According to transfermarkt, the old guard's contracts expire fairly soon:
Inter Milan FC thread
Looks like you'll have to wait until the new year for AVB. Any idea what the first-choice XI will look like?
See that Inter will be making a trip to Croatia soon...
Looks like you'll have to wait until the new year for AVB. Any idea what the first-choice XI will look like?
Handanovic
Maicon Ranocchia Samuel Nagamoto
Cambiasso
Zanetti Stankovic
Alvarez
Milito Gillardino
Assuming that Sneijder and Pazzini go and Gillardino comes.... but I get the feeling there's gonna be a few more transfers yet.
On the plus side we have a few good youngsters coming through now (Couthinho, Longo, Obi, Juan, etc) so if we can hold onto them for a couple of years it could be the basis for a good team. I don't have high hopes for this season though.
Doesn't look great.
A couple of updates for you: Maicon's out of the tour squad (ditto Cesar & Pazzini), so you can probably replace him with Johnathan. Silvestre may be competing for one of the CB spots, or - less likely - it could be 3 at the back this term.
Yeah, I know pretty much nothing about Silvestre personally so I went for Samuel over him, but The Wall is getting old and might miss out. Zanetti's old too but that doesn't make a difference to him!
I'd like to see this formation
Handanovic
Zanetti Zanetti Zanetti Zanetti
Zanetti
Zanetti Zanetti
Zanetti
Zanetti Zanetti
beat Hajduk Split 3-2 in EL qualifying, didn't catch it but sounded like the first leg was a great performance and the second was awful. Anyway Stripes here's the lineup from the 2nd leg:
Handanovic; Jonathan, Ranocchia, Samuel, Mbaye; Zanetti, Cambiasso, Guarin; Sneijder; Coutinho, Milito
I was pretty far off!
Probably not that extreme - the 3-0 win was one where pretty much everything Inter hit went in, and Hajduk fluffed a few really good chances.
The return leg (2-0 loss for Inter) went the other way, Inter fluffed their chances and Hajduk's finishing improved. They got a penalty early on, and Vukovic scored a great volley to make Inter really worry about their chances, but couldn't finish the job.
Big problem for Inter was the fitness, Hajduk had already played a few official games so had a bit of an advantage there, but the general consensus from the Croatian forums is that the teams were matched much more closely than they should have been on paper.
Didn't see the Cassano transfer coming, but i'm quite happy about it. From a footballing point of view it may not turn out to well but there's never a dull moment when he's around. Some funny comments from him on the move here: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story/_/id/1142267/inter-forward-antonio-cassano-attacks-ac-milan?cc=3436
Moratti to sell up?
Potential to light up Serie A
Javier Zanetti to retire
A true legend of the game.
Mancini could be leaving. https://www.instagram.com/p/BH28GmwD7fk/?taken-by=golazolive