{"id":133075,"date":"2025-09-12T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/133075\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T21:03:10","slug":"inside-inter-milan-new-era-and-transfer-plan-after-inzaghi-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/133075\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Inter Milan new era and transfer plan after Inzaghi departure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derby D’Italia\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Inside<\/p>\n

\n \u00a9TM\/IMAGO\n <\/p>\n

The pain of the Champions League<\/a> final is slowly subsiding for Inter Milan<\/a> supporters with the club focusing on new beginnings. The manner of the 5-0 mauling to PSG<\/a> highlighted the major deficiencies of Inter Milan\u2019s squad. The Parisians were a vibrant, relentless young team and they blew away Inter\u2019s array of aging stars.<\/p>\n

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Club Comparison<\/p>\n

\u20ac582.70m<\/p>\n

Market Value<\/p>\n

\u20ac707.80m<\/p>\n


<\/p>\n

First Tier<\/p>\n

League Level<\/p>\n

First Tier<\/p>\n


<\/p>\n

\u20ac137.30m<\/p>\n

Expenditures 25\/26<\/p>\n

\u20ac92.70m<\/p>\n


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Igor Tudor<\/p>\n

Managers<\/p>\n

Cristian Chivu<\/p>\n

\n Full Club Comparison\n <\/p>\n

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The average age of Inter\u2019s team was 30.3, five years older than PSG, and that was evident and needed to be the catalyst for change at the Italian giants, as it signalled the end of an era. Simone Inzaghi<\/a> enjoyed remarkable success, especially given the relative investment compared to leading European clubs, but he departed for Saudi Arabia, with Cristian Chivu<\/a> replacing him. Ahead of the Derby d’Italia against Juventus<\/a>, we\u2019ve analysed the new dawn at Inter with expert insight from Italy.<\/p>\n

\nInter Milan\u2019s incredible success with limited budget<\/p>\n

It\u2019s imperative not to overlook Inzaghi\u2019s incredible success at Inter, just because of the humiliation in the Champions League final. One result can\u2019t define the Italian\u2019s four year tenure, with Inzaghi boasting best points per game record (2.14) of any Inter manager in history, to have amassed more than 50 games. Inzaghi only delivered one Serie A title but two cups were won and two Champions League finals were reached amid significant financial constraints – Inter had the fifth oldest squad in the Champions League last season.<\/p>\n

\"\"Inter\u2019s precarious financial predicament was well-documented for years and it reached the nadir in 2021 when they posted a record loss for an Italian club of \u20ac246m. US-based investment firm Oaktree Capital Management provided Chinese owners Suning a loan to cover the losses and to continue operations, but they assumed full ownership in 2024 with Suning defaulting on payment on a near \u20ac400m debt. Inzaghi was severely restricted in the transfer market due to his financial difficulties and Inter were just the 40th biggest spenders in the world across his tenure – but reached two Champions League finals.<\/p>\n

\"\"Inter were simply unable to afford big-money signings and relied upon older players and the free agent market, as explained by Jatin Dietl, Serie A expert at Transfermarkt. Dietl said: \u201cIn recent years, the focus has been on signing affordable top players in order to remain competitive at the international level \u2014 despite not having anywhere near the budget of other top European clubs. For a club like Inter, where fans expect to see titles every year, a long-term rebuild is difficult to sell – just look at AC Milan\u2019s <\/a>struggles in recent years. So the only viable path to immediate results was to bring in a few older, experienced players like Henrikh Mkhitaryan<\/a>, Francesco Acerbi<\/a>, Benjamin Pavard<\/a> or Yann Sommer<\/a>. That strategy paid off: two Champions League finals in three years \u2014 especially when compared to the spending levels and wage bills of other European giants \u2014 is quite a success.<\/p>\n

\nInter Milan\u2019s new approach in the transfer market<\/p>\n

Inter\u2019s spending has been pretty consistent across the last five seasons and they\u2019ve not exceeded the \u20ac100m threshold on new signings. They spent more this summer (\u20ac89m) than in any of the previous four seasons under Inzaghi but there wasn\u2019t a substantial difference. There was, however, a noticeable shift in their approach as they targeted younger talents, as opposed to experienced players. All five of Inter\u2019s permanent signings were aged 23 or under with Manuel Akanji<\/a> the only experienced addition on-loan from Manchester City.<\/p>\n

Dietl explains: \u201cWith the arrival of the new owners, the priorities have changed. They now want to return to invest in players whose market value can grow over time. And the successes of recent seasons have laid the groundwork for this shift. Only thanks to a solid squad base and significant increases in revenues \u2014 from prize money and sponsorships \u2014 is this kind of investment strategy even possible. It’s no coincidence that in recent years Inter have spent very little on transfers and had to allocate most of the budget to contract renewals. However, this year’s record-breaking revenue and the first financial surplus in a long time now make this transition possible \u2014 without sacrificing too much in terms of competitiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"It will be fascinating whether Chivu can emulate the success of Inzaghi as it will be extremely difficult. Serie A<\/a> is comfortably the most competitive of the top five leagues and a handful of teams will hold realistic aspirations of winning the Scudetto. Interestingly, Chivu only started one of his new signings, Petar Su\u010di\u0107<\/a>, in Inter\u2019s 2-1 home defeat to Udinese in their last fixture. The average age of the starting eleven was still 29.2, which represents hardly any change from the Champions League final but several youngsters are expected to become regular starters, once they fully integrate. Inter were one of the biggest success stories in European football under Inzaghi when factoring in budgets, but will their new approach bring success in the future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derby D’Italia\u00a0 \u00a9TM\/IMAGO The pain of the Champions League final is slowly subsiding for Inter Milan supporters with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[2902,62495,62500,218,62494,62493,2903,45855,62496,50166,237,62498,12652,62499,101,62492,397,56,54,55,62497],"class_list":["post-133075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-ac-milan","tag-benjamin-pavard","tag-cristian-chivu","tag-football","tag-francesco-acerbi","tag-henrikh-mkhitaryan","tag-inter-milan","tag-juventus-fc","tag-lautaro-martinez","tag-manuel-akanji","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-petar-sucic","tag-serie-a","tag-simone-inzaghi","tag-sports","tag-ssc-napoli","tag-uefa-champions-league","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-yann-sommer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}