Marotta's impact thus far:
- Banned Nainggolan for a game, which was actually quite crucial.
- Effectively told the coach after PSV that the only way he wasn't getting fired was if he won a trophy, which was the Europa League and the Coppa Italia.
- Did not do anything to help the team's chances by reinforcing the squad in the winter mercato, where he only replaced an injured Vrsaljko with Cedric Soares.
- Failed to sell Perisic in January who was part of a locker room mess that Marotta himself helped accelerate.
- He had meetings with other coaches and even agreed with one (Conte) a few days later.
- A few days later proceeded to side with the manager who he was about to sack [whether immediately or at the end of the season, makes no difference here as we are in mid-February], after a row with the team's captain who was reacting to the bad results and the selective criticism of the coach towards specific players.
- That eventually led to alienating the club's highest profile player, creating a media circus.
- It also ensured that there was no way we could have challenged the Europa League as the whole team was a mess. And it was a winnable competition.
- He hired, at Inter, the former captain of EPO and Calciopoli Juventus, as well as the manager of the recent corrupted situation*. At Inter!!!!
- He publicly froze out Icardi and Nainggolan, making sure that their value tanked completely. As a result, we barely managed to loan them for the previous season. One of them is back and looks as demotivated as a player can be.
- He managed to pay every penny demanded to Manchester United's latest big flop in Romelu Lukaku.
- He managed to fuck up a decent bunch of players that he found at the club, no matter who they are: Icardi, Nainggolan, Miranda, Asamoah, Politano. That's like 1/4 of the roster with a minimum return.
- He almost fucked up the sale of Gabriel Barbosa, eventually allowed him to go for what Flamengo was initially offering for 3 months prior to his return to Inter, yet he managed to make sure that Inter paid a month's salary on top of that!
- He has been trying to sell Skriniar and Brozovic since forever.
- He managed to reduce Godin into a fringe player.
- He ensured that Eriksen is humiliated by Conte on a weekly basis.
- He gave in to almost every demand by the coach in the transfer market: Lukaku, Lazaro, Vidal, Kolarov, Young, Moses.
On a positive note:
- He managed to bring in Alexis Sanchez.
- Achraf Hakimi came under his watch.
- I could credit him with Niccolo Barella as well but it really wasn't his doing apart from inflating his fee. He gets credit for Stefano Sensi though even if he was on our radar since forever.
Effectively, under his tenure we have seen top names be reduced into training cones to being banned from training as well as being exiled to Sardegna. While we seem to overpay for any demand the coach has (Lukaku, Kolarov, Lazaro in particular come to mind).
*As Mourinho's pen pal in Portugal said 2 years ago:
“The analyses were conclusive and definitive, according to the anti-doping authorities,” wrote Eladio Parames.
“The matter ended up before the courts. Appeal after appeal, influence from various sides made it possible to archive the trial and not have anyone seriously punished, to the despair of the controllers.
“And who was the Juve captain? Antonio Conte!
“Later that same gentleman was suspended for six months, accused of being involved in the ‘arrangement’ of results. He denied this, of course, but the infamy of being involved in murky negotiations has never gone away.
“And it is this gentleman, who as you can see comes from an untainted past, who accuses Jose Mourinho of, among other things, smallness.
“Could be, but he’s much bigger than the Italian in terms of trophies won and in… hair!”
Still zero trophies even if he managed a double budget compared to the two seasons before him that pretty much had the same results. Zero titles, Champions League qualification, Europa League in the group stage demotion, while the opposition keeps deteriorating so his job was actually far easier than Sabatini before him as the starting point was different and the end goal was getting closer without us having to do much about it.
I don't think Juventus misses him that much and I cannot say that he's added anything concrete at Inter other than new faces at a very high cost to both the club's coffers and its brand name. I'm not sure why a top player would want to come to Inter seeing how Icardi, Eriksen and Godin were treated. It's a gamble, it's not a place where top players can expect to be treated with the respect they they would receive at other clubs.
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