The mercato is fucking shit, but I am so happy that we aren't as fucked as inter are... Imagine selling all our stars and getting deadwood in return. Would feel like serie B. Man am I enjoying this, inter being as fucked as they are
I actually like our approach with pretty tight evaluation and penny pinching. Not just give what the other clubs want for their players
This statement will help us in the long run. Because without this behavior, we will be fucked up with a higher transfer fee (premium price) for a mediocre players here and there. After this is become a habit, we don't have that much opportunity to build our squad with clear logic how the player really worth.
Especially when we thoroughly analyzed players with data driven and put technology to support our decision. This will do great for us once we really have the money to spend (next cash injection, or we sell some of our players)
No more cooking books with players with overpriced value, just to make the accounting looks better
Because good govern club will not need to do that. You sell your player what they worth. And the club sole objective is to
enable that player to reach their maximum value through their improvement in and off the field. So we bought players what they worth, sell our players what they really worth too. With this in mind, we will become
value created company
As for our direct rival, I don't think Inter will be that bad after they sell Hakimi and Lukaku. There will be some decrease yes, but if they get Dzeko and Zapata that will really minimalize that. The blow is if they can't find Hakimi replacement, because he is really essential in their attacking phase from the right side. But they will be just fine if they can find the replacement for Hakimi. I really think that they actually coup some big money from their investment. Just to remind when we reject Dybala - Lukaku switch. And now no club will buy Dybala for 40m and Lukaku just enable 115m transfer fee, that is really a very big difference (almost De Ligt transfer value). They won't miss Lukaku if they get Zapata, they are almost the same, as Zapata will slot right into that position easily like a glove. If I am the Inter DS, I will keep Hakimi because he still have some years to develop for higher value, but for Lukaku it is an opportunity that can't be refused as he will become like Higuain transfer for us with Chelsea. Except there are some moron club pay more than that amount when Lukaku is 32 years old and give him around 30+m salary with 4 years deal for him to collect that paycheck until he is retire