The newspaper Financial Times met Inter president Erick Thohir in an Italian restaurant and was at first surprised that the Indonesian tycoon showed up alone, without an entourage: “This is my character,” he says. “I cannot change just because I become well-known.” Then he explained his vision after watching the decline of Italian football on the pitch and in financial terms in the last years: “It happens in many companies. When you’re on top, you’re comfortable, you get fat and lazy and then suddenly there’s another company and it’s working hard and fighting to compete. In our case it was the English Premier League and Germany’s Bundesliga.”
Thohir then talked about Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister and owner of rival AC Milan, who once said that as a proprietor “you spend loads of money and earn nothing”. Thohir has his vision: “Football is changing. I want to use the US model, where sport is like the media business, with income from advertising and content, mixed with the consumer goods industry, selling jerseys and licensed products.”
On the new arrivals in the club’s organisational culture, where he has made a dramatic change from Inter’s Italo-centric past, by bringing in highly regarded anglophone executives from sport and media, one of them Michael Bolingbroke, former chief operating officer of Manchester United, one of the world’s most profitable clubs: “There are a lot of good people inside the company but they need new examples to follow. Many Indonesians who buy a foreign business think ‘I own this now so I will bring in Indonesians’. I know I need to bring in good people with a good background from different industries.”
One of the first signings under Thohir’s reign was Nemanja Vidic from Manchester United and the president reaffirmed the strategic importance of the Serb’s arrival: “He was a good brand for the Asian market. I talk to Mr Moratti and then sit down with the management and ask, will this player help us compete on the field and what about on the marketing side? It’s like a credit committee in a bank.”
As Thohir gets up to leave after the interview has ended, he gives one business card for his media business – “this is the real one”, he says – and one for Inter: “This one is to show off.”
Source: fcinternews.it
Yes, we do have a difficult situation. But, come on guys. We should analyze the situation more clearly.
I don’t like Mazzari tactic and approach, but he is the best option that we have. Even thought I didn’t know exactly how much the differences between Inter income, outcome and also Inter’s debt. I do believe that Mazzari is the available coach that we have. We don’t have money to bring a good coach such as Jose Mourinho. We have to face it.. Some will argue that we should stick with Strama, but do we have a patience to grow up with Strama? I don’t think we have, if we look back then when Strama were criticized cause of Inter performance.
This is the first season that Eric Thohir, Mazzari and Aulisio have a long time to strengthen the squad. The first season without our legend. Be patience guys, we need to find some stability. We cannot change coach every 6 months, that’s not the good way to develop. Can u imagine if a country change its president each 6 months? Or Italy change its Prime Minister each 6 months? How the stability can be reach if we use this kind of paradigm.
So, let’s support our team in a good and a bad time. They need our support when the players is down. We are the backbone of Inter. If they played without pride and motivation. We should remind them how the meaning of wearing black and blue color.
Yes, we can remind Inter player in a hard way or in a soft way. What ever the methods, they do need our support. Forza Inter!
I don’t think, I’m sure that he need to shut his mouth for a while. We can not compare Moratti and Thohir, as the first one have far more experience, charisma, style and game plan(it’s philosophical subject about the game plan)
It’s been a year since Moratti family break up on us, and we take the ride with this guy but I don’t think it’s working out!!! Yes he made -some- good changes upstairs in the office, It was ok exciting mercato, but all I listen is talk and pointing out the problem which exactly why Inter was sold in the first place. He made good things and bad things in this year, but we are still mid table team and it’s PISSING ME OFF.
All we need now is someone to buy Milan and to make all this changes way before us including the stadium project(and they will get big-soon-for-sure, even that I will die when I see that) but point is that-I DONT THINK WE GO IN RIGHT DIRECTION.
So I hold Moratti responsible for all this mess and he need to speak out.
Moratti was better then this Indonesian who doesn’t have any passion and money to spend on good players he’s such a greedy person . All the money he’s got . Thoir stayin your country and never came back to mMilan because you don’t care about this team.
FUCKING ET THAT PIECE OF SHIT. HE WILL DESTROY US. Im tired of this fuckface
FUCK YOUR BUSINESS, THIS IS INTER AND HISTORY AND LOVE AND PASION FOR THIS CLUB!!!
YOU ARE DESTROYING INTER MAN, JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT BUSINESS !!! YOU AND MAZZARI ARE RHE SAME !!! WHERE IS BIG NAME WHICH YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT, ARE YOU CRAZY MAN.. HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO INTER ?????
I WOUNT WATCH INTER’S GAMES ANYMORE, BECAUSE IT HURTS WATCHING SOME PEOPLE KILLING OUR HISTORY BECAUSE OD BUSINESS AND SOME MINDS WITH 3-5-2 FORMATION ??? Im crying man this hurts mazzari and thohir !!!!
Fuck you greedy sleazy bastard!
vidic isn’t fit with 3-5-2 formations system
this guy have style for sure!
Take a step back and fuck yourself in the face ET