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Extended Clip - Milan Skriniar To PSG - How Inter Milan F***ed It All Up
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With Milan Skriniar on his way to join PSG on a free transfer in June at the very latest, Nima Tavallaey and Carlo Garganese analyze how owners Suning's Inter Milan project is dead whilst debating the huge mistake by CEO Beppe Marotta in the contract extension talks with the Slovakian defender.
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Transcript
Introduction
00:00:02
Speaker
Welcome to the Italian football podcast.
Milan Skriniar's Red Card Incident
00:00:05
Speaker
Let's move on to a very, very important matter, and that is Milan Scrino. He got red carded in this game. At the time, I mean, you can fill us in about what's going to happen. But at the time, it was said that this might be his final game, ahead of the game. This could be Milan Scrino's final game. And then he gets sent off in the first half.
00:00:32
Speaker
total disaster of a game for Scrinya. I think he had five fouls. He was very, very, very on edge. His head space, as you said, he wasn't good. It wasn't good at all. It was clear he was affected by all of this. And of course, his agent's interview, which was
Inter's Management Challenges
00:00:51
Speaker
in and around, given on Telenord, in and around the game starting on TV was just the timing of it. It just speaks volumes as to how dysfunctional Inter are run. And finally, the Italian media are picking up on this. They have given Suning, I think, in the past, except for Zazzaroni, who just chat shit on Corriero della Sport,
00:01:19
Speaker
The rest of them have been giving Suning a pass and how they run the club. The criticism, whenever it's come, has just been stupid and reductive. But now they're picking up on it and they're actually going after Suning and saying, hang on a minute, what exactly are you offering, Inter?
00:01:34
Speaker
The annual sponsorships from Chinese companies has gone from $94 million to $3 million per year. The main sponsorship on the shirt, which is the prime real estate for any club in terms of sponsorship revenue, is zero because of the digital bits disaster.
00:01:56
Speaker
You're the only top Italian club that has to turn a profit from the transfer window and has done so for the last two years. 110, 120 million and 40 million last summer going up to 60 and this summer is going to be another 30, 40, 50 million again.
Skriniar's Loyalty vs. Transfer Rumors
00:02:10
Speaker
And in the middle of all this, you have somehow managed to lose Milan Scrinyar and not get what his market value is, because you turned down 50, 60 million last summer when he's only got 12 months left. It's beyond cartoonish.
00:02:27
Speaker
It's beyond incompetent. Their management of this club, and I say Sooning because they are the owner, a fish rots from the head down. They are the ultimate responsible for everything that's happening. I definitely think Marotta should accept responsibility for how he handled the Skinya situation, and we'll get to that soon, but it's an overall collective failure.
00:02:49
Speaker
as long as Suning own this club, unless they begin to seriously start to invest, and I'm not talking about the transfer window, but seriously begin to invest, their project is dead. There's nothing there. It's not even frozen anymore. It's dead. And the Milan Scrina situation in and of itself
00:03:10
Speaker
Look, this is a guy who has pledged his loyalty to Inter a million times, both publicly and in his actions, when he's extended, when he fired his agent to extend his contract, when he came out and said the fans know me, they know what I want. But when the club puts you up for sale, and that's what's happened time and time again, especially last summer, when you sit down and negotiate with a club about transfer fees, that is essentially telling the player, we want to sell you. No matter how you cut it, that is what it is.
00:03:40
Speaker
Um, and that's not happened once with me last Kenya, but many times over and over and over. And he looks at this and goes, hang on a minute. I've pledged my loyalty to you. You've waited to extend my contract until it's in the last 12 months. You then you last and the summer before proceeding that you decided that you were negotiating my exit and you've just took me for granted. And then he's like, well, hang on. PSG are paying me.
00:04:06
Speaker
X are basically giving me a blank check to sign and give me a signed blank check and I can take whatever I want and I get to play with Messi, I get to play with Neymar, I get to play with Mbappe, Hakimi, Verratti and so on and so forth. Well, you know, loyalty is a two-way street.
00:04:21
Speaker
It's not harder than that. Also, there's a reason why his agent went out and said what he did when he did. It's because Inter are obviously planting stories that they feel betrayed by Milan Scrinha and that he's backstabbed them and he's ungrateful. Well, if you do that, then what do you think is going to happen? Of course, the player is going to defend himself and he's not going to do so himself. He's going to go via his agent and lawyer, Sistici.
00:04:47
Speaker
So that when he comes out and does this, it's essentially them going, we're sick of your bullshit in there. We're done. We're leaving. Yeah, I don't blame him. I don't blame him at all for making the decision to leave. And so I think he's shown himself as you.
00:05:03
Speaker
described here to be incredibly loyal, much more loyal than the overwhelming majority of the modern footballer. He showed himself to be very, very loyal and even last summer when Inter were basically made it
00:05:19
Speaker
clear, openly, that they wanted to sell Scrindia and they were basically using him in order to sell him for big money, make a profit and buy a replacement. He sat back and he basically said, pretty much said, I love him so much that I'm happy to do, to go along with whatever is best for himself, whether that means being sold and they use the money to replace me and make a profit or
00:05:47
Speaker
staying because that's for the good of Inter. And I think that is very commendable and that shows his loyalty in his class. And now it's obviously been horribly handled by Inter, as you've explained. But from the Inter point of view, it's also... What
Morata's Dealings and Inter's Strategy
00:06:05
Speaker
Inter want to sell him?
00:06:06
Speaker
Morata made a big mistake. He should have just accepted the $60 million. He tried to hold on. I want to say a weakness because it's been as much a strength of Morata's work over the years, including the event as it has been a weakness. But there has been occasions where he's been so hellbent on getting those few extra pennies for a deal
00:06:27
Speaker
or when he's buying a player to try and get the deal for a few pennies less, that in the end the deal hasn't happened. And that's happened a few too many times in his career. I remember the Marco Verratti deal when Juventus were trying to buy Marco Verratti, and they got quoted, I can't remember exactly the amount it was, but he was trying to get the price down.
00:06:53
Speaker
from, because he was at Piscada, he was trying to get the price down by only like half a million euros or something. Which is stupid. Which was ridiculous. And in the end, they lost him to PSG, because of that. No, they walked in and paid up. And I mean, this is the thing I mean, it's like, you know,
00:07:08
Speaker
They've all been arrogant here. Marotta's been arrogant. He's made a mistake, but I think we all know who Marotta is, and he's human. I wouldn't want anyone else to be in charge of Inter during this entire period. He rebuilt a winning cycle, and Inter are still winning titles because of that. And that is also thanks to Suning. I mean, don't get it wrong. Don't get it twisted.
00:07:28
Speaker
done
Financial Strains on Inter
00:07:28
Speaker
a fantastic job since joining the club, since taking over the club and taking them, really taking them to the next level. But since the pandemic started, they are a liability and they are dragging into down with them. And this notion that they want a billion euros in cash for this club is a joke. When Everton, Everton with the EPL revenue stream are getting, are being sold for 500, are being put up for sale for 500 million pounds,
00:07:55
Speaker
an Italian club with with that with that ridiculous revenue stream don't even own their own stadium once it won a billion on top of taking on all the debt like reality just called please enter it