Inter coach Simone Inzaghi has said the Nerazzurri were trying to sign Hakan Calhanoglu from AC Milan before Christian Eriksen suffered his heart attack at Euro 2020.
Speaking in his press conference ahead of Inter’s Champions League match against Real Sociedad (via Pianeta Milan), Inzaghi revealed some details about how Calhanoglu ended up departing Milan for Inter at the end of his contract.
From the outside looking in, it seemed that Calhanoglu was targeted as he was an available attacking midfielder and Inter had just seen Eriksen suffer a cardiac episode on the pitch during a Euro 2020 game for Denmark against Finland.
Inzaghi explained that he contacted the Inter hierarchy to discuss finding a replacement for Eriksen, with Calhanoglu in his mind, but they explained that they had already been talking to the player to make a move happen.
“I had become Inter coach and on the day there was that big problem with Eriksen I called [Beppe] Marotta and [Piero] Ausilio the same evening, because we read that Calhanoglu would not stay at AC Milan. They told me they had already contacted him,” he said.
Calhanoglu has since become a crucial player for Inter under Inzaghi and a figure of hatred for Milan fans.
The most interesting thing about this story is the pic – his ears are upside down.
😀 It actually looks like it, he propably also wriggles with them at home in front of the family while sounding like a donkey
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Looks like clown, acts like a clown… You know the rest.
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As much as w ehate him if we had him and thuram instead of inter we would have probably been ahead of them
Hakan was quite an inconsistent nuisance at Milan. I remember how many times I was frustrated with him. Free kick kid, that’s all he was consistent at. Then again, today, I’d take him over Reijnders or Musah.
“Free kick kid, that’s all he was consistent at.”
Yep. Consistently bad. He was supposed to be the dead ball specialist yet somehow 99% of his corner kicks stopped at the first opponent and did he score one freekick goal during his years in Milan?
nope. if we had inzaghi, maybe