Mercato Team (Ausilio, Marotta, & Co.) and Strategies

[Devious]

17/18
Vecino 24mln
Dalbert 21mln
Gagliardini 22mln

16/17
Joao Mario 40mln
Gabriel Barbosa 30mln
Candreva 22mln
Jovetic 16mln
Eder 12mln
Ansaldi 11mln
Dodò 9mln

15/16
Kondogbia 36mln
Murillo 8mln
Felipe Melo 4mln


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225mln

 

[Ronaldo]

I really think it's about time to get rid of Ausilio. He has no vision. He's done a couple of great deals but when you draw the line we've spend tonnes and this team is still in dire straits.

Every time we took a step forward we've made two backward, like getting Nainggolan. Good deal on paper - backfired badly. Unearthing Cancelo just to give him away to our rivals, etc. Same for Rafinha. Those deals were structured horribly to begin with. Keita, who will cost us around 40M has been average at best for half a season. I'd expect someone that would cost this much money to instantly start doing magic. Politano is decent, I like him, but he's no starting material for an ambitious club. Vrsaljko is a good player but we should've factored in his injury history, he's played only a handful of games for us and his season is already over. This is a disaster. Of all the transfer he's done last summer the De Vrij one is the highlight but he is a top CB and everyone knows that so it's not like he saw something others didn't. I don't even want to bring up Gagliardini and Vecino who costed us like 50M total.

Totally agree and I’ve said this many times.

We’ve changed ownership, coaches, players, everything and still the team has barely improved, if any, since the treble season. The only thing (person) that hasn’t changed is Ausillio.

He needs to go!

 

[Tsuna]

a turd

Well feels bad for you, since a turd like him earns more then you in your lifetime

 

[andrei]

Asking for Ausilio head is like making him the scapegoat for the entire failure as a organisation. We don't fucking know, how are transfers are decided. Who has the last word and so on!
Maybe Ausilio is the only one competent there and the other are a bunch of idiots!

 

[Wobblz]

Asking for Ausilio head is like making him the scapegoat for the entire failure as a organisation. We don't fucking know, how are transfers are decided. Who has the last word and so on!
Maybe Ausilio is the only one competent there and the other are a bunch of idiots!

Maybe but he is the sporting director and he is the one that bears the responsibility for our transfer strategy in the last five years.

If you're a director of anything or a team leader you are the sole person to take responsibility for your company/team's performance. If they're underperforming it's up to you to change that or else you'd pay with your position.

 

[firmino]

Spalletti should shoulder his share of responsibility though. He asked for Nainggolan and I am willing to bet no one in the management would have gone for him, but it was kind of a gift to the coach for taking us back to champions League.

There wasn't much money to spend to begin with and most of it was wasted on the Belgian.

If marotta or Sabatini had been there in the summer, they would have probably questioned this purchase.

Ausilio is the kind of guy who does what he's told to and is ok with it. That's why he has survived the "banter era". At the end of the day, a guy who does the leg work and never contradicts you is useful.

Neither our ceo marotta nor ausilio are sporting directors. Regardless of firing ausilio or not, we should hire one.

 

[Caecuban]

Theoretically, we have a strong squad but our main issue, since the treble, is quite a lot of our players being unable to perform even close to their technical capacity.

Just some examples:
- Perisic: some amazing matches on past seasons, one of the best players of the 2018 world cup;
- Nainggolan: one of the best players at Roma last season;
- Gagliardini: had a great first half season with us.

Another examples of previous seasons of players who had a drop in performance when playing for us: Dalbert, Candreva, Jovetic, Kondogbia, Vidic, Dodo, Montoya, Llajic, M'Vila, Alvarez, Shaqiri and of course Coutinho. Sure we can look into individual players and argue that "he is coming to a big team with more pressure" or "he is getting older" or "played out of position" or even "defenders in Italy are more tactical". Many of these are clearly true, but the trend is alarming.

Usually you'd expect players to develop when blending with the team, getting used to the tactics and so on but that's not the case for Inter. We can buy whoever we want with little progress if we keep this lazy ass loser mentality as we won't be getting 11 players as focused as Skriniar relying on luck.

In my opinion, D'Ambrosio was one of the best recent transfers. He is reasonable but he is consistent every match so you know what to expect from him (also, costed 5m).

How can you expect to plan any tactics with Perisic, who can single handedly win a match but will fail make a significant impact in 80-90% of the matches of the season? This is why we usually play good matches against the teams high up on the table (Juve, Napoli, ect) but end up away from the first positions because we drop points to Parma, Sassuolo and our favorite Udinese.

 

[firmino]

Now, you guys, imagine you are the CEO of Inter. The coach asks, almost demands you Nainggolan.


What would you have done? Most of you would have bought him, judging by this summer's posts.

But it's ok, we are supporters, it's not our job to analyse every possible purchase beforehand.

The lack of both a proper sporting director and a proper CEO this summer has cost us a lot.

We have filled one of those two positions, we should fill the other. But I don't see Zhang realising this.

 

[Wobblz]

Ausilio is officially our sporting director. That's the org chart from inter.it.

 

[Il Drago]

Now, you guys, imagine you are the CEO of Inter. The coach asks, almost demands you Nainggolan.


What would you have done? Most of you would have bought him, judging by this summer's posts.

But it's ok, we are supporters, it's not our job to analyse every possible purchase beforehand.

The lack of both a proper sporting director and a proper CEO this summer has cost us a lot.

We have filled one of those two positions, we should fill the other. But I don't see Zhang realising this.

I agree with both of your posts. People tend to forget that Spalletti had refused to sign an extension unless Inter got him the players he wanted. The alternative was to either have an unsatisfied coach with an expiring contract or change the coach that brought the team back to CL after 6 years. He signed the extension at the end of the transfer market market so he was certainly satisfied with the players he got. He said it so himself. This is what he had said after the extension:

After penning a new contract that will keep him at Inter until 2021, Luciano Spalletti revealed he’s happy with the players currently at his disposal despite continued links with Real Madrid’s Luka Modric.

The Nerazzurri remain in the mix for the Croatian standout, and rumours of a potential last-minute move won’t go away despite Los Blancos’ insistence on keeping the midfielder.

Spalletti made it clear that regardless of whether Modric is brought in, he’s more than satisfied with Inter’s summer moves.

“You’d have to ask the director [Piero Ausilio]that, as I won’t say anything more when it comes to the transfer market,” he told Sky Sport Italia when asked about the Real midfielder.

“I am already very happy with what I have at my disposal. These are the players I’d want to have.”

 

[andrei]

Now, this seems a little bit clear.
We put all our eggs in Spalletti's basket. And if he fails, he would be sack, receive a big compensation and we remain with our dick in the hand and with an underperforming squad. Brilliant!

 

[Ronaldo]

Now, you guys, imagine you are the CEO of Inter. The coach asks, almost demands you Nainggolan.


What would you have done? Most of you would have bought him, judging by this summer's posts.

But it's ok, we are supporters, it's not our job to analyse every possible purchase beforehand.

The lack of both a proper sporting director and a proper CEO this summer has cost us a lot.

We have filled one of those two positions, we should fill the other. But I don't see Zhang realising this.

When Mourinho first went to Real he was pressing hard for Maicon but Perez judt didn’t budge. That’s what we need! A sporting director who knows his job and is not a pushover.

 

[brehme1989]

When Mourinho first went to Real he was pressing hard for Maicon but Perez judt didn’t budge. That’s what we need! A sporting director who knows his job and is not a pushover.

I think that's the Milito situation. Regarding Maicon, I think we rejected their bids, while he was openly stating that he wanted to go to Real Madrid right after the season ended. When he returned from the World Cup nothing happened. Florentino Perez actually talked to Maicon about his future contract, he was excited to sign him.

Real Madrid had made a bid of 25ish million whilst we wanted 35m. Funny how inflation in football has made 35m "peanuts" now that you throw for average-ish players.

 

[AbdiWirajaya]

Ausilio is officially our sporting director. That's the org chart from inter.it.

Whoa...there's one Indonesian name as one of the board of directors. Thought that will be none after ET sold his shares

 

[Bluenine]

FIF be like

Now: "Spalletti forced Inter buy a shite player like Nainggolan. Fuck you, Ausilio"

Last summer: "World class Nainggolan is joining Inter on a discount thanks to Spalletti. In your face, Monchi"

:yuno:

 

[IRR26]

It is that neither Monchi or Ausilio knew what they were doing.

Monchi: “We wanted to players: Radu and Zaniolo. The first had already been loaned out to Genoa”.

“Inter didn’t want to sell Zaniolo, they are not fools. However, they really wanted to sign Nainggolan so they had to adapt and concede us something. The deal, however, would have been finalized also without Zaniolo, Inter weren’t obliged to sell him to us. I am surprised, I didn’t expect him to have such a big impact so quickly”.

 

[wera]

FIF be like

Now: "Spalletti forced Inter buy a shite player like Nainggolan. Fuck you, Ausilio"

Last summer: "World class Nainggolan is joining Inter on a discount thanks to Spalletti. In your face, Monchi"

:yuno:

Lies. Some of us never wanted Vidal, Modrić and Nainggolan.

 

[Wallace]

FIF be like

Now: "Spalletti forced Inter buy a shite player like Nainggolan. Fuck you, Ausilio"

Last summer: "World class Nainggolan is joining Inter on a discount thanks to Spalletti. In your face, Monchi"

:yuno:

Not me tbh.

Hated the deal since day 1, pointed out the decline and short sightedness of the deal only to get answers like "he has 3 years to play as a top class midfielder" sort of bullshit.

There were unfortunate things that have happened, but 3 years was the absolute maximum bound in the best case scenarios of everything. FIF has got to be living in the fantasy world to base a deal around best possible circumstantial projections.

Not to mention i have also brought up Nainggolan was the most expensive 30 year old midfielder in the history of football, and that it was insane to pay so much considering we have historically sold our 30 year old for peanuts.

You are as deluded as it gets.

 

[andrei]

Really? I said it from the beginning, i want Inter to invest in young players and I got a ton of shit. I was in the "pedo" section.
And everything started with Dembele thread not Nainggolan.
I still believe is a bad idea to invest long term in 30y players, if they are not central defenders. We complain now about Nainggolan, but imagine in 2-3 years when this fucker will rock in the discos of Milan with the 4,5m per anum inter provide and bring nothing on the field.

 

[brehme1989]

The problem with Nainggolan is not explicitly his age. The problem is that he's way too attached with Roma, a rival club. If we didn't back off from the Vidal deal we'd be much better off today with both of them as there'd be some macho competition in the locker room and they'd look to bring it out to the field.

Go back around 10 years. Can you imagine Dejan Stankovic or Esteban Cambiasso moving to a Serie A team that aims high and still perform the same way?

A person gets settled around that age (late 20s, early 30s) and is reluctant to change. In football, that's less evident but it's still the norm for a human. But being settled means you're already part of an organization or lifestyle for years. Nainggolan spent almost 5 'formative' years at Roma and came when he was 30 and was some sort of rebel leader there so it makes sense that he's gonna take a while to adapt at a new place that's more high pressure and there's more spotlight. It's part of the risks we knew we were taking and Spalletti was supposed to be someone to help him get settled faster.

Borja Valero was in a similar situation but he was not a direct rival for Inter (even if during this time we were closer to Fiorentina than Roma...) but he seemed to be settled from day 1.

This is always a risk. It's a risk with kids even more as you have no telling of how they will react. When it comes to South American imports they might shit their pants like Gabriel Barbosa or they may looked like a seasoned veteran like Javier Saviola was back in the day. When it comes to Italian they might not be able to handle the pressure of a big club.

You never know with these things and that's exactly why you supposedly hire experts at these positions to be able to make judgement and a better decision. Our management gets an F for almost every transfer made after 2012.