What exactly was there before? Go back a page and you will see what Ausilio inherited.
He took over in February 2014. No transfers during that period and a bunch of concluded deals. He was one of the guys that wanted to clear the old guard and start over with younger blood, along with the coach Mazzarri. Problem was that Mazzarri had his own idea of what "young blood" was.
Mazzarr had demanded the following players from the ones that ended up at Inter: Medel, Dodo, M'Vila. Ausilio wanted to bring Osvaldo since we could not reach an agreement for the forwards Mazzarri had in mind. And then there was M'Vila which was also Ausilio's pick.
The player Mazzarri wanted but did not get was Roberto Perreyra of Udinese (now Watford I think).
Mazzarri goes out, enter Mancini. He wants to change the formation and have more width. So we bring him Shaqiri and Podolski while Ausilio corrects his mistake with M'Vila, sends him packing and brings a certain Brozovic to replace him.
Mancini had requested players like Yaya Toure and even Eder but they were unattainable for us at the moment. He only managed to get Felipe Melo from his initial wishlist. So he instead settled for Kondogbia and Jovetic. He also specified Alex Telles as a target and he was brought over. Ausilio had also brought him Ljajic to indirectly replace Shaqiri, Ivan Perisic to indirectly replace Podolski, Miranda to lead the defence, Murillo as a prospect/young starter and also Montoya who was a Barcelona prospect for the right back spot which didn't pan out really well.
Mancini did manage to get his Eder in the winter.
The next summer was a bit more crazy, though Ausilio and Mancini had developed a relatively good relationship. Mancini demanded Caner Erkin to replace Alex Telles, so we signed the Turk and did not complete the transfer for the Brazilian. End of the summer both were gone, which was batshit crazy. I don't even want to remember what happened there but you can relive the moments through FIF if you check below*.
We ended up with that Mazzarri transfer in Dodo becoming an official, blame FFP for that. And we started to pass him around ever since. And Mancini demanded Ansaldi to become our starting LB so we went to buy the guy for him.
We signed Caprari as there were cries for a lack of Italian talents. He ended up being helpful in the Skriniar deal. And since Mancini threw Kovacic under the bus and demanded a "midfielder who can pass", we ended up with Ever Banega on a free deal. Last but not least, Mancini wanted more Italian blood and someone who could play on the right and Candreva was the man both him and Ausilio had identified. And he arrived.
But it was Suning's year and they wanted to prove to the Chinese oligarchy that they knew what they were doing by making that Kia guy pull the strings. We ended up with 4 different people coaching the team that season and none of them had a full pre-season. Half the players were brought for Mancini (via Ausilio) and the other half came for Kia's pockets (via Suning) whilst De Boer had no say whatsover about any potential transfers even if he had suggested a couple of decent guys late in August.
Then Sabatini came so all transfers were credited to him, even the ones like Skriniar who were 100% Ausilio's pick that Sabatini just had to conclude because it was in his job description, as with every other transfer that was made.
When Sabatini left, we had the 2018 mercato under Ausilio with Lautaro, De Vrij, Asamoah, Vrsaljko, Politano and the two gifts to Spalletti, Radja Nainggolan and Keita Balde. We could have done something more but we failed to sell players that are still under contract (Joao Mario, Borja Valero, Gagliardini etc). All these guys except Keita Balde, were brought to be starters and were actually starters.
Now with Marotta, again, every good deal = Marotta, every bad one = Ausilio. When in fact thus far, Barella, Sensi and Sanchez were initiated by Ausilio, Conte demanded personally Lukaku, Lazaro and now Ashley Young plus Victor Moses. And Giroud. Whilst Marotta played his part in the deals for Godin (Bosman that was on the cards before his arrival but he was a significant part of the initial official contact) and Biraghi (in an effort to offload Dalbert). All business deals were negotiated and concluded by Marotta himself, Ausilio is there just for the introduction.
*2016-17:
http://forzainterforums.com/showthread.php?13481-Serie-A-Calcio-Mercato-Summer-2016-2017
http://forzainterforums.com/showthread.php?13514-2016-2017-Defenders-Rumour-Thread
http://forzainterforums.com/showthread.php?13513-2016-2017-Midfielder-Rumours-Thread
http://forzainterforums.com/showthread.php?13512-2016-2017-Forwards-Rumours-Thread
Honestly, can you really tell me what are you blaming Ausilio for? Is he for some bizarre reason the personification of Inter not being in the Champions League? Because from the looks of his history, this guy along with Handanovic and Icardi, was one of the few good thins we've had since the 2011 Coppa win. Sure, he made mistakes, sure he could have done some better deals but at the end of the day, he's not some all powerful person at Inter, he's just a highly ranked employee and is in a weird position of being bossed around by someone he occasionally has the power to sack.
If anything, you should look at the big picture. This is a guy that came to a shit role in the middle of the most cataclysmic season of the decade, the year that Zanetti decided he was retiring, Milito was returning to Argentina and the Asado clan was to be no more, with someone like Thohir in charge who had bought a crippled club and crippled our limited funds even further by trying to get players like Vidic over and he managed to sail this rowboat to Champions League football with Suning's investments of course, but with a budget that allowed only for guys like Vecino to be one of our most important midfielders whilst we had to lose Banega for a measly 9m due to our financial turmoil. In the football world Ausilio is considered a mastermind, on FIF he's some sort of a clown.
And I haven't even factored in the bad influence that Fassone and Mirabelli had on the club whilst Ausilio was here. Nor did I mention the amount of talent he brought at Inter such as Zaniolo, Bastoni, Mulattieri and others that we may or may not see play at Inter at some point.
I've made this comparison before and I'll keep doing it until it sticks.
The diss Ausilio gets is the equivalent of blaming Handanovic for Inter being out of the Champions League for so many years. The only reason why people aren't making this is because they bothered to realize that Handanovic was not one of the faults of Inter's lack of success, but in fact one of the few worthy of being there. The same applies with Ausilio as much as people like to make fun of him. Probably they're jealous because they think that Ausilio is some sort of real life 'Football Manager' guy that controls Inter and does whatever the fuck he wants as if it's a video game....