Former Chelsea and Italy and current Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeping coach Gianluca Spinelli is set to join Inter this summer.
This according to today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, via FCInter1908, who report that the 56-year-old is set to replace Adriano Bonaitui as Nerazzurri goalkeeping coach starting next season.
Bonaiuti has been Inter goalkeeping coach since 2013, having worked with captain Samir Handanovic throughout that period.
However, with captain Handanovic likely to depart at the end of the season when his contract expires, and in any event having been displaced to the role of backup keeper to Andre Onana this season, there will be a change on the bench as well.
The Gazzetta notes that 56-year-old Spinelli has a long association with former Inter coach Antonio Conte, although he never worked with the 53-year-old whilst he was in charge at the Nerazzurri.
Spinelli first worked with Conte when the former Juventus and Tottenham Hotspur boss was in charge of the Italian national national team between 2014 and 2016.
Then, the goalkeeping coach followed Conte to Chelsea, staying at Stamford Bridge between 2016 and 2018 where he helped the coach to lift the Premier League title in his first season at the helm.
When Conte left the Blues at the end of the 2017-18 campaign, Spinelli also left, although the goalkeeping coach immediately found a new club in the form of PSG.
Spinelli followed former Italy and Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon to the French capital, where he has remained for the past five years.
Whilst Buffon then left PSG to rejoin the Bianconeri, and then Parma where he currently plays, Spinelli stayed at the club, working with Buffon’s successor as Azzurri Number One Gianluigi Donnarumma, who joined from AC Milan in the summer of 2021.
Spinelli is set to make the move to Inter this summer, however, where he will work with Onana who has now established himself firmly as the first-choice keeper.
