Inter’s Sporting Director Piero Ausilio was interviewed by Premium Sport where he answered questions on a wide variety of topics including the current make up of Inter’s squad, Ivan Perisic and the upcoming January transfer window.
“Spalletti, yesterday, explained why the same players are always playing, there are no physical problems for those who do not play, the day after the game those who played less undertake an intense training session. From a mental point of view Spalletti speaks with everyone, they are all motivated and try to put our coach in trouble when he has to decide the starting line up” Ausilio began.
Ausilio then went on to discuss any possible changes in the squad stating that “the coach has said that he is happy with the number of players in the squad, and before we sell someone we need think about it carefully, because he is very happy with the squad, and those not playing regularly are pushing and raising the level of competition within the team, because even those who play do not want to lose their starting spot on the team. If there was no transfer market in January, then I could go on vacation, I am not a fan of that market period because the best players do not leave their teams in January, there must be a real opportunity as it was for Gagliardini. Our mentality is focused towards continuous improvement, we watch a lot of games and so many players, but the team performance is our focus, like the desire of those who play less to find a place in the starting 11.”
In conclusion Ausilio was asked about Croatian winger Ivan Perisic’s recent form stating that “we always knew what Perisic could give us, he is married with our project and now he is calm and happy where he is. He is a great professional, he cares for every detail in training and I think you can see that on the pitch. For me he is a top player.”
Well, the squad reflects your intelligence and the way you do business, you cannot say Roma is a bigger team than Inter yet they play one of the best football in the world for more than 3 years, and they had the same ffp issues.. maybe they have a better sporting director? Definetly they do and a better training center, better stadium plan (I don’t really know in which phase they are now). They’re are 3 points away from us but they’re missing a game and they play in CL. I’m not against building Inter, of course not and I support the club in building their ultimate team and I know it takes time and many mistakes happened over the past 4 years now but for God’s sake don’t say we’re happy with this squad, you don’t even have a bench
I do not believe they have a better sporting director. Besides it was Sabatini along with Spaletti who built the current Roma squad. Monchi has only had one single summer to make his mark and his investments are usually in long term.
The current squad is built by Sabatini and Spaletti and it’s the first year zero squad since 2013 that Ausilio was failing year after year to build, whereas Roma took them only one year to build their year zero squad and since then they are succeeding. Hopefully we won’t have downs anymore
Fully agree. I dont know why he should be praised when Inter spent hundreds of millions in the past couple years and for what exactly? To finish 7-8 or knock out of europa by unknown teams. He gets a good player once in a while but IMO this guy is extremely clueless when it comes to squad building. I dont even want to talk about gabigol, Mario, Ansaldi,kdog…… and the list goes on.
I better hope you are lying dear Sir because we urgently need a decent CB and a midfielder who can create and shoot occasionally. Spalleti might be happy with the squad size but not with the bench quality and it is evident from his 2 subs today.
So true, and I don’t think he´s very happy with mario either! That boy simply don’t play for us at all anymore… I hope Ramirez joins onloan from China as he would be great next to Vecino (Gagliar still needs time for sure) and we need, as you said, a central defender too because sluggish Miranda next competition! Otherwise we´re good with Borja and Brozo as our attcking mids until next summer
Correct.Borja and Brozo are good for now and Gaglia is also decent in some matches but he still needs to regain his last january form.
Ramirez will be great ,really. He is very dynamic player and will help us immensely and I better hope Ausslio get him instead of going for early vacations. (I dont trust this man at all)
I like Ausilio and he derserves credits for the players he brought in this summer plus for Spalla!
I think he could have done better not only this season but also the previous ones too. Some of the blame goes to BBilan current deadly duo(sarcasm) for previous seasons but he should take his fair share of blame.
True, he has made mistakes and he knows it and that’s why he worked so hard this summer in order to get him self a new contract. The players he brought in this summer were great buys and will prove that soon, besides it is also his job to keep the group happy and bring in players and keep players that fit into the group and he has done well in that as well.
He brought some decent players especially Skrinar,Perisic and Candreva. My only problem with him is that he buys players for the sack of buying at times and maybe that was Fassone effect on him as he is doing the same in Milan. This season he didnt brought backup cb and CM and waited far too long for the sale of Brozo. The reason everyone is happy is because spa knows his stuff but really he used 14 starters so far and that speaks volume on why Spa doesnt trust the quality of the the rest of the squad. So, in short this man is decent but not anywhere great DS like some of the best in the world.
No one wanted Brozo this summer and he focused on full backs all summer, midfielders (vecino and Borja) and a right winger which was all needed (karamoh) so he ran out of time for a CB – still he keept Ranno!
There is no doubts he left wide gaps in the squad and only Spa is doing his best to cover them. I pray we get no injury to key players all season and he better do something about January at earnest.
Well, we all know the reason why he “left wide gaps” in the squad – he had to fin 30 mil during the summer in order to complay with the FFP – it was either selling many player at a lower price, players we really didn’t needed (murillo, medel etc) or to sell a star like Perisic, and he did the best and most cleaver thing. Yes it left a couple of gaps but we got players to full them out! (borja/ Brozo and Ranno/Ambros in defense).
He was also the one who suggested Skriniar to Sabatini.
Yes so HE says. Still I think Ausilio has done a fine job and with the right transfers in January and espacially next summer we could be challageing for the scudetto very soon again!
So disappointed that it seems Mario is not able to adapt. Had so high expectations of him. Do you think he’s a lost cause? And how about Dalbert? Obviously he will still have time?
I have never seen Mario as an attacking midfielder, to me he is a box to box player who loves to be with the ball at his feet and knows how to do more or less everything. But we are playing with two holding midfielders and he isn’t that kind of player, plus an attacking mid in Borja and Brozo, and they both know who to play in that pos. So competition is too much for him in that role.
We could change to 4-3-3 with him and Vecino as box to box with Gagliardini behind, but what about Borja then? He clearly hasn’t got the stamina to play as a box to box and everyone is doing well in the current 4-2-3-1.
Dalbert is a totally other case because he has only played one season in Europe and is know working with Spalla and his men in order to learn as much as posible to be ready for us.
It’s the same Roma did with their Brazilian full back who arrived as a no-name but whom Spalla turned into a national team player. Man Utd is doing the same with Lindelöf, that is making him train in order to learn and then afte Christmas we should expect to see him more.
I guess you are right in your points. If only Mario could shoot, I think he could become an amazing am.
he freezes in front of goal both in terms of shooting AND in terms of passing the ball forward which says a lot about him not being a natural attacking midfielder!
Sadly I think you are right but still it’s psychological as well in my opinion
Agree! It´s NOTHING but psychological seeing that he has both technic, vision and drive with the ball at the his feet when playing anywhere else on the pitch than close to the goal, but when he gets near it he freezes!
Almost the same that happened to a non-attacking midfielder who like him was asked to play as one, namely Kovacic. He was brilliant as a central midfielder where he could roam around with the ball at his feet, but when getting close to the goal the too froze at didn’t know what to do…
An anwser to this could be to switch to 4-3-3 and let Mario play his favoriyte pos. as a box to box midfielder next to Vecino, but then we won’t be able to fit in Borja as he clearly hasn’t got the stamina to play as a box to box player… Looks like Mario will be sold and an all out attacking midfielder brought in next summer.
We can only hope that spalla is working some magic with him at training and that we will only see him when he is ready.
Or maybe cut our loss and sell him on for a natural attacking player as you suggest.
Yes hopefully that´s whats going on – Spalla working with him and only wanting to play him when he´s totally ready to his new role – just like we´re doing with Dalbert!
Fingers crossed