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Inter’s Super Strike Force Of 1999 – Ronaldo, Vieri, Zamorano And Baggio
Posted on Thursday, 30th June 2011 by Kevin Grech
Reading all the articles on the Internet and newspapers lately is really strange, especially when you look back about 11 years ago to how Inter used to see the transfer market.
Back then, Inter president Massimo Moratti never held back and would by the best players in the world just to try to win his first Scudetto.
Listening to Moratti and Marco Branca speak recently about keeping in line with the UEFA Financial Fair play rules are really strange.
Inter could have purchased many players in this transfer campaign, but decided not to. Ten years ago, Udinese’s Sanchez would already be wearing a Inter jersey and Tevez would already be tired of cooking BBQ steak’s at the Inter training ground with captain Zanetti.
Even Chelsea’s new coach Villas-Boas. Inter went to Portugal to try to persuade him but the €15million was just too much.
Looking back at Inter’s 1999-2000 team line-up, they had the fire power to be the best team in the world. Names like Ronaldo, Roberto Baggio, Adrian Mutu, Ivan Zamorano, Alvaro Recoba and Christian Vieri in today’s standards would surely be equal to Barcelona, but the difference is that they won nothing. Finishing fourth in the league and losing a Coppa Italia final to Lazio was all they did.
At the time Marcelo Lippi was one of the best coach’s in the world and he was hired by Inter. Fresh from winning three Scudetto’s and the UEFA Champions League a few years earlier with Juventus to mention a few, Lippi was the ideal coach… on paper.
Lippi had such high hopes with this Inter side, and Moratti made sure he had the fire power to defeat Lippi’s former club, Juventus.
Spending millions on Christian Vieri on a world record transfer from Lazio and bringing Alvaro Recoba back from Venezia were some of the highlights of Inter’s 1999 transfer campaign. Star goalkeeper Angelo Peruzzi and Laurent Blanc were also brought on board that summer.
But Lippi could not get his team to play properly. Numerous injuries to star striker Ronaldo and Christian Vieri were one of the reasons for this super team to produce nothing. Also Lippi was losing the confidence in the change room. It was now obvious that he was not on good terms with Roberto Baggio and Inter suffered from this.
Adrian Mutu only played ten matches for Inter, before he was sold to Verona. As everybody knows this controversial players would be one of the worlds best later on in his career.
Ivan Zamorano was the premier striker for Inter but with the inclusion of Baggio, players had to bow their heads and give others room to play. The strange shirt number incident occurred that season as well.
Upon the arrival of Baggio, Ronaldo’s number 10 shirt was given to Baggio and therefore Ronaldo was given the number 9 shirt from Zamorano. Since Zamorano still wanted his coveted number 9 shirt, he started playing with the strange 1+8 shirt number.
Getting back to the team, Lippi had a disastrous season and was obviously fired by Moratti.
It makes you wonder what would have Mourinho or Guardiola accomplished with a line-up like this.
We must not forget, Inter had Milan star Clarence Seedorf roaming in the midfield. As everybody knows, Seedorf left Inter for city rivals Milan to end up winning numerous titles, a feat he could not accomplish with Inter.
And what about at the back in defence.Panucci, Zanetti, Blanc, Cordoba to name a few.
With all these players and money spent, no wonder Moratti and Branca are keeping their hands tied when it comes to spending. As a season with players like this should of had Inter holding the Scudetto at the end of the season, but this was not meant to be.
It did take time for Moratti to understand the saying ‘it is not how much you spend, but how you spend it’. And this was proven in the two year Mourinho era with Inter. Perfectly planned transfers and loan deals eventually made Inter the best club in Europe.
But this dream has ended now, and Moratti has to start a new era of young fresh players with the desire to win and most importantly without spending the millions. There are other places to spend millions, and one of them would be a new stadium…. but that would be another story.
Inter’s Super Strike Force Of 1999 – Ronaldo, Vieri, Zamorano And Baggio
Posted on Thursday, 30th June 2011 by Kevin Grech
Reading all the articles on the Internet and newspapers lately is really strange, especially when you look back about 11 years ago to how Inter used to see the transfer market.
Back then, Inter president Massimo Moratti never held back and would by the best players in the world just to try to win his first Scudetto.
Listening to Moratti and Marco Branca speak recently about keeping in line with the UEFA Financial Fair play rules are really strange.
Inter could have purchased many players in this transfer campaign, but decided not to. Ten years ago, Udinese’s Sanchez would already be wearing a Inter jersey and Tevez would already be tired of cooking BBQ steak’s at the Inter training ground with captain Zanetti.
Even Chelsea’s new coach Villas-Boas. Inter went to Portugal to try to persuade him but the €15million was just too much.
Looking back at Inter’s 1999-2000 team line-up, they had the fire power to be the best team in the world. Names like Ronaldo, Roberto Baggio, Adrian Mutu, Ivan Zamorano, Alvaro Recoba and Christian Vieri in today’s standards would surely be equal to Barcelona, but the difference is that they won nothing. Finishing fourth in the league and losing a Coppa Italia final to Lazio was all they did.
At the time Marcelo Lippi was one of the best coach’s in the world and he was hired by Inter. Fresh from winning three Scudetto’s and the UEFA Champions League a few years earlier with Juventus to mention a few, Lippi was the ideal coach… on paper.
Lippi had such high hopes with this Inter side, and Moratti made sure he had the fire power to defeat Lippi’s former club, Juventus.
Spending millions on Christian Vieri on a world record transfer from Lazio and bringing Alvaro Recoba back from Venezia were some of the highlights of Inter’s 1999 transfer campaign. Star goalkeeper Angelo Peruzzi and Laurent Blanc were also brought on board that summer.
But Lippi could not get his team to play properly. Numerous injuries to star striker Ronaldo and Christian Vieri were one of the reasons for this super team to produce nothing. Also Lippi was losing the confidence in the change room. It was now obvious that he was not on good terms with Roberto Baggio and Inter suffered from this.
Adrian Mutu only played ten matches for Inter, before he was sold to Verona. As everybody knows this controversial players would be one of the worlds best later on in his career.
Ivan Zamorano was the premier striker for Inter but with the inclusion of Baggio, players had to bow their heads and give others room to play. The strange shirt number incident occurred that season as well.
Upon the arrival of Baggio, Ronaldo’s number 10 shirt was given to Baggio and therefore Ronaldo was given the number 9 shirt from Zamorano. Since Zamorano still wanted his coveted number 9 shirt, he started playing with the strange 1+8 shirt number.
Getting back to the team, Lippi had a disastrous season and was obviously fired by Moratti.
It makes you wonder what would have Mourinho or Guardiola accomplished with a line-up like this.
We must not forget, Inter had Milan star Clarence Seedorf roaming in the midfield. As everybody knows, Seedorf left Inter for city rivals Milan to end up winning numerous titles, a feat he could not accomplish with Inter.
And what about at the back in defence.Panucci, Zanetti, Blanc, Cordoba to name a few.
With all these players and money spent, no wonder Moratti and Branca are keeping their hands tied when it comes to spending. As a season with players like this should of had Inter holding the Scudetto at the end of the season, but this was not meant to be.
It did take time for Moratti to understand the saying ‘it is not how much you spend, but how you spend it’. And this was proven in the two year Mourinho era with Inter. Perfectly planned transfers and loan deals eventually made Inter the best club in Europe.
But this dream has ended now, and Moratti has to start a new era of young fresh players with the desire to win and most importantly without spending the millions. There are other places to spend millions, and one of them would be a new stadium…. but that would be another story.
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