Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens praise the match-winning performance of Lautaro Martinez in the Coppa Italia final, and wonder if the Inter forward will be attracting interest from around Europe in the summer transfer window.
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Lautaro Martinez is a good striker so he should be able to play in most leagues now that he's scored 27 goals in all competitions this season and has been in excellent form for Inter Milan, you'll start hearing this "can he do it in the premier league"? When someone is doing well in leagues outside of England, their achievements and individual brilliance aren't as significant as those who are doing it in the premier league. Lautaro Martinez has been in top form in Serie A and it's a top 5 league, so he's a world class player, he's won Serie A, Coppa Italia, World Cup, Copa America, Finalissma, and if Inter wins the champions league next month he's completed football so does Lautaro Martinez have anything left to prove, he performing in Serie A, he's a top player, he doesn't need to join the premier league to prove how good he is. Many top clubs that want a striker could be interested in him but Lautaro Martinez is a great player and maybe part of the reason why he doesn't get proper recognition is because he plays in Serie A, and it seems like fans won't acknowledge a players' greatness unless they do it in the prem. Take Victor Osimhen for example now that he's had a career year in terms of goals a lot of top teams want him and with him playing well fans are like "can he do it in the premier league"? It's not an impossible league and when a player is scoring goals in Serie A and other leagues, they're a great player.
Gab Marcotti is an American who pretends he's Italian 😂😂😂
As an Inter supporter, I sometimes have issues with Lautaro. He tends to disappear for months sometimes, like he did during the World Cup, he then claws his way back to form but he's still quite inconsistent. Also, apart from the last month of course, he sometimes scores the most impossible goals and misses the easiest ones, in a way that's disconcerting and a worldclass striker shouldn't. It's not a matter of technique, he has that in spades, rather of bad choices and not being a clinical striker. He's an instinctive player, if he has time to think, instead of simply reacting, he'll probably mess up. IMHO he simply cannot play on his own in any team.
He loves inter. Come on.
If I'm Chelsea I'm giving up on the Felix experiment and I'm buying Lautaro Martinez. 😤
Inter wins coppa italia and you have a segment on what prem team Lautaro would fit the best? Joke football journalism absolute joke.
Lauti is our captain next season, he isn’t going anywhere.
Lautaro is Higuain 2.0. He will always show enough quality to stay in the lineup so he can be there to fail when you need him most. When he scores in a tight match, that's cool, but ask yourself if the reason the game was tight in the first place was because of all of his screwups prior. Turning potentially easy matches into tight ones means you're bad.
Martinez is a great player. But sometimes the pressure gets to him and he can't perform well World Cup is a good example he was fit physically but not mentally and UCL is the biggest Club game in the world if he stays calm and collected he can put atleast one past Ederson and maybe that's all what inter needs. One game, one goal.
If they sell him for 80m we riot! 😂
Everybody who leaves wants to come back
Perisic & hakimi in the crowd supporting us when they play for other teams in other countries lukaku begged to come back – materazzi and sneijder in with the ultras front row 💪🏻
Any player with any sense isn’t going anywhere while the team is competing unless they’re a money grabbing moron like skriniar
Only messi has scored more goals for argentina under Scaloni's management.
if madrid dont turn to him or vlahovic to replace benzema, they on crack
Lautaro 2nd finishing is insane
C'mon he scored v fiorentina he's overated Alvarez better than him
Not gonna happen. He’s too good for english football
Lautaro🔥🔥🔥
PL is actually far easier than serie A for strikers. If there is one thing Italians are the undisputed best in football is the defense organization and attitude. Even lower level teams are a pain to break. There is an infinite list of world renown strikers that failed only in serie A, including Bergkamp, Kluivert, UK legend Rush, Coutinho, Thierry Henry, Klinsmaan, Podolski…
Lautaro Martinez DID already prove that he can be the lone striker. For Argentina winning the Copa and WC qualification…with Messi and di Maria + lo Celso as attacking wingers/midfielders in support.
Aguero had also started as second striker with Forlan at Atletico and Man City with Dzeko/Tevez. And then turned into that centre forward for City for years. Lautaro has a similar build and definitely can nearly replicate him in those terms.
Premier is for player who want money, serie a is for player who want fealing, at now premier supporter at the stadium are (for the 80%) tourist, and in my opinion lautaro play for fealing, anyway we will know next summer
Martinez is Inter's only proper attacking asset. The others are too old or a premier league flop.
Lautro Martinez is a football genius