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Lost amongst all the transfers this summer, the Milan clubs swapped strikers, which has been the most surprising and well planned by Internazionale. Inter’s 28-year-old Italian striker Giampoalo Pazzini suffered a poor year with the Nerazurri, playing in 33 matches and only notching 5 goals, and was to be one of many players offloaded in Inter’s summer reshuffle. At AC Milan, 30-year-old striker Antonio Cassano only participated in 16 matches, scoring 3 goals but assisting 10, because of health issues involving his heart – not a great first full season at Milan albeit due to health problems rather than form. Both clubs decided to send their star strikers packing as Cassano questioned Milan’s ambitions after the sales of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva to PSG and never really fitted in, while Inter wanted to cut all the dead wood loose after their poor season and underperforming Pazzini headed that list. The two former strike partners at Sampdoria swapped teams in what looks to be a relatively fair trade other than Milan also having to pay Inter €7 Million. Cassano is two years older than Pazzini and with his heart problems over the past year, is not an ideal transfer target [...]
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