Italian journalist Paolo Condo believes that Inter coach Simone Inzaghi has proven that he can navigate the politics of a top job like the Nerazzurri with how he got his way in the transfer market this summer.

Writing in his column in today’s print edition of Rome-based newspaper La Repubblica, Condo noted how the Nerazzurri coach has managed to play political games to make sure that the club did not sell Milan Skriniar or Denzel Dumfries in the final days of the transfer window.

It now looks all but certain that both Skriniar and Dumfries will stay at Inter for the summer after reports emerged that President Steven Zhang has taken them off the market by dictating that offers will no longer be listened to.

The situation of uncertainty regarding both players dragged on for some time, however, while Inzaghi never made any secret that he wanted to keep both.

The coach went as far as to give his views publicly on the matter, and in Condo’s view, this shows that the former Lazio boss knows how to assert his influence in a political way even amid the chaotic dynamics of being in charge at a club like Inter.

“Inzaghi was the ‘political’ winner of Inter’s transfer window,” he argues, “putting his stamp on it even before Zhang confirmed that Skriniar would say. He has to win, and the weight of this responsibility is increasingly being felt by him.”