Simone Inzaghi

[Adriano@10]

It’s no shocker at all. The team is shallow and doesn’t have the depth to compete at that level on all fronts.

Look at the other teams in the competition that we’ve been lucky to avoid. Their bench players would walk into our team.

If playing deep into 3 competitions was easy teams wouldn’t be spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be where we are now. The fact we’re doing it so far is a miracle and clearly a massive distraction. We were a lot better in the league when we were out of Europe early last year and the year before.

Having our league games shifted to all sorts of abnormal times and days hasn’t been helpful either. Our players are getting less rest and having less time to prepare against teams that have had all week to prepare for us. The last time we here was 2010 and we almost through the league away and gave the title to Roma even though we had an attack of Milito, Eto’o, Pandev, and Balotelli a better midfield and a defense. Our team and our attack especially is nowhere near as good this time and the lack of goal scoring from our forwards have been our biggest folly in the league. But Lukaku is heating up, if he and Martinez can catch something for the last two months, we can do well.

The team has clearly chosen Europe as what we’re focusing on now and has gone far beyond what we thought was possible. We don’t even know what the summer is going to look like who’s staying and who’s leaving besides the cunt Skriniar.

Inzhagi may not be a great coach but to deny his aptitude for cup competitions would be foolish. Back in August the sentiments were that we were not making it out of the Group. In terms of helping to boost the profile of the club this season he’s gone above and beyond. No one is talking about our form in the league, they’re talking about how we walked into the home of the team that has owned Portugal and comprehensively beat them.

I do agree and i understand that the team kind of checked out when down 10+ point on napoli so theres basically nothing to play for in the league until now that we dropped out of UCL...
But the lack of care from the players side in some of these games against the likes of salernitana/spezia/fiore is just not acceptable.....Even more so if many of them could have had earlier breaks or not even would have needed to be subbed in during the games if the starters gave two fucks...

I agree on everything else dude has in general restored our reputation in europe even last year when we went out to pool we managed to look good enough for people to think we re back.

 

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

The man is the master of the carrot.. not so much the stick.

 

[#NotForMe]

Why is the manager's responsibility to motivate the players to play as they should, and not the players themselves?

These cup games make me question if he actually even misread the ability of the players or he turns out knowing what they are capable of, but they are not delivering. Like he wasn't actually dumb enough to start handa in CL games, like he knows.

P.S. I would agree he is a coward though to start the old farts or useless guys before the youth, just not to gain hate in the locker room.

 

[delaurentis]

You saw how the players went the extra mile against Benfica. All of a sudden I saw tackles being made I thought would not be possible.
Clearly the motivation is different for CL compared to Serie A.

Who knows, maybe they think they can put themselves more out in the CL and secure a big money move to another league??

 

[Meysam]

I support him more than Conte, as the matter of the fact I hate mothetfucker Conte.
I think we should wait till end of the season then decide about him.
He has been much better than motherfucker Conte who failed in CL with better squad (In form Lukaku, Hakimi, Eriksen, Persic)

If we find a better owner who spend money, we should get rid of him and build a new team based on not 352 fucking formation.

 

[M.Adnan]

Inzaghi manages a team that has no business playing in three competitions.

He has a (slim) chance at winning two cups one of which is the CL, under terrible circumstances at the club. And securing a top 4 spot is feasible.

Sometimes his moves are puzzling but there is potential here under a proper management. He's not like Spalletti where he had lost the team 6-7 months before the end of the season, but at the same time he's not close to be considered a keeper in case we get a new owner.

Let's just ride the season and see where it goes.

My exact sentiments. As much as I would love to replace Inzaghi, putting emotions and frustrations aside, the guy has to stay. We don't have other options. I'm also sure that Inzaghi will still try his best even if he knows that he'll replaced this summer. If he reaches the CL finals (for example) with this mediocre team, it will benefit his resume and chances to get the best possible contract when he leaves Inter this summer.

 

[Corrode]

My exact sentiments. As much as I would love to replace Inzaghi, putting emotions and frustrations aside, the guy has to stay. We don't have other options. I'm also sure that Inzaghi will still try his best even if he knows that he'll replaced this summer. If he lift the CL trophy (for example) with this mediocre team, it will benefit his resume and chances to get the best possible contract when he leaves Inter this summer.

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[M.Adnan]

fixed

If he lifts the trophy then the management will inevitably extend his contract which is not good.

 

[brehme1989]

If he lifts the trophy then the management will inevitably extend his contract which is not good.

Maybe he shares an iconic moment with a crying Acerbi just before he flies to Paris, Liverpool or London.

 

[forzainter257]

I support him more than Conte, as the matter of the fact I hate mothetfucker Conte.
I think we should wait till end of the season then decide about him.
He has been much better than motherfucker Conte who failed in CL with better squad (In form Lukaku, Hakimi, Eriksen, Persic)

If we find a better owner who spend money, we should get rid of him and build a new team based on not 352 fucking formation.

do you have the same thoughts about Mancini who built the squad and ground it through years and then passed it to Mou who won the treble with it by just adding a couple of signings to replace some aging players?

 

[Meysam]

do you have the same thoughts about Mancini who built the squad and ground it through years and then passed it to Mou who won the treble with it by just adding a couple of signings to replace some aging players?

Can't understand how this relevant to my comment?
Are you comparing mancini-mou to Conte-inzaghi? If so, I see nothing in common tbh

 

[brehme1989]

do you have the same thoughts about Mancini who built the squad and ground it through years and then passed it to Mou who won the treble with it by just adding a couple of signings to replace some aging players?

What aging players did Mourinho replace? Recoba left before Mourinho arrived. Cruz and Crespo left the following season and one of them was replaced by Diego Milito who was a couple of years younger than both. And Luis Figo retired.

Lucio came at 31, Eto'o at 28 in exchange for a 27 year old Zlatan.
Maxwell was 27 when he left. Burdisso left us at 28 for Roma.
Vieira left 18 months after Mourinho arrived.

What squad did Mancini built? The one where Cesar, Mihajlovic, Burdisso and Suazo were playing regularly?
The players that came under Mancini's watch were Maicon, Julio Cesar, Samuel and Chivu. Cambiasso was signed before we agreed with Mancini but they arrived at the same time. Stankovic was also bought several months prior. You can give him Vieira as well who left before the triplete was completed.
Zanetti, Cordoba, Materazzi, Toldo, Stankovic [and Cambiasso] were already Inter players.
With Mourinho we brought in Eto'o, Sneijder, Motta, Lucio, Muntari, Pandev, Mariga, Arnautovic,
And Balotelli with Santon were youth products.


Do you remember the 2007-8 team? It was Zlatan et al.

Don't want to discredit Mancini because he did a good job for a few seasons, but saying that Mourinho found a team that was built by someone else is simply not true.


I also don't understand the point of your post, but felt the urge to respond to this fallacy.

 

[Fapuccino]

Why is the manager's responsibility to motivate the players to play as they should, and not the players themselves?

Manager control of the locker room is crucial. That comes before tactics and player selection. If the players are not there mentally, forget about everything else.

The problem with us is we've formed some weird binary split between CL and league, where we're underperforming in the league, and dare I say overperforming in CL (at least against Barca).

 

[CoolMan44]

I feel he needs to decide who the front two starters are. Obviously they are all out of form, but it's also difficult to get into form with constant rotation for forwards. I can't even remember the last time we had the same strike partnership start two games in a row.

Since the break, he's alternating between Correa-Lukaku and Lautaro-Dzeko with each game. Not a big fan of this as I find Lautaro and Dzeko together have the worst chemistry out of any partnership.

I still feel he needs to go with Lautaro-Lukaku for most matches, but I get the feeling rotation will continue.

 

[Glass box]

Who knows, maybe they think they can put themselves more out in the CL and secure a big money move to another league??

Very possible

 

[Glass box]

Maybe he shares an iconic moment with a crying Gagliardini just before he flies to Paris, Liverpool or London.

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[.h.]

Mourinho pretty much rebuilt Inter. 5 or 6 of our starters (depending how you count) replaced, I think 17? players from Mancini's era gone...

Its insane to suggest it was a minor tweak from Mourinho to build a winning Inter - it was a frigging massive change.

The 11 players who played most in Mancini's last season were

Zanetti
Cesar
Cambiasso
Maxwell
Maicon
Cruz
Ibrahimovic
Suazo
Chivu
Stankovic
Burdisso

2 seasons later, thats
Zanetti
Cesar
Maicon
Lucio
Milito
Etoo
Cambiasso
Samuel
Stankovic
Sneijder
Motta

Only Zanetti, Cesar, Chivu, Stankovic, Maicon consistent across those lists.

 

[forzainter257]

Only Zanetti, Cesar, Chivu, Stankovic, Maicon consistent across those lists.

That's already half of the starting 11 dude. Yeah I get that I bit exaggerated by saying a couple of signings, but the point wasn't that.

Listen ya all, I'm not taking away it from Mou, he was the biggest factor in our success, but ignoring Mancini's part in that is so unfair. Man I don't even like Mancini and I would love to see Mou back at Inter's helm more than anyone else, but credit should be given to those who deserve it and Mancini definitely does deserve some for building that core and instilling in them the champion character. why is that so hard to grasp

 

[bubba zanetti]

That's already half of the starting 11 dude. Yeah I get that I bit exaggerated by saying a couple of signings, but the point wasn't that.

Listen ya all, I'm not taking away it from Mou, he was the biggest factor in our success, but ignoring Mancini's part in that is so unfair. Man I don't even like Mancini and I would love to see Mou back at Inter's helm more than anyone else, but credit should be given to those who deserve it and Mancini definitely does deserve some for building that core and instilling in them the champion character. why is that so hard to grasp

That core would never win CL if we didnt bring 6 heavyweights(Lucio, Motta, Sneijder, Pandev, Etoo,Milito). And even that wouldnt be enough without Mou switching from 4-3-1-2 to 4-2-3-1, ditching Chivu and Deki from first eleven and inserting Zanetti on Lb and Pandev on Lw. And then came that win on Stamford Bridge. Players finally realised that they have IT in them. Then we become unbeatable. I have respect to Mancio but 2009/10 has nothing to do with him. 2008/09 yes, cause we were that season same Mancioesque choke team that got buttfucked against first serious opponent in CL. Mou Inter in 2009/10 is something more. This was his magnum opus. Glad to be alive and witnessing that.

 

[Glass box]

Worst coach ever, I don't care how many cups he's won. Fraud.