Hakan Çalhanoğlu

You have to have the speed in defense to cover for it.

The goal or the penalty which, uh, Hakan Çalhanoğlu conceded was the perfect example of when playing a high line goes wrong if your midfield is a, a little bit slow.

I mean, the forward for Brugge absolutely burnt poor old Hakan.

Um, and I agree, I agree with you on Kivu.

They went ahead in the 13th when Sučić won it high on the press and fired into the top corner.

Two minutes later, it was two after Carlos fouled Pio Esposito in the box and Hakan Çalhanoğlu stepped to the spot and converted into the bottom left corner.

was jammed on by the 33rd minute uh mcintyre ain't still going he released marcus turam up the right channel he slotted low into the far corner yeah mickey t still going

man not every week maybe not even every couple of weeks but once a month he'll be like okay he's

Inter, as mentioned, 3-0 against Parma.

Sukovic, Calhanoglu, and Marcus Thuram-

Yeah

... all netting.

I m- I really like the way he plays and I think he offers something different to the Inter midfield.

But at the same time you bring back Aleksandar Stanković, you have Šučić already, you have Çalhanoglu, you extend Mkhitaryan's contract.

I was a bit surprised that they spent so much money on, um, so much money.

Is, is, is a fair amount of money, but it's still 30 million, which we know in Serie A is not like in the Premier League.

Ange-Antoine Bonny, between Piero Sposito, Lautaro, and Thuram I think you have because of, not just because of the n- sheer numbers, but the, the, the, the, the, the kinds of players that they are, meaning that you have different kinds of attackers of high quality who can hurt teams in many different ways.

Same thing in midfield, the central midfield in particular.

I think Barella, Zielinski, Çalhanoglu, Mkhitaryan, uh, Curtis Jones, and, um, and, um, um, and, and Šučić above all who I think is going to be the breakout player this season and I think he's going to go to Real Madrid or some club like that for 100 million euros.

That's the k- that's the level of talent that he has, and I've said this since he joined.

I th- I think you, you guys covered it pretty well already.

I, I, I wanted to mention that I saw some report that there might have been some issue with Calhanoglu, some kind of a knock, knock in the Parma match, but, but let's see and, and let's hope there is nothing serious, serious there because, um, I think we, we are just so much better team when he's on [chuckles] versus when he's off, especially if, if the one replacing him is Zielinski.

Of course, we haven't seen Stankovic kind of really playing there, only this.

Now, now he played like 30 minutes, which was nice, but as said, game was quite a f- quite over already at that point, so we haven't really seen Stankovic at, at like a, in a real game when we have something to play for, like really, really play for.

May- may- maybe something like that.

I, I can kind of understand what you mean.

But I, I hope he gets more, more and more minutes so that he can get into the games more and, and kind of see the, see the moments where, and, and understand the game where, how, how we play it, how we want to play it to be able to be, like, as involved as Calhanoglu usually is, like speci- specifically Calhanoglu.

Uh, but yeah.

Scarcely six minutes later, the momentum turned into a full-scale avalanche when a VAR review confirmed a foul by Diego Carlos on young forward Pio Esposito inside the box.

Håkan Calhanoglu stepped up to the spot and calmly drilled a crisp penalty into the bottom corner to double the advantage.

Inter maintained their foot firmly on the gas pedal throughout the remainder of the first half, treating the home crowd to a clinic in vertical transition play.

Midfield maestro Henrikh Mkhitaryan orchestrated proceedings in the final third, repeatedly finding space between the lines to feed Inter's surging front line.

Even though he's won a major, you take them down to New Zealand and they go, you know, so I think exactly the same with the Turkish market.

Why would an American want a Jeddy Osman card? Why would an American want maybe Articula, maybe, but you know, even Hakan Çalhanoğlu, why would they want him? Like, so I thought your inventory was great, but John wants to see the cards and he's right.

The people probably were like, what does a good inventory in Turkey look like?

Right.

You know, maybe he has to start a Stankovic, for example.

I think Calhanoglu is, is still injured, right? He didn't play at all for Turkey.

Uh, I don't think he was even called, but I don't know if he played in the friendly either.

Um, I don't think there are any fresh midfielders.