To prepare for a rainy day, Inter Milan set out to find Sommer s successor, the number one target being the first black goalkeeper of the German team.

According to reports from German Sky Sports reporter Plettenberg, Inter Milan is paying close attention to the 23-year-old Freiburg goalkeeper Atubolu. Atubolu is another outstanding young goalkeeper who has emerged in the Bundesliga in the past two seasons. He is the main goalkeeper of the German national youth team that reached the European Youth Championship finals. He was recently selected for the German adult national team for the first time and is the first black goalkeeper in the history of the German team. Inter Milan's current main goalkeeper Sommer is 36 years old. He will leave Inter Milan at the end of this season. Inter Milan is looking for Sommer's successor. Atubolu is Inter Milan's current number one target. His current value is 18 million euros.

There has never been a shortage of outstanding goalkeepers in the history of Inter Milan, from Zenga to Pagliuca, from Toldo to Cesar, from Handanovic to Onana, and now goalkeeper Sommer. It’s just that the current main goalkeeper Sommer is 36 years old. His contract with Inter Milan will expire at the end of this season. Judging from the current news, the possibility of the two parties renewing the contract is very small. There is a high probability that Sommer will leave the team or even retire after the end of this season.

Since the beginning of this season, Inter Milan has been looking for Sommer's successor, and one of the candidates is the current Inter Milan substitute goalkeeper Josep Martinez. Inter Milan recently won three consecutive victories in Serie A and two consecutive victories in the Champions League, totaling five consecutive victories in all competitions. During this period, Inter Milan only conceded two goals in 5 games. The two goalkeepers Sommer and Josep Martinez took turns. Sommer played 3 times and conceded 1 goal and kept two clean sheets. Hema played 2 times and conceded 1 goal and 1 clean sheet. The performance of both goalkeepers is remarkable. I believe that as the season progresses, Hema will have more opportunities to play to prove to the club whether he has the strength to succeed Sommer.

In addition, Inter Milan is also actively looking for other goalkeepers as Sommer's successor. The current top candidate is Freiburg goalkeeper Atubolu, who has just been selected for the German national team. Atubolu was born on May 25, 2002. He is 23 years old. He is a black goalkeeper with dual nationalities of Germany and Nigeria. He came from the Freiburg youth training and started playing for Freiburg U17 in 2017. At the age of 20, he became the substitute goalkeeper of Freiburg's first team and became the team's main goalkeeper from the 2023-2024 season. He has played 84 times for Freiburg so far, conceding 123 goals and keeping clean sheets in 29 games.

Atubolu is 189 centimeters tall and weighs 99 kilograms. When he stands in front of the goal, he looks like a black iron tower. Atubolu's jumping ability is very outstanding, which gives him a clear advantage when dealing with high-altitude balls. In the 2024-2025 season, Atubolu successfully picked off the high ball 31 times, ranking third among all Bundesliga goalkeepers, second only to Mainz's 194 cm tall Zentner and Union Berlin's 190 cm tall Jonnov. In addition, Atubolu's saving ability and anticipation of position selection are also outstanding.

However, Atubolu is most talked about for his ability to save penalty kicks. He contributed two penalty saves in each of the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 seasons, successfully tying the Bundesliga record of consecutive penalty saves with 4 consecutive penalty saves. In the last round of the 2023-2024 Bundesliga season, against Freiburg and Union Berlin, he saved two penalty kicks from his opponent in a single game. In the fourth round of the Bundesliga this season, Freiburg defeated Werder Bremen 3-0. Atubolu saved a penalty kick taken by opponent player Schmid in the 59th minute, thus becoming the first goalkeeper in the history of the Bundesliga to save 5 consecutive penalty kicks. So far in his career, he has saved 10 of 30 penalty kicks, 5 of which occurred in the Bundesliga. Especially in the last 5 penalty kicks he faced, he saved them all.

Atubolu's biggest shortcoming is his stability. Last season, he set a record of 610 consecutive minutes without conceding a goal. He also made shocking low-level mistakes in the game against Leipzig. His mistakes led to the team conceding three times last season. However, considering Atubolu's age of 23, there is still a chance to make up for this shortcoming.

In addition to firmly holding the main goalkeeper position in Freiburg, Atubolu is also the main goalkeeper of the German National Youth Team, and reached the European Youth Championship finals with the German National Youth Team. However, his performance in the final was average, and he eventually lost to the England Youth Team 2-3 and missed the championship. On this national team match day, because the German team's main goalkeeper Bauman was unwell, the German team coach Nagelsmann recruited Atubolu to the German national team for the first time. He also became the first black goalkeeper of the German national team. Atubolu said in this regard that his goal is to become the No. 1 goalkeeper of the German team!

Atubolu's stable performance in the past two seasons has attracted the attention of clubs including Inter Milan, Naples and Frankfurt. Atubolu is currently worth 18 million euros. His contract with Freiburg will expire in June 2027, and the contract comes with a release clause of approximately 16 million euros. Inter Milan is currently paying close attention to Atubolu's performance and has contacted Freiburg Club and Atubolu's agent, hoping to sign the new German national team goalkeeper after the end of this season!

Note: The picture comes from the Internet.

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