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26 million euros! Inzaji, Xiao, jumped from Saudi Arabia, and Inter Milan s helmsman ran away from Europe!

8:00am, 5 June 2025【Football】

Zhang Kangyang is still worried about Oak Capital's debt, but his most important champion coach was "robbed" by the Saudi funder with a check of 26 million euros annual salary.

When Romano's "Here we go!" shocked the football world again, Inter Milan coach Simeone Inzaghi's departure decided to explode like a bombshell over Milan City. This meritorious coach of the Nerazzurri Army had just finished a key meeting with the senior management of Inter Milan and resolutely embarked on his journey to Saudi Arabia.

Riyadh's three-year contract, with an annual salary of 26 million euros after tax - this figure not only set a global record for football coach salary, but also pushed Inter Milan to the brink of reconstruction.

The meritorious helmsman of the Blue and Black Dynasty turned around and left the dynasty's back

In the summer of 2021, when Inzagi entered Meacha from Lazio in a low-key manner, no one could have expected that this seemingly gentle man would forge a glorious era for Inter Milan in just four years with seven championship trophys.

Serie A Throne Crown: In the 2023/24 season, he led the team to break through the siege and engrave the "Shield", which symbolizes the highest honor of Italian football, with a blue and black mark again.

Domestic Cup Overlord: Two Italian Cup Champions and three Italian Super Cup Champions, witnessing his absolute dominance over the domestic arena.

The tragic hero of European war: twice in three years, Inter Milan, which is not the top team, will be brought to the highest stage of the Champions League final. Although he eventually lost to Manchester City and Paris, he won the respect of all Europe.

The tactical magic of Xiao Inzaji lies in his wisdom to turn stones into gold. He transformed Cialhanoglu from a wing attacker to a midfield commander, turned veteran Archerby into a rock in the back, and allowed Lautaro to grow into a world-class striker. Inter Milan under his rule played the most ornamental and efficient football in Serie A.

"He made this team a real whole, a big family fighting for each other." This comment by senior Inter Milan reporter Pasquale Guaro tells the essence of Inzagi's locker room management art.

The thunder strike of the desert gold dollar, the 26 million euro century contract, just as Inter Milan fans were looking forward to the team leading the next brilliant cycle, the sky-high invitation from the Riyadh Crescent, Saudi Arabia was like a mirage in the desert, instantly becoming extremely real and irresistible.

Romano's revelations reveal the suffocating details of the contract: three years of contract, until June 2027, the annual salary after tax was as high as 26 million euros. What does this number mean?

Mount Everest of coach salaries: It easily surpasses the existing salaries of world-renowned coaches such as Guardiola and Ancelotti, and reaches the top of global football coach income.

The concreteization of Saudi ambitions: After superstars such as Ronaldo and Benzema, Saudi capital has turned its attention to top coaching resources. The joining of Inzaghi's franchise marks the strategic upgrade of the Saudi League from a "star nursing home" to a "all-round football competitiveness center".

The sense of powerlessness in European football: Faced with the gold-dollar offensive supported by Saudi sovereign wealth funds, even European giants like Inter Milan appear pale and powerless under the strict restrictions of the Fiscal Fairness Act (FFP).

The departure of Inzaghi, the world's leading player tore opens the widening gap between European football and emerging capital. When the loan pressure of Oak Capital hangs over Inter Milan, Saudi Arabia's gold dollar temptation seems irresistible.

Inter Milan earthquake: The unknown abyss after the collapse of the dynasty

The decisive turn of Inzaghi left Inter Milan with far more than one vacancies in the coaching seat. This is tantamount to a collapse of the core architecture and a shake of the foundation of the dynasty. The future mist of the core players: Lautaro Martinez's contract renewal negotiations are already deadlocked, and now the departure of the soul tutor casts a huge shadow on the future of the Argentine shooter. The loyalty of key players such as Barrera and Bastoni will also face severe tests. The 3-5-2 system, high-level oppression and rapid transformation tactical philosophy carefully constructed by Xiao Inzaji has long been integrated into the team's blood. The new coach takes office means a tactic that will be overturned and the team needs to go through a painful adaptation period. Under pressure from Oak Capital, Inter Milan was forced to tighten his belt. The departure of Inzaji may be just the beginning of the Meacha storm this summer. Fans are worried: Who will be the next superstar who will leave? Will this team that has just revived fall again due to the loss of core?

New Football Order: Global Transfer of Power under the Torrent of Capital

Inzaghi's departure from Saudi Arabia is by no means an isolated incident. It is a microcosm of a capital power transfer storm sweeping the global football world, profoundly reshaping the operating logic of the sport. The intervention of sovereign capitals such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar has broken the monopoly pattern of traditional European giants. The flow of top talents (players, coaches, management) has undergone a fundamental reversal, from "flowing to the European center" to "multi-polar dispersion".

Survival paradox of European football: The Fiscal Fairness Act aims to maintain the balance of competition and club health, but under the impact of the dimensionality reduction of the Middle East capital, it has become a shackle that binds European giants to some extent, leaving them passive in the battle for talent.

As competitive achievements and emotional belongings increasingly give way to pure money calculations, the bond between fans and clubs based on community identity and historical heritage is suffering an unprecedented impact.

Saudi Arabia's gold and dollar offensive once swept the player market, and now the coach's annual salary of 26 million euros marks that the huge wave of capital has completely destroyed the door of the European football proud tactical room.

Inzaghi's last glance at Inter Milan's office, the moment of writing the contract with Riyadh's crescent moon, frozen the deepest sense of powerlessness in traditional European football when facing the torrent of the gold and dollar.

When Saudi capital swept the global football world with a rewritten rule, the anger and confusion of Inter Milan fans are just the first fallen leaf in the storm - the Game of Thrones in the football world has changed players, and the rules are being re-written.