After the winter window was officially opened, Inter has not made much progress in the ball market.
The latest news is that sky platform transfer experts revealed: Besino refused the invitation of South America, Sensi's departure was also blocked, Everton refused to release Digne to Inter on loan, and Inter began to contact Bensebani, provided that the opposing team allowed the loan.
At present, inter winter window operations, whether transferred out or transferred in, have not made much progress. However, in terms of long-term planning, the secret battle between Inter Milan and Juventus over future talents has been splashed around.
The Italian media focused on one key figure: Sassuolo boss Canevalli.
In sassuolo's team, there are many young talents who are interested in both Inter and Juventus, such as Kamaka, Vratesi and Ras Padoli.
Di Marzio and others revealed that Canevali has been in frequent contact with Inter Milan's Marotta and Juventus' Cerubini in recent times, and although Sassuolo's boss has repeatedly expressed his reluctance to let these young talents leave the team in the winter window, his communication with the top two has never been interrupted.
Inter Juve's attitude is the same, both are "long line fishing big fish" - that is, the two teams will not necessarily plan to get the above talents in the winter window, but for months have been showing their magic and using their own means to get new stars in the future.
In addition to the three "Green Barca" players, there are other players, Inter and Juve are interested. Take Turin defender Bremer, for example.
The asking price of the above young talents is not low, totaling more than 100 million euros, and Inter Juve has been fiercely competing around these talents.
The performance of this kind of competition is: the ideal situation is to defeat the opponent to intercept the talent, if it is really not possible, they can't get it, but also to come out to engage in a wave of bidding, so that the opponent can get the talent at the same time "bloodletting" more money.
In fact, in recent years, inter have competed with sworn enemies for new stars, which is a very common phenomenon.
In the past period, Inter have lost many new stars.
Such as Tonari. Kulusevsky. Lokateri. Federico Chiesa. Wait a minute.
There are two main reasons for this. First of all, Suning has problems, resulting in a shortage of inter cash flow, and there is a problem of "money not making a hand" in the final moment of some robbery battles.
In addition, during Conte's coaching period, he had his own opinions on the transfer direction and reinforcement strategy, and was unwilling to fully cooperate with the transfer team and the board of directors, he repeatedly attacked his colleagues and criticized the boss because of these problems, and Inter could not form a unified opinion within the country, which was also constrained.
In this situation, Inter participates in the competition of young people, can only play the role of "price raiser", while introducing some low-priced old future "seams and patches". Although the transfer fee expenditure is low, the players' salaries are high and the financial pressure is also very large.
Now the situation at Inter has changed.
Although the cash flow problem still exists (after all, the investors behind the scenes cannot inject capital), but now the Inter transfer team and coaching team are more unified.
In addition, after Inter's continuous salary increases and renewals of players, the team's salary burden is heavy, there are more high-paid substitute veterans, and the average age is also one of the highest teams in Serie A and Champions League, and these problems need to be solved. Once veterans such as Sanchez and Vidal are sent away at the end of the season, the team is more inclined to bring in young players to reduce the average age of the team and revise the salary structure.
Therefore, market experts believe that Inter may be more willing to spend some transfer fees on young people in the summer window, and the interest in older players will be less than in previous years.
In today's football world, you can't judge the cost performance of a transfer simply by the transfer fee. For example, if you buy a young player for 20 million and give a 5-year contract of 2 million after tax, then the total cost of 5 years is 40 million. Buy a veteran at 0 price, give a 5-year contract of 5 million after tax, and the 5-year price is also 40 million. Which is the best deal in a few years? It's hard to say.
In any case, since Marotta took charge of Inter transfers, the Nerazzurri has always adhered to one principle: the introduction of veterans is mostly visa-free or low-cost transfers, only for young players to spend high transfer fees.
Since Marotta has been at the helm, Inter have only two "older players" with higher transfer fees, 27-year-old Eriksen and Correa.
Other transfers, whether it's Romelu Lukaku, Barrera, or Ashraf, Lazaro, Dumfries, are relatively young players. Not every one of these trades was successful, but overall, it was worth more and the return was much more profitable.
It is expected that in the next period of time, Inter will continue to follow this principle to promote transfers.
Therefore, it is normal for Inter to actively compete in the ball market for transfers with teams such as Juve around the above young talents.