Italian journalist Fabrizio Biasin believes that Inter coach Simone Inzaghi is aware that he does not have long at the Nerazzurri unless he is able to win the Champions League.
Writing in his column in today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Libero, via FCInter1908, the journalist suggested that the coach has no illusions about what it will take to save his job at the Nerazzurri, and that nothing short of triumph in Europe’s top club competition will do.
Given Inter’s profoundly subpar season in Serie A, with eleven defeats out of thirty matches played so far leaving the Nerazzurri teetering on the edge of missing out on top four, Inzaghi can only really point to the Champions League as a positive point to the campaign.
There have been suggestions that the 47-year-old former Lazio coach could aim to finish the season by winning the competition and leave as Jose Mourinho did.
Alternatively, if the Nerazzurri were to go all the way and become champions of Europe, it could be enough to convince the club to keep their faith in the coach.
According to Biasin, that would be what it would take at this stage.
“Simone Inzaghi is basically all but sacked, everyone knows it, including him” the journalist writes.
“It may seem scarcely believable, after all we’re talking about a coach who’s in the semifinals of the Champions League, something that Inter haven’t managed in a couple of geological eras,” he continues.
“He could save his job by lifting the trophy in Istanbul, but to get there he has to overcome Milan in the semifinals (no easy task), and then one between Real Madrid or City in the final.”
Biasin gives the view that “The situation that this coach has found himself in is grotesque – in the league he’s lost eleven matches, which has never happened even to some of his tragic predecessors, but at the same time he’s reached the penultimate stage of the most important trophy in football.”
“There, the team have given a great account of themselves, but it’s been the complete opposite in Serie A.”
“The paradox is in exactly this,” Biasin notes, “Inter are among the four teams left competing for the Champions League this season, but they aren’t among the four in Serie A who will be competing for it next season.”
