Mehdi Taremi Unless there are any surprises, the first match of the championship will be skippedInter. The injury suffered by the Iranian striker should keep him out of the game against Genoa, complicating Simone Inzaghi’s debut. The good news is that the others will do everything they can to be there: Marcus Thuram has already cut a couple of days off, Lautaro Martinez is ready to do the same and return to Appiano Gentile before August 7, the date currently scheduled. The answer could be, at least temporarily, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, tested in that role in the second half against Pisa.
Right in the not so brilliant friendly at the Tuscans’ home, here is the best advert for a new striker. Not done on purpose: Inzaghi has those and he deploys those. Correa with Salcedo, it’s hard to say which of the two has less chance of remaining in black and blue from August 31 onwards. A predictable result, with all due respect to those who think that, all things considered, keeping Tucu would be at least more logical than doing the same with Arnautovic, in the dynamics of the Inter offensive sector.
The issue remains the same, how to give the coach the new striker he would like so much. Next week there will be a confrontation with the Austrian, which will not be a do-or-die face-to-face. The main objective remains Albert Gudmundsson: Fiorentina is negotiating him with figures and a formula that would be fine with Inter. The Icelander, assuming Genoa says yes to the Viola offensive, will take his time waiting for signals from Viale della Liberazione. Not forever, though.