Erick Thohir was interviewed by Bolanews about the new Inter that is being born:
“To compete at a high level the club needs to have a squad with an average age about 26-27 years. Massimo Moratti agrees with this and for the rest, football is changing. It’s not about missing respect against those who made Inter triumph in 2010 but for now there’s no other choice. We had to reduce the average age and we can’t have more than four players that are more than 32 years old in the team. Then we need six players who are between 25 and 28 years old and the same ammount of players who are 22-23 years old. Then we need a player with great charisma and experience, a real leader and to conclude we need many youngsters with a great potential. This all to be united as a unique force.
Thohir also talked about the players and the formations:
“With only Nagatomo and Jonathan, we would have problems on the wings. That’s why we got D’Ambrosio in January. I don’t want to see an Inter that can only play 3-5-2 anymore but I want a team that could play 4-2-3-1 or other formations depending on the game. Mazzarri has accepted my challenge and he also had the courage to believe in Kovacic and Icardi, who then proved to be important for the end of the season. Now I hope the age reduction with proceed with time and this is a vision I share with Ausilio.”
Source: Fcinternews.it