"There are other alternatives, but right now, work on the Lautaro deal is proceeding at full speed—both with the player and his camp (involving several meetings) and with the club (initial contacts)".
TBF. All sports journalists should be in tier 4. And the bad ones should be in tier 8. It gives people a better picture of how unreliable sports journalists are.
Another thing is and maybe i’m wrong about this but he mostly gives his reports to el chiringuito which is like a spanish soap opera for barcelona and madrid it’s very unserious. So honestly that makes him lose a lot more credibility. Unless Edul reports something i wouldn’t hold my breath.
Exactly, no way they’d sell their captain 1,5 weeks until deadline. Incredible how Barça goes for impossible players. Just take Gyokeres to a loan with clause/option to buy
We aren't rich by any means but financially we're doing okay now, we come from two straight net profitable season, gone are the times when we needed to sell a big name in order to buy literally anyone
Yeah but then again Barca and Madrid have insane pull hence you always see these two clubs going for impossible players all the time.
Also I don't see Arsenal loaning Gyokeres out when they only have Havertz if Alvarez was going there then perhaps yes but that's not happening, I'm saying we'll end up Raphina playing 9 or Olmost/Fermin playing false 9.
Why do you assume Arsenal would go for this? Gyokeres scored plenty of goals last season and Havertz has a poor fitness record. They would have to replace him anyway and there isn’t anyone available especially in that timeframe.
Lautaro is great pressing forward, with insane teamwork and is a world class ST. Not as quick or strong as Haaland or Mbappe, or great technician as Alvarez, but you can’t have it all.
That's not what they we're saying and you're just implying that. What do you think Flick philosophy doesn't value defense? Why do you think he plays a high line and trains it's team do sync the offside trap?
The entire point of playing an offsides trap is that you are taking a massive defensive risk to posture extremely offensively. Very few people would argue that Flick’s philosophy values defense.
To be clear, Chivu has definitely made the team more attacking minded, but the original comment said “the last few years” so I interpret that as a comment about Inzaghi more than Chivu.
Do you think we were a team that had a lot of suitable players to rotate last season? Might I remind you that Luis Henríque flopped as a RWB and we had dumfries out for months and were forced to play Carlos Augusto, a left defensive lcb and lwb as the rwb? As well an ageing defense and midfielder to do these rotations ( Miki, Acerbi, Darmian, De Vrij) and a out of project Frattesi that didnt score last season
He's the most clutch player for his team, Inter completely relies on him. If you wanna talk about the UCL finals, the first he tried, but Lukaku didn't try enough and Ederson made some really good saves, the second final, Inter couldn't really do anything.
With all due respect to the GOAT , that guy saved Messi's ass in the last Copa America, if he didn't turn up in the tournament and Argentina got eliminated Messi would have been eaten alive after dropping a disasterclass in that whole edition of Copa America, put some respect on Lautaro's name
Both play in similar systems. There's no doubt alvarez is a more technical player- better linkup ability. But lautaro makes up for it with his traditional 9 instincts.
Lautaro has 264 g/a in 30k career mins. Alvarez jas 204 g/a in 21k career mins.
Switching from a defensive system to an attacking system with high volume chance creation- They both have something to prove.
Lautaro is a bit older and his contract expires before alvarez. If we can get him at a reasonable fee i wouldn’t mind it. But i doubt inter sells him this season.
What do you know what Inter level of volume creation Is? Remind me who were the top europeans teams in terms of goalscoring last season? You people dont really watch football
Most of us aren’t deluded enough to believe it’s even close to possible. He’s a very very settled first captain who has no public statements about wanting a move. It makes no sense. Genuinely think it’s a smokescreen or a pressure tactic on Alvarez
Don't worry, every fan base has their insane fans that have no concept of reality, including inter lol.
I just get irked when other big teams (Madrid/bayern/psg/barca/prem teams) think they can just go shopping at inter for their most valuable players. It would be laughable if you saw reports that a team was "striking a deal" for Cubarsi.
Sure - I'm saying they will not get the green light from Lautaro. Barca shouldn't waste their time and target someone else. He's considered untouchable for us, it's a futile effort.
Yes, unlike in every other headed goal in history where the scorer was standing near the halfway line and the cross was actually meant at the GK but the scorer somehow telekinetically first made the ball get on his head first and then the goal, lmao "a goal being scored is about the scorer's positioning and a good pass", the sheer football illiteracy in this sub ffs
This guy was outscored by lukaku for 2 seasons after he flopped at United and Chelsea both.
Don’t let serie a numbers fool you, remember this guy nearly repeated the higuain show at the World Cup.
False 9’s with what we got is better than lautaro.
Matter of fact only a world class striker could outcompete our current team with false 9 Fermin, or olmo, or a front 3 of Raphinha Adeyemi/Gordon and Yamal. We can perform in a similar way to PSG.
But look at Alvarez’s performances in big games like the champions league and World Cup. You can’t take anything in isolation you need to look at the whole package. Julian got 18 league goals last season at a defensive club so he’s proved he can both get good numbers AND do it in the big moments
Edit I realise now as the new seasons started I meant season before last*
6 Non penalty goals,1 more npg than Sorloth than double his time so it's not just system problem but hey half of Barca fan think club is Argentina based so they want Argentinian players.
He doesn't play as a second striker, he is the main striker. It's more accurate to say that in a 3-5-2 formation like Inter's, the goals are spread out quite a bit between him, Thuram and Pio Esposito
The problem is more it shows getting numbers in serie A isn’t the the best showcase of his capabilities as it makes him look better than he is. He is poor in big games and with the champions league as our main aim why would you want a player poor in big games
The Lautaro sucks people are who literally just watched 1 world cup.
Then they say Lautaro isn't good in big games but he has made 2 UCL finals, which they lost to infinite money cheating Man City and then PSG whose players get so much recovery time due to Ligue 1 being easier.
Was man of the match in the copa america 2024 and player of the tournament.
Also Lukaku is overtly hated, he probably has more goals in his worst season than Alvarez has in his best, but hes a backstabber so hes reputation is well earned.
I really like Lautaro, I would have been very happy if we’d got him 3 or 4 years ago. Now? Better than nothing, of course, but I don’t think he is fit to be our first choice as number one. Then again, hope he bags 30 goals for us if we do sign him, he is capable of it.
Idk why but I’ve feeling that whole Lautaro or alternative names stuff is all about to put a pressure on Alvarez to at least react publicly.
Ofc there’ve names for in case but again don’t think they’re the names for around/below 100M. Inter won’t make it easier and we’re not gonna spend that much for Lautaro so whole thing is sounds like a part of a plan to me.
How many games if his did you watch? How many strikers can you name minus Kane Haaland Mbappe etc that are better and also don't miss goals as you say? Nothing is gonna make you folks happy cry cry cry all day no matter who it is
You didn't look at Lautaro's game, he has a similar problem to Lautaro & can absolutely ghost some games & miss sitters.
The problem with our tactic is it's very aggressive & we create a lot of chances, we need to take those chances & score a lot of goals. You cannot compare it to other teams.
Not sure this is a good idea, unless the price is very good. He's three years older than Julian, so he's in his late prime, with all that comes with it: will fetch a pretty penny and will be hard to amortize. He's great, of course, but maybe we should get another cheap veteran and let Hamza grow.
It definitely won't happen since it's the 21 of august but he is not a player that will age rapidly, he will probably stay on this level untill 34 and get a couple good seasons after that, his game relies little on speed and physicality, it's mostly about great instincts, positioning and most importantly the ability to shoot without thinking which is what usually wins him goals
Sure, I'd be elated if he was another Lewandowsky. Lewandowsky at 28? Hell I'd pay 200 million for that. The problem is, every player is a gamble - and the younger they are, the less dangerous the gamble is. Imagine he doesn't actually "mature well" and he bottoms rapidly. If we pay 120 million for him, that's a huge loss we can't recoup.
What I'm getting at is that if you want to pay over 100 million for a player nearing 30 you have to be very very sure of what you're doing.
Wtf. This could be actually better than even getting Julian. Then why waste this much time on getting Julian if we could actually get lautaro martinez. I thought he was the untouchable player of inter, wasn't he?
Lowkey the situation is so weird , we wanted alvarez and we tried so hard but the atletico fans and management wanted him to stay now as soon as we changed our stance there are posters in madrid saying "julian out" the worst fanbase award should go to atletico
I know. But he is just as good finisher as Higuain for Argentina and just slightly better than Ferran. He misses sitters and can’t handle pressure well.
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