The shadow of Achraf Hakimi at Inter it is on the way to being elongated. Very elongated. The Moroccan lane, transferred last summer to the Paris Saint-Germain For 60 million euros, he had a spectacular performance in his only season in Milan and it does not seem, at least for now, that his replacement is going to meet the expectations of the ‘neroazzurri’ fans and the club itself.
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Two goals and one assist at Euro 2020
Denzel Dumfries, after his spectacular Euro 2020 with the Netherlands, he was chosen by the sports management of the Inter to relieve the former madridista. The Dutch footballer shone, with two goals and one assist in four games, within a system identical to the one he uses Simone Inzaghi, so that the operation seemed to be, a priori, a ‘win-win’ for both parties, since their signing ‘only’ cost 12.5 million euros to the entity chaired by Steven Zhang.
Achraf 20/21 performance vs. Dumfries 21/22
But the ex adaptation of the PSV his new team is not doing as expected. Dumfries he has only started in two of the nine days of A league and his penalty to the Brazilian Alex Sandro in the duel against Juventus last weekend he has put him in the crosshairs of the ‘tifosi’ of the Inter and from the Italian press.
They compare him to Lazaro
‘The Gazzetta dello Sport‘compares him this Tuesday with the Austrian Valentino Lazaro, a footballer for whom he Inter paid 22.4 million euros in 2019 and accumulates three consecutive assignments to Newcastle, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Benfica, and places the Uruguayan Nahitan Nández (Cagliari) and Polish Bartosz Bereszynski (Sampdoria) in the black and white orbit if the performance of Dumfries not improving anytime soon.
Lazaro never finished fitting in at Inter