Today's newspaper Sport discusses two issues regarding Inter Milan: the issue of salary increases next season, and the issue of Dutch winger Dumfries.
The first question: Inter Milan has basically finalized the visa exemptions of Zielinski and Taremi, plus the salary increases and contract extensions of Barella, Lautaro, and Dimarco, which may lead to an increase in Inter's total salary next season.
Specifically: Zelinsky will receive an annual salary of 4.5 million after tax for Inter, plus bonuses, in addition to a commission expenditure of more than 4 million (paid in installments), which will increase even if Sensi and Klaassen leave.
Taremi will receive an annual salary of 3 million after taxes. The Iranians replaced Sanchez, and the two had about the same after-tax salary, but now there are no tax benefits.
Dimarco has renewed his contract and his salary has increased significantly. Lautaro's current annual salary is about 6 million after tax, Inter is negotiating with him to renew his contract, Inter offers 8 million, and the player counteroffers 10 million, and it is expected that both sides will take a step back and achieve a significant salary increase. Barrera's contract renewal, if completed, will also increase the annual salary after tax from 5 million to 6.5 million.
In total, Inter's total salary (including commission installments) next season may increase by 10-15M.
From the perspective of Inter financial CEO Antonello, the Italian media pointed out that Inter's confidence in raising salaries stems from three kinds of income increases.
The first is the newly revamped Champions League, which will ensure that Inter Milan will get more benefits.
In addition, Inter will participate in the 32-team Club World Cup next summer and are expected to earn at least 50 million euros.
The third is to increase the income of sponsorship. At present, Inter's chest advertisement is Paramount, 11 million euros a year, and with the current negotiation situation, Inter's income in this area will definitely increase significantly next season.
But there are two sides to everything.
The restructured new Champions League is indeed more profitable, and the Club World Cup is indeed built in red gold, but it also means that players will have to play a lot more games, and they will put forward higher requirements for the thickness of the team
This is also the basic logic of Inter's operation of Taremi and Zielinsky's visa-free - it is difficult to say whether the positioning of these two will be the main force after joining. However, the total number of multi-front games will increase next season, and the total load of players will increase, so it is necessary to improve the combat power and weight of Inter's rotation players. If you want to achieve your goal, you have to pay a little more? Even if you are a carpenter or a mason, if you want to make more money and more work, you need to buy more tools!
Commentator Altobech put it well: "This is the core thinking of Marotta, and the Inter CEO has been emphasizing 'sustainable development'. The fundamental implication is not to keep costs down forever, but to strike a balance between the financial situation and the demands of competition as much as possible. The team will adjust the cost of building the team at any time according to the situation. ”
The second question is that Dumfries was in great form at the beginning of the season and received a lot of praise, but after he was injured at the beginning of December, he was supposed to be just a 2-3 week recuperation to get better, but the Dutchman directly lost the main team, and even "disappeared" for a while, why is this?
"Milan Sports Newspaper" took a look and pointed out that three changes have had a great impact on the Dutch.
First of all, during October, Dunver made great achievements and the data exploded. The agent used his exploits as an excuse to blackmail Inter, and the lion opened his mouth. In the contract renewal negotiations, Inter gave Dunver the same annual salary as Dimarco (4 million after tax plus bonuses up to 4.5 million), which was quite sincere. But the Dutch asked for 5.5 million in taxes, which is about 11 million before taxes.
The agent originally thought that the player was so good that Inter could only be forced to comply. But Inter's response was unusually tough: they terminated the talks in the autumn and never reopened since.
This is the first change.
Moreover, the ball market expert Moretto, the German authoritative media "Kicker", etc., confirmed: In the winter window, Dunver's agent made a crazy transfer after the contract renewal negotiations broke down, and recommended the Dutchman to Bayern, and Bayern found Inter Milan and asked about the feasibility of the transfer.
Inter replied: In order to compete for the championship, the winter window is not sold.
Bayern chose to respect Inter. As a result, this potential deal was stillborn. Dunver's agent's fuss didn't work. This is the second change.
Thirdly, Dunver was injured while playing for Napoli and recovered after about three weeks. But after recovering from his injury, he seemed to be a different person. Since his injury, Dunver has only been substituted on six of Inter's nine games in total, five of which have been short, with the only time he has played more than 60 minutes coming in Inter's 2-1 win over Verona. After the game, most of the media gave him a failing grade. In training, he also gave the coach the impression of "extremely poor physical condition". It's hard to say if it's an injury or an attitude issue.
Inzaghi Jr. directly took out his main force and proved to the world that Inter can win without this thick leg.
Italian media analysis pointed out that these three changes have greatly affected the mentality of the players.
The series of practices of the player team disgusted Inter: a little bit of merit will ask for a sky-high price, and if the contract renewal negotiation does not go well, he will make a transfer, only thinking about his own two dates, which is the flood behind him.
Inter's response to all three things was unusually tough.
If you want to challenge the salary system of the whole team, then let's not talk about it!
谈不妥续约就闹转会？拒绝！
If you don't train well, then be a substitute!
In short, the core concept is: the interests of the team are greater than any personal gains and losses.
To sum up, Dunver's mentality was affected by contract negotiations and transfer turmoil, and he also had a rift with Inter, so Dunver was the biggest favorite to leave the team in the summer window.
However, now that the winter window has ended, Inter hope that Dunver will settle down and play with peace of mind. In the workplace, it is understandable that you value your own income. But professional footballers, do their job well, this is the basic obligation. I hope Dunver can abandon distractions and play seriously, not only for Inter, but also for his future "money".