“The victim of the transfer campaign and a possible pact in the locker room”


Article by Aurelian Botezatu – published on Saturday, September 20, 2025, 12:13 / Updated on Saturday, September 20, 2025 12:16
Inter started the season with a victory and two consecutive failures in Serie A, before returning to the Champions League, where the team prepared by Cristi Chivu made a victory in front of Ajax (2-0).
Despite the victory of the Champions League, in front of Ajax (2-0), Italian newspapers continue to analyze the modest season debut in the championship. The prestigious Gazzetta Dello Sport has again referred to the fact that Cristi Chivu has gone very little since his predecessor's line, Simone Inzaghi.
But, unlike other criticisms, the pink newspaper considers that there is an objective reason why the Romanian technician goes on the path of snail reform: the modest campaign of transfers of the nerazzuri.
Inter chiefs made modest acquisitions, in return to Ademola Lookman and Giovanni Leoni
His bosses were unable to bring Ademola Lookman, from Atalanta, nor Giovanni Leoni, from Parma, finally transferred to Liverpool. And the players they bought do not yet give the expected yield.
“Petar Susic delighted against Turin, disappointed against Udinese, and then disappeared. Luis Henrique and Diouf (no – both modest in evolutions) were not seen. Bonny, in attack, is a replacement and nothing more. Chivu has put all his confidence in Akanji (no – brought from Manchester!
Pio Esseto, one of the best players in the Champions League opening match, is not a new purchase, “notes Gazzetta Dello Sport, whose conclusion is that the Romanian technician” has tried a few changes, only to make a sensational return, returning to the eleven ordinary, to those.
Gazzetta dello Sport insinuates the existence of a compromise made by Cristi Chivu with the locker room
Gazzetta journalists also have theory about the delay with which the interior change under the command of Chivu occurs: “Maybe there was a pact or compromise in the locker room.”
A pact that looks like this: “The new coach does not make any treatment or a revolution in the lot, and instead, the” old “group engages in a process of gradual change, so as to manage the delicate transition of the coach with caution and wisdom. And while waiting for his new Inter to take shape.




