Walter Gargano

Puma · Mar 8, 2013

Aside from misplacing passes, can someone please tell me Gargano's allocated role in the team. He is useless and basically played 90 minutes of football against Spurs without showing his face.

minterke · Mar 8, 2013

Gargano is second only to Riquelme in terms of defence-splitting through balls.

Kakaroto · Mar 8, 2013

What having a good system and good players around you can do for you. I rated him very highly at Napoli but they had a system that suited him well since he didn't have play-make or dribble with the ball. Just give it to Hamsik or Inler or Lavezzi and move out of the way now he gives it to Cambiasso or Zanetti only to get it back at the worst possible time.

Another casualty of bad coaching.

K.I. · Mar 8, 2013

I dont agree with that actually ^^, because he is playing infront of the defence, he sees alot of the ball and i swear, i cant remeber one good simple pass he has made, yes he is a hard worker, but he works hard because of his terrible passing. Has to go in the summer.

thatdude · Mar 8, 2013

Gargano will be bought and it's fine that way. He is cheap and can fill a role, but we are asking to much out of him. He needs to play a bit higher as a player who pressurizes and nips at the heals as a first line of defense. Not a player who sits deep like a holding midfielder.

Preferably something like this. Guarin would have to be a bit more tactically disciplined.

Gargano---------Guarin
---------Kovacic

realjulm · Mar 8, 2013

why we want to buy him ? there are players who can run and pass at the same time

thatdude · Mar 8, 2013

realjulm said:
why we want to buy him ? there are players who can run and pass at the same time

But they cost more money. Naingolan (I know I butchered that) is on the market for $20 Mil, he's basically a Gargano with passing ability. If we have money to go get a better player than Gargano sign me up, but I don't see it unless we splash on the famed Paulinho.

F U C K MILAN · Mar 8, 2013

unfortunatly the reason we see gargano with the ball all the time is because non of our midfielders has the balls to drop deeper and try and start something from the back, thats why we always either see gargano doing that job or a long ball from our defense, players like kuzmanovic cambiasso guarin would need to step it up and try to start instagating attacks from deep.

gargano can be useful in some games but he should not try and be the heart of the team he should be solely responsible for hounding down the opposition.

Pajo · Mar 8, 2013

I did a little research.

Gargano has pass competition of 82.8%, 1025 out of 1461 passes completed. That made me ask myself, why the fuck is a guy who has zero vision and is a DM, touches the ball that much? He is a DM ffs, he should win the ball and pass it to the nearest midfielder... So, i researched about some other DMs (apart from Busquets), some of the names were Khedira, Javi Garcia, De Rossi, Inler, Javi Martinez, and few others, have at least 1/3 less attempted passes. (percentage wise, all are on +/-2% from Gargano). In all major teams the DMs do not pass, they win the ball and give it to the nearest midfielder/winger... This, only at Inter.

He is missued. Yes he is inconsistent and all, but is very missused. In Napoli he had pass competition of almost 90%. But back there, when he won the ball, he passed it to Hamsik or the wing backs, didn't even attempted to pass the ball forward, unless it was a counter attack.

And that, that im afraid goes on Strama, totally.

Sokrates · Mar 8, 2013

Pajo said:
I did a little research.

Gargano has pass competition of 82.8%, 1025 out of 1461 passes completed. That made me ask myself, why the fuck is a guy who has zero vision and is a DM, touches the ball that much? He is a DM ffs, he should win the ball and pass it to the nearest midfielder... So, i researched about some other DMs (apart from Busquets), some of the names were Khedira, Javi Garcia, De Rossi, Inler, Javi Martinez, and few others, have at least 1/3 less attempted passes. (percentage wise, all are on +/-2% from Gargano). In all major teams the DMs do not pass, they win the ball and give it to the nearest midfielder/winger... This, only at Inter.

He is missued. Yes he is inconsistent and all, but is very missused. In Napoli he had pass competition of almost 90%. But back there, when he won the ball, he passed it to Hamsik or the wing backs, didn't even attempted to pass the ball forward, unless it was a counter attack.

And that, that im afraid goes on Strama, totally.

Fantastic

As I always said, our players aren't that bad. Strama just doesn't use them the right way.

javier_zanetti <3 · Mar 8, 2013

In Napoli Gargano was very good, i don't think he came to Inter as a different player. He need's good player next to him, Cambiasso is the best option for me, and to do what he does good and that's defence.

But since we have Starma as our coach, i don't want to see Gargano in the line up because he isn't doing good.

And about Martinez and Inler, they are much different than Gargano, they both have great technique.

Pajo · Mar 8, 2013

They have, but that's not the point. The point is that they are not good passers, but are great players overall, great DMs... And as great DMs, their job is NOT to pass the ball. They attempt much less passes, so should gargano. And you'll immediately see improvement.

Kakaroto · Mar 8, 2013

Thanks for doing the research Pajo it confirmed my feeling that Gargano was misused.

MarkE · Mar 10, 2013

gargano, guarin, kuzmanovic // gargano, cambiasso, kuzmanovic // gargano, kovacic, guarin // gargano, benassi, guarin // gargano, guarin, kovacic //.........I can probably come up with dozens more of these and I don't care which combination we use in the middle. The absolute must is that we need at least two CMs alongside gargano to fully utilize him. I don't ever want to see 4231 with gargano in the 2 anymore. It never worked and never will be.

Wallace · Mar 10, 2013

In a double CM formation, the likes of Khedira have a partner called Xabi Alonso.

In our case, Gargano is our Xabi Alonso. Which is why his mispasses become conspicuous, because he screws up the pass at the most critical situation, and of course, the more passes he attempts, the more mistakes he makes.

Numero Dieci · Mar 10, 2013

His real name is Ichabod Crane.

Ismael · Mar 10, 2013

Gargano suck thats it.. he just runs, this is football, I dont need anyone running around, remeber when we had Motta and Cambi as dm, neither off was fast and could run like crazy in 90 min.. in a football pitch being at the right place and cover is better then chasing a man.. Gargano fits perfect to epl, run around like a headless chicken. although the epl is getting better in that regard.. soon there want even be a place for guys like gargano in epl, so what should he do,.. hang yourself.. I hate to see this retarted player, play for inter..

rockball · Mar 11, 2013

I remember this short passage from the Bologna game, maybe around 24th min but not sure about it. Gargano got the ball in our half close to the right side of the pitch and passed to Zanetti while Stankovic was on Gargano's left side close to center. Zanetti gave it back to Rano, who passed it to Juan. Gargano ran all the way to the left side to receive the ball from Juan and then passed it to Pereira/Benassi ahead of him while Stankovic was still in the same spot as before.

The problem isn't Gargano, but what he is surrounded by; and the pathetic/nonexistent tactics because of which there is no movement at all. Gargano only mispasses a lot because he receives the ball so much, either by winning it or getting into a position where others can pass it to him.

Towards the end of the game, Kovacic got past the Bologna players a few times but every time he ran forward with the ball; he could only give it to Cassano since no one else moved enough to receive a pass.

I know the tactics are fucked up and Strama has no idea about those, but then our team has always been this way and the players keep showing that attitude.

spork · Mar 11, 2013

One of our major problems this season involves our players off the ball movement. When you have no one making a run into a meaningful attacking position and thus become available to receive a pass (as in the case of Gargano and Zanetti), the ball tends to be passed back to the defense or goalie. This allows the opposing team the freedom to roam forward and apply tremendous pressure of our players, whom as we all know, will probably do something stupid like hopelessly punting the ball forward only to lose possession.

All in all, it should not be a surprise that much of our build-up play is so static and one-dimensional. This, I'm going to have lay the blame on the coach.

Sevag · Mar 11, 2013

Totally agreed. He is actually being misused. You can't play him as a Motta. This guy just needs to help win balls in the middle of the park.

Walter Gargano

Predict how Gargano's Inter career will go

10 - Legend. One of the absolute best players in the history of the game (think Meazza, Matthäus)

9 - Icon. One of the best players in club history, and one of the best players in the world

8 - Great. A player of high quality that adds a lot to the team, one of the best in the league

7 - Good. A valuble asset to the team, one of the 10-15 best in his position in the league

6 - Above average. Useful player, but will never be a key player for a team

5 - Average. Completely average player. Does his job, but doesn't stand out

4 - Below average. Not a disaster, but would be better if we didn't sign him in the first place

3 - Anonymous. Will never be remembered due to the fact nobody expected anything from him

2 - Useless. Adds nothing of value, detrimental to the team when on the pitch

1 - Infamous. Awful signing, will go down in history as one of the shittiest Inter players ever

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