The Inter Herald
Squad19 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rodolfo Potiguar
66 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Inter lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market19 Apr 2027
Orkhan Mammadov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Inter they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Rodolfo Potiguar in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Inter this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Diego Contreras gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Diego Contreras has just signed for Inter, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A row about effort at Inter
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ayaz Guliev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
No hiding place for Javid Medvedev
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Javid Medvedev, and the manager let it.
Match19 Apr 2027
Continental football is in reach for Inter
26 points from position 5. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Alan Caruaru has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Alan Caruaru has written the date down.
Market19 Apr 2027
The Javid Dadashov talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Inter know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Market Jorge Akamine joins Inter on a free
- Market Inter pick up Diego Contreras for nothing
- The dugout Caner Muldur asks for a word with the manager