Beppe Bergomi spoke on Luciano Spalleti in an interview with Corriere dello Sport: “I never had any doubts that he’d be good though, because I’ve known Luciano for a long time, I know how he works and the mentality he transmits to his teams. I don’t think he’s done anything exceptional or different from his normal approach, everyone knows how demanding he is and how intransigent he is with the rules. Nobody is allowed to violate them, because they all know what the consequences will be. Spalletti is someone who gets everyone involved, he makes you work well and you know what you have to do on the pitch. Last year Inter got 62 points, not a lot if you think about what happened. They have an important squad which will be improved be either removing some elements or adding in others in the right positions. Spalletti has already proven himself capable of increasing the performance of those who have done less in the past.”
Bergomi also discussed where he thinks Inter need to add: “They’d be completed with a trequartista, because Brozovic and Joao Mario aren’t suited to that role. Other that that, a second striker who guarantees goals because to finish in the top four you need to score 80-85 goals as a team. They also need a left-back like Dalbert, another central defender and maybe someone who hits free-kicks well.”
Source: FCInterNews.it
We did have banega…
Thank you Bergomi… Finally!! Somebody had said it! I’ve been saying this since the day we got rid of Sneijder. No trequartista with goal, no game! Neither Joao Mario nor Brozovic have goal in their feet, and the sad part is they won’t ever have it. Playing Joao Mario as a trequartista is suicidal really…
Luan is good option for trequartista role and he has low pricetag.
Candreva could work as a trequartista also? And that would also mean less random crosses…
That’s gonna be even worse… all aimless passes gone wrong
I agree, but …. in chelsea.
Re-sign sneijder then?
he’s a “dead” man.
Not actually a bad idea. Considering the leadership gap at this club. If Zhang wants champions….
However I think that ship has sailed now that we have Borja. He’s not a trequartista, but he fills that veteran leadership role. He’s the coach on the field. And you can only have 1 ‘general’ or ‘quarterback on the field at one time. Love sneijder, and I’ll rock the snakeskin #10 kit till I die but we don’t have a spot open. Unless he can play fullback?
In my opinion Jovetic is the only player in Inter squad that can be transformed into trequartista. He got everything to be successful player in that position if he keep his head up and spot team mates regularly in tight situations.
Yea of the current players he probably shares the most traits with a real trequartista.
But Jovetic is way too inconsistent to build a team around and he also lacks something in the passing, vision and creativity department.
Inconsistent yes but that is due to him changing teams regularly or getting injured. His problem is playing regularly.
Vision and creativity yes but no he have one of the best first touch and technique with controlling the ball and that is one of the major attribute for passer playing upfield.
So like I said, he needs to blend more with his team-mates and look around while dribbling(vision, creativity). If he start that with regular play time I think he will shine and show us JoJo of fio days.
Jojo just always gets injured unfortunately. I wouldn’t count too much on him because of that. I think the past injuries have hindered his mobility compared to Fio days, but that’s just my opinion. He’s a good player though.
I agree with that. In my opinion M.city move was the worst for his growth as he was suddenly exposed to physical league along with the fact that he was second fiddle to Aguero who is arguably one of the best CF in the game.
Makes me wonder if he went to Jube at that time (they offered him contract at that time) , Perhaps he would be different player today.
We’ll never know.
Yeah, hopefully he show his worth to this shirt and perform well for the best of Inter in case he stays. If he leaves then I hope it is for at least 20m as anything less would be insult.
His problem is being lazy
Yeah he was lazy before but in this preseason under Spa he was full of running. People also said Icardi is lazy and now he is one of the more mobile forward in terms of pressing.
Of course he was running his ass of. At the end of the day this is the only time he can use to attract potential suitors.
Then why would he do that goal celebration to indicate that he want to stay and fight for this shirt.
I would love for jovetic to stay. He has the technique necessary to play trequertista role. Hopefully spalletti can use him.
I really hope he does stay and adjust to the team for the better of Inter as he have immense quality.
JoJo is way too selfish for a no10, plus he doesn’t get along with Icardi. Our only hope is Mario. I personally believe Barbosa could be transformed into a no10 as well.
Barbosa is too soft and cannot hold the ball and I dont believe he is suited to center of the field and trequartista is someone who is exceptionally calm under pressure as about Mario, he lacks killer instinct to be really effective there.
That leaves us with JoJo who is exceptionally gifted player and I dont think anyone can deny that but his problem is his blindness and he sometimes waste too much time on the ball.In short, technically he is suited for that role but mentally not.
Technically yes, but behavior-wise unfortunately he is not. Barbosa has the technique not to be concerned about pressure. But you are right on his softness. Barbosa loves to be involved with the ball, has exceptional shooting ability and good vision. He can improve once he becomes stronger and make smarter moves defensively..
I also don’t think Brozo is as bad of a AMF as a lot of people think here. Specially against stronger teams that we need to play defensive. He has exceptional stamina, runs like a tractor, and decent shooting. He just needs to put aside that negative attitude he has..
Barbosa has to improve his shooting a lot, especially the long shots.
Barbosa as trqurtista. I honestly dont see it happening as he lacks intelligent movement off the ball during creation phase to position himself centrally for pass. I see him more as right sided Antonio Griezman but he have like mountain to climb to even reach his level.
Gabigol will never be a trequartista.
Infact he is the type of player that needs a trequartista to shine probably. Someone who can set him up properly with balls through the defense that he can run at and use his speed and dribbling.
The ideal scenario for Gabigol would probably be a 4312 with Gabigol playing a second forward, with a target striker partner slightly more advanced and then trequartista behind them.
I (maybe slightly agree) that i remember with past madrid 4231: Zidane (who is actually the playmaker) was put on the left, Raul (ss) put on the center (now as the Jovetic role) and Figo on the right (same as pure right winger Candreva).
Jovetic can play every role upfront but he is only decent at most of them. He needs to find his rhythm and stability on the ground. Hopefully Spa can help him and Jao Mario with that.
for the idiots that said joao Mario’s main position is AMF and said I was wrong because I said he is not, even bergomi agrees with me
Mario’s main position is not AMF, but once he improves his finishing ability he will become one. It’s shocking to me to see he makes those perfect accurate passes but fails to finish the ball in front of the goal. He needs to understand that goal-scoring is the same as playmaking. Look at the GK as the opposing player and pick a place in the goal just like he aims his passes into a certain space…
the eye for the goal is an instinct
For the sake of Inter, let’s hope you are wrong… Kova also doesn’t have the goalscoring instinct that Isco has, but we all saw against Barcelona, that Zidane’s influence already made him better in that department…
I always thought that Mario is a DLP, lol.
Anyway, I vouch barbossa to fill in that position.
Its pretty absurd that Bergomi thinks that it takes 80-85 goals to finish in the top 4.
That comment makes absolutely no sense at all. Rubentus dont even score that many goals…. It has happened very few times since the league changed to 20 teams that teams have scored 80+ goals…
It could be a bad translation somehow though and that its supposed to be 80-85 points to reach top 4 and not goals, that would make a lot more sense.
Defense wins leagues, especially in italy.
He’s a defender. That’s what you expect from a defender… in his mind the team should be solid enough not to concede more than 20, and with such defense 80-85 would be adequate…
He is right that Inter have no player capable of playing as a trequartista (Brozovic is too stupid to play in that position and Marios shooting ability is way too terrible for it), but i would argue that it would also be borderline suicidal to use one when the defensive ability in the midfield is so awful.
With inters current midfielders (i doubt more will arrive after Vecino who offers little that we dont already have), we should be playing with 2 CM’s and a DM instead of an AM and 2 CM’s.
There is no midfielder at Inter who can offer enough in the AM position to to make up for the defensive issues it creates as well.
This will probably be Spallettis biggest issue tbh, since he has no really good AM in the team, no good midfielder capable of scoring 10+ goals like he had with Nainggolan last season at Roma, it will be interesting to see how its going to work out.
banega , we gona miss him badly , we tok an arrow to the knee by selling him
He did very little last season, only you think otherwise.
He shone in one game, thats about it.
one game, did you see what he did against rome? the whole team was bad and you know it too, as you notice bad things very fast its your nature isn’t it?
He was slow as a turtle, not Serie A type
he was decent, snejder was no sadio mane neither, Isco is even slower as an example , banega had a fucking laser guided passes
He was too soft
Dybala is much softer
But way faster
we talking about softness
Read my first comment
BANEGA IS A G, AND YOU CANT JUDGE HIM ON A FEW BAD PERORMANCES THAT HE HAD, THE WHOLE TEAM SUCKED AND FINISHED BELOW A HORRIBLE SUCKER BBILAN TEAM
With or without your caps lock, he’s soft, slow and inconsistent. U can realize it when the one and only team who comes forward and offers some shit for him is Sevilla and NO ONE ELSE
ok you just showed me something bad, which is that you don’t watch Argentina, which is one of the craziest nations in football, and you have defiantly not watched the last copa Americas where bangea was a top 3 player
There are so many good players in South America who shine in Copa, but not suitable for Serie A or EPL.
Mario>Banega
defensively yes, attacking no chance, scoring no chance shooting no chance, passing no fucking chance
Effectiveness, dribbling, and passes Mario is better .. He’s also 5 years younger…
Passes, Mario is better than Banega ? have a nice day dude Im done with you on this topic
haha, yeah that’s why he was preferred over Banega mostly last year
They kept switching them
Banega has the greatest passing in all inter boys. Too fookin bad he’s gone
And maybe the best in the world
like I said im done with you on this subject since you said Mario’s passing is better than banega that Blasphemy
we had the best one in banega and sold him for peanuts, btw Barcelona had a €100m offer for Philippe Coutinho rejected by Liverpool
Banega is not a trequartista.
A true trequartista is someone like Baggio, Cassano, Totti in his earlier days etc etc.
There is a big difference between a regular AMC and then a trequartista.
BS, he was the best one we had ! almost identical to Wesley sniper, btw jovetic made you eat your words many others will do too , although is good not to have so much hope on something but your negativity has made you blind to see the good things
Its because you dont understand what a trequartista is then, because Schneijder is certainly not a trequartista either.
Attacking midfielder =/= trequartista.
So what’s a trequartista ? Tell us…
(In football, an attacking role behind the strikers; forward playing, free-role attacking midfielder; plays in “the hole” (between strikers and midfield). Some would say this is NOT an attacking midfielder: it is vague enough, and seen differently in different areas.)
The below describes it well (For reference PP = Prima punta/striker and SP = seconda punta/second striker.)
It should clarify how a trequartista is not any ordinary AM.
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Trequartista (TQ)
The conventional offensive
chemistry sees the SP building bridges between midfield and PP –
receiving passes from the wings, initiating runs and supporting the PP,
mainly. On occasions, the team is built in such a way that the
bridge-building role is left to another kind of player – the
trequartista. A TQ is a compromise between a midfielder and a
striker. He operates in the trequarti – the Italian term to describe the
space three-quarters of the way from one end of the pitch to the
adversary goal. This kind of player is in fact quite rare and a
much more modern invention than most commentators would like to
believe. While simple ‘offensive midfielders’ are often deployed in the
trequarti, a genuine TQ operates more centrally and specifically possesses skills which cross over with those of an SP.
They are slower, but they possess an even superior shot from distance.
They are not as gifted in one-on-one scenarios, but they are technically
more versatile. Most importantly, a TQ invariably possesses outstanding passing talent and vision.
This, coupled with basic defensive skills, means that a TQ will have an
entire team built around him (typically by means of a 4-3-1-2) or else
will not be deployed at all. There are traces of the role in old players
such as Valentino Mazzola and Gianni Rivera, but the role of the
Italian trequartista truly found its exegesis only in modern times by
means of Francesco Totti.
Ok, so it says that a TQ is like a 9 and half, like Totti, Del Piero, Cassano, Bergkamp, rather than a classical number 10 (AM) like Zidane… But the whole team was built around Zidane for example
Yea exactly, something in between a second striker and an AM, with exceptional ability that you can largely build your offense around as well as he is a threat from distance.
As far as Zidane goes, then he was just an exceptional player that could operate both in advanced and deep positions. I think as he got older he moved into a deeper role than when he played at Rube in example.
Michael Laudrup is another good example of an exceptional playmaker who started out as a second forward and then as time went on he moved into a treqartista and eventually a deeper playmaking role in his later years at Barca and Madrid where he could really make his passes (and avoid being tackled lol).
Coutinho is the player inter sold for 10 mill because he didn’t seem like he was developing right ? that offer never would have happened if he stayed with Inter ….
it was one of the dumbest thing we did
We needed the money to buy Kuzmanovic and Schelotto that winter lol.
No one wanted Alvarez so Cou had to go.
Terrible stuff, right up there with Cannavaro for Carini, Pirlo for Guglielminpietro and Seedorf for Coco.
I can low key see why we did each one, my problem is that we sold cou for a very very low fee which was 13m all those player were getting old and started to decline and after we sold them they just rejuvenated
you just said a mouth full !
i see joao mario as a perfect trequartista, but we do miss a free kick taker at the team..back then we have mihajlovic,chivu,sneijder etc and now we have none at all
that’s not his position
i believe he can transforms from CM to trequartista
he is elegant and pure class
Cant score in modern football sometimes u only get one chance to score
i agree with that mario just keep on missing goal scoring chances but if he can solve this shortcoming..what a beast he is..he got vision,great passing,great skill etc
i do hope we can keep him at least 1 more season to flourish
for sure , he has lots of potential, he just needs to play away from the opponents goal, he might have the most stamina in the world football
No we need an RB after Dalbert. We had Banega so now unless Mario leaves we can’t take in an classic trequartista.
we have sold banega back to sevilla bro