Simone Inzaghi

Will Simone Inzaghi win a Scudetto at Inter?


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We have an ageing squad that does not show hunger anymore and we have a mediocre manager that reached his peak and is now on a downwards spiral.
Bringing 33+ has-beens every season is simply a walk to the graveyard. We are a fucking retirement home and this is all on owners/management. At this point we are an absolute fucking joke of a team and things will definitely not get better without a complete overhaul.
 

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In what universe his tactical competence cannot be questioned. Go watch udinese game, where they had 5 on 2 counterattack. And i m choosing that moment cos we had numerous situations like that since he came. His tactical competence is zeman like in its naivety, and that's one of the most constant things about him.

Agree with everything else you wrote, but selling this man as some sort of tactically sound manager whose only problem is his man management is imo missing the whole picture. In fact, i m sure it's the other way around, his problem with motivating players stems exactly from the inability to put any sort of firm backbone into teams. By firm backbone, I mean fixing the leaking goals problem he had both with us and lazio and the fact you can set your watch for his team to have at least one major meltdown during the season.

And also speaking of tactics, it's always the same. I don't see any variations on the theme, we always play the same, in the same high rhythm which is pleasant on the eye but also what a lot of fans misinterpret as some sort of tactically sound approach, which as we saw during the whole course of the season it isn't.
I don’t see a real reason why he should radically change what we are playing. Looking at last season, an individual fuck up against Milan und the derby and more of the same in the process and against Bologna got us the title lost, it was not as if the general approach to the games was wrong from a tactical standpoint. Winning the cup and the supercoppa and additionally our surprisingly good games against Liverpool in the round of 16 proved further evidence that the general idea of how to play is there and ok.

This season you see the same type of pattern, with games in champions league being won, with the right approach in coppa and supercoppa, and with the will of dominating games at home, but what is the major difference this season is the fact that we are unable to stay concentrated away from home. For example take the games against Bologna and Spezia; it is not as if we didn’t have chances to come out as a winner, but we simply missed the killer instinct. It is clearly a motivational gap, as if the players are not fully focused on finishing off the opponent.

That’s where Inzaghis lack of man management begins in my opinion. This is where he has to start to make decisions for the team in order for the team not to overthink themselves. He has to decide who takes the penalty, who takes the dead balls (I do not like Hakan and Dimarco randomly changing), how many people stay at the back while attacking (remember Bastoni getting roasted by Conte for that one), what approach the goalkeeper takes (short balls, long balls, …) and so on.

Certainly these things have to be worked out on the pitch if your squad is of the highest level, but in our case it isn‘t so it task of the head coach to nail it.
 

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It wasn't an individual fuckup that cost us the title at Bologna. It was a mentality problem. We started the game very well, we scored early with Perisic and for whatever reason we just stopped playing and became complacent instead of going for a second to finish it off. And this has happened very often in the last two years.
 

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It wasn't an individual fuckup that cost us the title at Bologna. It was a mentality problem. We started the game very well, we scored early with Perisic and for whatever reason we just stopped playing and became complacent instead of going for a second to finish it off. And this has happened very often in the last two years.
not only that, I would also add his questionable subs which often time led to losing points. At some point, I started to feel like he did them on purpose.
 

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not only that, I would also add his questionable subs which often time led to losing points.

Absolutely. Even in that game he made poor subs. His decision to take off Barella (yellow card) for Sanchez basically killed our midfield, we were forced to play with long balls from defence and we didn't create a single chance since that minute. His decision to take off Hakan (yellow card again) for Gagliardini few minutes before Radu fuckup was just the icing of the cake. In a way Inzaghi was lucky with Radu fuckup because everyone was focused on Radu and it diverted attention from his poor subs.
 

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The guy is getting fucking mauled in the media today. Marotta must have said something.

Which means I now feel the need to defend him with my life, because while Inzaghi is to blame, he is the LAST to blame. Marotta and Ausilio can absolutely do one.
 

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I have been saying we should not replace Inzaghi unless we get proper replacement, now I am changing my stance and I think any decent coach could do better than him. Eight loss under 26 matches with millions goal conceded with this squad in the shitty league is a crime. Lazio and Roma invest much less than us yet they have about same points with us.
And I don't think a deep run in UCL or even the championshiop can be his bargaining chip. It is more like a parting gift for us and a face-saving feat for his CV. Inzaghi is not good enough to guarantee top 4 and our squad is not good enough to consistently reach UCL advanced stage. The moment we slip early in UCL and we don't get top 4, our dire finance will take harder hit, we will sell more players, and it willl be harder to bounce back.
So thank you Inzaghi for the ride, we will not miss your coppa trophies.
 

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If we dont win vs Juventus, we need to replace Inzaghi. The risk of not getting into the CL next season is too significant.
 

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If we dont win vs Juventus, we need to replace Inzaghi. The risk of not getting into the CL next season is too significant.
Replacing him with who? No serious coach would take the team now when top 4 is at risk. I can't see how finishing the season with Chivu would give more guarantees than keeping Inzaghi.
 

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Just replace him after the season is completed is the best strategy. It's going to cost Inter big time however, golden handshake, new coach and replacement players/contract renewals. Where's the money going to come from? It's not going to be a pleasant summer tbh.
 

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Replacing him with who? No serious coach would take the team now when top 4 is at risk. I can't see how finishing the season with Chivu would give more guarantees than keeping Inzaghi.
Do you give Chivu the job and hope for a dead cat bounce from the squad? We're in an impossible situation. I don't think firing Inzaghi will necessarily fix anything, but if we go out to Porto and lost to Juventus, he has to go.
 

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We're gonna beat Juve anyway so no point discussing the hypothetical
 

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The Conte rumors are hilarious if we paid him 7 million to leave when he wanted to and bring him back only to pay him to leave again in 1-2 seasons
 

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Do you give Chivu the job and hope for a dead cat bounce from the squad? We're in an impossible situation. I don't think firing Inzaghi will necessarily fix anything, but if we go out to Porto and lost to Juventus, he has to go.
But still? Inzaghi fired, NT break and Chivu comes in? Does Chivu have ANY authority to this squad? Despite us tanking those matches, one could argue Inzaghi is still the best shot keeping us at top4.

Looking abroad, can't see someone like Tuchel or Pocchettino touching this thing, since Zhang cannot promise him any kind of credible project. Some lower grade foreign coaches would be then way too risky ones (zero authority and credibility).

I simply cannot see Inzaghi being fired midseason anymore unless he's really losing the locker room, and IMO it doesn't look like it at this moment.
 

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Taking an unknown risk is better than taking a guaranteed failure
 

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It's not a guaranteed failure though. Look at what has happened this weekend. Lazio failed to beat Bologna and Roma are currently losing to Sassuolo. Even if Milan beat Salernitana we will be 3 points ahead of 5th place. It's a bit like Scudetto race last season. A matter of who's gonna choke less. Granted we have a tough schedule ahead but we're very much alive in the race and we're in a good position. We have more to lose than to gain with a change now. This isn't like 2011/12 when we were outside European places with Ranieri and we had nothing to lose by promoting Stramaccioni.

Look at it this way. Unless there's a complete meltdown Inzaghi is the best caretaker we can have right now. At least that's how i see it.
 

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Scraping through because everyone else fails as well is still failure, its just lucky failure from our side. If our plan with Inzaghi is "lets hope everyone else fucks up worse", that's a disaster already.

Lets try to aim for some decent results, instead.

I think Inzaghi has shown a complete failure to motivate the team and we have really poor performances in the league. He's doing OK enough in the cups, but the league is more important to us than anything else atm.
 

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Scraping through because everyone else fails as well is still failure, its just lucky failure from our side. If our plan with Inzaghi is "lets hope everyone else fucks up worse", that's a disaster already.

Lets try to aim for some decent results, instead.

I think Inzaghi has shown a complete failure to motivate the team and we have really poor performances in the league. He's doing OK enough in the cups, but the league is more important to us than anything else atm.
You don't get it.

The target is to get to top 4, no matter how.

I'm gonna claim despite lose to Porto and Juve, Inzaghi is still our best bet for that. No Serie A coach is available (as per rules) and as I said, we won't get some well-known foreigner. Chivu is a total lottery ticket compared to us banking on Inzaghi to get decent results + our rivals fucking up at the same rate as us.

There is no meltdown inside the locker room anywhere to be seen.
 

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Taking an unknown risk is better than taking a guaranteed failure
Tell those words to Zhang by inject more money from China not the other way around.
 
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