Last Dance – Five Veteran Inter Milan Stars Set For Final Season Before A ‘Revolution’ Next Summer | OneFootball

This season will be the “last dance” for five veteran players in the last years of their contracts with Inter Milan.

Today’s print edition of Rome-based newspaper Corriere dello Sport, via FCInterNews, identify Yann Sommer, Francesco Acerbi, Stefan de Vrij, Matteo Darmian, and Henrikh Mkhitaryan as players set to depart next summer.

Last season, Inter had the oldest squad in Serie A in terms of average age. Moreover, the Nerazzurri regularly started matches with a starting eleven whose average age was north of thirty.

Clearly, therefore, it is not overly surprising that the single biggest priority in the summer transfer window for Inter has been to bring that average age down.

That does not, however, mean that there has been a major exodus of any of the aging players.

On the contrary, the veterans have all stuck around.

But according to the Corriere dello Sport, that won’t be for long.

“Last Dance” For Five Veteran Players At Inter Milan

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – JUNE 25: Francesco Acerbi #15 of FC Internazionale Milano walks on the field prior to the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 group E match between FC Internazionale Milano and CA River Plate at Lumen Field on June 25, 2025 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

In goal, Yann Sommer has one more year left to go on his contract at Inter. And the Swiss veteran will see out his deal, despite having been linked with Galatasaray this summer.

However, there is little indication that Inter will offer an extension to Sommer.

The former Bayern Munich and Borussia Monchengladbach keeper will turn 37 this coming season. And Josep Martinez is waiting in the wings to replace him.

Similarly, all of Stefan de Vrij, Matteo Darmian, and Francesco Acerbi are still pillars of Inter’s defense.

De Vrij, in particular, has been with Inter since 2018.

But all three are out of contract with Inter at the end of next June.

And the same is true of midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan. The Armenian has been a reliable servant to the Nerazzurri, but turns 37 in January.

Next summer, when all of these players’ contracts expire, the Corriere anticipate that there will be nothing short of a “revolution” in Inter’s squad.