👎 Inter transfer chaos: Calhanoglu, Lookman, Leoni, fans fuming 🤬

Ten days, a little more. That’s all that’s left until the end of the summer transfer window, and then teams will have to wait until January to make any changes to their rosters. If they want to, there’s still time to make one or more moves, but they need to hurry. The first game of the season is just around the corner, and for some clubs, the transfer market is far from closed.

Just ask Inter Milan fans for confirmation. On social media, it’s easy to come across disappointed Nerazzurri fans, who are unhappy with a transfer market that has been full of big promises – including public ones – but has so far produced little. On Monday evening, Torino will arrive at San Siro, and with every probability, the first real starting XI of Cristian Chivu will be the same as the one that suffered a debacle in Munich against PSG.

If a year ago Piero Ausilio had announced on television that the 2023/24 transfer market was “already finished” before it had even started, after the signings of Taremi and Zielinski, this time the Inter sporting director and Marotta have repeatedly confirmed that they want to make at least one big signing. So far, just words.

For the entire month of June, it seemed that the real target of Inter’s summer was Ederson, even more so after the “Calhanoglu case”, when Marotta indicated that the Turkish player was the recipient of captain Lautaro’s harsh words after the elimination from the Club World Cup at the hands of Fluminense.

In the end, however, Calhanoglu stayed and Inter shifted its interests to another Atalanta jewel, Lookman. And here the Nerazzurri management made public proclamations, taking to the field in person. Lookman was pursued for over a month, until yesterday it was communicated to his agents that the negotiation would be interrupted with immediate effect. The reason – made known by the director of Corriere dello Sport, Ivan Zazzaroni – is that Inter has decided to invest in other roles, namely midfield and defense.

Well, a name for the defense could have been Giovanni Leoni, who Inter seduced for weeks without ever making a move. The 2006-born player has thus gone to Liverpool, just a few days before Inter’s change of direction.

According to Repubblica, the announcement of the abandonment of the pursuit of Lookman could also be a bluff by the management, a way to make Atalanta understand that – without Inter – the Dea would find itself in a difficult situation, not being able to count on alternative offers to the one from viale della Liberazione.

This, at least, is what the Nerazzurri fans hope. Who loudly demanded a mini-revolution of the squad, at least to give a refresh to a group that is among the oldest in Europe. And who – instead – find themselves massively expressing their disappointment with what has happened since that terrible May 31.

In the midst of all this, Cristian Chivu, who already found himself in a difficult situation, but perhaps hoped for some more help from the transfer market. Who knows, maybe between now and September 1 things will change…

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.

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