Inter Milan missed the best opportunity to replace the defense, and Susic-style transactions provide solutions to problems!

During this international match day, news about an old player appeared again in the Inter Milan news section, which is Slovak defender Qian Krinyar who had just transferred from Paris to Fenerbahce.

In an interview with Dimazio's official website, Qian Ke explained his decision to join Paris from Inter Milan in the summer window of 2023: If the salary and benefits were reasonable that year, I would continue to stay at Inter Milan, and I don't want to leave Inter Milan freely. Paris had already made an offer the previous year, and Inter told me that if they didn't receive the offer from other players, they would sell me. They wanted a player with a different characteristics than mine, but in the end they failed to sign that player and the club decided not to sell me anymore. The thing Qian Ke mentioned happened in the summer window of 2022. Inter Milan was still in debt difficulties at the time, so he had to continue to repay funds by selling core players. However, Paris Saint-Germain's offer has not reached the psychological price of Inter Milan's management. You should know that Qian Ke, who was 27 years old at the time, has a net worth of up to 65 million euros, while Paris's bid is only 60 million euros. In addition, Qian Ke has been promising in front of the camera that he will renew his contract with the team, which makes Inter Milan's management determined to keep him. According to the management's vision, the team plans to use the funds obtained from selling money to introduce Bremer from Torino, and follow the trend to complete the reinforcement and replacement of the defense line. However, Qianke's transfer transaction could not be finalized for a long time, and Juventus, who sold De Rigt, took the opportunity to intercept Hubremer at a high price, and Inter Milan had no choice but to renew his contract and leave Qianke.

In order to express sincerity in renewing the contract, Inter Milan offered Qianke a maximum salary contract of 6 million euros + a captain's armband, which is at the same level as Lautaro and Barrera. But at this time the style began to be wrong. Qian Ke has always stated that he will definitely renew his contract and stay in the team, but he has always ignored the team's renewal offer, and there is also a sarcastic operation that actively "apply for" red cards in the game, causing the team to lose. After the winter window, Qian Ke unilaterally decided to treat the lumbar and back problems, and flew to France with the participation of the Parisian team doctor, which completely declared his contract renewal failed. In the end, Qian Ke joined Paris freely in the summer window of 2023, receiving a signing fee and a high-paying contract of 10 million euros after tax.

Regarding this decision, Qianke explained: I chose not to renew the contract because I wanted to go to Paris, not because of that city, but because the team has the ambition to win the Champions League, which is also my goal. Even when the reporter asked whether he would return to Serie A or even join AC Milan one day, his reply was: Nothing is impossible, never say no, let's see what will happen in the future!

is a very high-sounding one! A gentleman loves money and makes it a good idea. It is understandable that professional players pursue high salaries, but they use the despicable means of proposing to renew their contracts with the team as a guise, but in fact they secretly cross Chen Cang to leave the team freely, seeking huge economic benefits, which is quite despised. And this is not an independent incident. Qian Ke left the team freely, which caused Inter Milan to lose at least 60 million euros, especially because the team did not have enough funds to introduce replacement Bremer, and eventually he could only introduce Archerby on loan for emergency response, missing the excellent opportunity to upgrade the defense line! This is also the most important reason why most Nera does not forgive or even hate Qian Ke.

Although veteran Archerby also played the most perfect performance in his career at Inter Milan, he has never completely solved the problem of aging of Inter Milan's defense personnel. He only solved the urgent problem for a while, but failed to fundamentally solve the problem. Although Inter Milan had rumors with Buongiorno later, Oaks did not intend to invest huge sums of money in summer Window 2024, but spent 20 million euros to introduce two substitutes, Hosep Martinez and Palacios, to supplement the lineup, and were eventually taken first by Naples.

From 2022 to 2025, this problem has been delayed for three years. In the first two years, it was still covered up by Archerby's super god performance, but it was completely exposed last season, which directly led to the team's defensive ability decline. In the summer window just passed, the management only replaced Paval with Akanji, who was one year older. The aging problem of defense line is still prominent. The average age of the four central defenders Archerby, Devrey, Damian and Akanji is as high as 33.75 years old! The aging of the defense line, especially the drag-back position, has become the biggest hidden danger to the entire Inter Milan lineup!

Dragging the renewal of the central defender position has become a task that cannot be delayed again! So how should we do it? Inter Milan's transaction to introduce Susic provides a very reasonable solution to the problem!

During the winter window last season, in order to cope with the possibility of Flatesi leaving the team this summer window, Inter Milan signed Susic six months in advance and continued to loan him in Dynamo Zagreb. He did not officially join the team until the end of the season and participated in the Club World Cup and pre-season warm-up matches with the team. This trading method has two benefits. One is to effectively control the cost of recruitment. The competition pressure in the winter window is low, and new players can be locked in half a year in advance at a lower price, avoiding the problem of bidding with many wealthy families during the summer window and introducing many central defenders at the same time.

The second is to better ensure the new players' state. There is no interval during the winter window of Serie A. After joining, the new players do not have enough time to adapt to the Serie A rhythm and familiarize themselves with the team's technical and tactical styles. They may not be able to play their due abilities and achieve the tactical effects they should have. At that time, they may not get a chance to play. Buchanan is a living example. Instead, staying in the original team can continue to ensure the main position and have sufficient opportunities to level up. After joining the team after the summer window, you can use the complete summer training opportunities to better integrate into the team.

At present, Inter Milan's management has been preparing for the future and has begun to look for candidates for central defenders, and there are two candidates with high popularity recently.

The first is the Greek international central defender of Wolfsburg in Bundesliga, Kulerakis, 21 years old, 188 cm tall. He mainly plays four-back left central defender in the national team and club, but also adapts to the three-back system.. Kuleraski has excellent technical skills, good at long pass scheduling and precise passes. He has a success rate of 83.6% in 30 Bundesliga games last season, averaging 8.57 long passes per game, with a success rate of 43.6% (Bastoni's three data are 90.6%, 7.18 and 58.2% respectively), and successfully passed 112 long passes in the season, ranking 7th in the Bundesliga.

has strong confrontational ability, obvious advantages in air competition, and the success rate of top-strike reached 59%. He has accurate predictions and excellent position sense, good at high-level defense and active oppression, and decisive steals. He averaged 1.33 steals, 1.03 interceptions and 4.63 clearances per game (Accelby's three data are 0.96, 1.13 and 3.43 respectively). Kuleski's current German turnover price is 25 million euros. Milan had previously been interested in it, but failed to introduce it successfully. Inter Milan has plans to start the winter window to lock in the player in advance.

The second is Ecuadorian international central defender Odonès, who is 21 years old and 185 cm tall. His technical characteristics are mainly reflected in his defensive stability and defensive hardness. Whether he is a drag-back center back or a right center back, his defensive position and defensive hardness are excellent. Playing more four defenders on the right central defender in the club and national team, sometimes they will play a temporary guest appearance as a full-back. Last season, he averaged 91.6% of the pass success rate in 33 games of the Big One, contributing 0.79 steals, 0.7 interceptions and 44.24 clearances.

During the summer window, Odonès' transfer was very popular. Bruges priced it for 30 million euros. Crystal Palace was willing to meet the price, but Odonès himself would not go to Marseille, and for this reason he had a stalemate with Bruges. He has never been on the roster after the first round of the new season, and he is likely to miss the first half of the game. The winter window is a good time to introduce low prices. Odonjesde turned 28 million euros, but given the good relationship between the two teams in the Alexander-Stankovic trade, it may be able to win the transfer fee below its value!

Because the management mistakenly believed Qian Ke, Inter Milan missed the best opportunity to update the defense line, and now it has reached the point where it cannot be delayed. If Susic's trading model can be copied and locked in new players six months in advance, it may be the best way to control costs and maintain the new players' form. I hope the management can give surprises!