Hakan Çalhanoğlu

Defensive Midfielder - Inter
4 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Hakan Çalhanoğlu

5 Edition

The Inter Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Inter run riot against Genoa

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Transfer targets

Atalanta tell Inter: Giorgio Scalvini is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

3 goals for Nicolò Barella

The match ball belongs to Nicolò Barella, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Market

Mirko Franchi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Inter, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Inter say no — this time

The offer from Bologna for Luís Henrique was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Alessandro Bastoni 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Hakan Çalhanoğlu

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.57, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Nicolò Barella was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.44. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

8 new faces, and Inter are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief