On August 7, 2017, in Milan, there was a certain euphoria. Because a Brazilian left-back who had done very well in the previous season was arrivingwho promised speed and power, and could also take free kicks with a certain nonchalance. So Dalbert it seemed like the perfect deal to forget about what Roy Hodgson had done with Roberto Carlos, two decades earlier. In the circle of the national team of Brazil, he had been taken from Nice and paid around twenty million euros. A significant sum for the times – in reality even now, in a moment of crisis and slimming cure for a bit for everyone – but that could have been invested in other profiles.
But it was the summer of Schick and Emre Mor. In the Inter squad, however, there were Kondogbia, snatched from Milan in a masterly transfer operation, Murillo and Jovetic, a pity he was a distant relative of what we saw in Florence. Returning to Dalbert, let’s say that in his Inter experience he had many lows and practically no highs. 14 appearances the first year, 12 the second, better not to divide 26 million by 20 appearances, without considering the salary of 1.1 million, with even a renewal to allow for a loan. One to Fiorentina, another to Rennes, the last to Cagliari. Always playing poorly, that’s it.
In short, what was supposed to be the left back for Spalletti’s Inter turns out to be a resounding floplike some others who arrived that summer. Seven years ago Dalbert’s medical visits, now it’s been a season since he returned to his homeland, to Recife.