Simone Inzaghi

Conte was definitely loved by his players. It’s gonna be tough for Inzaghi in that regard. That being said, I never hear any Lazio players disgruntled or wanting out. SMS, Immobile and Alberto are all excellent players but they kept renewing despite a real lack of success that they could probably achieve elsewhere. I don’t know if that’s partly due to Simone or not but I feel like he’s pretty respected and liked in that Lazio locker room.

rockball said:

Has he ever played a non-352 formation?

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I think for Inzaghi's system, DePaul would be great choice, he could be his Alberto in Inter. We should try to sell Vecino, Gags and Sensi or exchange them with Udinese and bring DePaul. Eriksen cant play Alberto role, he is just too soft and slow for that, but I would keep Eriksen. Midfield with Eriksen, Brozo, Barella and DePaul is scudetto material. But we dont know yet who were gonna sell and what's Marotta up to. We'll see.

Simone job is to keep us away from banter era and history repeating it self after 2010

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If we really need to make 80m from sales then players like De Paul, Castrovilli, Vlahovic and other expensive signings are totally unrealistic. We're probably back to making only loan deals.

wera said:

Lol. Conte doesn't have a plan A? What I saw was reactive football, mostly we knew when to counterattack and when the hold the ball, every player had multiple roles depending on where his triangle counterparts were. How many times have we seen Brozović next to Lukaku and Lautaro running for the ball or Hakimi being the most forward player?

We utilized the strengths of most of our players and tried to minimize what we are not good at. No matter how good our league was this year, 91 points is bog success. Conte tried something at the start, didn't work and then we had a scudetto winning run where we basically won against all our main competition and took the lead.

All this talk about Inter being rigid under Conte is funny and inconsequential when we had 2nd best attack and best defence in the league. Isn't that a good thing? Our defence will continue to boss but it's the attack we'll have to see what happens under Inzaghi, especially with no Pintus here.

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Not having plan A is obviously an exaggeration, but there was no plan B. And the default plan was far too reliant on counters, which isn't a long term effective strategy. We have seen that time and again, with many coaches and clubs. Every time a team/defender was able to keep Lukaku under check, we struggled big time. We saw against Juve, Napoli, against many others.

What we achieved this season is something great, but to think that this can be easily followed up by the same approach isn't feasible. What we will miss most about Conte is the mentality he got, the spirit that was created in the team. And that is extremely critical for a top club, when you want to win. But tactically, we can definitely do a lot better. Especially considering the roster we had.

I think deals like de paul or castrovili can be concluded on some sort of loan basis, paid in one or two years. Vlahovic on the other hand don't think so, after the season he had.

wera said:

All this talk about Inter being rigid under Conte is funny and inconsequential when we had 2nd best attack and best defence in the league. Isn't that a good thing? Our defence will continue to boss but it's the attack we'll have to see what happens under Inzaghi, especially with no Pintus here.

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I think I used a completely wrong word here. I didn't mean it. I meant compact, rigid in the sense that our defensive formation was tough as shit. Conte didn't let anyone any free time, everyone had to defend, all the time.

It was definitely a good thing, it won us the Scudetto. Attack and goals were also good, because we have so talented players.

Inzaghi already coached Lukaku in Lazio, and now he will coach another Lukaku at Inter.

3:10 worth watching

Il Drago said:

If we really need to make 80m from sales then players like De Paul, Castrovilli, Vlahovic and other expensive signings are totally unrealistic. We're probably back to making only loan deals.

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Don't be gloom and doom.

You can get De Paul in loan + obligation deal.

The issue this season is deferring cash flow for the future.

We need the cash now as the owners have salaries and loans to pay. Provided that Covid doesn't resurface, we should be good. Ticket prices will be hiked a bit I guess and people will still be willing to pay because they've been deprived of this. Revenue will kick back in, but our main concern is getting those big sponsorship deals. It appears that not that many are willing to deal with our Chinese guys.


The rational plan is to sell Lukaku if there's a big offer and also Brozovic in case we do not renew him.

Playing with a back three means that none of our center backs should leave.

I do think though that if we sell Brozovic, we may be in for a surprise option of Skriniar indirectly replacing him and we go all in for Milenkovic (loan+ deal of course).

Our aim should be to win the league again, but once more the minimum should be CL.
I trust that if we do give Inzaghi the right ingredients, he'll take us past the CL group for once and that will also add +25m to our coffers, maybe even more. And with luck, you can make a big run there anyway. All we need is an operational depth.

Give him Dimarco, Belotti and De Paul while losing Perisic, Lukaku and Brozovic and I trust that we can replicate this season, unless we somehow end up seeing Roma and Milan with a 250m budget each and Juventus spending 200m on a functional midfield and defense.

Either way, there are no excuses for Marotta to come up with a solid roster. We have expendable players, we can cut salaries and we can postpone cash flows for new additions. If we leave Inzaghi at the mercy of austerity, it's Spalletti all over again.

Time will tell if i am doom and gloom or simply realistic. I sincerely hope you're right and i am wrong.

Indeed, next 4-8 weeks imo are crucial, depending on activity dueing the Euro.

The club maintains optimism, but we've seen optimism in 2013-14 as well

Yes indeed. Inter can get the players they want with loan+obligation to buy formula, like the way Juve got Chiesa. Just because the club doesnt have money now doesnt mean they can't get any player.

This starts to be out of the scope of this thread, but Gazzetta reported that we need that 80m (or 90-100m€ or whatever) profits, NOT plusvalenza. That is an easier task, sort of. Because we just need to sell one or two big guys for cash, in a deal where we are paid cash upfront (City/Chelsea can do this). Then we can replace them with some normal deals, where we don't pay cash up front but in tranches like it's done usually (by not sugar daddy clubs). Add the Italian loan shenanigans and we can do some stuff.

But let's see. Inzaghi probably has some players he might want but I think we're gonna focus on sales first.

ElDuccio said:

True, let's not forget that not even Inter won 3 trophies in this last 5 years. And Inzaghi did that with fucking Lazio

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Pirlo won two trophies this season and Conte only one.

Pirlo>Conte :work:

crzdcolombian said:

Haha just realized he isn't his brother who was nasty at Juve and AC Milan ... well at least he doesn't have either of those teams stink on him.ty

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He is still nasty.Guy is a complete prick.Can't actually believe no one can remember that by watching Inter vs Lazio,Lazio in general and his comments in the media.Very punchable face...

Marotta know the best coach for us .

Inzaghi play 3-5-2 formation, in other hand Sarri play 4-3-3 , Sarri already offered by his agent to Marotta, but Marotta declined.

I am sure Inzaghi the only coach who can coach Inter without destroy Conte 3-5-2 blueprint masterclass.

The only different maybe Inzaghi not good as Conte in terms of mentality and experience.

CafeCordoba said:

This starts to be out of the scope of this thread, but Gazzetta reported that we need that 80m (or 90-100m€ or whatever) profits, NOT plusvalenza. That is an easier task, sort of. Because we just need to sell one or two big guys for cash, in a deal where we are paid cash upfront (City/Chelsea can do this). Then we can replace them with some normal deals, where we don't pay cash up front but in tranches like it's done usually (by not sugar daddy clubs). Add the Italian loan shenanigans and we can do some stuff.

But let's see. Inzaghi probably has some players he might want but I think we're gonna focus on sales first.

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Keeping it out of scope for a little bit, what's the situation in italy regarding the fans coming back to stadiums next season? That would be huge for us.

Yesterday in an inteview marotta said we lost 70 frickin mill just from an empty stadium.

young and experienced coach with modern ideas hopefully

CafeCordoba said:

This starts to be out of the scope of this thread, but Gazzetta reported that we need that 80m (or 90-100m€ or whatever) profits, NOT plusvalenza. That is an easier task, sort of. Because we just need to sell one or two big guys for cash, in a deal where we are paid cash upfront (City/Chelsea can do this). Then we can replace them with some normal deals, where we don't pay cash up front but in tranches like it's done usually (by not sugar daddy clubs). Add the Italian loan shenanigans and we can do some stuff.

But let's see. Inzaghi probably has some players he might want but I think we're gonna focus on sales first.

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I believe we can sell Mario, Radja, Vidal, Vecino, Sensi, Pinamonti, Dalbert, Lazaro and some primavera players for this amount. 5M here, 5M there and maybe we can do it.

The problem is we are trying to offland some players for 2 years now. Vecino, (sadly) Sensi, Nainggolan and Mario MUST go... With Dalbert and Lazaro I could see Inzaghi maybe trying them out for the summer... Even tho I have no trust in one injured wingback and one who has a good game once every 20 games.