After the championship celebration, the Inter management quickly took back their hearts, as the team manager Osirio said in an interview with the media that Inter's future striker is still 4 players.
It is true that Inter Milan has broken through in Serie A this season, but it is also obvious to all that the crotch pulling in the Champions League is obvious, especially the ability of the strikers to make the ball in such a crucial game makes the team management very disappointed.
According to statistics, Lautaro, as Inter's top scorer, has played a total of 8 games for the team in the Champions League this season, including 5 starts, with an average time of 62.8 minutes per game, and the statistics handed over are only 2 goals and 1 assist, and in the knockout round against Atletico Madrid, 2 games are 0 goals and 0 assists.
As the team's No. 2 scorer, Thuram Jr. played slightly less time than Lautaro in the Champions League, and only contributed 1 goal and 0 assists. As for Arnau and Sanchez, the statistics of 2 goals each in the limited time are barely passable.
Although many Italian media have analyzed that Inter should introduce a young central defender and striker in this summer window this season, but from the perspective of the team's reality, although Acerbi is as old as 36 years old, his form is still very good, especially after the alleged racism incident against Juan Jr., his psychological fluctuations are not large, and his performance at the competitive level can still reassure the team coach Inzaghi.
Therefore, Inter can temporarily abandon the introduction of central defenders and concentrate the limited funds on the pursuit of strikers, and Inzaghi Jr. obviously has no problem with such an arrangement.
Judging from the strikers who are currently rumored to be with Inter, the main ones are Bologna's Zirkze and Genoa's Gudmundsson, and there are even media reports that they have been looking for a house in Milan City. While it is certain that such news is not groundless, it is not credible, and if the two players mentioned above have any real motivation to come to Milan now, we should believe that they are going for AC Milan.
The reason is simple: Inter Milan have turned a profit in the first half of the season, but the club's management has made it clear that the team has zero budget for this summer window, which means that they are unlikely to come up with enough money to sign new players now. What's more, Bologna and Genoa both have a asking price of about 40 million euros for their strikers, and Zirkze has even been fired to 80 million.
Therefore, the most important thing for Inter at the moment is not who they want to sign, but who they can put on the shelf and put on the market. To be sure, Dumfries on the right wing is unlikely to renew his contract, and he can be sent away this summer, but the Dutch defender's value in Germany is only 27 million euros, and the player is not a Premier League giant, it is one thing to be difficult, and more than 20 million is not a problem that Inter can solve.
It is worth mentioning that, according to Milan Sport, Inter Milan also has plans to sell French striker Thuram Jr., but the asking price is as high as 80 million euros.
As for Lautaro, he will basically renew his contract with Inter until 2029 for 9 million euros, and Inter Milan still hopes to keep the Argentine striker to keep the team's floor. Of course, Lautaro is worth as much as 110 million, but there are not many teams interested in him, or even none, and Inter can only keep Lautaro for the time being.
What is certain is that Sanchez is likely to leave Inter, and it is unlikely that Arnau will send him away, mainly because no team is willing to accept him, and Inter will have to reluctantly use it for another year.
Of course, we still have to mention Correa, who was sent to Marseille last summer, and now it seems that the possibility of Marseille qualifying for next season's Champions League is very small, and Correa's return to Inter is also a high probability event.
To sum up, in the case that Inter did not get the money to bring in reinforcements and free up positions through the sale of players, it is not very meaningful to discuss who to sign. But what is certain is that in order to cope with next year's Champions League expansion and Club World Cup competition, Inter Milan will most likely set up five strikers, namely: Lautaro, Thuram Jr., Taremi, Arnau and Correa.