Casadei will not be a Zaniolo-bis: Marotta forced to sacrifice the future for a Scudetto Inter | First page

After Pinamonti, Casadei. Interforced to make a virtue of necessity on the market to reconcile the technical needs of Simone Inzaghi to coach a competitive team and the economic ones of Steven Zhang to present a budget less burdened by debts by June 2023, is preparing to collect another 20 million euros and bring the total calculation to 40. Not bad for Beppe Marottasqueezed between anvil and a hammer but still capable of pulling off the master stroke without having to sacrifice (for now?) the big boys like Skriniar and Dumfries.

Twenty million euros for a striker, Pinamonti, who would not have had room in front of competitors of the caliber of Lukaku, Lautaro Martinez but also Dzeko and Correa, others 20 for the best Primavera player of the last season but still a 2003 class still lacking in appearances in official first team matches. A beautiful and intriguing bet for Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea – who just a few weeks ago snatched the promising Chukwuemeka from Milan for a similar amount – manna from heaven for the bloodless corporate coffers of Inter. Which avoids for the moment a much heavier sacrifice and that, even if Casadei were to explode in the Premier League, can not be accused of having repeated the error of assessment committed in the summer of 2018 with Zaniolo.

What at the time was a deliberate and reckless choice to satisfy Spalletti’s “whim” to train a Nainggolan now at the end of the race today is a forced decision and dictated by the urgency to collect everything (or almost) and immediately, to bring the goal of +60 by June 2023 as much as possible. A sacrifice for the future to keep Inter competitive in terms of the Scudetto.