In the Nerazzurri house they want to give Certazzea Chivu. With the Swiss former Arsenal, from 2023 to Bayer, the tactical structure would also change

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22 July 2025 (modification at 14:37) – MILAN

From Calha to Xhaka the assonance is evident. Yet, between one and the other, practically everything changes: type of player, technical qualities, physical characteristics, intensity. Even the favorite foot. But above all between Calhanoglu and Xhaka radically changes a far more general aspect that concerns the whole team, or the module in which they are used to playing. The Turk is a central pivot in his director’s chair in a 3-5-2 with two high exterior and two more or less close department companions (Barella-Mkhitryan), the Swiss breaks the wood in a midfield in fact to 2 who would allow Chivu to insert the owners of an extra striker, who would have the exact features of Ademola Lookman. So, on which of the two would it be better to aim for Inter in the next season?

the situation

Tomorrow will be the day of truth. The one in which the famous face to face between Inter and Calhanoglu will be consumed once and for all. After weeks of voices, alleged offers, stories on Instagram and silences, it will be up to the Nerazzurri director to speak for the first time. So far he has never done it: neither to officially ask for the sale, nor to turn off the voices relating to his desire to return home. Whether it was Galatasaray before or Fenerbahce today. The program is clear: today Calhanoglu will return to Milan after the holidays spent in Türkiye and tomorrow will meet with the company to close this story once and for all. Behind the wall, inside or outside. For the first time Hakan will make his real intentions known, while his prosecutor continues to flirt with the Turkish clubs but from the Fener of offers they do not arrive. Inter, stove, wants to put a point. To prevent uncomfortable situations on Chivu on the day of the meeting and build the team of the future, with or without Calhanoglu.

Leverkusen, Germany - December 10: Hakan Calhanoglu of Fc International competes for the Ball With Granit Xhaka of Bayer 04 Leverkusen During the UEFA Champions League 2024/25 League Phase MD6 Match Bethaeen Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC International AT Bayarena On December 10, 2024 in 2024 in 2024 in Leverkusen, Germany. (Photo by Mattia Ozbot - Inter/Inter via Getty Images)

competition

If the Turkish confirming once and for all his desire to return to Turkey – but above all if the Fenerbahce will decide to send to the Nerazzurri club at least a proposal -, Inter will begin to move concretely to find the ideal substitute. And the chosen one became precisely Xhaka of Bayer Leverkusen. For a precise reason: the Swiss, accustomed in recent years to the 3-4-2-1 of Xabi Alonso, would allow Chivu to break with the past and abandon the 3-5-2 at least at the start. A drawing that inevitably also involves the name of Lookman, who paradoxically would take Calha’s place: one midfielder less, an extra striker. With Xhaka in the middle together with Barella in a midfield all muscles and quality and two thrust exteriors. Moreover, the numbers of last season confirm how similar the Dimarco-Dumfries couple was in Grimaldo-Firpong, for a long time the four most prolific lateral lateral ones. But time is holding, and not only for the Calha question: the Arabs of the Neom, Sunderland, West Ham and Fenerbahce himself follow the evolution of the Xhaka situation very close. And Inter wait …



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