Simone Inzaghi

[varmin]

Do you think Conte would make the 2017-18 team a CL participant?

Depends of the selection. I don't think that Conte would get Vecino ever. Valero - definitely yes.
Dalbert - rather no, because I think he would have kept Ansaldi. Kondogbia would have stayed imo. I don't know how Perisic would react of the idea to be converted as RWB. Most probably would have left. I also think that Jovetic could have been better under him. Not sure for JM and Brozovic. But Conte would have kept Brozo cuz he likes hard running players like him.

 

[Nyall]

I fucking called it!!!!

 

[Nyall]

Inzhagi has a pathway to the Champions League final. What even is life!

 

[wera]

I'll be extremely happy with the semis at least, so we can get some more money. Not sure if we really want a final against City/Bayern/Real, maybe if Chelsea somehow makes it there.

 

[YoramG]

Fuck it, keep him till the end of the season and let this cup competition DEMON cook.

 

[NimAraya]

I'll be extremely happy with the semis at least, so we can get some more money. Not sure if we really want a final against City/Bayern/Real, maybe if Chelsea somehow makes it there.

So you rather reach the semis to get some money but not reach the final and play against one of those 3?! I don't get the logic.

 

[Nyall]

I'll be extremely happy with the semis at least, so we can get some more money. Not sure if we really want a final against City/Bayern/Real, maybe if Chelsea somehow makes it there.

I don’t know about you but losing to Madrid in the final would be an honour. We were not supposed to even make it out of the group.

But considering we beat Barca and weren’t completely outclassed by Bayern, I could see us beating any of these teams in a neutral venue with proper preparation and a bit of luck for a final.

If we can make it there, we have a chance.

 

[NimAraya]

We probably lose against one of those 3. It will be a narrow loss but still, saying not wanting to face one of them in the final is beyond ridiculous.

 

[wera]

So you rather reach the semis to get some money but not reach the final and play against one of those 3?! I don't get the logic.

Just saying that I wouldn't like my chances against the three clubs I mentioned. Well, the goal is to get as far as we can in this campaign.

 

[Helenio Herrera]

Sorry but we are not beating Benfica

In fact it's Benfica who have a somewhat clear path to the final

Perhaps the Guttmann curse ends this year?

 

[varmin]

Sorry but we are not beating Benfica

In fact it's Benfica who have a somewhat clear path to the final

Perhaps the Guttmann curse ends this year?

It will be so embarrassing if Milan beat Napoli and after than Benfica.

 

[Fapuccino]

Inter finish 6th in the league and win CL?

 

[Helenio Herrera]

It will be so embarrassing if Milan beat Napoli and after than Benfica.

Not gonna happen. Napoli - Benfica will be a nice SF matchup though

 

[Nyall]

Lol at Inter losing to Benfica..

They've had such an easy schedule this season. The toughest games they've had have been against injury riddled PSG and Juve teams. Its easy to look good against poor competition. They barely beat Porto..

 

[nutsncider]

We barely beat Porto…

 

[Stefan]

We barely beat Porto…

What matters is getting through not how easily you do it. You don't get anything extra for winning 7-0.

 

[Sqnalkel]

Next to nothing? I guess your standards are pretty fucking high here. There are multiple players in Serie A who have been Inter youth players. Getting to Serie A level is IMO pretty fucking good in the end given how many players there are eventually not making it to highest level of that particular country.

And the problem is not so much that we aren't playing our youngsters, but that we're paying a lot of money to bring scrubs that are barely any better than them. It's pretty simple our former and current youngsters may not be good enough to be sure starters but they certainly are good enough to be backup players.

Also we really need to stop going for "Serie A proven players", it never really pays off, like the chances you get a Serie A proven player for a reasonable price is slim to none, unless it's a free agent. Napoli built one of the best teams in Europe with somewhat cheap players mostly from other leagues Min-jae Kim (€16M), Anguissa (€16M), Zielinski (€16M) and Kvaratskhelia (€12M), basically only Osimhen (€75M) was super expensive for them.

But Inter wants to keep on buying only known players, if you want to do that you have to spend hundreds of millions of Euros every season. We need to start looking for relatively unknown young talented players and fill the gaps with our primavera and some free agents.

 

[varmin]

We are after well known players, because our scouts suck alike Napoli's ones.

 

[Sqnalkel]

What really bothers me about Inzaghi are the drops in the team's performances from one game to the next. In one match, they play Milan off the park and three days later they go missing in action against Sampdoria. How do we account for that? Is it down to tiredness and the lack of viable options off the bench to rotate? Is it a sign that psychologically, the team are not well prepared because they almost always struggle against smaller teams. Either way, I feel it is on Inzaghi to have the players mentally ready for their next challenge.

I am pretty sure that if we had Conte last season with a seven point lead halfway through the season, we would have won last season's Scudetto. In relation to this season, we might not have been able to keep pace with Napoli but we would definitely have been in better shape than we are at this point with Inzaghi. One thing that I appreciated about the Hunchback of Turin is that when we suffered a poor result, we almost always hit back in the next game.

It's simple, our squad is not good enough and Inzaghi is not a great motivator, that coupled with Napoli running away for the league is a recipe for disaster. If we had an actual strong squad or if the 1st place wasn't so far away maybe the players could automotivate themselves.

Another thing is that we really lack dribblers, almost every top team have at least a couple of them, we have none, basically no pace either that's why we struggle so much when things don't go our way.

 

[nutsncider]

What matters is getting through not how easily you do it. You don't get anything extra for winning 7-0.

I was replying to nyall who was saying benfica barely beat Porto as a slight. I’m only saying it because I think Inter/benfica will be much tougher that many around here think. If they come at us and win the first leg, then shut up shop at the San Siro, we’re in big trouble bc we can’t find ways to beat teams that park the bus.