haven't set ourselves a deadline for the right winger. The transfer window is long, so patience is needed, and whenever we identified a target, something different happened. We'll do our best to complete a squad that is still not finished. We're working on bringing in someone with quality and experience. We'll leave it to the club's directors to do their job."
Seems they moved on from the young promising profile like Palestra and Khalaili, to bringing someone with experience, perhaps in the 28-32 age range. I wish I cpuld use transfermarkt to see what kind of players could be candidates, but it has been shut down for the past day at least for me.
I would not be surprised if they brought in someone on a loan, Perisic perhaps? (He is much older than 32, but I have a soft spot for him).
Edit: Ausilio denied Perisic was coming, I forgot, sorry.
"I talk to him a lot, he makes me work hard and he is very important to me."
"I really enjoy playing on the left because it allows me to cut inside and make better use of my right foot when shooting. But, of course, I'll play wherever the coach wants me to."
Full interview is in italian.
This is my two cents: we hear a lot about inverted wingers, it seems we may try inverted wingbacks this year, right footed Henrique on the left, left footed Diouf on the right, do you think this is viable?
This is a theory, but chivu may wish for an even more attacking team than last year, he may be ok with leaving spaces in defence and conceding goals as long as we keep outscoring opponents.
Agbonifo makes quick work of two opposition players then youth talent Matarrese (only 16 y.o. born in december 2009!!) controls the ball with two quick touches using the sole of his foot to beat the goalkeeper.
To my dismay, this looks like a sign that the team has accepted him back and he will not leave this summer.
This in my eyes is the tombstone on the Romero deal.
It's a shame because I wanted to see him play for the u23 this season, but Cádiz seems to be the equivalent of a low tier serie B side, which means he is raising the bar even higher, hopefully he plays a lot.
The formula is the usual loan with buy option and buy-back option.
Cagliari declared publicly that Esposito left the team's camp without permission, while the player's agent claims that they had a 4 hour long call with the coach and Cagliari's top management where they obtained permission to leave and go home.
The player's agent called members of Cagliari's management "liars" and claims he has proof.
Inter still retains 40% of the player's future sale, he could go for 15/20 million, with clubs like Atalanta and Como interested, which means an extra injection of 6/8 million for Inter.
We hear that we agreed a fee for Romero, both with Tottenham and with the player for his salary, so his arrival should be imminent, yet there are no rumors of Pavard leaving.
We know that Romero can only come if we get rid of Pavard's wages, but if he were to leave then we would have heard of someone's interest, at least one team's name would have been brought up in these days.
There is no team in Europe who will give Pavard 5 million euros, I doubt even turkish teams would, so his only option is Saudi, but I doubt he would want to go there, and I don't believe he would accept loans either.
So the only conclusion I can come up with is that they agreed 40 million with Tottenham, yet they aren't going to spend them because "Pavard wouldn't accept any destination", then Romero is going to go to Spain, so we'll see news articles come out with titles such as "Romero stalled Inter, becaus he wanted to wait for Simeone, or Barca".
Move to midfield, we hear that we are pushing for Jones, we actually see Jones fighting with his teammates, pushing for a move away from Liverpool, yet there are no rumors for Frattesi and Asllani, who are both useless and should leave regardless of whether we buy a midfielder or not.
We hear Chivu lament that he is missing a wingback on the right, yet we hear nothing of a sale for luis henrique, and it feels like a month since the last rumor about a RWB.
As things stand, there is nobody coming in, and Marotta has said that the team is competitive.
Inter-Monza in in 3 weeks exactly, btw. When exactly are the new potential purchases supposed to settle in our system?
It has been said that Inter backed out of the deal because of concern about Oumar's knee.
He says "I wish all of our players were injured and had knee issues like Solet, it would mean we almost reached perfection, as he never missed one training session, and skipped only one game out of precaution.
I don't know where this story comes from, but I know Ausilio, he is a splendid and intelligent kid, like Marotta, it certainly doesn't come from them"
This then means we backed out of out concern for his lifestyle perhaps? I heard those rumors as well, at least we know it wasn't because of his knee.
I think we should still try to sign him, maybe next year when his contract runs out.