On fifa matchday, Inter had some bad news, but there were also many good news.
For example, Dzeko, a veteran who was in poor physical condition at Inter and in urgent need of recuperation, showed extraordinary enthusiasm for fighting in the national team game, and a friendly match also wore a captain's armband for 90 minutes, which made people worry about his physical condition when he played in the Italian derby.
The same is true of Vidal, Sanchez and others.
But there was also some news that comforted the Nerazzurri.
Two of the most important of these things.
First of all, the Slovak national team broke the tradition of "seniority" and entrusted the captain's armband to Škriniar, who did not play a number of times, which caused a heated discussion in Italy.
Slovakia played Norway in a friendly match, and against a world-class striker like Haaland, Shke wore a captain's armband against him and made headlines in both countries.
This is a kind of promotion.
In many teams in the West, the captain is usually "seniority" - whoever plays the most for the national team is the captain. In Slovakia, Hamsik played 135 games for his country, Pekkarik 109, Kutska 90, Weiss, Robert Mark and others 70+ games, and even the likes of Duda in Cologne (55 games) were more senior than Krynyar (51 games).
But the Slovak Football Association decided to break the tradition of seniority and hand over the captain's armband to Škriniar.
This is based on two considerations. First, the last generation of Slovak stars (Hamsik) and other people are aging, the team is in urgent need of a new cover character to take the position, after all, Szk is the winner of the last three Slovak Footballers of the Year, and he will not let it go.
Both, Shike has a tough style, full of fighting spirit, professional attitude, excellent team spirit, and is deeply trusted by teammates, and such a player as the captain can also bring competitive help to the team.
Now the question is thrown to Inter: Slovakia and other teams dare to promote Shk as captain, do Inter dare to do it?
As Handanovic gets older, the question of Inter's new captain can no longer be postponed.
Who will be the next captain?
Inter's century-old history, the choice of captain, or seniority, or local players are preferred.
If chosen according to historical benchmarks, the next captain's favorites are Brozovic (more senior), Barrera (Hukou), and Shke may only be the captain's "substitute".
However, many experts believe that from the perspective of personality, style of play and other aspects, Shik is more suitable for captaincy than the above two. In various polls, Shke is also the most suitable favorite for fans to be the captain.
Will Inter consider promoting Shkrels to captain? The Slovak team's approach has undoubtedly increased the heat of this discussion.
Another piece of news: after Italy's absence from the 2022 World Cup, 7-10 players will consider retiring from the national team, and in the eyes of the Italian media, Bastoni has become the representative of the new wave of blood exchange plans.
SkyTai and other media pointed out that the 7 players who intend to apply for retirement from the national team in the near future are Sirigu, Chiellini, Archer, Florenzi, Troy, Insigne and Immobile.
These players, either too old, or injured and constantly physically unsuitable for excessive consumption, or because of two consecutive World Cup outs and have been attacked too much by the public, so discouraged, the desire to retire from the national team is relatively strong.
There are three other players who have also moved their minds to retire from the national team, but there are still some hesitations, that is, Bonucci, Jorginho and Verratti. Of course, whether these three players retire or not, it remains to be decided by all parties, after all, the Fa Association is now in a mess, whether the coach will resign or not has not yet been decided, and other things cannot be taken care of.
In the football world, the replacement of new generations and new and old is inevitable.
The stage is there, someone leaves, and naturally someone makes up for it.
The Italian media selected three representative stars from three lines to lead the blood storm in Italy.
On the front line, of course, is Skamaka. The midfield position is Tonari. On the defensive line was Bastoni.
"Milan Sport" commented that among the above three representative figures, Bastoni has the clearest momentum in the position. Because whether Skamaca and Tonali can lock in the main force, they have to compete with many people, such as Locatelli, Castrovelli, Pesina, Flatesi, Pellegrini and so on. But in Bastoni's position, there are not many strong players who can compete with him, coupled with the strong support of Bastoni by Bonucci and Chiellini, two "seniors", his future prospects are worth looking up to.
The above two things should be touching for Inter.
Over the years, Inter have attracted a lot of reinforcements in the ball market, with successes and failures. Can be regarded as a failed reinforcement, the vast majority of high-paying signing veterans (such as Vidal, Kolarov, etc.), successful reinforcements, Shik, Bastoni, the two "account guards" are representatives.
Whether Inter should think more about replicating this success in the future is worth considering.