Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[Doell]

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Well, its a good deal for Inter Milan if Brozovic moves to Saudi for a very huge fee. At 30 years, past his prime, i believe its right time for Inter Milan to let go, cash out and get younger replacement for the Talisman. Also, With AC Milan interested in Lukaku; it is important for Inter Milan to begin to shape up their transfer market.

Inter must be even more aggressive in this transfer market, considering that they also currently do not have large enough funds to bring in top quality players. And they have to find a pretty good young player, but not too famous to get a low price. Although it's difficult actually, but previously Napoli managed to get young players at low prices too. I mean Kim Min Jae if i'm not mistaken Napoli got him at the price €18.05m, they succeeded in getting the scudetto because of his services too. As well as Kvaratskhelia, Napoli had great success in getting talented young players with low price. So I think Inter should learn from Napoli actions in the transfer market before, and I hope Inter will soon find many talented young players out there.

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[macson]

I believe Milan did the right thing. They should definitely get younger players on the team. I don’t think they should get rid of all the old players. Experience is also needed. But they definitely need young players to boost their performance for sure. The older generation is going to have a tough time keeping up against the young and fast players. If they can manage a good balance between the young and experienced generation, they will actually be able to do very well. I think this was the right decision taken by them about Eden Dzeko.

To be honest, i don't see the decision taken by Inter as good enough because if we look at Dzeko's performance statistics over the past 2 seasons, he was able to provide 31 goals in 100++ matches and that's pretty good imo, well after all young players are definitely more prioritized than a new player for reasons of physical fitness as well as enthusiasm ^{(i still respect the decision of the inter management)}
In this transfer market, it seems ^{(which is reported)} that Inter Milan will not stop with Marcus Thuram, they will add several other players, to increase Inter's attacking power and their midfield.

[xzone]

There is rumors Al-Nassr want to sign Marcelo Brozović from Inter Milan, and it seems like these rumors will happen because Inter Milan needs a big amount of funds to buy a lot of players too. Actually, this player is also being targeted by the Barcelona club, but it looks like Barcelona doesn't have enough money to compete with Al Nassr, because I think we know how powerful the Saudi Pro League money is. Brozovic as far as I know this guy was player key for Inter Milan last season, him helping them winning the Coppa Italia, Supercoppa Italiana, as well as reach the final of the UCL.

If I'm not mistaken, 23 million is mentioned as the transfer fee. Barcelona may be in a better situation than in previous years due to financial problems, but I don't think they will pay that much for a 30 years old player.
Saudi Arabian teams are spending so much money right now that we can watch all players over 30 in this league in the coming years

[indah rezqi]

I doubt with Milan has enough money for signing Lukaku due should fight with Saudi Pro League team give bid for buying Lukaku from Chelsea, its seems dilemma for Lukaku position right now, he has denied for playing with Saudi Pro League teams but his previous team Chelsea want to sell him there. Right now the future from Lukaku depend on Inter Milan want to pay higher fees transfer for Chelsea or Lukaku will return back as loan option from Inter Milan. Inter should keep him stay for one year later after leaving by Edin Dzeko, Inter's attacking line only left Lutaro Martinez right now.

For Lukaku performance in this season not really bad, he has success bring Inter lead to final stage in Champion League but he got injured and absent on many game for Inter Milan.

I don't think Lukaku will be considered as important for Milan after he was important for rival club Inter. I don't think Milan will really wants to sign Lukaku from Chelsea as striker, even if they have the money to complete a transfer. Lukaku also doesn't seem to suit Milan's style of play, he would rather be at Inter for a long time after he was known as a dangerous striker at Inter for several seasons.

Even if Chelsea have to sell him, it is very likely that Lukaku will not be sold to Milan. There are a lot of better players than Lukaku, so Milan shouldn't be too interested in signing Lukaku.

[klidex]

There is rumors Al-Nassr want to sign Marcelo Brozović from Inter Milan, and it seems like these rumors will happen because Inter Milan needs a big amount of funds to buy a lot of players too. Actually, this player is also being targeted by the Barcelona club, but it looks like Barcelona doesn't have enough money to compete with Al Nassr, because I think we know how powerful the Saudi Pro League money is. Brozovic as far as I know this guy was player key for Inter Milan last season, him helping them winning the Coppa Italia, Supercoppa Italiana, as well as reach the final of the UCL.

If I'm not mistaken, 23 million is mentioned as the transfer fee. Barcelona may be in a better situation than in previous years due to financial problems, but I don't think they will pay that much for a 30 years old player.
Saudi Arabian teams are spending so much money right now that we can watch all players over 30 in this league in the coming years

Actually this is all done by the saudi arabia club because they only need top players who are from europe to be able to give a strong performance for the saudi arabia club.
It doesn't matter how much it costs and how old it is, but Saudi Arabia needs top players to give popularity to the Saudi Arabian League.
So that Saudi Arabian clubs always offer very high offers and I'm sure Barcelona will not be able to compete because of the bad financial problems that Barcelona is experiencing.

[harapan]

I don't think Lukaku will be considered as important for Milan after he was important for rival club Inter. I don't think Milan will really wants to sign Lukaku from Chelsea as striker, even if they have the money to complete a transfer. Lukaku also doesn't seem to suit Milan's style of play, he would rather be at Inter for a long time after he was known as a dangerous striker at Inter for several seasons.

Even if Chelsea have to sell him, it is very likely that Lukaku will not be sold to Milan. There are a lot of better players than Lukaku, so Milan shouldn't be too interested in signing Lukaku.

The thing about Lukaku is that you don't know the team that might fit his style of play. You might think he won't do well in Milan but the opposite might be the case.
Lukaku is not a bad striker. I feel his major problem is confidence. If Lukaku has the confidence he can be a pretty deadly striker.
The mistake he made was leaving Inter for Chelsea in the first place. He should have just remained at Inter when he was one of the hottest strikers in the planet. Now that he's at Inter he doesn't perform much. Dzeko was even higher up the pecking order than him.
I believe Lukaku will do great at AC Milan though.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Romelu Lukaku's loan contract is about to end by the end of this month. Inter don't seem like they are very interested in extending this contract or signing him permanently. Because Lukaku is far away from his old look now. He is playing really inconsistently and you know how he played a serious role in Inter's not being able to resist Manchester City more by playing extra time.

Therefore his recent performance isn't convincing enough for Inter to fight for him. They were really keen on signing him on a loan deal before because they were hoping to see the same effort from him. As you know they were a great duo with Martinez. But now there is nothing left of it.

Apart from Romelu Lukaku's unsatisfactory performance, overall the Inter Milan team is now very good, it's just that last season they were inconsistent at the start of the season.
For next season I think it is very appropriate if Inter Milan is a strong candidate to win the Scudetto.
Reaching the final of the UCL despite losing to Man City, their performance was quite good, Inter Milan is now very strong on all fronts.
So I think for next season they will only add a few new players to maintain the existing game and consistency.

Indeed Inter were just like that at the beginning. Because they had serious issues with their defending. Otherwise they were great at scoring so many goals in general. But after the returnal of the World Cup we started to watch a quite different Inter. Maybe it was too late for rejoining the title race with Napoli but this was still a significant progress.

By the way Inter are already shown as the biggest title contender by bookmakers. Even though Napoli won the title by a huge point difference and Inter didn't even finish right behind, Inter are still favoured the most to be the next champions. It is still early of course and the predictions can change quite often during the season.

Inter should focus on keeping the same ambition in themselves for next season. Keeping their squad quality at this level at least is also going to be important.

[3meek]

What Milan is thinking is very far from the fans' expectations and if it is true that Milan makes an offer to sign Lukaku this is definitely a setback. We know Milan have just secured around 70 million euros fresh funds after successfully selling Sandro Tonali to Newcastle and I think Milan should be able to find a much better striker than Lukaku with these funds. At Inter Lukaku has often failed to prove his worth and even though Milan started their bid at 40 million euros I don't think it was worth it and it would be better for Milan to start discussing his options again.

Lukaku's performance in intermilan was not so bad as you said. Even though lukaku has failed to bring intermilan to win UCL but his performance was quite well last season. Intermilan was winning a trophy + it has gone to the final of UCL which was a great achievement by intermilan. The only problem if lukaku never had interest to join in ac milan. Acmilan was making the wrong decision to tageting him as a new striker for the club.
I think that ac milan shall not try to take lukaku. Ac milan must have found another player that can become a new striker for ac milan upcoming season. Lukaku will never ever fit for the club. He is only wanna playing for intermilan.
Even he rejects to play for chelsea and he was only going for intermilan. Chelsea even ac milan must retain themselves in using this guy as striker.

I don't know how Lukaku has performed this Champions League season, but he played horribly in the final match... Maybe if it wasn't for his mistakes, Inter could have had a chance... Lukaku only scored 14 goals all season, just like Dzeko... Last season at Chelsea, Lukaku had a poor showing too... Maybe he was good in the past, but I can't say that now...

[omgitsmehehe]

The thing about Lukaku is that you don't know the team that might fit his style of play. You might think he won't do well in Milan but the opposite might be the case.
Lukaku is not a bad striker. I feel his major problem is confidence. If Lukaku has the confidence he can be a pretty deadly striker.
The mistake he made was leaving Inter for Chelsea in the first place. He should have just remained at Inter when he was one of the hottest strikers in the planet. Now that he's at Inter he doesn't perform much. Dzeko was even higher up the pecking order than him.
I believe Lukaku will do great at AC Milan though.

Lukaku is a possible striker for Inter Milan, but he is more interested in the Seria A rather than the Premier rather. It was one of the toughest players in the Premier League back then, especially when he was at Everton, scoring substantial goals and contributing to success of his club. He is currently a Chelsea player, however he lacks confidence on the field and is inconsistent in league games. up his first season at Chelsea, he put up a tremendous performance at Stamford Bridge, and there's no way he wouldn't have excelled in the blues' frontline.  Inter Milan will merely use and discard me; they will not even raise his wages.

[ginsan]

It is always good to get the facts straight.

The 15 points deduction penalty was officially awarded on January 20th, 2023. On that date Napoli stood at 47 points in the table whereas Juventus Turin was at 37 points, making it a 10 points gap already before the penalty was announced. Napoli almost played a perfect season and outplayed the rest of the field including Juventus. I doubt that even without the penalty at that point Juventus would have had a chance to close that gap. I am now even less optimistic for Juventus next season as I don't see many reasons why they should improve significantly.

Yes, the penalty made Juventus lose its best moment this season because if it is not affected by a reduction in points, it is very likely that Juventus will play in the Champions League next season. After seeing the developments that have occurred in the transfer window I think there are no good quality players brought in by Juventus so I predict that Juventus will dominate next season more with the existing squad. In fact, on another issue, speculation arose that the Juventus coach would leave for the Saudi Arabian league team, where Al Nassr really wanted to bring Allegri to be their new coach.  So there is a bigger gap for Juventus next season if Allegri leaves because he really understands the character of his players.

In fact, I think Juventus might find it difficult to provide a stronger resistance next season to other teams in the race for the Scudetto title because Inter Milan is currently the strongest team which can be seen from the depth of their squad.

[Uruhara]

There is rumors Al-Nassr want to sign Marcelo Brozović from Inter Milan, and it seems like these rumors will happen because Inter Milan needs a big amount of funds to buy a lot of players too. Actually, this player is also being targeted by the Barcelona club, but it looks like Barcelona doesn't have enough money to compete with Al Nassr, because I think we know how powerful the Saudi Pro League money is. Brozovic as far as I know this guy was player key for Inter Milan last season, him helping them winning the Coppa Italia, Supercoppa Italiana, as well as reach the final of the UCL.

The competition between Barcelona and Al-nassr for Marcelo Brozović is actually still quite fierce. In terms of salary per year, maybe Al-Nassr has excelled. Because Al-nassr has offered a salary of 15 million Euros per year. Meanwhile, Barcelona only offers 7 million Euros per year.

But in terms of the transfer price from Inter Milan at this time, Barcelona is still superior. Because Inter Milan only allowed the player at a price of 25 million Euros. And Barcelona has made an offer of 20 million euros. Meanwhile, Al-Nassr does not seem to have made a higher offer, that is currently Al-Nassr's offer is only 18 million euros. And it will still depend on Marcelo Brozović whether he plays for a higher reputation at Barcelona. or he wants to play for a higher salary at Al-Nassr. all have their advantages in this regard.

[lalabotax]

The competition between Barcelona and Al-nassr for Marcelo Brozović is actually still quite fierce. In terms of salary per year, maybe Al-Nassr has excelled. Because Al-nassr has offered a salary of 15 million Euros per year. Meanwhile, Barcelona only offers 7 million Euros per year.

If this had been the case, I'm sure he would have chosen Barcelona without a second thought. But at this time, the Saudi league has also become one of its own attractions. If he still wants to continue his good career and take part in the Champions League, Barcelona is the right choice. Well, it seems that this season Barcelona is also spending a lot of money to get the players they want.

[shogun47]

It is always good to get the facts straight.

The 15 points deduction penalty was officially awarded on January 20th, 2023. On that date Napoli stood at 47 points in the table whereas Juventus Turin was at 37 points, making it a 10 points gap already before the penalty was announced. Napoli almost played a perfect season and outplayed the rest of the field including Juventus. I doubt that even without the penalty at that point Juventus would have had a chance to close that gap. I am now even less optimistic for Juventus next season as I don't see many reasons why they should improve significantly.

Yes, the penalty made Juventus lose its best moment this season because if it is not affected by a reduction in points, it is very likely that Juventus will play in the Champions League next season. After seeing the developments that have occurred in the transfer window I think there are no good quality players brought in by Juventus so I predict that Juventus will dominate next season more with the existing squad. In fact, on another issue, speculation arose that the Juventus coach would leave for the Saudi Arabian league team, where Al Nassr really wanted to bring Allegri to be their new coach.  So there is a bigger gap for Juventus next season if Allegri leaves because he really understands the character of his players.

In fact, I think Juventus might find it difficult to provide a stronger resistance next season to other teams in the race for the Scudetto title because Inter Milan is currently the strongest team which can be seen from the depth of their squad.

But isn't your conclusion wrong? Last year Juventus Turin couldn't even compete with the squad they had against Napoli and were 10 points behind already after 18 games. Now they failed to qualify for the Champions League, they will also most likely lose a couple of players to other clubs as they want to play the Champions League and get offered more money and now you say that they will be even better this year with a weaker team than they had last season? Or maybe I am not understanding what you are trying to say, but I don't see a great season coming for Juventus. That doesn't mean it has to end with a bad result because we have to see how the others will be doing, but if Napoli performs the same I think Juventus won't have a chance. But they could qualify for the Champions League again.

[Leviathan.007]

Lukaku's performance in intermilan was not so bad as you said. Even though lukaku has failed to bring intermilan to win UCL but his performance was quite well last season. Intermilan was winning a trophy + it has gone to the final of UCL which was a great achievement by intermilan. The only problem if lukaku never had interest to join in ac milan. Acmilan was making the wrong decision to tageting him as a new striker for the club.
I think that ac milan shall not try to take lukaku. Ac milan must have found another player that can become a new striker for ac milan upcoming season. Lukaku will never ever fit for the club. He is only wanna playing for intermilan.
Even he rejects to play for chelsea and he was only going for intermilan. Chelsea even ac milan must retain themselves in using this guy as striker.

I doubt with Milan has enough money for signing Lukaku due should fight with Saudi Pro League team give bid for buying Lukaku from Chelsea, its seems dilemma for Lukaku position right now, he has denied for playing with Saudi Pro League teams but his previous team Chelsea want to sell him there. Right now the future from Lukaku depend on Inter Milan want to pay higher fees transfer for Chelsea or Lukaku will return back as loan option from Inter Milan. Inter should keep him stay for one year later after leaving by Edin Dzeko, Inter's attacking line only left Lutaro Martinez right now.

For Lukaku performance in this season not really bad, he has success bring Inter lead to final stage in Champion League but he got injured and absent on many game for Inter Milan.

It seems in this season Saudi teams are making trouble for the European teams and they are making players ask for higher amounts of money because they can get better offers from these Arabian teams, Lukaku can definitely be a good player for Milan but considering their financial situation I don't think if Milan can pay enough to Lukaku.

[Docnaster]

Lukaku's performance in intermilan was not so bad as you said. Even though lukaku has failed to bring intermilan to win UCL but his performance was quite well last season. Intermilan was winning a trophy + it has gone to the final of UCL which was a great achievement by intermilan. The only problem if lukaku never had interest to join in ac milan. Acmilan was making the wrong decision to tageting him as a new striker for the club.
I think that ac milan shall not try to take lukaku. Ac milan must have found another player that can become a new striker for ac milan upcoming season. Lukaku will never ever fit for the club. He is only wanna playing for intermilan.
Even he rejects to play for chelsea and he was only going for intermilan. Chelsea even ac milan must retain themselves in using this guy as striker.

I doubt with Milan has enough money for signing Lukaku due should fight with Saudi Pro League team give bid for buying Lukaku from Chelsea, its seems dilemma for Lukaku position right now, he has denied for playing with Saudi Pro League teams but his previous team Chelsea want to sell him there. Right now the future from Lukaku depend on Inter Milan want to pay higher fees transfer for Chelsea or Lukaku will return back as loan option from Inter Milan. Inter should keep him stay for one year later after leaving by Edin Dzeko, Inter's attacking line only left Lutaro Martinez right now.

For Lukaku performance in this season not really bad, he has success bring Inter lead to final stage in Champion League but he got injured and absent on many game for Inter Milan.

It seems in this season Saudi teams are making trouble for the European teams and they are making players ask for higher amounts of money because they can get better offers from these Arabian teams, Lukaku can definitely be a good player for Milan but considering their financial situation I don't think if Milan can pay enough to Lukaku.

No matter how huge the financial package of the transfer dealings of Saudi Arabian clubs, we mustn't forget the fact that they're just making those moves so that they can lure high profile players who initially wouldn't want to ever play in the Saudi League and so it totally different from when a big European club is trying to sign a player.
Inter has shown interest on keeping Romelu Lukaku at the club but has said they can only do that if his parent club Chelsea will accept to let him continue as a loan player for them because it is reported that they're not financially strong at the moment.

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The aspect of financial Napoli are well balance in that area but bring a new coach into the team in this summer, will definitely make the team to experience some challenges next season because something like this happened to Chelsea and it reduced them through out the season. Since some potential players in the team are leaving to join other teams in this summer, I don't think Napoli will get the talented players they are looking for in this summer, because other teams managements are already engaged those potential players against next season. Even though this new Napoli coach will do something good to improve the team, it will take him a long season before he can get right like the formal coach.

In a situation like this I see something strange happening to Napoli next season. I mean if Napoli management fails to keep their star player to survive then there is a high probability that Napoli will suffer a big setback next season. I see Rudi Garcia has bigger ambitions for Napoli next season where he seems quite sure that Napoli will be able to defend the Scudetto title next season. But one side of Rudi Garcia will be in big trouble if their mainstay striker moves to another team in this transfer window. Well, Osimhen is a player who is quite widely reported to be leaving Napoli in the transfer market this season where Osimhen has been linked with big teams such as Bayern Munich, Liverpool and Manchester United and even PSG have also expressed their intention to bring in Osimhen. So it will be difficult for Napoli to contain because if a big offer comes, of course Napoli is ready to let go of flagship striker. This will make it difficult for Rudi Garcia to find a replacement for Osimhen if he does leave Napoli.

[makishart]

Indeed, Lukaku is not entirely bad, but when a team like Milan, who are also less consistent every season, that can be something that will make them difficult in the end. It must be admitted that Lukaku is overly confident, he always feels needed for other teams and he is not aware that his performance continues to decline every year. I think Milan need to be wiser in using the available funds to get quality players and to achieve this they have to find a striker who can be a mainstay when the team is struggling to score goals. Milan is one of the big teams in Serie and this decision must be carefully thought out if they are interested in signing Lukaku.

It seems like intermilan is not interesting anymore with lukaku. It can be seen from how the club was choosing to get a new striker rather than make lukaku to be a permanent striker for the club.
Lukaku must accet the fact that if intermilan didn't need him anymore. I hope this guy will not be stupid enough to try so hard defending his choice to stay at intermilan. Intermilan has found a replacement for him. ac milan is ready to pay what chelsea wants.
Acmilan is very close in negotiating with chelsea to buy lukaku with performance transfer. Ac milan has even prepared €40 millions as chelsea wanted it.

previously Lukaku wanted to stay at Inter. I think Inter must understand that next season they still need Lukaku, especially with Edin Dzeko leaving. Inter's best option would be to buy Lukaku, who suits Inter's style of play.
but if Inter has other options up front. I think they should let Lukaku go to Milan or Arab. because previously there was news that Chelsea was negotiating with an Arab club regarding the transfer of Lukaku.

Intermilan didn't wanna make him to be a permanent transfer. It has been rumored that if ac milan was targeting him as a new striker. It's unclear if lukaku will settle upon a personal bargain with ac milan.
Let's wait for other days to see the development from this transfer

[AndySt]

Intermilan didn't wanna make him to be a permanent transfer. It has been rumored that if ac milan was targeting him as a new striker. It's unclear if lukaku will settle upon a personal bargain with ac milan.
Let's wait for other days to see the development from this transfer

In any case, Chelsea no longer hopes for Lukaku and the club urgently needs to unload the payroll and, more importantly, urgently sell players, because the club did not get into the Champions League this season and therefore something needs to be done with the rules of financial fair play. Therefore, Chelsea is categorically not satisfied with the option of renting for Inter. Well, no matter how fantastic this option might have looked recently, but the option with Milan is now the most realistic for Lukaku if the player really wants to play in Europe before the 2026 FIFA World Cup, as rumors have been talking about recently and why Lukaku refused to go to Saudi Arabia because of this. So now it remains for Chelsea and Milan to persuade Lukaku himself.

[snipie]

It seems in this season Saudi teams are making trouble for the European teams and they are making players ask for higher amounts of money because they can get better offers from these Arabian teams, Lukaku can definitely be a good player for Milan but considering their financial situation I don't think if Milan can pay enough to Lukaku.

If Lukaku insist on playing with Inter Milan then Chelsea will end by letting him go there, they don't have many options. There is 2 players that left Chelsea to go to Saudi Arabia teams but the amount gained from them aren't that big since one go there as free agent.
For Lukaku, his contract expires in 2026, there isn't a rush from Chelsea side to get ride from him with winning some money so indeed another loan is very possible.

[Velvet78]

After talking about Milan's being in need of a better and more reliable centre-forward I have seen that they are interested in Lukaku seriously. They are even about to make an official offer to Chelsea to sign him permanently. The offer is said to be like 40 million euros. I know how much Chelsea made a loss by selling him and buying him back for a huge amount of money.

But there is really not much of a choice left for Chelsea. They don't plan to have Lukaku in their squad anymore so this is a good opportunity to get rid of him. He needs to be convinced to make this move. I don't know if he can improve his performance at Milan but at least he can stay in Italy just as he wants.

What Milan is thinking is very far from the fans' expectations and if it is true that Milan makes an offer to sign Lukaku this is definitely a setback. We know Milan have just secured around 70 million euros fresh funds after successfully selling Sandro Tonali to Newcastle and I think Milan should be able to find a much better striker than Lukaku with these funds. At Inter Lukaku has often failed to prove his worth and even though Milan started their bid at 40 million euros I don't think it was worth it and it would be better for Milan to start discussing his options again.

Yeah there are surely much better alternatives for Lukaku in the market. Lukaku's recent effort has been quite poor and it is one of the main reasons why Inter aren't keen on continuing with him anymore. Milan would just need to pay some more money than 40 million euros to buy a decent scorer. They should invest into the attacking line thinking of the future of the team.

It started to look like the probability of Lukaku to sign for Milan is going down but it is just an indicator on Transfermarkt of course. Let's wait and see what Chelsea want from Milan to sell him exactly.