The Inter Herald
Match29 Aug 2026
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 targets31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
3 goals for Nicolò Barella
The match ball belongs to Nicolò Barella, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Market31 Aug 2026
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 The request is on a desk at Inter, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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
- The dugout When it matters, Marcus Thuram plays
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Squad Player of the week: Nicolò Barella