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10 years of FIFThere's no need to mention how Inter fans are feeling after the disastrous result we got last Sunday. Personally I was so angry that I had a throbbing pain in the middle of my chest and needed a few hours to calm down, but as I write this 8 hours later I still can't say that I'm writing this in cold blood. So as an exercise to help me calm myself down and finally go to sleep and try to forget is to do what all angry people like to do and that's blame people. So who should bear the blame for this 3rd defeat in our last four games.
Management:
Recently Gazzetta Dello Sport published an interview with former manager Gasperini where he showed us how the club was not co-perating with his vision for the club. They hired him knowing he played a certain way but instead of getting the right signings necessary to make the new mana... Wait, on second thought we haven't had a manager since Mourinho, a manager gets to at least manage club affairs, all we have is a head coach, he handles training ground matters and fields the team but these past two years we did not have a manager. Another good word instead of head coach is scapegoat because due to the incompetency of our management the head coach is the one who gets the sack. This goes all the way back to Rafa Benitez, who as we all know was not given a single signing, all he got was Biabiany to replace a player with the class of Balotelli and not to mention the lack of reinforcements in midfield. In retrospect I am always inclined to believe that with some faith, Rafa could have been great for this club because when Inter had its full team we did put on some good performances. Fast forward to Gasperini where we could see what happened with Benitez, you'd think management in retrospect would have learned from it's mistakes but no, we made the same mistakes not following the manager's vision and in lack of better words screwing him over. Gasp's targets were Criscito, a midfielder, Palacio and to keep Samuel Eto'o, he even accepted the fact that he had to sacrifice an important player like Sneijder. We all know what happened we sold Eto'o, got players with completely different attributes to what the scapegoat needed in a transfer market consisting of last minute buys simply to fill holes. Our management throughout these past transfer markets can be compared to someone fixing a hole in a sinking ship with a bandage. I could go on, on this but the topic has been done to death and any Inter fan with sense can see how management has failed the club.
Ranieri
In his defense Ranieri managed to string up a 7 game winning streak, including a lovely derby win which gave us hope that we might get a Champions League spot by the end of the season. I don't need to elaborate on our feelings now, but even though the argument to defend Ranieri may seem thin, he's definitely more defensible than management. Let's just see how management has failed Ranieri, all he requested in the January market was to keep Thiago Motta and a wide forward. We know what happened, we got rid of our midfield talisman because we didn't want to renew his contract, and brought in two midfielders and no change in attack. We lost a player who like him or hate him is indispensable, especially when you're looking at how our team tend to win with Motta on the pitch. But the argument against Ranieri, is how in today's game he removed Alvarez in half time, a player who is more likely to create something for Pazzini (more on this later). This meant that our only threat out wide was Chivu and that after we conceded Forlan came on and ended up playing in a wide position something Alvarez is more suited. Not to mention that someone like Coutinho could have fit in pretty well in this kind of situation but we sent him away, you know creativity isn't important Inter. But I can't say that I am smarter than Ranieri at his job obviously but his substitutions sometimes tend to be mind boggling.
Players:
Well, I think I was mainly disappointed with Sneijder. Ranieri kept him on as a trequartista who's job is usually to create, however he kept on shooting shots wide and was causing more damage to the infrastructure of the Meazza rather than causing damage to Novara. I think someone with the vision of Sneijder should be creating chances for his team mates which led to his arguments with Pazzini on the pitch. Pazzini needs assists and Sneijder doesn't provide them, Sneijder's drive and hot head tends to work against him as he tries to win games on his own at times. But also Wesley seems to be bereft of confidence and it's only a matter of months until he leaves us for greener pastures. Though this may be exclusively on Sneijder, it's because everyone expects more from the Dutchman because he is our star player and you'd expect him to play as such. I think the criticism on Pazzini is harsh as he wasn't provided a decent ball all game, and the only one he got was in the last minute with a great save from Ujkani. Oh and one can't forget Chivu, pathetic defending on the goal, if he simply kept the defensive line, Caracciolo would have been miles offside.
So there may be other factors to our loss today, I think bad luck at the end of the day did play a role but a team like Inter cannot make such an excuse when it comes to a home game against the team who's last. If I had to pass a percentage to each factor I mentioned above taking a macro approach, I'd give 55% of the blame to management, 20% to Ranieri and 25% to the players. One has to also give credit to Novara for taking advantage of our pathetic defending which suffers against speed and vertical passes cut us open like hot knives through butter and also credit to Mondonico a class manager. But any way as I end this with a rage, not caring about grammatical errors and spelling mistakes I wish my fellow Interisti around the world a good night's sleep and hopefully better days to come.
Forza Inter, Sempre e Ovunque!
Management:
Recently Gazzetta Dello Sport published an interview with former manager Gasperini where he showed us how the club was not co-perating with his vision for the club. They hired him knowing he played a certain way but instead of getting the right signings necessary to make the new mana... Wait, on second thought we haven't had a manager since Mourinho, a manager gets to at least manage club affairs, all we have is a head coach, he handles training ground matters and fields the team but these past two years we did not have a manager. Another good word instead of head coach is scapegoat because due to the incompetency of our management the head coach is the one who gets the sack. This goes all the way back to Rafa Benitez, who as we all know was not given a single signing, all he got was Biabiany to replace a player with the class of Balotelli and not to mention the lack of reinforcements in midfield. In retrospect I am always inclined to believe that with some faith, Rafa could have been great for this club because when Inter had its full team we did put on some good performances. Fast forward to Gasperini where we could see what happened with Benitez, you'd think management in retrospect would have learned from it's mistakes but no, we made the same mistakes not following the manager's vision and in lack of better words screwing him over. Gasp's targets were Criscito, a midfielder, Palacio and to keep Samuel Eto'o, he even accepted the fact that he had to sacrifice an important player like Sneijder. We all know what happened we sold Eto'o, got players with completely different attributes to what the scapegoat needed in a transfer market consisting of last minute buys simply to fill holes. Our management throughout these past transfer markets can be compared to someone fixing a hole in a sinking ship with a bandage. I could go on, on this but the topic has been done to death and any Inter fan with sense can see how management has failed the club.
Ranieri
In his defense Ranieri managed to string up a 7 game winning streak, including a lovely derby win which gave us hope that we might get a Champions League spot by the end of the season. I don't need to elaborate on our feelings now, but even though the argument to defend Ranieri may seem thin, he's definitely more defensible than management. Let's just see how management has failed Ranieri, all he requested in the January market was to keep Thiago Motta and a wide forward. We know what happened, we got rid of our midfield talisman because we didn't want to renew his contract, and brought in two midfielders and no change in attack. We lost a player who like him or hate him is indispensable, especially when you're looking at how our team tend to win with Motta on the pitch. But the argument against Ranieri, is how in today's game he removed Alvarez in half time, a player who is more likely to create something for Pazzini (more on this later). This meant that our only threat out wide was Chivu and that after we conceded Forlan came on and ended up playing in a wide position something Alvarez is more suited. Not to mention that someone like Coutinho could have fit in pretty well in this kind of situation but we sent him away, you know creativity isn't important Inter. But I can't say that I am smarter than Ranieri at his job obviously but his substitutions sometimes tend to be mind boggling.
Players:
Well, I think I was mainly disappointed with Sneijder. Ranieri kept him on as a trequartista who's job is usually to create, however he kept on shooting shots wide and was causing more damage to the infrastructure of the Meazza rather than causing damage to Novara. I think someone with the vision of Sneijder should be creating chances for his team mates which led to his arguments with Pazzini on the pitch. Pazzini needs assists and Sneijder doesn't provide them, Sneijder's drive and hot head tends to work against him as he tries to win games on his own at times. But also Wesley seems to be bereft of confidence and it's only a matter of months until he leaves us for greener pastures. Though this may be exclusively on Sneijder, it's because everyone expects more from the Dutchman because he is our star player and you'd expect him to play as such. I think the criticism on Pazzini is harsh as he wasn't provided a decent ball all game, and the only one he got was in the last minute with a great save from Ujkani. Oh and one can't forget Chivu, pathetic defending on the goal, if he simply kept the defensive line, Caracciolo would have been miles offside.
So there may be other factors to our loss today, I think bad luck at the end of the day did play a role but a team like Inter cannot make such an excuse when it comes to a home game against the team who's last. If I had to pass a percentage to each factor I mentioned above taking a macro approach, I'd give 55% of the blame to management, 20% to Ranieri and 25% to the players. One has to also give credit to Novara for taking advantage of our pathetic defending which suffers against speed and vertical passes cut us open like hot knives through butter and also credit to Mondonico a class manager. But any way as I end this with a rage, not caring about grammatical errors and spelling mistakes I wish my fellow Interisti around the world a good night's sleep and hopefully better days to come.
Forza Inter, Sempre e Ovunque!
Over the years, we weren't able to effectively utilize probably one of the most versatile and talented midfielders like Seedorf while he went on to create history with them. 
