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Triumph
Match3 Nov 2027
Inter announce themselves in Europe
5‑0 against OH Leuven, on a night that will be replayed at this club for a generation. Continental reputations are made in single evenings and this was the evening.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Davide Sorino damages knee ligaments — 28 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match6 Nov 2027
Inter cannot stop winning
8 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.15, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market8 Nov 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.56 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Inter may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad8 Nov 2027
International break empties Inter
12 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A falling-out at Inter
Nicolò Barella and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Match27 Oct 2027
Inter through in the cup
A 5‑0 win over Forli, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Match30 Oct 2027
6‑0, and Curtis Jones took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Inter tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings1 Nov 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.63 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Curtis Jones takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Squad1 Nov 2027
The match ball belongs to Fisayo Dele-Bashiru, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match30 Oct 2027
Inter cannot stop winning
6 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad1 Nov 2027
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.
Market1 Nov 2027
Inter may not be able to give David Neres what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. David Neres wants continental football; whether Inter can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
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Triumph
Match20 Oct 2027
4‑0. Nights like this are why clubs spend decades trying to qualify for this competition, and they arrive perhaps twice in that time. Everybody who was in the ground will describe it badly for years.
Market25 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The match ball belongs to Marcus Thuram, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Match23 Oct 2027
Inter make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Inter have 4 straight wins of it.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Petar Sučić pops up at the right end — 7.88
7.88, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Tempers go at Inter
Nicolò Barella 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.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.69, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match23 Oct 2027
Inter get the job done against Torino
A 2‑0 win over Torino, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words at Inter training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luís Henrique is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Market18 Oct 2027
“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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Inter are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Inter
Nicolò Barella and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match16 Oct 2027
Three points for Inter, 2‑1 the final word against Frosinone in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces18 Oct 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Francesco Pio Esposito has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at Inter training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Piotr Zieliński is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.30, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Curtis Jones ran the middle of the pitch — 7.52
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 7.52, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Nicolò Barella has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Squad11 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Inter
Nicolò Barella and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market11 Oct 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gerardo Corona, and the manager let it.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Marcus Thuram gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Marcus Thuram is on it.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hakan Çalhanoğlu trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Inter
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kevin Moressa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market11 Oct 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nicolò Barella signs something — a contract at Inter or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad11 Oct 2027
The division's best last weekend was a Inter man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that David Neres was the best thing in any of them.
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Match2 Oct 2027
No mercy from Inter
Sassuolo will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Inter were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match29 Sep 2027
A European lesson for Inter
0‑1 against Olympique de Marseille. Continental football is unforgiving about the things a domestic league lets a side get away with, and this was a night spent finding out which of those the club still has.
Market4 Oct 2027
Luís Henrique hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
A brace, and David Neres takes the afternoon — 8.48
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. David Neres provided it, and the 8.48 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad4 Oct 2027
13 Inter players away with their countries
The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 13 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Up for the corner, and Jacobo Ramón delivers — 7.98
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Jacobo Ramón scored, was marked 7.98, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market4 Oct 2027
Ivan Provedel wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Inter hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad4 Oct 2027
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.
The dugout4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Ivan Provedel
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Squad27 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Inter
Gerardo Corona and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad27 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Inter
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Piotr Zieliński was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match25 Sep 2027
The run is over for Inter
4 matches without defeat, and then Atalanta. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Federico Dimarco did the work nobody counts — 7.77
9 combined actions and 7.77. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Marcus Thuram is still paying for one afternoon at Inter
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Luis Milla gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Inter are still strangers to each other
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
John Stones has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Piotr Zieliński dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
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Triumph
Match15 Sep 2027
A European night to remember for Inter
3‑1 against FC Copenhagen, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.
Market20 Sep 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
A brace, and Curtis Jones takes the afternoon — 8.46
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Curtis Jones provided it, and the 8.46 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market20 Sep 2027
The deal that would have taken Carlos Augusto to Modena has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Inter with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match18 Sep 2027
Nobody wants to play Inter right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Inter
Nicolò Barella and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market20 Sep 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Match18 Sep 2027
Another one collected away from home
5 on the bounce on the road for Inter. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
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Triumph
Market13 Sep 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Inter people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match11 Sep 2027
No mercy from Inter
Cremonese will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Inter were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Inter may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market13 Sep 2027
The bid was some way short and Inter did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Age has not caught John Stones yet — 8.18
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.18 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market13 Sep 2027
Nicolò Barella wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Inter hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad13 Sep 2027
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Inter
Federico Dimarco 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
Another one collected away from home
4 on the bounce on the road for Inter. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
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Market6 Sep 2027
Luís Henrique hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
The clock did what Bayern Munich would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Market6 Sep 2027
Marcus Thuram wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Inter hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Inter close the window on a squad of their own making
17 in and 26 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market6 Sep 2027
Add another name to the list: Modena have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Carlos Augusto. The answer from Inter has not changed — yet.
Squad6 Sep 2027
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.
Market6 Sep 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Piotr Zieliński and Inter agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Inter
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Piotr Zieliński was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Bayern Munich; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market30 Aug 2027
David Raya arrives at Inter in a $40.9M statement of intent
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Inter have paid $40.9M for David Raya, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
Match28 Aug 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Genoa, and it could have been more.
Squad30 Aug 2027
David Raya arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. David Raya has, at Inter, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The match ball belongs to Francesco Pio Esposito, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Age has not caught John Stones yet — 8.13
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.13 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Inter
Nicolò Barella 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The step up is real for Dino Putsén
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Market30 Aug 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
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Upbeat
Match21 Aug 2027
The longest week starts now for Inter
Beaten 0‑1 by Juventus in the one fixture that is never just a fixture. Work, school, the corner shop — there will be no getting away from this one.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Inter asked and Napoli said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market23 Aug 2027
“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.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Inter may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market23 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Inter
Nicolò Barella and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match21 Aug 2027
The run is over for Inter
8 matches without defeat, and then Juventus. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
7 academy graduates step up at Inter
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match21 Aug 2027
Inter keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
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Market16 Aug 2027
The paperwork is done: Gerardo Corona joins from Napoli in a deal worth $46.3M. Now comes the harder part.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tottenham have kept their man, and Inter go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
The offer went to Arsenal this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
Torino wanted more than $8.9M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Inter
Nicolò Barella and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Gerardo Corona gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Gerardo Corona has just signed for Inter, and for once the answer mattered.
Market16 Aug 2027
Alain Taho has left for Lecco in a $850.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market16 Aug 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Inter have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Inter spend $46.3M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $46.3M for Gerardo Corona, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
In brief
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Inter
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The dugout
Marcus Thuram has become a man the manager trusts
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Squad
Kevin Moressa falls out with a teammate over standards
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Upbeat
Match9 Aug 2027
Nobody above Inter
First, on 95 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Market9 Aug 2027
The name of Carlos Augusto has come up in conversations Inter were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market9 Aug 2027
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Inter can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Inter training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Piotr Zieliński is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Inter
Francesco Acerbi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Loan watch9 Aug 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Inter, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
John Stones gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say John Stones is on it.
Market9 Aug 2027
The name of Nicolò Barella keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Inter say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
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 Francesco Pio Esposito has written the date down.
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Market2 Aug 2027
Hellas Verona pay $5.0M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market2 Aug 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Inter
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luís Henrique was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
Federico Dimarco has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market2 Aug 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Marcus Thuram’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
Carlos Augusto asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Market2 Aug 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Inter, another week without a signature from Vanja Milinković-Savić.
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Upbeat
Transfer targets26 Jul 2027
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.
Market26 Jul 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.
Market26 Jul 2027
Avellino come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Inter did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market26 Jul 2027
Andy Diouf 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Inter
Nicolò Barella and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad26 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Inter
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luís Henrique was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market26 Jul 2027
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Nicolò Barella has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Carlos Augusto knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Inter, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Upbeat
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
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.
Market19 Jul 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Inter have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market19 Jul 2027
“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.
Market19 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Inter
Federico Dimarco 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Inter has been clear about where Francesco Acerbi stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad19 Jul 2027
20 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.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Marcus Thuram has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Inter training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kevin Moressa is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Upbeat
Match12 Jul 2027
The view from the top for Inter
95 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Transfer targets12 Jul 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hellas Verona have kept their man, and Inter go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market12 Jul 2027
Terms done: Andy Diouf is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Cremonese waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Inter is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market12 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market12 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad12 Jul 2027
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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Vanja Milinković-Savić is living that version at Inter, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Words at Inter training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Piotr Zieliński is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Upbeat
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Napoli; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market5 Jul 2027
Petar Sučić hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.
Market5 Jul 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Aleksandar Stanković had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market5 Jul 2027
Ivan Provedel wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Inter hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Inter
Nicolò Barella 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Francesco Pio Esposito commits to Inter for another 5 years.
Squad5 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Inter
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marcus Thuram was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market5 Jul 2027
The phone has started ringing about Dino Putsén again, and this time the name on the line is Ascoli. Inter are listening politely and promising nothing.
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Upbeat
Market28 Jun 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.
Market28 Jun 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Inter people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market28 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market28 Jun 2027
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Avellino had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Inter
Nicolò Barella and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Cristian Carrara is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
Nicolò Barella has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A season on the outside for Andy Diouf
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Inter has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Loan watch28 Jun 2027
37 appearances away from home and 3 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Upbeat
Market21 Jun 2027
Barcelona arrived with $180.0M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
Market21 Jun 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Inter have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market21 Jun 2027
Inter say no — this time
The offer from Palermo for Yann Aurel Bisseck 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.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
Lautaro Martínez has gone, the accounts have $180.0M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.
Market21 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
No place for Jacobo Ramón in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Inter are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Too much change too quickly at Inter
10 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
Marcus Thuram has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Upbeat
Market14 Jun 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Inter people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
No deal for Matías Soulé at that price
Inter offered $34.5M; AS Roma said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Market14 Jun 2027
Inter spend $23.3M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $23.3M has been paid because David Neres is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Match14 Jun 2027
Nobody above Inter
First, on 95 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Market14 Jun 2027
Inter get their man
The chase for Alisson Santos ended with $8.1M changing hands and Napoli out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Market14 Jun 2027
The paperwork is done: Luis Milla joins from Como in a deal worth $7.7M. Now comes the harder part.
Squad14 Jun 2027
David Neres gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. David Neres has just signed for Inter, and for once the answer mattered.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Josep Martínez: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Inter have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Francesco Pio Esposito is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
In brief
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Squad
Words exchanged at Inter
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Loan watch
The goals keep arriving from Davide Frattesi’s exile
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Squad
8 Inter players away with their countries
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
The clubs have shaken hands with Como; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Everything agreed with Como, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Market7 Jun 2027
“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.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
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.
Market7 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Inter have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market7 Jun 2027
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Market7 Jun 2027
Inter say no — this time
The offer from Arezzo for Aleksandar Stanković 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yoan Bonny and Inter agree another 5 years.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Boardroom31 May 2027
Silverware for Inter
They will talk about this season in this town for a long time. The trophy comes home with the squad, and the route is already agreed.
Match26 May 2027
Nobody wins at Inter
25 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match26 May 2027
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Marcus Thuram obliged against Napoli. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Inter.
Match26 May 2027
Inter cannot stop winning
8 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match26 May 2027
Inter win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 108th minute. Napoli will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad31 May 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Inter have had the benefit of it.
Squad31 May 2027
19 goals and a season average of 7.27. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad31 May 2027
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.
Squad31 May 2027
18 clean sheets and the golden glove for Ivan Provedel
The one award on the pitch nobody else can win. 18 games in a season in which nobody scored past him, and a career that will be measured against this one.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad24 May 2027
Marcus Thuram is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.64 with 29 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market24 May 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match24 May 2027
The season ends: position 1 for Inter
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 95 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Match22 May 2027
Inter cannot stop winning
7 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad24 May 2027
A falling-out at Inter
Hakan Çalhanoğlu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 May 2027
34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match22 May 2027
Inter get the job done against Napoli
A 2‑1 win over Napoli, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Match22 May 2027
Inter keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match15 May 2027
The run at home goes on for Inter
24 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match17 May 2027
The view from the top for Inter
92 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Squad17 May 2027
26 goals and a season average of 7.38. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market17 May 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.
Match15 May 2027
Nobody wants to play Inter right now
6 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Loan watch17 May 2027
The goals keep arriving from Davide Frattesi’s exile
17 goals in 37 games at Lazio — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Inter updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Match15 May 2027
Three points for Inter, 2‑0 the final word against Torino in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Federico Dimarco was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.51. 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.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match8 May 2027
The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Federico Dimarco decided nobody was going anywhere. Venezia had no time left to answer.
Player ratings10 May 2027
A brace, and Federico Dimarco takes the afternoon — 8.63
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Federico Dimarco provided it, and the 8.63 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match8 May 2027
Inter cannot stop winning
5 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad10 May 2027
Tempers go at Inter
Nicolò Barella 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.
Squad10 May 2027
A season average of 7.23 with 17 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Loan watch10 May 2027
36 appearances away from home and 16 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
Match8 May 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Federico Dimarco. 2‑1 against Venezia, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout10 May 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Marked 8.05 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match1 May 2027
Inter make home a hard place to visit
23 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad3 May 2027
25 goals and a season average of 7.38. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match1 May 2027
Nobody wants to play Inter right now
4 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad3 May 2027
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.
Loan watch3 May 2027
The goals keep arriving from Davide Frattesi’s exile
15 goals in 35 games at Lazio — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Inter updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Match1 May 2027
A 1‑0 win over Sassuolo, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings3 May 2027
A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout3 May 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Inter told Nicolò Barella something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Loan watch3 May 2027
“I watch every Inter game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Sassuolo runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Squad26 Apr 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Marcus Thuram
29 goals and a season average of 7.66 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market26 Apr 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.
Match24 Apr 2027
4‑0, and Marcus Thuram took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Inter tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.57, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Francesco Pio Esposito did not need any: 8.24, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni 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.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The terraces26 Apr 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Francesco Pio Esposito has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
A performance of 8.42 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Match17 Apr 2027
Inter make home a hard place to visit
22 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match17 Apr 2027
Whatever happens, Inter do not lose
18 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad19 Apr 2027
27 goals and a season average of 7.64. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match14 Apr 2027
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Curtis Jones obliged against Frosinone. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Inter.
Match19 Apr 2027
80 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Market19 Apr 2027
“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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Samuele Angori: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Inter have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Curtis Jones goes up and wins it — 7.85
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.85 for the rest of it.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match10 Apr 2027
Still nobody has beaten Inter
The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad12 Apr 2027
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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Nicolò Barella
17 goals and a season average of 7.21 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Apr 2027
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Nicolò Barella has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Leandro Greco was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Inter dressing room was either.
Market12 Apr 2027
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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The division's best last weekend was a Inter man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Lautaro Martínez was the best thing in any of them.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match3 Apr 2027
Bragging rights belong to Inter for another year after a 2‑1 win over AC Milan in front of a full house.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Lautaro Martínez
24 goals and a season average of 7.39 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
There are goals, and then there are goals against that particular opponent. The Inter support have their bragging rights for a year and they know exactly whose name is on them.
Squad5 Apr 2027
John Stones 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
Nobody wants to play Inter right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Market5 Apr 2027
Inter may not be able to give Luís Henrique what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Luís Henrique wants continental football; whether Inter can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Inter have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Lautaro Martínez is on it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market29 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
The neighbours are next for Inter
Nothing about the week ahead is ordinary. AC Milan on Saturday, a town that has already started talking about it, and a dressing room that does not need telling what it means.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Ivan Provedel wants out of the spotlight
The ambition story running the other way, and the one nobody tells: a footballer asking for a smaller stage, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is very rarely reported as anything else.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Marcus Thuram has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market29 Mar 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Marcus Thuram signs something — a contract at Inter or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
The goals keep arriving from Kristjan Asllani’s exile
8 goals in 26 games at Al Jazira — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Inter updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Player of the week, judged against every other man in the division. A small award, and one most careers never collect.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against AC Milan in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match20 Mar 2027
Inter make home a hard place to visit
20 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Marcus Thuram is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.64 with 27 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Match20 Mar 2027
14 unbeaten for Inter
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation Inter did not have in the autumn.
Match22 Mar 2027
The view from the top for Inter
73 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market22 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.
Squad22 Mar 2027
The match ball belongs to Marcus Thuram, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Squad22 Mar 2027
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Inter
Nicolò Barella and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match20 Mar 2027
Marcus Thuram among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Marcus Thuram on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Inter and Lazio.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad15 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Wellington Silva
16 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
24 goals and a season average of 7.61. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match13 Mar 2027
2 behind and going nowhere, until Nicolò Barella decided otherwise. Monza had done the hard part and then watched it come apart, and the noise at the final whistle was the sort a ground keeps.
Match13 Mar 2027
13 unbeaten for Inter
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 13 matches without defeat is a foundation Inter did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
A brace, and Nicolò Barella takes the afternoon — 8.40
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Nicolò Barella provided it, and the 8.40 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Cristian Carrara and Inter agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Inter can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Match13 Mar 2027
Monza made Inter work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Ivan Provedel
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
Wellington Silva damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match6 Mar 2027
The run at home goes on for Inter
19 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match3 Mar 2027
Cup progress for Inter
A 2‑0 win over Torino, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Squad8 Mar 2027
20 days out for Davide Sorino after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Inter will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match6 Mar 2027
12 unbeaten for Inter
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 12 matches without defeat is a foundation Inter did not have in the autumn.
Market8 Mar 2027
Inter say no — this time
The offer from Öster for Cristian Carrara 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.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.35 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Lautaro Martínez
22 goals and a season average of 7.37 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ivan Provedel and Inter agree another 2 years.
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Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Inter lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market1 Mar 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Marcus Thuram
23 goals and a season average of 7.59 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Davide Sorino out for 28 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Inter will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match27 Feb 2027
10 unbeaten for Inter
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Inter did not have in the autumn.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings1 Mar 2027
Ninety minutes of Marcus Thuram at his very best
Marked 8.34. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Inter.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Inter told Lautaro Martínez something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Upbeat
Squad22 Feb 2027
Wellington Silva damages knee ligaments — 41 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 41 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match20 Feb 2027
The run at home goes on for Inter
17 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Match20 Feb 2027
No mercy from Inter
Frosinone will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Inter were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Davide Sorino out for 39 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Inter will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad22 Feb 2027
22 goals and a season average of 7.57. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match22 Feb 2027
The view from the top for Inter
65 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market22 Feb 2027
“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.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.28 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The terraces22 Feb 2027
The town believes in Inter
Position 1, 65 points, and a ticket office that has not been this busy in years. Nobody says the word; everybody is thinking it.
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Upbeat
Squad15 Feb 2027
49 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Inter lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad15 Feb 2027
46 days out for Davide Sorino after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Inter will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match13 Feb 2027
Nobody wins at Inter
16 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A season average of 7.38 with 21 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Market15 Feb 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Inter heard it as anything else.
Match13 Feb 2027
Still nobody has beaten Inter
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Inter
John Stones and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Triumph
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Wellington Silva
57 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
$36.5M was the most the club would pay and Atalanta were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
56 days out for Davide Sorino after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Inter will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market8 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match6 Feb 2027
Inter leave it late against Como
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 87th, and Como spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Inter will try again when the window opens; Napoli may not be selling by then.
Match6 Feb 2027
Nobody wants to play Inter right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Lautaro Martínez
20 goals and a season average of 7.38 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Market8 Feb 2027
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Inter heard it as anything else.
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Upbeat
Squad1 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Wellington Silva
64 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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The offer went to Atalanta this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market1 Feb 2027
“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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Inter have done the hard part with Napoli, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad1 Feb 2027
21 goals and a season average of 7.58. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match30 Jan 2027
Inter make home a hard place to visit
15 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
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.
Match30 Jan 2027
Inter cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
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Triumph
Match23 Jan 2027
The derby belongs to Inter
3‑0 against Juventus, and the songs went on long after the whistle. League positions come and go; days like this get retold at family dinners for years.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Wellington Silva damages knee ligaments — 73 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 73 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match20 Jan 2027
Inter march on in the cup
Lecce are out and Inter go through, 4‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
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.
Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Match25 Jan 2027
54 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Market25 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Carrarese waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Inter is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Marcus Thuram
20 goals and a season average of 7.55 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
A brace, and Fisayo Dele-Bashiru takes the afternoon — 8.34
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Fisayo Dele-Bashiru provided it, and the 8.34 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
In brief
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Match
Nobody wins at Inter
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Player ratings
Francesco Pio Esposito, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.35
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The terraces
Inter are 1 in the table and the town has noticed
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Upbeat
Squad18 Jan 2027
Wellington Silva damages knee ligaments — 81 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 81 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market18 Jan 2027
Inter spend $18.4M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $18.4M has been paid because Samuele Angori is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Match16 Jan 2027
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Market18 Jan 2027
The fee is $18.8M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Lazio drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
No deal for Rafa Marín at that price
Inter offered $23.5M; Napoli said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Market18 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market18 Jan 2027
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Lautaro Martínez reports back to Inter with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad18 Jan 2027
19 goals and a season average of 7.40. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad18 Jan 2027
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Fisayo Dele-Bashiru is living that version at Inter, and it tends to show in the first month.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Wellington Silva
89 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Fiorentina wanted more than $25.2M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
$18.8M on the table at Lazio. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The offer went to Pisa this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market11 Jan 2027
Napoli come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Inter did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Inter asked and AS Roma said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market11 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Inter people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Marcus Thuram
19 goals and a season average of 7.52 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Match9 Jan 2027
Nobody wins at Inter
12 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
In brief
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Player ratings
A defender's goal wins it for Inter — 7.79
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Squad
A falling-out at Inter
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Squad
The step up is real for Cristian Carrara
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Upbeat
Squad4 Jan 2027
Wellington Silva damages knee ligaments — 97 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 97 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
$23.4M on the table at Fiorentina. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
The offer went to Napoli this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Inter have gone to AS Roma with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lazio have kept their man, and Inter go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Inter will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.
Match2 Jan 2027
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 12 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
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Triumph
Match26 Dec 2026
Inter cannot stop winning
12 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Wellington Silva damages knee ligaments — 107 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 107 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match26 Dec 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Venezia, and it could have been more.
Match28 Dec 2026
The view from the top for Inter
47 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Squad28 Dec 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad28 Dec 2026
17 goals and a season average of 7.38. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match26 Dec 2026
Nobody wins at Inter
11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Inter
John Stones and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
The pass was always on for Luís Henrique
Chances created: 17. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
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Triumph
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Wellington Silva
114 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
Inter cannot stop winning
11 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Marcus Thuram is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.50 with 18 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Francesco Pio Esposito is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match19 Dec 2026
Inter make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Match19 Dec 2026
Another one collected away from home
4 on the bounce on the road for Inter. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
Inter supporters have found a favourite in Yoan Bonny
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Yoan Bonny has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match19 Dec 2026
Three points for Inter, 2‑0 the final word against Sassuolo in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Match15 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Marcus Thuram. 1‑0 against Atalanta, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
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Triumph
Squad14 Dec 2026
123 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Inter lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match12 Dec 2026
Inter make it 9 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Inter have 9 straight wins of it.
Match12 Dec 2026
7‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match9 Dec 2026
Inter march on in the cup
Catania are out and Inter go through, 4‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A brace, and Lautaro Martínez takes the afternoon — 9.50
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lautaro Martínez provided it, and the 9.50 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A brace, and Petar Sučić takes the afternoon — 8.45
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Petar Sučić provided it, and the 8.45 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad14 Dec 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
A brace, and Piotr Zieliński takes the afternoon — 8.36
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Piotr Zieliński provided it, and the 8.36 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Wellington Silva, 33, rolls back the years — 7.96
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.96 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
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Triumph
Match5 Dec 2026
3‑0, and Marcus Thuram took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Inter tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Match5 Dec 2026
Inter cannot stop winning
7 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.57 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market7 Dec 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Inter can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Marcus Thuram is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.38 with 13 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad7 Dec 2026
100 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.
Match5 Dec 2026
Inter make home a hard place to visit
8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad7 Dec 2026
200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
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Triumph
Match28 Nov 2026
Derby days make names, and Lautaro Martínez made his against AC Milan. 2‑0, bragging rights secured, and one half of town will be tired of hearing about him by Tuesday.
Match30 Nov 2026
The view from the top for Inter
32 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Match28 Nov 2026
Inter make it 6 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Inter have 6 straight wins of it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them, with his name on it, and it is a year of bragging rights for Inter and a story that will outlast his contract.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni 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.
Market30 Nov 2026
Inter may not be able to give Carlos Augusto what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Carlos Augusto wants continental football; whether Inter can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A season average of 7.20 with 11 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Lautaro Martínez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Triumph
Match21 Nov 2026
5‑1, and Lautaro Martínez took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Inter tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Match21 Nov 2026
Nobody wants to play Inter right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
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 ratings23 Nov 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Marcus Thuram — 6.62
Marked 6.62. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Lautaro Martínez at his very best
Marked 9.93. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Inter.
Match21 Nov 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Inter and Lazio in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad23 Nov 2026
11 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yoan Bonny and Inter agree another 5 years.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Marcus Thuram gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Marcus Thuram is on it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market16 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Lautaro Martínez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Inter man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Nicolò Barella was the best thing in any of them.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
10 appearances at Lazio and the goals keep coming. Inter are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
Looking ahead16 Nov 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Lazio in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Loan watch16 Nov 2026
12 appearances at Racing Club and the goals keep coming. Inter are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.
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Triumph
Match4 Nov 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Petar Sučić obliged against Foggia. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Inter.
Squad9 Nov 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A brace, and Petar Sučić takes the afternoon — 8.35
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Petar Sučić provided it, and the 8.35 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match7 Nov 2026
Inter make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Inter have 4 straight wins of it.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Inter
John Stones 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
Inter get the job done against Monza
A 3‑1 win over Monza, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces9 Nov 2026
The crowd has taken to Petar Sučić
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings9 Nov 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.
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Upbeat
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Wellington Silva, 33, rolls back the years — 8.05
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.05 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match31 Oct 2026
9 unbeaten for Inter
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Inter did not have in the autumn.
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Nicolò Barella did the work nobody counts — 7.70
18 combined actions and 7.70. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Match31 Oct 2026
Three points for Inter, 3‑2 the final word against Parma in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Marcus Thuram at his very best
Marked 8.40. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Inter.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.25 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Upbeat
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.
Match24 Oct 2026
8 unbeaten for Inter
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Inter did not have in the autumn.
Match24 Oct 2026
Three points for Inter, 2‑1 the final word against Udinese in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Oct 2026
10 goals and a season average of 7.27. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.40, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Nicolò Barella at his very best
Marked 8.25. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Inter.
Match24 Oct 2026
Inter hit back inside 2 minutes
Udinese held the lead for 2 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Inter answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Leandro Greco on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Upbeat
Match17 Oct 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Marcus Thuram will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Inter escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 unbeaten for Inter
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation Inter did not have in the autumn.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Marcus Thuram at his very best
Marked 8.35. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Inter.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Marcus Thuram is in the form of his life
A season average of 7.21 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Alessandro Bastoni's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Match17 Oct 2026
It needed Marcus Thuram to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Frosinone, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
John Stones gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say John Stones is on it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Petar Sučić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market12 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Lautaro Martínez signs something — a contract at Inter or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Luís Henrique knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Luís Henrique trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Triumph
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Inter do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market5 Oct 2026
Inter may not be able to give Luís Henrique what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Luís Henrique wants continental football; whether Inter can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Match3 Oct 2026
Three points for Inter, 1‑0 the final word against AS Roma in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad5 Oct 2026
International break empties Inter
7 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
7.99, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Inter had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Inter have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
$24.2M on the table at Inter
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Inter
Lautaro Martínez 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Inter can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.58 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match26 Sep 2026
A point taken on 91 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.
Match26 Sep 2026
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 4 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 3‑3 draw with Bologna leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ivan Provedel has had enough of the noise
The ambition story running backwards, and the one nobody tells: a footballer who wants a smaller ground, fewer cameras and a crowd that does not turn. It is not weakness and it is rarely reported as anything else.
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Triumph
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A brace, and Lautaro Martínez takes the afternoon — 9.11
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Lautaro Martínez provided it, and the 9.11 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match19 Sep 2026
Inter make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Inter have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
John Stones 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Cristian Carrara is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match19 Sep 2026
Lautaro Martínez among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Lautaro Martínez on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Inter and Como.
Match19 Sep 2026
Como made Inter work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Inter supporters have found a favourite in Yoan Bonny
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Yoan Bonny has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.53 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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Triumph
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.53, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Wellington Silva, 33, rolls back the years — 8.06
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.06 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match12 Sep 2026
Inter cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 3‑2, and it was Marcus Thuram’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Inter.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Provedel, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Inter
Mirko Franchi 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
John Stones gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say John Stones is on it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Leandro Greco, on a 3‑2 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Upbeat
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 1 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at Inter until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Curtis Jones slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Curtis Jones is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Inter
Mirko Franchi and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Marcus Thuram has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Inter
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marcus Thuram named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Marcus Thuram is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Francesco Acerbi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Inter needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Triumph
Match29 Aug 2026
The derby belongs to Inter
1‑0 against Juventus, and the songs went on long after the whistle. League positions come and go; days like this get retold at family dinners for years.
Market31 Aug 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The derby has a name on it: Marcus Thuram
Score against anybody else and it is a goal. Score against them and it is a story with your name in it for a decade, and Inter supporters have already started telling it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
International break empties Inter
7 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Lautaro Martínez has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Leandro Greco on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
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Triumph
Match22 Aug 2026
No mercy from Inter
Lecce will want this one forgotten quickly: 6‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Inter were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Market24 Aug 2026
Inter say no — this time
The offer from RB Leipzig for Alessandro Bastoni 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Como have kept their man, and Inter go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match22 Aug 2026
Marcus Thuram among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Marcus Thuram on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Inter and Lecce.
Market24 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Cristian Carrara again, and this time the name on the line is Forli. Inter are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.50 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.20 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
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Player ratings
Hakan Çalhanoğlu in the eights
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Looking ahead
Derby week at Inter
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Boardroom
The ground is getting bigger
From our football correspondent
Steady
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AS Roma have kept their man, and Inter go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Inter
Alessandro Bastoni and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market17 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market17 Aug 2026
The Yoan Bonny 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A wage question at Inter
Wellington Silva has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Atalanta wanted more than $8.8M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcus Thuram commits to Inter for another 5 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Inter
Lautaro Martínez 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Inter have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Marcus Thuram asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
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Squad
6 new faces, and Inter are still learning each other
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Squad
John Stones remains an outsider
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The dugout
The manager plants his flag on John Stones
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Inter say no — this time
The offer from Manchester City for Federico Dimarco 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Marcus Thuram again, and this time the name on the line is Real Madrid. Inter are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A move Wellington Silva would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Wellington Silva is living that version at Inter, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Inter heard it as anything else.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” John Stones commits to Inter for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Inter
John Stones and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Market3 Aug 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“95 caps. I have loved every one, and it is somebody else’s turn.” At 37 he has stepped away from his country and is going nowhere at Inter.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Marcus Thuram knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Marcus Thuram trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.