You can t spend money! Inter Milan s transfer market is blocked, Lukeman, Cone and Leoni are unsuccessful

The new Serie A season is about to start, but Inter Milan's summer signings are in a rare deadlock. The Nerazzurri, which holds a budget of 45 million euros, has repeatedly hit a wall in the transfer market, from the long-lasting tug-of-war between Atlanta striker Lukeman, to the lightning pursuit of Roma midfielder Conne and the rapid rejection, to the central defender target Leoni being intercepted by Liverpool, the Nerazzurri's key funds in the transfer market have so far seemed so "no place to put".

Faced with signings everywhere, many Inter Milan fans even questioned whether the club's 45 million euro transfer budget really exists? Whether the club management, led by Marlotta, made mistakes in the strategy of introducing players.

As Inter Milan's number one target for signings this summer, Atlanta winger Lukeman is a player that Nerazzurri head coach Zivo urgently hopes for. The arrival of the Nigerian striker will not only directly increase Inter Milan's offensive firepower, but also stand behind Martinez and Toulam Jr. to transport shells, and create threats on the wing. Lukeman's joining will make Inter Milan's frontcourt flexible and changeable.

However, the negotiations of this transaction quickly fell into a vicious cycle. Atlanta started the price, soaring from the initial asking price of 40 million euros to 55 million euros, while Inter Milan's final offer was only 45 million fixed + 5 million floating. The conflict between the players' wishes and the club has intensified, Lukeman has broken relations with Atlanta, the player himself has left the team and publicly stated that he "only wants to join Inter Milan", but Atlanta would rather bear the conflict than lower the price. As time pressure intensifies, with only one week left before the opening of the new season, Inter Milan cannot withstand the long-term war of attrition, and now it seems that they are forced to shift their goals.

After Lukeman's negotiations fell into a dead end, Inter Milan's management quickly turned the gun and invested 45 million yuan in the Rome midfielder department. This adjustment seemed timely, but it also hit the iron plate. Although Conne is regarded as the answer to Inter Milan's midfielder, the 24-year-old French international, with 2 goals and 3 assists in 46 games last season, has both defensive hardness (1.2 steals per game, 54% confrontation success rate) and propulsion ability (2.7 fouls per game), perfectly fits Inter Milan's midfielder's shortcomings. However, Inter Milan offered a 40 million euro basic + floating bonus plan, which is highly consistent with Lukeman's quotation structure. Since the Roman boss personally called out: The Foldkin family regarded Cone as a non-sale product, the new coach Gasperini also planned to build a team with him as the core. Faced with Inter Milan's offer, Rome directly refused on the grounds that it was "far below the psychological price".

, which was previously regarded as the most important part of Inter Milan's defense renewal plan, the 19-year-old Italian young centre-back Leoni is now wearing the Liverpool jersey for a transfer fee of 35 million euros.

From Lukeman to Cone, and then to Leoni, the targets in Inter Milan's three front, middle and back lines in the transfer market this summer are all in trouble. The Nerazzurri's Champions League's new season has not yet begun, and the wisdom of Inter Milan's managers has been tested cruelly in the transfer market. This "huge sum of money that cannot be spent" will become a cold yardstick to measure the success or failure of Inter Milan's transfer market this summer.