Frank De Boer returns to talk about his brief experience at Inter when being interviewed by Dutch broadcaster Ziggo Sport. The former Ajax and Crystal Palace coach drew comparisons between the adventure in Italy and the one in the Premier League stating that: “In Italy I had a little more complications, not only as for the language, but also for the way of transmitting my messages and my ideas.The way we think has much more similarities with the English one, at Inter they do a little, yes they base more on sentiment: a block of seven to eight players is formed and the rest try to get it out.”
De Boer highlighted the desire to make progress with the group, however, with the difficulties in incorporating his training system to the Nerazzurri: “It was a bit of a mess, they did what they wanted. positional game, training schemes typical of the Dutch system then, I had never seen anything like this. The Ajax youth players did better than Inter. I did not expect anything like that to come out. They did not see the usefulness of the exercises but I told them that this was an essential part of starting to understand how we wanted to play.”
