“The treble? An immense joy and an equally big missed opportunity.” That’s what Massimo Moratti during a long interview with the director of Gazzetta dello Sport. Inter’s number one gave no guarantees but a lot of hints. For example, it’s understood that an agreement with Erick Thohir has now been reached and that it’s now only a matter of time before the deal is closed. An agreement that, based on Moratti’s words, basically, is a moral obligation against Inter and its supporters. This is because it can’t continue like this and now it’s time to turn the page.
“Inter is like a daughter, a beautiful girl with extraordinary gifts. You do everything so that she can have fun, because it’s the right thing. But there comes a time when it’s appropriate to send her to the university. The discipline and training are key to her development. Only when she learns to fend for herself.”
A mixture of melancholy and devotion to duty. Moratti takes the greatest responsibility for the gradual deterioration of the club after the culmination with the treble and he does it in a way that you didn’t expect. The comparison is apt, the metaphor worrying: a full confession. Mistakes that perhaps were made due to an excessive love and now the time has come to “teach her to fend for himself,” that is, without the help of a parent. And the university, in this case, is the foreigner who can make decisions without dying inside. Like when you made the difficult effort to tear up contracts with those that gave you so much pleasure in Madrid.
But the Inter to come won’t, according to the president’s words, not only be this. It will be a progressive club, a pioneer in Italy, which according to the president is the road that should be chosen (and probably must be) so that the Italian football won’t lose further ground in favor of foreign competition.
“Inter have reduced their costs and salaries dramatically, but this is useless if turnover decreases. I repeat, it’s not a matter of survival. It is about development and must be resolved with strong innoviation. Inter is worth much more than it produces in the form of turnover. The trademark should be strengthened at the international level for the club to have a future in line with its tradition.”
There we have it, that’s central to the whole issue. It is the core, the reality. This is the idea based on which he made the decision to step aside (completely?), given that “symbolic presidents are like a plug.” A step back for Inter’s best. Now the time has come for her to fend for herself.
Source: fcinternews.it
