Between Financial Boost From Champions League Semifinal & Risk Of Missing Out On Top Four – Inter Milan’s Summer Transfer Window Hangs In Balance

Inter’s summer transfer window is entirely in the balance based on the end of the season, with the team in the semifinals of the Champions League but at risk of missing out on participation in the competition next season.

This is highlighted in today’s print edition of Rome-based newspaper Corriere dello Sport, via FCInterNews, who note that whilst the unexpected revenues gained from reaching the latter stages of the knockouts is a big financial boost, a big sale will be necessary without top four in Serie A.

Inter did not take anything for granted in terms of their participation in European competition beyond that they would at least play in the Europa League knockout stages.

Particularly when the team were drawn into a “group of death” containing Bayern Munich and Barcelona, it was certainly anticipated in budgetary terms that the team could have to accept dropping down to the Europa League, where the revenues would be lower than in Europe’s top club competition.

Instead, the Nerazzurri have just kept going in the Champions League, now reaching as far as the semifinals of the competition where they will go head-to-head with city rivals AC Milan for a place in the final.

This means that Inter have already brought in tens of millions of euros more in revenues from the competition than had been budgeted for, no small amount given the club’s financial situation.

Accordingly, from a situation where the club had been targeting as much as €60 million in net profit from the transfer market this summer, the Nerazzurri have gotten to a point where a couple of sales of younger players on the fringes of the squad could be sufficient to meet their objectives.

All of this would go out the window, however, in the event that the team do not qualify for the Champions League next season.

Whilst nothing is taken for granted as far as reaching the latter stages of the knockouts, participation in the group stage each season and the revenues that come with is something that Inter’s budget is built around.

With the unexpected setback of failure to secure a spot in next season’s Champions League either by clawing back a place in the top four of the league table (in which the uncertain situation around Juventus’s points deduction is a further complication) or actually winning the competition this season, all bets would be off.

If Inter are to fail to book their spot in the group stage of next season’s Champions League, the Corriere reports, then there is little doubt that a big sale or two would become necessary in the summer.