Inter head coach Simone Inzaghi has had to work within tight constraints, but he has nevertheless built a team capable of winning the Serie A title.

This is the view in Italian news outlet Gazzetta.it, who highlight the work that the 46-year-old coach has done with free transfers and low-cost signings in particular.

When Inzaghi arrived at Inter from Lazio in the summer of 2021, he was well aware that he would not be supported nearly as much as his predecessor Antonio Conte had been in the transfer market.

Even so, the former Biancocelesti coach likely will not have expected quite the degree to which the team has been built within financial restrictions.

Apart from the big money sales of Romelu Lukaku and Achraf Hakimi, there has been the fact that relatively little money has been made available to sign players.

Accordingly, Inter and Inzaghi have had to rely on a low-cost strategy whilst still maintaining the quality.

In midfield, this has meant replacing the departed Christian Eriksen with Hakan Calhanoglu and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who arrived on free transfers from AC Milan and Roma respectively.

In both cases, Inzaghi has gotten some of the best form out of the pair, who have slotted in very effectively to roles within the coach’s midfield setup which has in turn made the most of their best traits.

Meanwhile, Francesco Acerbi has reinforced the defense on loan this season, whilst youngsters like Kristjan Asllani and Raoul Bellanova have also arrived on initial loan deals.

Throughout all of this upheaval, and limited spending, Inzaghi has kept the team at the level of his predecessor Conte.

Whilst the Nerazzurri missed out on the Scudetto narrowly to city rivals AC Milan last season, they also won the Supercoppa Italiana and the Coppa Italia, whilst also reaching the Champions league round of sixteen for the first time in over a decade.

This time around, the Nerazzurri are in the Champions League knockouts for a second season running, and whilst the eleven-point gap from league leaders Napoli is imposing, it would hardly be out of the question to reduce it or make it up entirely.

For the Gazzetta, the fact that unlike his predecessor Inzaghi has had to do this while respecting tight financial restrictions makes his work at Inter doubly impressive.