Italian media outlet Gazzetta dello Sport focuses its attention their attention on the future of Inter coach Luciano Spalletti given the uncertainty surrounding the teams goals of finishing top 4 this season.
The Gazzetta reports that “Incensed by having built a record level team from the rubble of last spring, now that Inter moves to face Benevento, Luciano Spalletti risks ending up in the dock of the accused. From Luciano we expect innovations at a tactical level as it happened in his experience at Roma, but in Milano it is difficult to leave the formation of 4-2-3-1 with the players available. The differences between Spalletti’s two adventures can also be traced back to the relationship with the management: at Inter, for example, there is a missing figure between the traning ground and the club’s headquarters”
The Gazzetta reports further that “At Roma, it was the leadership that gave him the mandate to put Totti on the sidelines, and here the relationship with Ausilio and Sabatini is good, but the annoyance towards the club that had promised him many things is still very different. A lot of self-criticism has been aportioned by Spalletti for having raised the bar with the various slogans “without respite”, “let’s not put limits”, “we are Inter and we want to win them all.”
Spalletti is according to the report waiting for Icardi and Perisic to return to their usual form. They are not natural leaders but players that do not care about tension. The plan is however, according to the report to start Rafinha for 90 minutes and to complete the growth of Cancelo and Karamoh.
Interesting player. I checked out most of his goals at Lyon and couple of his match compilations.
He’s quite complete player with nice pace, good heading, nice technique and shots. However I’d question his strenght and physicality a bit. Is he kind of guy who can battle physically against tight Serie A defenses? Of course you don’t have to be built like a bull to score goals. Mertens isn’t super strong for example nor was Inzaghi.
He’s kind of a player who can do it all, but doesn’t seem to have a one or two really standout areas in his game compared to let’s say Lautaro who has excellent premium level ball control.
He looks like a good player, but I have no idea if he would be good investment for Inter. Could be very good or could easily flop. If I was a DS I wouldn’t touch him, but that is only because rating this players suitability for us is beyond my scouting abilities lol.
Yes he seems like a complete number nine who even could play on the wing. But don’t thing we’ve been linked to him. But as I said there are many strikers out there if Icardi should leave
i’m so f*cking sick seeing inter’s management look like a giant superholder by routinely changing coach in last 20 years with very little achievements (just one UCL and 5 serie A?), come on? if management are not rich like those City/Chelsea’s holders or not strong like Madrid/Barca who changing coach if the coach fails, then stick your as* with your chosen coach and give them what they demand. or use your mathematical skills to evaluate the disasters we always make in market and fix it for coming seasons (from the outsider pov)
tacking about formation and tactics: why not sell up next summer (Icardi: 100 mil plus a qualified striker – Lancazette from Arsenal or Benzema from Real. Perisic to whoever who wants to pay 50-60 mil for him, Brozo, mario, Kondogbia, Gagliardini,Handanovic
And then get in Perin, Verdi, Chiesa, Torreira, De Vrij and Laxalt and play 3-4-3.
Perin
Miranda, Skriniar, De Vrjij
Cancelo, Vecino, Torreira, Laxalt
Chiesa, Benzema/Lancazette, Verdi.
Er ofte enig med dine ideer….
I would like to have players that allowed quick switch from 4-3-3/4-2-3-1/etc. to something like 3-4-3, or maybe even a fluid combination, based on how the opponent line up.
I also want to offload MI9, Perisic, Broz, Handa… I want a goalkeeper than know how to pass, like seeing Neuer in WC doing through balls and having total command in all of the box, not sure if Perin is that one, I only watch Inter.
Tak du gamle.
Spalla is well known for being good at mixing it up tactically – with Roma and Rudiger he had a man at the back with whom he could go from having 3 to 4 in a spilt of a second, and that unpredictably tactics is something we have lacked ever since Mancini.
Perin seems to have healed perfectly after his two injuries and was great against us.
Skriniar tested as a mid-anchor I would love to see… Cambi-like… My retrospective want someone like Chivu on LB, making the defense asymmetric …. Karamoh could go Eto’o in the left and use his pace + balls, maybe even throwing in a diamond-like transmutation/switch., to at least give us a memory of 2010…. And better days..
Skriniar has often played just in front of the defense as a ball-winning regista for his country and would be great as a center back in a 3 man defense.
Pffff come on ! Our owners are Suning.
Fuckn S U N I N G !
Yes I know, Suning one of the richest companies in China. But a company that can’t spend too much. But with the right player sales we could build something really interesting with Spalka
Building my “virtual team”, like Spalletti says, I’d start with De Vrij (free), Asamoah (free), Torreira (25m), Strootman (32m release clause). Verdi would be fine if he could be got close to 20-25m. Then buy Chiesa or someone of that calibre if Perisic/Candy or both would be sold. Still hoping Icardi would stay. Redeem Rafinha and Cancelo if they do well.
So the team would be something like
Handa
Cancelo, De Vrij, Skriniar, Asamoah
Strootman, Torreira
Verdi(Karamoh) Rafinha, Chiesa
Icardi
I’d probably even not redeem Cancelo if getting him means we can’t upgrade our horrible midfield. One or both of Vecino/Gaglia should be sold or loaned out along with Brozo, Mario and Kondo.
Many here don’t think getting Vidal is a good idea, but maybe getting him there along with Strootman, Torreira, Rafinha, Asamoah and Granpa would enable a midfield with many different variation as Vidal can play comfortably as dmc and amc+provide grinta and leadership.
And give Miranda one year contract extension for christ sake, he’ll be a good back up/rotation player.
So basically I’d wish we could get defense fixed for free, complete midfield overhaul and 1-2 wingers depending on sales and how Karamoh develops.
As so often before I agree with you in everything. Still think your wish list can only be granded by a sale of Icardi, or Skriniar – if so I´d keep Skriniar and sell Icardi any day, because we already have Lautaro Martinez whom everyone is talking nicely about.
Balo is doing really well in Nice, true, but will never rejoin us, but getting Bernard from Shaktar in for free and then sell Perisic would free up money to get another striker on top (Abel Hernandez is free this summer and so is Andre Pierre Gignac..).
Really hope we are active on the free transfer market because there are many players with contracts running out next summer: De vrij, Asamoah, Bernard, Badelj, Abel Hernandez, Fellaini, Gignac, Facunda Ferreyra (17 goals for Shaktar), Max Meyer.
Would be sweet if we were be able to sign some of those best free agents. But how those guys who play in Ukraine will do in the bigger European leagues is always a complete mystery to me.
I really like this Lautaro kid, but hard to say how long it will take for him to adapt to Serie A and our team, although I think that it won’t take too long – maybe half season or so.
I don’t think there will be a huge amount of money for our managers to spend without selling one of the best players, but after July 1st the Thorir settlement will be over. I’m not an FFP expert so I have no idea if that will give some more leverage for the club to spend more money. But I surely hope so!
I got a bit cranky (haha!),because our management failed to sign Pastore. But thinking about it now that probably might even be a blessing in disguise they didn’t commit a large chunk of their budget to him as he would have been competing with Rafinha for the same starting spot. All in all a good thing they didn’t make any unnecessary last minute signings.
Just have to pray the football gods for some luck to the upcoming derby as Milan looks scary good right now. A win there just might provide a boost of confidence that this team needs really badly right now. I can’t believe I’m actually scared about us facing a team coached by Gattuso!
The agreement with Uefa runs until the summer 2019 so one more year to go, then Suning can make their own agreement, but the days of super-spending-Moratti-style are over. The FFP is here to stay.
So spending can only be done after selling.
Pastore would have been too expensive for sure but hopefully PSG are ready to deal with us next summer, maybe as an inclusion of Icardi + money, because it seems to me Rafinha should be playing next to Vecino and not as an attacking midfielder.
Lautaro seems very talented but true, needs time to settle in Italy. But there are many strikers out there to replace Icardi if he does leave – saw a superb goal by a striker from Lyon I think it was the other day (do you know the player?), and Lancazetta from Arsenal is struggling to do much right in London so maybe he could be an option.
Yep, Milan looks very strong at the moment and I like the way they play: very directly and pump a lot of players into the box before crossing the ball in there – unlike us!
But our players are well known for doing well in the big games and with Lazio facing Juve and Napoli – Roma we´ll have a good chance of breaking away from Roma and Milan in the chase for 4th
In most of our recent games either we lost due to individual mistakes or draw by players laziness and misconcentrate…so i think the coach did his job but our players have to rise their limits
Spalletti or any other coach need major signings to make deference, its hard to lead the same squad every year by deferent coach and expect better results, talks in transfer market always promise for world class players, however all the players we sign are a gambles that never rose to expectations, we are Nainggolan and Vidal and Sanchez, just rumors to blind Inter fans silence the coaches, there is no scenario that I can imagine Inter finishes at third place this season no matter how close the points are, if Genoa plays better than us, then we need to plan for next season already.
keep the coach and sell the shitty players cause they are the problem
It would be considered a huge step back if replace Spalletti. He really is an outstanding manager with great quality. It’s our players that need to start acting like professionals and do what the coach asks of them. I believe FDB when he says Inter players did what they wanted. They seem like spoiled privileged little kids and not professional footballers. I say sell whoever you need to sell to give Spalletti the players he truly wants and stick with him. No more year zero bullshit.
AGree and at least he too sees the problems we have and will know what we need to bring in in the summer to overcome that problems.
Hopefully (if we won’t reach CL in Mai) the club sacks Ausilio and makes Sabatini our sporting director as he will have spend a lot of years failing on reaching the clubs goals and must go – that is if we won’t get our shit back together before that time.
I hope not. He’s such a respectable man. I really hope he can succeed with us.
We know since the beginning that we cant go far with this squad, but spaleti give us hope then when we believe to that, he failed..thats why we hate him.
We didnt signing any star in summer n even in winter, n we come from 7th place last season. What makes us think we can make a leap in a year with same squad like last year?
We try mancini, an italian coach with experience abroad but failed. we try de boer, an europe coach with good cv, failed again. we try pioli, domestic coach who knows italian football very well but failed too. They all coach with good enough cv (not like strama or leo) but failed. So will we blame our current coach, again?
I know that his approach makes me mad sometimes and I wished some other trainer could do better but like many other fans (and I had also to reconsider) I think we should hold on to Spalletti and let him work no matter where we end up.
Yep we just need someone for a few years, long enough for them to be able to actually shape a team and give it a direction.
We actually gave 2 seasons to Mazzari and Mancini and they failed in their second season too.
As much important the Manager is as much important the players are but in Inter all blame goes to Manager. Most of the players in our squad are Midtable teams players. They can play great in particular system but the problem is that our DOS is as dumb as fifa player. Just buy random players based on stats and hopes they will work together.
While I agree with your sentiment, Mancini’s Inter did finish 4th. I would be happy with that at the end of the season.
Luciano Spalletti is a quality, good and highly motivational coach. He just needs to qualify for the UEFA Champions League and the Chinese owners to open up the wallet and bring in quality players, at least 5-6 players.
The eminent signings of Stefan De Vrij & Lautaro Martinez is evident of things to come. Inter Milan would do well with another 2 young goalkeepers (Mattia Perin & Francesco Bardi-on loan at Frosinone)
Forza Inter
Forza Inter
Just add Alex Meret from Spal. Looks like a great prospect!