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I suggest brehme1989.
Him and Marotta will be a nice couple.
 

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Allegri is the most realistic option.

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If the financial situation is truely dire, with Conte is still under contract the best option maybe to keep him for another year. That being said, plan for Simeone in 2022. To prepare for this it would entail taking personal decisions away from Conte and dump the deadwood ASAP so Simeone will have more of clean slate when he's hired.
 

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I find it hard to come up with realistic suggestions.

For me we are on a crossroad (again). We need a project to make the club great again on the field not only by name. This means we need to hire people who want to be part of this project for a couple of years. With that said my all time favorite Mourinho will not make this list. He only works for 2/3 years at a club and this will not change.

The most important thing is that the club will pledge to a certain project which has all the support within the club. Nobody is getting better from changing the coach and philosophy every 2/3 years as we did now with Conte and we have to do after Conte is gone. Whether this is focusing on bringing in young Italian talents, proven world-class players or anything else is up to the club but I'm afraid if we don't do this we have the same problems after Conte is gone. Changing coach, formation and directors every 2/3 years is never good for any club. I would prefer Simeone, proven himself in Europe, knows the club and is tactical quite flexible(his only desire is to win) and he proved he can stay for a long time at 1 club. Is he a realistic option? I don't think so, mostly because his salary but we need to try and get him. It would be a dream to get him, but I'm afraid the cost of this operation would be to great.


That said I really think we need a proven technical director before we get a coach. The director is there to guard the values and philosophy of the club. For me someone like Marc Overmars would be a perfect fit, knows how the football world is working and will try to secure talents and players at the right time without paying to much for them. Has a eye for talents but also for the club and the players already at the club. If you can sell Frenkie de Jong, De Ligt, Davinson Sanchez, Donny van de Beek, Dolberg etc etc for that kind of money you know your business. The only downside is that he only worked for Ajax which is a small club at the world stage so will he be able to do the same at a club as Inter? I would really want to see him try at Inter.

The upside of first hiring a director is that the long term plans of the club are protected because he needs to aligned himself with these plans. After that you can try and find a coach who is willing to work with this project and this director. He knows upfront what the project is and what the club will do to try and reach that. So no turning down another road after 1 year and suddenly only experienced players are the targets because the coach wants this. With this we prevent that when the coach leaves the entire project changes and we are stuck with players that we can't sell to anybody and they just sit their contract out.

Simeone would be the perfect choice for me, after that Mourinho and then Cambiasso. Although Cambiasso is more a fan option then a realistic option.
 

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That said I really think we need a proven technical director before we get a coach. The director is there to guard the values and philosophy of the club. For me someone like Marc Overmars would be a perfect fit, knows how the football world is working and will try to secure talents and players at the right time without paying to much for them. Has a eye for talents but also for the club and the players already at the club. If you can sell Frenkie de Jong, De Ligt, Davinson Sanchez, Donny van de Beek, Dolberg etc etc for that kind of money you know your business. The only downside is that he only worked for Ajax which is a small club at the world stage so will he be able to do the same at a club as Inter? I would really want to see him try at Inter.

Overmars works well for Ajax because he's an Ajax person. Just like Rummenigge works well for Bayern. Or Txiki worked well for Barcelona.

We need our own guys to do this. And we have them, we just don't use them.

Ideally we get Zanetti, Cordoba, Toldo, Oriali, Altobelli and even Bergomi to be part of a committee or something where they draw the club's strategy. We need actual Inter people to do this job. Or of course just one person, if he's up to the task. But even Facchetti didn't do that on his own.
 

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I find it hard to come up with realistic suggestions.

For me we are on a crossroad (again). We need a project to make the club great again on the field not only by name. This means we need to hire people who want to be part of this project for a couple of years. With that said my all time favorite Mourinho will not make this list. He only works for 2/3 years at a club and this will not change.

The most important thing is that the club will pledge to a certain project which has all the support within the club. Nobody is getting better from changing the coach and philosophy every 2/3 years as we did now with Conte and we have to do after Conte is gone. Whether this is focusing on bringing in young Italian talents, proven world-class players or anything else is up to the club but I'm afraid if we don't do this we have the same problems after Conte is gone. Changing coach, formation and directors every 2/3 years is never good for any club. I would prefer Simeone, proven himself in Europe, knows the club and is tactical quite flexible(his only desire is to win) and he proved he can stay for a long time at 1 club. Is he a realistic option? I don't think so, mostly because his salary but we need to try and get him. It would be a dream to get him, but I'm afraid the cost of this operation would be to great.


That said I really think we need a proven technical director before we get a coach. The director is there to guard the values and philosophy of the club. For me someone like Marc Overmars would be a perfect fit, knows how the football world is working and will try to secure talents and players at the right time without paying to much for them. Has a eye for talents but also for the club and the players already at the club. If you can sell Frenkie de Jong, De Ligt, Davinson Sanchez, Donny van de Beek, Dolberg etc etc for that kind of money you know your business. The only downside is that he only worked for Ajax which is a small club at the world stage so will he be able to do the same at a club as Inter? I would really want to see him try at Inter.

The upside of first hiring a director is that the long term plans of the club are protected because he needs to aligned himself with these plans. After that you can try and find a coach who is willing to work with this project and this director. He knows upfront what the project is and what the club will do to try and reach that. So no turning down another road after 1 year and suddenly only experienced players are the targets because the coach wants this. With this we prevent that when the coach leaves the entire project changes and we are stuck with players that we can't sell to anybody and they just sit their contract out.

Simeone would be the perfect choice for me, after that Mourinho and then Cambiasso. Although Cambiasso is more a fan option then a realistic option.

What's your opinion on Ten Haag?

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Overmars works well for Ajax because he's an Ajax person. Just like Rummenigge works well for Bayern. Or Txiki worked well for Barcelona.

We need our own guys to do this. And we have them, we just don't use them.

Ideally we get Zanetti, Cordoba, Toldo, Oriali, Altobelli and even Bergomi to be part of a committee or something where they draw the club's strategy. We need actual Inter people to do this job. Or of course just one person, if he's up to the task. But even Facchetti didn't do that on his own.

No thanks to Bergomi. He would bring any average Italian Serie A player only because he knows the league and is Italian.
 

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Overmars works well for Ajax because he's an Ajax person. Just like Rummenigge works well for Bayern. Or Txiki worked well for Barcelona.


You don't think these guys could do it for other clubs? But you are right

We need our own guys to do this. And we have them, we just don't use them.

Ideally we get Zanetti, Cordoba, Toldo, Oriali, Altobelli and even Bergomi to be part of a committee or something where they draw the club's strategy. We need actual Inter people to do this job. Or of course just one person, if he's up to the task. But even Facchetti didn't do that on his own.

You don't think these guys could do it for other clubs? But you are right in the sense that it should be are own guys but I'm not totally convinced that the names you drop here will have the quality do pull it off. They don't have any experience other than that they know how the club works.

What's your opinion on Ten Haag?

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Not a big fan of him but he is a good tactician and a bad ''manager''. Let me first explain that a manager of Ajax is hard if you are not from the club itself. For example Frank de Boer couldn't do anything wrong because he was a true 'Ajacied''. Then Peter Bosz (now Bayer Leverkussen) came along and the first months they were alot of negative stories about him. Same happened with Ten Hag. If you are not from the club and know the environment you will have a hard time so I'm not 100% objective. He is a very good tactician but he is very stubborn in believing his way is the only way. He has his favorites and will play them until the end of times. On the one hand that is a good thing in a good coach because he gives confidence to players but if you do it for to long people will call you out on this.

Apparently he's not a favorite for the Latin-gang at Ajax (Neres, Alvarez, Tagliafico, Martinez etc) because the way he acts against his players. For example: we bought Alvarez for 15M in the summer of 2019 as a replacement for De Ligt. He played him allmost every match as a midfielder, even though everyone could see he isn't a midfielder. After that I know that in his first months at Ajax they were a lot of players complaining about his training regime he does a lot of tactical 11 vs 11 training and stops the training every time he sees something wrong(I guess a bit like Conte). The captain (Tadic) went to speak to him about this and he changed this so he does listen to his players. And I have to give him credit because he makes every player better, from the subs to the starters almost every player is enthusiastic about him footballwise.
And for me that is the most important thing, he is also imperturbable in his work. He does not care what happens at the administrative level. He is only concerned about the football side of his work and that is a plus when you will work for big teams like Inter. But i'm not 100% certain about him as a coach for 1 of the big clubs in Europa although his name was mentioned at Bayern(because he worked for their youth team) when Kovac was fired.
 

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I don’t know about Zanetti or Cordoba all they ever say is this next Colombian or Argentinian is the future me or Messi or Falcao haha

Seem crazy bias. Not everyone who was a great player becomes a great manager or director. I cringe any time Zanetti is asked about a player front that Argentinian league. Tho shocked and very happy Lautaro didn’t turn out to be utter shit
 

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You don't think these guys could do it for other clubs? But you are right in the sense that it should be are own guys but I'm not totally convinced that the names you drop here will have the quality do pull it off. They don't have any experience other than that they know how the club works.

It's a matter of environment and respect.

Overmars failing at Ajax isn't the same having say Robin Van Persie or Mark Van Bommel at the same role, at Ajax. Inconceivable of course for Ajax, but here we are on an Inter forum with Antonio Conte as manager....

It's one thing to know the club, how it works, live it for 20+ years, from a kid to a retired player and anothet to just be a professional.
It also is different. Txiki for example at City isn't really doing any wonders, he's just able to being Guardiola over, who also isn't doing any wonders and they are hoping to land Messi as well. Who won't help as much as the owners would hope on the field but definitely it'd give them a prestige boost.

You also need to have an attachment and feel part of the club when you have such a position. We now have Marotta, a shrewd professional, who doesn't care who you are, how respected you are, what your story at the club is and all that. It's nonsense to him. A guy like Overmars at Ajax knows the club culture and will implement it. At Inter, he doesn't know what the fans want. You can rarely have a similar identity between clubs so some of these guys just don't fit anywhere else. They aren't "professionals" with the strict sense so they'd also not want to be transferred elsewhere. And they wouldn't feel comfortable as they are not compatible with every club out there.

How many examples of club legends that run smoothly their former clubs do you know that moved to a random club and had a similar effect? Cruyff did it at two clubs but he played for both.
 

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Milito recently left Racing so I was thinking he could very well work for Inter. He headed their sporting project for several years.
 

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Now I'm thinking about Thiago Motta. Just see this line up:
De Vrij - Skriniar
Hakimi - Vidal - brozo - Barella -Eriksen - Perisic
LaLu​

:fap:

Would be fun at least.
 

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Simeone’s football philosophy more or less is in total alignment with the classic Inter philosophy that won us trophies in the past. Will he be available in 2022 and can we afford his wages are the questions however. He’s been at Atletico for a decade which is very rare for a modern manager at a top club. And his wages are astronomical. He’d probably want even more to manage this club. He knows the intense pressure and general insanity that comes with being involved with Inter.
 

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Simeone has been my #1 pick for years now, but he became incredibly unrealistic when he signed his 20mill/yr contract with Atletico. We all know Allegri is coming next, and I wouldn't mind Pochettino, but I do think there's interesting managers over in the Bundesliga for sure.
 

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I've praised Inzaghi in the past but I'm starting to realize he's more or less taking them to their true level-- pretty good but not great. I wouldn't really say he's overachieved. Yes, they haven't signed anyone in god knows how long but they haven't really sold much either. They have a solid squad who know each other well. I think he's a good coach, but that's it.

I think the coaches who would do the best here would be Allegri (obtainable) and Simeone (not so obtainable). Their approaches are ones that have historically suited us and they wouldn't be intimidated by the job.

There are other coaches out there that I appreciate, like De Zerbi-- but it's too big of a gamble imo. Like YoramG said, coaches that come here trying to play idealized football don't usually get very far before being shown the door. Still I really enjoy listening to his press conferences, he analyzes the game correctly and doesn't try to sell us bullshit-- the exact opposite of Conte.

Don't really rate Poch at all. I think Tottenham were very lucky in their CL run.

I'm also not opposed to a foreign coach who maybe doesn't know the league/ club as well, but that too is a gamble. It has to be a genuine commitment from both parties. Nagelsmann is certainly interesting as is Rose.

In general I think Italian coaches are among the best however (Falcao Law, I know) and don't take long to settle in. It just can't be Conte.
 

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I've praised Inzaghi in the past but I'm starting to realize he's more or less taking them to their true level-- pretty good but not great. I wouldn't really say he's overachieved. Yes, they haven't signed anyone in god knows how long but they haven't really sold much either. They have a solid squad who know each other well. I think he's a good coach, but that's it.

I think the coaches who would do the best here would be Allegri (obtainable) and Simeone (not so obtainable). Their approaches are ones that have historically suited us and they wouldn't be intimidated by the job.

There are other coaches out there that I appreciate, like De Zerbi-- but it's too big of a gamble imo. Like YoramG said, coaches that come here trying to play idealized football don't usually get very far before being shown the door. Still I really enjoy listening to his press conferences, he analyzes the game correctly and doesn't try to sell us bullshit-- the exact opposite of Conte.

Don't really rate Poch at all. I think Tottenham were very lucky in their CL run.

I'm also not opposed to a foreign coach who maybe doesn't know the league/ club as well, but that too is a gamble. It has to be a genuine commitment from both parties. Nagelsmann is certainly interesting as is Rose.

In general I think Italian coaches are among the best however (Falcao Law, I know) and don't take long to settle in. It just can't be Conte.
You have two good italian coaches in Pioli and Gasperini, but both are wasted by inter. Now they are doing good jobs at milan & atalanta.
It's important to not repeated the same mistakes, let conte do hus job, at least until the end of this season. If he bring Scudetto, then definitely stick with him. If not, review who's available and can be improvement over him
 

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problem with inter is need for quick results and you could pass only if you are some big name...gasperini was a big miss but they didnt stick behind him wit transfers and pioli was considered a short term fix...second you can not expect a relatively no name coach to come and train well known players, there a couple exceptions tho...pioli now has almost youngest team in serie a and you can see a problem when he takes 'the big zlatan ' out, now imagine having couple of players like that and the worst gets if they have a clan...gasp too, basicaly young group that he can teach...look at psg and their coach vs stars relasionship, you can see they are not a good group...so we have to get someone who is well known based on our roster or sell the likes of brozo, alexis, young, kolarov, vidal, 9gag and get someone like de zerbi and build a winning team for couple of years...to me, better model is the second one, you get a young core, less money spent and yoi can enyoj seeing something that is growing...

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If Conte leaves the end of the season, Lord Marotta and I have agreed that Allegri will take over.
If Conte leaves during the season, we need a former player who can act as caretaker and who shares our ethos and feelings toward Inter - Igor Tudor or Ciro Ferrara would be ideal in this regard.
 

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If I think about Inter’s history and the coaches who have achieved well here my options would be:
1) Simeone
2) Allegri

Allegri mainly as I think he’s fairly low maintenance and would not make crazy requests like Conte. I also think he’s do a pretty good job in the case we don’t have money to get new players as he’s fairly flexible in terms of different systems. He’s also reasonable enough to play a system that he thinks will get the best of his current squad rather than trying to shoehorn things in.

Simeone would be #1 but I don’t know how feasible that is.

Now, if we were going to fully transfer our identity and try something totally different I’d love Nagelsmann- however that’s more of a fantasy world as I don’t think it would happen and I’m not sure that type of change would work at our club.

Now if we don’t have money and need a low-cost option I’d probably go for De Zerbi.
 

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If Conte leaves the end of the season, Lord Marotta and I have agreed that Allegri will take over.
If Conte leaves during the season, we need a former player who can act as caretaker and who shares our ethos and feelings toward Inter - Igor Tudor or Ciro Ferrara would be ideal in this regard.

I was thinking of Ferrara as a possibility these days :D :D :D

Lord Marotta knows.
 

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If Conte leaves the end of the season, Lord Marotta and I have agreed that Allegri will take over.
If Conte leaves during the season, we need a former player who can act as caretaker and who shares our ethos and feelings toward Inter - Igor Tudor or Ciro Ferrara would be ideal in this regard.

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