👎 Inter transfer chaos: Calhanoglu, Lookman, Leoni, fans fume 🤬 | OneFootball

Ten days, a little more. That’s all that’s left until the end of the summer transfer window, then to make changes to the squads you’ll have to wait until January. If you want, there’s still time to pull off one or more deals, but you need to hurry. The league opener is just around the corner and for some clubs, the work is far from finished.

Just ask Inter fans for confirmation. On social media, in fact, it’s easy to come across the disappointment of the Nerazzurri, for a transfer market full of big promises – even public ones – but which so far has produced little. On Monday night, Torino arrives at San Siro and, in all likelihood, Cristian Chivu’s first real starting XI will be the same as the one from the debacle in Munich against PSG.

If a year ago Piero Ausilio had announced on television that the 2023/24 transfer window was “already over” before it even began after the signings of Taremi and Zielinski, this time the Inter sporting director and Marotta have repeatedly confirmed their intention to make at least one big signing. For now, it’s just words.

🤔 Ederson, or rather Lookman... Or maybe not!

Throughout June, it seemed that the real target of Inter’s summer was Ederson, even more so after the "Calhanoglu case", when Marotta pointed to the Turk as 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, Calha stayed and Inter shifted their attention to another Atalanta gem, Lookman. And here came the proclamations from the Nerazzurri management, stepping in personally. Lookman was pursued for over a month, until yesterday, when his agents were informed that negotiations would be terminated with immediate effect. The reason – revealed by the director of Corriere dello Sport, Ivan Zazzaroni – is that Inter decided to invest in other areas, namely midfield and defense.

Here, one name for the defense could have been Giovanni Leoni, whom Inter courted for weeks without ever making a decisive move. The 2006-born player thus went to Liverpool, just a few days before Inter changed course.

📲 Fans’ social media fury

According to Repubblica, the announcement that they were abandoning the Lookman track could also be a bluff by management, a way to let Atalanta know that – without Inter – the Dea would be left with quite a headache, unable to rely on alternative offers to the one from Viale della Liberazione.

At least, that’s what Nerazzurri fans are hoping. Who loudly demanded a mini-revolution of the squad, at least to freshen up a group that is among the most âgée in Europe. And who – instead – are now expressing all their disappointment en masse for everything that has happened since that terrible May 31st.

Amidst all this is Cristian Chivu, who already found himself in a difficult situation, but who perhaps hoped for a bit more help from the transfer market. Who knows, maybe things will change between now and September 1st...

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