Athletistic/ Football. Inter Milan are one of the most active teams in the 2022 summer transfer window.
The club have already signed five newcomers, strengthening each of the four lines on the pitch. Goalkeeper Andre Onana, defender Raul Bellanova, midfielders Kristyan Aslani and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, as well as centre-forward Romelu Lukaku have joined the team. Internazionale have also bought striker Joaquin Correa from Lazio.
Inter spent a total of €38.6m on six players, and the most expensive – €23.6m – was Correa’s buyout fee. Such inexpensive signings can be called the club’s competent transfer policy, but do Inter really need new players?
André Onana
Cameroonian goalkeeper Andre Onana moved to the “Internationale” as a free agent after the expiry of the contract with “Ajax” from Amsterdam. At the age of 26, Onana has already managed to achieve status as one of the best young goalkeepers in world football, as well as serving a 9-month suspension for using the banned drug furosemide. to athletes.
Andre was out from February to November 2021 and failed to regain his place in Ajax’s starting line-up upon his return. In January 2022, we learn that Inter are interested in the goalkeeper, and the Cameroonian’s transfer is officially completed on July 1. For the Ajax adult team, from 2016 to 2022, Onana played 214 matches, conceded 192 goals and provided one assist in all competitions.
“Inter” signed a contract with the goalkeeper for a period of five years. Onana is a worthy replacement for multi-year-old Samir Handanovich’s first team number, who turns 38 on July 14, 2022.
Raúl Bellanova
22-year-old right-back Raul Bellanova has been loaned by Inter from relegated Cagliari to Serie B for 3 million euros. Cagliari bought the player from France’s Bordeaux on May 31 and on July 6 it was announced that Bellanova had been loaned to Inter until the end of the 2022/2023 season. Bellanova made 31 Serie A appearances for Cagliari last season, scoring one goal and providing two assists.
At the moment, it’s unclear why Inter would need a fourth player as a right-handed defender in the presence of Denzel Dumfries, Matteo Darmian and Danilo D’Ambrosio, unless none of these performers leave. ‘crew. .
Danilo D’Ambrosio is a veteran who hasn’t been a regular at Inter in recent years. But the Italian can play both on the right flank and in the top three centre-backs at right centre-back, so if he leaves Inter will lose a good all-around game in defence.
Denzel Dumfries ousted Matteo Darmian from the main team in his first season after joining Inter. It looks like if one of the right-backs leaves it will be Darmian, but it’s also possible that the Milan club’s head coach, Simone Inzaghi, will figure out how to use the four right-flank defensive players at his disposal. .
Kristian Aslani and Henrikh Mkhitaryan
The 20-year-old Albanian Kristjan Aslani, on loan from Empoli for 4 million euros, will only spend his second season at Inter at professional level. The player’s first season in big football impressed Inter bosses so much that they decided to invite him to Milan for a year so that Kristjan could compete with Marcelo Brozovic as a defensive midfielder.
Arturo Vidal’s departure is practically a settled matter, so Aslani’s invitation looks like a good acquisition for the future. The player will certainly not be redundant in Inter’s list of six central midfielders, which besides him includes Marcelo Brozovic, Nikolo Barella, Hakan Calhanoglu, Roberto Gagliardini and newcomer Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Considering Simone Inzaghi’s side play in a 3-5-2 formation with three midfielders in midfield, one of whom is a top defensive midfielder, it’s safe to say that Aslani will have his playing time.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who joined Internationale as a free agent, has joined the list of top clubs where he has played. Before Inter, Heinrich managed to play in teams of the top 5 leagues like Borussia Dortmund (2013-2016), English Manchester United (2016-2017) and Arsenal (2018-2019), as well as “Roma ” Italian (2019- 2022).
Mkhitaryan is already 33 years old, his functionality and abilities on the football field are well known to all coaches of the Italian championship, including Simone Inzaghi, under whose leadership the player will play. In the new season, Inzaghi is expected to keep the team’s usual 3-5-2 formation, which, if necessary, will be changed to 3-4-2-1 during matches. In this formation, Mkhitaryan can take place in the center of the field among the two central midfielders – at 3-5-2, and in the forward position – at 3-4-2-1.
Facing Heinrich, Inter have found an experienced Serie A fighter who has yet to say his last word in the Italian league and UEFA Champions League.
Romelu Lukaku
Belgian Romelu Lukaku’s return to Inter after a poor season at Chelsea London looks like the completion of a whim by a player who was instrumental in the team’s victory in the season’s Italian Premier League 2020/2021. Romelu returns on loan until the end of the 2022/2023 season for €8m. Inter made a lot of money on Lukaku because a year ago he moved to Chelsea for 113 million euros.
Besides Lukaku, International have four players at centre-forward – Alexis Sanchez, Edin Dzeko, Lautaro Martinez and Joaquin Correa. Dzeko and Martinez are going nowhere, Correa has just been bought from Lazio, but Alexis Sanchez’s role next season is in question. It’s quite possible that the Chilean, who hasn’t become an iron first-team player in three seasons at Inter, will leave the club and four forwards will stay in the squad, including Lukaku.
For Romelu, a move to Inter was a step backwards anyway. And not because the Milan club is a weak team, or that Serie A is a weak league. The fact is that a football player who did not justify the multimillion-dollar investments and returned from where he left, devotes himself to the status of an artist who has worked out his own. If Lukaku, even in competition with Dzeko, Lautaro and Correa, scores at least 20 goals in a season, Inter will buy him out. But Romelu’s later transfers to top teams in other countries can be officially forgotten.
Maxim Fomchenkov, sport.ru
Source: Sport
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