The Inter Herald
Market24 Feb 2042
Only the photograph left for Rémi Schneider
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rémi Schneider will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Inter the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Feb 2042
Tempers go at Inter
Seth Chingwaro was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Feb 2042
Robert Davies falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Boardroom24 Feb 2042
The Inter debt reaches $37.9M
Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.
Boardroom24 Feb 2042
100% of the income goes out in wages at Inter
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad24 Feb 2042
When it matters, Alexandr Derzhinskiy plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Squad Qara Nazarov is still paying for one afternoon at Inter
- Market Still no signature from Davor Bertić
- Market The shop window has Jacob Parker in it