The Turk returned to Pinetina and the technician evaluates to bring him back the tips, where he played Milan …

Journalist

July 24 – 12:26 – MILAN

Change yourself to change Inter. Hakan Calhanoglu has already done it once, can do it again. And then here it is, the new great challenge that awaits the Turkish at the dawn of the fifth season in the Nerazzurri shirt: after the drafts, after the summer catchphrases, after the words – as important, such as those pronounced yesterday in Appiano who have definitively closed the market case, “I am a player of Inter and I want to continue here” -, Calha went back to the work on the field, and it is there that the Turk Give him the Inter to guide and there will be no misunderstandings, blow and response to the poison on social social or embarrassing silences while Galatasaray and Fenerbahce move more or less in the shadows: you can also be directors advancing their range of action by several meters, perhaps pushing to the shoulders of the Thula. Chivu think about it, Hakan would certainly not be back.

Happiness and hugs

Before studying the new tactical position, however, it was necessary for the Turk to clarify his position off the pitch. And the declarations that Calha released yesterday morning in front of microphones and cameras, directly from their car and even before crossing the Appiano gates, put the definitive point to the catchphrase that lasted a month: “My holidays were not easy for so many situations, but I was always in contact with Inter. I also made preparation on vacation, I am in the best conditions. I am happy to be back: I was missing everyone, now I want to work. Inter player and I want to continue here. Here, if the latter theme is certainly not on the agenda because another two years of the contract are long and because Calhanoglu already occupies the penultimate floor of the most paid in the Nerazzurri rose – only the 9 million annual salaries of Lautaro beat his 6.5 -, is the last point of yesterday’s speech to have lightened the sky in view of the near future: “I and I lautaro spoke: we are professionals, there is no problem. Now it’s on vacation and it’s right.

The plan

And further on, he will be able to look, and play, the Nerazzurri midfielder in the new Inter to whom Chivu works: a dynamic team, revolutionized right in the middle where Calha dictated law in recent years moving as a play in front of the defense. He balancing, Barella and MkhiTaryan Mezze Ali of insertion with Dumfries and Dimarco in full band. Inter 2025-26 will steer towards a new way of attacking, with a creative like Calha behind the two attackers or with a pair of midfielders behind Lautaro, and also in this case the Turkish has experience and means to wear the dress. Or rather, to put it back: in previous lives, Calhanoglu has made the “10” already at the time of Milan and even earlier at Leverkusen, and his way of playing the role is functional to the balance that Chivu will seek in order not to lose substance in the median and avoid exhausting the two interiors. Calha can be the right man: it invents, assaults, marks, but also knows how to fall back and sacrifice himself for the team. A professor of ductility.

Ready to the gearbox?

Which is the same matter in which the other department companions will also have to specialize, more or less all called to vary their position with respect to the recent past. Barella will also have to reshape herself as a central midfielder in a two -to -two median, while Frattesi, Mkhitryan and the newcomer Sucic will have to float between the role of interior and that of the midfielder, depending on the tactical needs and rotations. The blue – once returned available after the intervention in the groin – and the young Croatian who came from Dinamo Zagreb can be the other faces of the revolution: the old hierarchies carved in the stone no longer exist, Chivu and Inter will need them. And of Calhanoglu, who may be able to lose the director’s hair in front of the defense but not the habit of the rigorist: the spot was and will remain his exclusive, there is no revolution that holds.



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