Antonio Conte

Hold him to the fucking contract. He can fuck off if he wants any compensation for walking away from the contract.

Il Drago said:

He is the agent of both brothers and the agent of the players you mention. I don't think they called him to deal with the extension of a player. We have much more important problems now.

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Morabito is Simone's agent and thats not the guy that was at our HQ.

There's Bastoni's situation as well, he was promised a new contract and I'm pretty sure something will break here.

Candreva Crosses said:

Where is the "fuck the players who won't reduce their salary" campaign?

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More interesting, no players, that we know of, went to help with the salary reductions or try to convince Conte to stay. In their defense, though most are probably training for their respective national teams so " the stars" maybe out of the loop as it were.

brehme1989 said:

There's Bastoni's situation as well, he was promised a new contract and I'm pretty sure something will break here.

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and he fully deserves it too.

I still think it doesnt matter who our next coach will be, as we are a team tha cant buy anyone and has to sell.

the worst thing is that we cannot buy Vidal anymore to convince Conte to stay

IM21 said:

Morabito is Simone's agent and thats not the guy that was at our HQ.

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My bad then. I read in an article Tinti is his agent. Apologies for misinformation.

diamen said:

and how many times Lazio made a turnover and scored in the extra time? Plenty. And what he can do if he has just 7 competitive players and the trash on the bench? You cannot play without the subs.
Simone Inzaghi is not a perfect manager, but you are exaggerating. Lazio is fun to watch, they build their attacks in very interesting way with many short passes in the penalty box. Inzaghi created players like SMS out of nothing. Immobile was a player who failed in Dortmund and Sevilla, Luis Alberto was no one from Liverpool, Correa was Sevilla's deadwood and now they would walk into first squad of every Italian team.
Inzaghi is fine for me, I would be disappointed only with Mihajlović. Sarri and Allegri are also good choices, but Allegri seems to be already taken by Juve.

Being Lazio coach is difficult. Igli Tare bough a lot of mediocre players recently and Inzaghi is dealing with it very well.

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If you need to "count how many times he is good this and that", that coach is already not good enough. To win the league next year, you need to collect over 90 points. To secure CL, you need 78 or so. You need to get your decision right most of the time.

If the hots balance the colds, Inter will be exactly where Lazio is today i.e. midtable.

Let's compare with whom he will compete. Is Inzaghi better than Allegri (or any Juve new coach)? NO. Gasperini? NO. Pioli? NO. Mourinho? NO. Spalletti? NO. See that again, your list of "Inzaghi achievements" have been done better by the others. Let's take Pioli for instance, you call SMS or Immobile or Alberto or Correa "out of nothing" (->6th place), I cannot imagine what you call Meite Krunic Diaz Bennacer Rebic...(->2nd place)?

Your arguments are the same sort of the ones defending Gags or Vecino some years ago. "Good enough" == "mediocrity". Inzaghi is the worst of ALL coaches of our competitors, rank >=6th coach. Maybe finishing 6th is "fine" for you, but not me.

PHM1605 said:

If you need to "count how many times he is good this and that", that coach is already not good enough. To win the league next year, you need to collect over 90 points. To secure CL, you need 78 or so. You need to get your decision right most of the time.

If the hots balance the colds, Inter will be exactly where Lazio is today i.e. midtable.

Let's compare with whom he will compete. Is Inzaghi better than Allegri (or any Juve new coach)? NO. Gasperini? NO. Pioli? NO. Mourinho? NO. Spalletti? NO. See that again, your list of "Inzaghi achievements" have been done better by the others. Let's take Pioli for instance, you call SMS or Immobile or Alberto or Correa "out of nothing", I cannot imagine what you call Meite Krunic Diaz Bennacer Rebic...?

Your arguments are the same sort of the ones defending Gags or Vecino some years ago. "Good enough" == "mediocrity". Inzaghi is the worst of ALL coaches of our competitors, rank >=6th coach. Maybe finishing 6th is "fine" for you, but not me.

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so what you expect from Lazio's coaches? Fight for the Scudetto? He did it last year. Won the Italian Cup? He did it and he won 2 Super Cups. I really have no idea what he should do to be considered as quality coach. How is he worse than Pioli? Gasperini is great but he has 0 cups with Atalanta while Inzaghi has 3 cups with Lazio.
He has also qualified from his Champions League group in the first attempt while Inter with better coaches (Spaletti, Conte - that you said) and better squad didn't achieve.

Marotta will make one last attempt to convince Conte to stay but the chances of success are really low.

lets just hold out on the rumours for time being eh, theres all sorts of BS flying around and the media have been consistently wrong all season.

Our greatest manager since Mourinho winning the first title in 11 years and this is how they treat him? Fuck you, Zhang. I hope you sell the club and never set foot in Italy until you do. Piece of shit

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diamen said:

so what you expect from Lazio's coaches? Fight for the Scudetto? He did it last year. Won the Italian Cup? He did it and he won 2 Super Cups. I really have no idea what he should do to be considered as quality coach. How is he worse than Pioli? Gasperini is great but he has 0 cups with Atalanta while Inzaghi has 3 cups with Lazio.

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So CL spot once every three years and won Coppas are enough for you, we don't share the same standard. Pointless to argue more.

I am not attacking Inzaghi, he is who he is. I am attacking the decision of hiring-Inzaghi to save costs i.e. Zhang. Stupid him. You will see he fires Inzaghi in some months and finds someone cheaper to "save more cost".

PHM1605 said:

So CL spot once every three years and won Coppas are enough for you, we don't share the same standard. Pointless to argue more.

I am not attacking Inzaghi, he is who he is. I am attacking the decision of hiring-Inzaghi to save costs i.e. Zhang. Stupid him. You will see Inzaghi fired in some months and he hires someone cheaper to "save more cost"

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Exactly. We have seen it in banter era. Time and again we tried to play it smart with promising coaches and in the end it always ended badly.

PHM1605 said:

So CL spot once every three years and won Coppas are enough for you, we don't share the same standard. Pointless to argue more.

I am not attacking Inzaghi, he is who he is. I am attacking the decision of hiring-Inzaghi to save costs i.e. Zhang. Stupid him. You will see Inzaghi fired in some months and he hires someone cheaper to "save more cost"

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well, I'm simply taking into consideration that he is coach of Lazio and for Lazio these achievements are pretty good. If he has the same achievements with Inter I would be disappointed.

And ofc, I would also love to see top coach here, but if we have no money let's try with someone promising and young. I don't think there is other possibility.

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If you need to "count how many times he is good this and that", that coach is already not good enough. To win the league next year, you need to collect over 90 points. To secure CL, you need 78 or so. You need to get your decision right most of the time.

If the hots balance the colds, Inter will be exactly where Lazio is today i.e. midtable.

Let's compare with whom he will compete. Is Inzaghi better than Allegri (or any Juve new coach)? NO. Gasperini? NO. Pioli? NO. Mourinho? NO. Spalletti? NO. See that again, your list of "Inzaghi achievements" have been done better by the others.

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I'm by no means a fan of Simone Inzaghi, neither as player nor as coach, but... come on. The guy is not some clown, he's a decent coach. He's just whiny and arrogant, just like most coaches are. I think most people dislike him as a choice due to personality.

Allegri is a cunt, but he's easy going usually.
Conte is an asshole, but he's a charismatic one.
Gasperini is not a pleasant person.
Spalletti is actually the most fun character of them all (Italians I mean, Mourinho is on a different level than all these combined) and we all saw what mark he left.
Pioli is just happy to be around, but he's no master coach. Milan needs to move on from him if they want to return to their 2000s life.


Gasperini and Spalletti are actually the only ones that performed great with teams that no one expected to do very well.

Allegri was good at Cagliari, but he had a very nice roster and got lucky that Zlatan's Milan came knocking on his door.
Conte was piss poor everywhere he went [in Serie A] before Agnelli decided it was time to spend money on players and refs.
Pioli was a mid-table coach at best who can sometimes get the most out of his unit. But this season was the only one where this was sustained. I put more on this on the Zlatan in the locker room effect, than Pioli masterclass.


Simone Inzaghi only coached Lazio and he's been there for 4 seasons.

They were barely top 10 when he was hired in 2016. Sure, they did have a season where they finished 3rd and 4th, but they were typically a top 8 club before him. They had a higher budget than both Napoli at the time. This changed by the time Inzaghi came about. Their budget went from 70m to 30m from 2014-15 (3rd place) to 2016-17 which was his first season. From 8th in 2016, which he also managed a few games at the end, he took them 5th with the 6th highest budget (Atalanta also had much less and finished above them of course). But from 54 points to 70 points, it's quite a good increase.

They started to raise the budget since then but he was always operating with the 6-7th budget in Serie A.

70 points, 72 points, 59 points* (2018-19, but won the Coppa), 78 points, 68 points (and past the CL groups in their first try).

*Lotito masterclass managed to lose De Vrij on a free, sell Felipe Anderson, meaning that 2 of their top5 players were out and not really adequately replaced. Correa took a while to settle in a new role.

And all this, while having an ultra thin roster. We've had similar stories with Spalletti at Inter. I'm expecting both to be able to bring far better results for a better team with more depth. And we're one of those now. But Spalletti cannot return, that ship has sailed.



This coach would not be a bad option, in fact, it's one of the safest ones we can make. Is he great? Of course not, but pretending that we're losing a great coach here is also silly. The main problem is that neither Allegri nor Sarri seem likely and there's really no one else to look at. Even Pochettino may leave PSG but I still wouldn't claim he's an exceptional coach that we must have.

I'd prefer Allegri from the lot, but Simone Inzaghi is part of the "next best thing" whether we like it or not.

Il Drago said:

My bad then. I read in an article Tinti is his agent. Apologies for misinformation.

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According to Schira, Tinti is Inzaghi's agent.

Nicolò Schira - L'agente Tullio Tinti con l'avvocato Sara Agostini in sede all'#Inter. Tinti rappresenta Simone #Inzaghi che oggi vedrà Lotito: in caso di separazione dalla #Lazio può essere candidato forte per il post #Conte. Il 3-5-2 di Inzaghi sarebbe ideale prosecuzione di quello Conte

vitomins said:

According to Schira, Tinti is Inzaghi's agent.

Nicolò Schira - L'agente Tullio Tinti con l'avvocato Sara Agostini in sede all'#Inter. Tinti rappresenta Simone #Inzaghi che oggi vedrà Lotito: in caso di separazione dalla #Lazio può essere candidato forte per il post #Conte. Il 3-5-2 di Inzaghi sarebbe ideale prosecuzione di quello Conte

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well, then my bad to Il Drago's information. I guess twitter people dont have the best info...

brehme1989 said:

Conte was piss poor everywhere he went [in Serie A] before Agnelli decided it was time to spend money on players and refs.

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LOL come on man...everywhere he went in Serie A?

He literally coached at one team for 14 matches in Serie A before joining Juventus!