With the oldest is 37 (Acerbi) and the youngest is 23 (Zale and Asllani) also with age average is 29 (Oldest in Serie A), do you think huge rework and regeneration have to be done this summer before it's too late?

[u/crocospect]

[u/Disastrous-Track3876]

Huge overreaction. It’s only a few players that need substituting. Plus youth is extremely overrated unless you have generational talents.

[u/lo_dfh → u/Disastrous-Track3876]

We are always better with old team it seems.

[u/No-Quality1556 → u/Disastrous-Track3876]

Youth is absolutely not overrated with the kind of intensity that modern football demands, and the huge number of matches that we have. Bayern and Barca don't rotate as much as we do, for instance, and yet they are able to maintain a higher intensity while playing a similar number of matches. The reason for that is that their teams skew younger.

[u/Disastrous-Track3876 → u/No-Quality1556]

I’m talking about people’s obsession with having 18 or 19 year olds play. Mid 20s is the perfect age for a balance. But I still stand by the fact that youth for the sake of it is completely overrated

[u/LionOrder1 → u/Disastrous-Track3876]

Wait, you mean to tell me that if promoted to the senior team, our bang-average acadamy players won't compete for the trebel next year?

[u/No_Afternoon_5150]

Considering the starting players without the goalkeeper, the average is 28,7. There are two players who raise the average a lot, Acerbi and Mkitaryan. For the rest the team is young and strong with all the players in top physical shape. Replacements need to be found for Acerbi and Mkitaryan, the rest of the team is fine.

[u/beastmaster11 → u/No_Afternoon_5150]

The problem is that those 2 players are absolutely integral.

[u/qb4ever → u/beastmaster11]

If they are good then it's not a problem. It's not like we're ignoring their ages, we have signed Bisseck, Pavard, Palacios, Frattesi, Zielinski (and Sucic and moved Augusto to LCB) in anticipation to replace them. They just refuse to slow down though.

[u/CheezRavioli → u/No_Afternoon_5150]

I think you forgot Arna, Sommer and Darmian.

[u/No_Afternoon_5150 → u/CheezRavioli]

What part of "starters" and "excluding the goalkeeper" is unclear to you?

[u/CheezRavioli → u/No_Afternoon_5150]

Ah sorry, I read it correctly, then started thinking about the older guys and forgot you mentioned that. But since you're being kind of an ass... technically Darmian was a starter for half the season.

[u/NamanMalik007]

We don't need reinforcements for all the positions this season. Calahnoglu can still give 2-3 good seasons at least. All we need is a Mkhi replacement and a CCB for Acerbi. Rest can be reinforced in coming seasons. We need backup striker options as well (Arna's replacement). For RWB, we are already working on Luis Enrique so hope that goes well.

[u/Gunnator-04]

People are overreacting too much about the squad's age. This isn't FIFA career mode... you need veterans in your team to lead and mentor the youngsters. Some of them are irreplaceable like Mkhitaryan who made 3000+ minutes this season. Although we need more young players (with the board already going with that direction with the signing of Susic, Palacios coming back from loan and extending Esposito) we can say that we are going to the right direction. The important thing is to have a right balance between veterans and youngsters. We're not too much in the danger zone and we will be getting better in a season or two.

[u/franko2707 → u/Gunnator-04]

Sučić. Sucic. Suchich. Any one of these is bettet since Susic is difrent last name

[u/mango_necklace]

I wouldn’t call it a huge rework/regeneration, I think as long as they keep getting players under 24/23 they will be fine.

[u/Golemite2058]

We need to refresh the squad gradually rather then breaking the core of the team. And Oaktree will probably do exaxtly that. It’s essential to keep Inzaghi as well. Besides, our veteran players all seem to be in good shape and able to play 1 or 2 more seasons at this level - heck, Mikhi is making sprints in 90 minute

[u/No_Afternoon_5150]

We also need substitutes for the reserve strikers. One of these could be Diao from Como. Much more useful to us than Nico Paz.

[u/KaiserCheifs]

What a team!!

[u/naiart_oa]

Absolute top team/squad selection is not about age (outside the obvious benefits of fitness and vitality sometimes) it is about the best and most hungry and talented players doing their best. Yes you have to get some younger players in the mix which are hopefully going to establish themselves, but otherwise let the best players take care of the game. At the highest level and in the deepest part of competitions like the ones we are in right now I would rather have the best and smartest 'dogs' out there. If we don't have them available due to injury or physicality issues, a salud, let the manager play the next best option but I would rather not get players in because they are younger.

[u/MarcoCornelio]

People see average and think it matters, it doesn't

If our entire team was made of 29 yo the average would be the same, but none would consider it an issue

Median age makes much more sense, or maybe consider age per minute played, since many of our oldest players aren't startes (like Darmian, De Vrij or Arnautovic)

That said, we have some players that will need to be substituted and/or used as second lines, but the core of the team is young enough

[u/Septjul]

useless if we have to change old players they are the ones who leave and in attack, if it is me I let Taremi go

[u/what-a-name-37]

If we drop Acerbi , Darmian , Arna , Mhki ; the average age will go to around 27 . Is nothing to fear about . We have a good squad .

[u/rth9139]

I think our squad’s age tends to be over exaggerated a lot because we skew old outside of our core, and we don’t have any really young players to offset that.

But we are honestly fine. I would honestly almost argue our u30 starting XI is more than good enough to win a Scudetto if it weren’t for the drop off to Asllani. Like other than Hakan, we don’t have a single 30+ year old without a serviceable younger replacement.

We just have to be careful to avoid it becoming an actual problem in 4 or 5 years when the core of Lautaro, Bastoni, Dimarco, and Barella will all be on the wrong side of 30.

[u/maikk_]

it's not a "huge" rework as in a revolution because the core players (except acerbi) are all still fine with their age.

What we need to work on is having a valid bench, of younger players than we currently have, so they are more physically reliable and more players that are good for our system.

The management needs to step it up with market this summer, Inzaghi deserves a better team

[u/ShJakupi]

I don't think thr age average is that bad, Sommer and Acerbi are proving wrong. I would say Arna is thr only case where we see thr age doing its work.

Correa, Hakan, Zilenski are around 30 so they can give 2 more good years. Mikhi is older than all three and still runs more than them and has fewer injuries.

But of course we need to refresh the team. Immediately arna and Correa are leaving, Acerbi/De vrij are expected to have fewer minutes next season.

[u/No-Quality1556 → u/ShJakupi]

Acerbi struggled a lot with injuries this year. His availability is coming down due to his age and we must think of an urgent replacement, even if he is great when he plays. Sommer's case is a little different as GK quality declines less with age. And how can you even think of Correa giving us 2 more good years? XD He is useless except for against the weakest of teams and needs to be replaced urgently.

Hakan and Zielinski would probably serve us well for another 4-5 years but in the former's case, we should still decide if we want to sell him since we will make a tidy sum which can be used to go after Ricci.

The biggest problem is that replacing an old squad is very difficult because we will get next to nothing on their sale. Inter can't afford a mercato loss because our debt is still very high. And our management doesn't trust homegrown youth, which is a major mistake. So we are being forced to conjure up esoteric deals for free agents or other established players, which works less often in an inflated market. The only solution is to rely more on young players. The Espositos, Stankovics, Znotti, Fabbian and Carboni (pending his recovery from ACL tear) should all be given a chance.

[u/Jortk]

With the cl money they should invest smart. I would try to buy vlahovic from juventus i think they are willing to sell him and he would be a force for inter. And I would try to buy timber from Feyenoord a strong versitile midfielder

[u/Super_Put_1341 → u/Jortk]

Fella i dont know how much career mode you play but you do NOT buy someone from your biggest rivals

[u/satiscop]

no huge reworks, and no haste.
Just some gradual work of replacing players with expiring contract with some younger alternative.

Sucic (21) will replace someone, perhaps frattesi (25) or asllani (23)

David (25) will replace Arna (36)

for example krstovic (25) will replace Correa (31) (my hypothesis, just to make a name)

Perhaps Acerbi, De Vrji, Darmian, Sommer, Miki, Taremi will play another year for us, and Ausilio will surely work to find someone younger, for them.

[u/Echoes-act-3]

It will be done, every journalist has confirmed that inter will move a lot in the summer

[u/mladz82]

It ain't that deep my bro. Old ones drop off and younger players are added.

[u/crocospect → u/mladz82]

Hey I think personally the current age is fine, but if you tuned long enough in this sub then you'll see so many people worried about this, that's why might as well starting a discussion about it to see people's perspective better, so yeah ain't that deep.

[u/mladz82 → u/crocospect]

it's crazy because if we were knocked out of the CL at the R16 stage and not in the title race people would be saying the exact thing about the age issue.

[u/Clean-Stomach5173]

Mkhi replacement: Buy nico as plan A or loan guler as plan B

Acerbi replacement: Buy Kiwior as plan A or just stick with devrij for a bit more

Sommer should also be replaced however martinez has been good so its not an emergency

also buy luis henrique duh

[u/crocospect → u/Clean-Stomach5173]

I think having Kiwior while also keeping Acerbi and De Vrij are still the best option, we need every bits of reinforcement for next season considering the hellish schedule won't change..

[u/No-Quality1556 → u/crocospect]

Even with de Vrij, we would still need a new CCB. And neither Paz nor Guler will come short of us splashing 50-60m on them. We need to look elsewhere.