Inter, Dzeko leaves and Scamacca reappears

It’s not the time to have distractions, but to push the accelerator to achieve the remaining goals. It is in this logic of thought that Inter have decided to give a signal to the locker room: stop the negotiations for renewals, we will only talk about it again at the end of the season, when future strategies and possibilities will also be clearer. In this sense, reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League and qualifying for the next edition – perhaps even with a prominent position in the league – makes all the difference in the world. For the club, sure. But also for those players with whom the club has started contacts in recent months to talk about renewal, but with whom we haven’t reached checkers yet. And among these, there is obviously Edin Dzeko, the key man of the first part of the Nerazzurri season: so important – in terms of goals and performances – that Inter already moved before Christmas to understand the room for maneuver for a new agreement. The parties have not heard from January and a distance clearly emerged in the last episode. Inter, in fact, has proposed to the Bosnian – who will turn 37 on 17 March – a one-year renewal, while Edin is aiming for a new two-year deal.

Use option

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The player’s company and entourage had met in the spring for an update. Which at this point will not happen in a short time, given the new corporate plan. In the background, then, there is Edin’s old desire to try an adventure in the United States before ending his career: will he overcome the temptation of a new experience or the ambition to still feel like a top club player in Europe? Dzeko has shown that he still has something to say at high levels, but it is clear that he would also like recognition on a contractual level. The question remains pending at the moment: if neither of the two parties changes their starting position, the marriage between Inter and Dzeko will close at the end of the season. With a handshake and many thanks, from both sides.

Made in Italy

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A possible scenario, given the many needs to be met. A hypothesis that would see a summer revolution necessary for Inter’s attack at that point, in which the name of Gianluca Scamacca, followed for a long time at the time of Sassuolo, before the same attacker took the road to London, could return very current. to sign with West Ham. But things in the Premier turned out to be more complicated than Scamacca could have imagined. He recently broke up with the longtime agent, but that’s another story. What matters is that now the striker has ended up on the sidelines of West Ham: this season he boasts 25 appearances and 7 goals in all competitions, the result of a good first half. In 2023, things got quite complicated for Scamacca: he only played in the first match of the year, on January 4 against Leeds, also scoring in the 2-2 draw. Then he slipped to the bench, before putting on dust: 14′ against Wolverhampton on 14 January, then missed three games due to injury and the last three spent entirely on the bench. In the FA Cup, he only played 4 minutes against United on March 1st. In short, difficult times for Scamacca, who wants to bring himself to the attention of coach Mancini for the new Italy and needs to play continuously to feel like a protagonist again.

Revolution

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Also for this reason, then, the Inter hypothesis could become topical again. Marotta and Ausilio carefully evaluated his profile last season, but Inter couldn’t invest as heavily as West Ham did and Sassuolo wanted. However, there could be margins for returning to office next summer, perhaps aiming for an expensive loan and taking advantage of the player’s desire to return to Italy. There will certainly be a lot of coming and going in attack at Inter. Today, in fact, only Lautaro Martinez is certain of being at the center of the Nerazzurri project. Lukaku is trying to convince the club to at least renew the loan from Chelsea, but by the CEO’s own admission Beppe Marotta will return to London in the summer, then we’ll see. And Joaquin Correa is also in the balance, who in Milan lived on impromptu flare-ups and has never shown the continuity of performance required to play for a top club. This is why Scamacca could be a good starting point for the revolution. Young and Italian, with a great desire for redemption. Like this Inter.