Gian Piero Gasperini

[Inter>Milan]

Sacking him this early is abit too rash. But if the team doesn't show any signs of improvement during the next two weeks, i'll be all for sacking him! I'm so angry i can't sleep

 

[val]

This what Gasperini said few days before Palermo game

How many games to truly see your Inter?

Gasperini: I know that it cannot be too many games, 6-7 matches, the ones that we are playing now until the next break."

well, I am not surprised by the result or the performance as we played very bad in pre-season. Our defense was very poor, and i see a lot of problem in 3-4-3 formation.

lets see and hope everything will be better in 6-7 games. But if its not, i think gaps should leaves.

 

[Maudes]

Gasperini is an average coach, but he is probably at the level that we could expect at the moment. It will be very difficult to get a top coach, after the way Benitez and Leonardo have left.

 

[Syn]

Gasperini: "We need to improve in many ways"
"What annoys me is that we lost the match in our best spell in the game. Concentration is what we need"

Do you know what we need ? This

This is what I call a perfect Defense, Baresi was here with Mourinho, also Bernazzani, just take those tapes from those two Barca games in the semis before year and a half and learn, learn and learn. This is once in a lifetime opportunity for Gasperini, try not to destroy it, for your own sake, and the sake of this team !

p.s. fuuu.

 

[Lionheart]

You know what guys, Im very happy we lost. And I would very much like if we kept on Losing, and conceding lots of goals, cause it means gasp will get the sack quicker; then we can play a formation that acually works.

Cal, this was the same thing said here when Rafa was sitting in the cockpit, & pretty much the same when Leonardo was. Still too soon to judge but what gives you the idea that even if he goes, MM & co will hire someone better?

 

[Choppin Onions]

Do you know what we need ? This

This is what I call a perfect Defense, Baresi was here with Mourinho, also Bernazzani, just take those tapes from those two Barca games in the semis before year and a half and learn, learn and learn. This is once in a lifetime opportunity for Gasperini, try not to destroy it, for your own sake, and the sake of this team !

p.s. fuuu.

Forget about our defense under one of the best managers of his generation. Comparing Gasp to Mourinho is like comparing the sexual skills of a 40 year old virgin to a porn star. It was also 2 years ago. It's extremely unlikely we ever see Lucio, Cambiasso and Maicon perform at that level again.

Anyways, I just hope Gasp quickly realizes the strengths and weaknessess of this team. The sooner he abolishes the 3 man defense, the better. Our CD's simply don't have the pace that's needed and the defensive high line is simply making things worse. If we played a club like Man City or Real Madrid (or even Milan) with 3 in the back, those teams are gonna murder us. Also, let's never again start two 30-something CM's whose best years are behind them. That was a fucking disaster.

JC
Maicon/Jon Lucio Samuel Yuto
Obi Cambiasso Alvarez
Sneijder
Forlan Pazzo/Milito

There it is. A simple enough adjustment. Yes, width could be a problem and I don't expect it too happen under Gasp but it's what I honestly think would work. Jonathan has shown a willingness to get forward and Yuto can cover a ton of room on his side. Play Cuchu close to his actual role in front of the defense where he belongs. Obi and Alvarez bring enthusiasm and technical skill (and slightly quicker as well) If either struggles with the work-load, eventually Motta and Poli will be available. It'll also make Sneijder happier playing with skilled players with the ball at their feet and being in the center obviously. Let Forlan do his "roaming" thing he does with Uruguay and our poachers in the box.

Gasperini has procured more knowledge about football than I will in my lifetime, but a flexible manager is a good manager. Adjust to the players and the club. Not the other way around.

 

[Sid]

tbh we don't need a genius of a coach to stay in top 3...

with the squad we have...we just need someone decent....can motivate the team and know how to deploy 4312 or 4231...

Baresi is fine...

even Cambiasso as Player-Coach could get us into top 3 by May :rollani:

We couldn't get Capello or Hiddink or AVB for whatever reason fine....MM should've just promoted Baresi to head coach and be done with it :work:


if not then he should've gone for delio rossi at least

 

[blackmore]

Gasp....................

i know its the first game and youve asked for some time to see the team gel together, but what the fuck? we just got owned by a very very very regular palermo side thats main ambition is to be mid table and try n qualify for the EL. what ever happens, this seasons going to see a lot of fireworks!

 

[val]

Gasp....................

i know its the first game and youve asked for some time to see the team gel together, but what the fuck? we just got owned by a very very very regular palermo side thats main ambition is to be mid table and try n qualify for the EL. what ever happens, this seasons going to see a lot of fireworks!

and dont forget, Palermo just sell a LOT of their important players such Pastore, Cassani, Sirigu, and Nocerino. Plus, they just sacked Pioli and get a new coach TEN DAYS a ago. So this result for us was very, very, very disappointed

 

[The Wall]

The funny fact here is Gasperini earns A LOT of money for doing what he does. We are just a bunch of emotional fans fussing about stuff concerning the club but he is the man who should actually understand where the problems are.

I watched the game on ESPN and their commentators who I find very knowledgable were going on and about the problems with Inter and 3-4-3.

My point is that this shit is so obvious. EVERYONE has noticed Inter and 3-4-3 aren't exactly a match made in heaven. Even a gentleman like Moratti talked about it even before the first game of the Serie A season.

I don't know if Gasperini can coach anything other than this 3-4-3 bullshit. I don't know if Moratti actually asked him about the tactical approach during the job interview. And I don't know if Gasperini has an unleashed Alex Ferguson inside him although I doubt it.

Can't see Gasperini turning Inter into one of the greatest teams of all time in a 7 year span,
but could be wrong on that one. You never know what would a mighty 3-4-3 do with the proper players.

But I do know(and as it turns out the majority of people following Inter including the president agree with me) the 3-4-3 with this very players and this very team Gasperini has just isn't going to cut it.

 

[CafeCordoba]

The funny fact here is Gasperini earns A LOT of money for doing what he does. We are just a bunch of emotional fans fussing about stuff concerning the club but he is the man who should actually understand where the problems are.

I watched the game on ESPN and their commentators who I find very knowledgable were going on and about the problems with Inter and 3-4-3.

My point is that this shit is so obvious. EVERYONE has noticed Inter and 3-4-3 aren't exactly a match made in heaven. Even a gentleman like Moratti talked about it even before the first game of the Serie A season.

I don't know if Gasperini can coach anything other than this 3-4-3 bullshit. I don't know if Moratti actually asked him about the tactical approach during the job interview. And I don't know if Gasperini has an unleashed Alex Ferguson inside him although I doubt it.

Can't see Gasperini turning Inter into one of the greatest teams of all time in a 7 year span,
but could be wrong on that one. You never know what would a mighty 3-4-3 do with the proper players.

But I do know(and as it turns out the majority of people following Inter including the president agree with me) the 3-4-3 with this very players and this very team Gasperini has just isn't going to cut it.

Actually I think Moratti asked Gasperini to teach this team to play "better". By better I mean of course more passing, more control, more fluent football than what we've seen in the past. I've got this impression from all the talks of Gasp and Moratti during the summer.

Gasperini took the job but I'm not exactly sure what was he thinking with the midfield. He has always reiterated he wanted wingers/attackers but is only one central midfielder enough for him? Is Motta a big piece in his plans then? In the summer, Motta was close to horrible and Cambiasso-Stankovic never convinced that much. Moratti must have emphasized that you must bring results so it would be really interesting to know whether Gasp would have wanted more players to the starting lineup or was he fine with this midfield and just wanted those attacker(s) (we got Forlan for Eto'o but then Zarate was that additional attacker acquisition for useless Pandev who departed too).

Because I'm not sure if this thing is going to hold for too long. What happens WHEN Stankovic is going to get injured? Motta is still sidelined, same goes for Poli. Alvarez would be very good CM but not in a two-man midfield and he's more like "Cambiasso's replacement" as funny as that sounds. Cambiasso's role is also strange to me. He's still playing not-DM but pure CM who goes forward and leaves space behind.

 

[The Wall]

Actually I think Moratti asked Gasperini to teach this team to play "better"........

I agree with everything.

But concerning this ''teaching to play better'' thing, although I can envision Moratti wants us us to play more attractive football(thus the Guardiola affection I assume) I still believe he is a sane man not smoking a considerable amount of crack.

You can not ''teach'' this team to play a better football. A way better tactician than Gasperini learnt that hard way. And Moratti sold players like Balotelli and Eto'o not replacing them with similar quality.

So, we basically have a worse team than the one which didin't actually play attractive football over the years.

Something is just not right in the whole idea of it. Nobody could win things and play amazing, attacking football with the current Inter team. It would be MI, not just for Gasp.

 

[blackmore]

Lol....Seriously all I can do is laugh. Now we are talking about MF and lack of a CM for our team. How many times during the off season did I mention that all this tevez and eto drama has detered us in doing what we needed to do this mercato....find a proper CM. still can't believe ppl were happy with the poli signing. The only person for me who can bring something to the table is Alvarez, and that only if cuchu is utilized properly. I was just waiting for the first post of our new season which read "our mf sux". It's been an ongoing cliche in this forum for years now.

 

[snake]

I believe away from home (especially in CL, or Vs teams like Palermo, Udinese) we need to play a tight, compact midfield and try hit them on the counter as we can't afford to leave the spaces we do at the back. The formation that Gasp started with yesterday, is the type of formation we should be playing at home against smaller teams, since we will need a game style of width to be able to break them down.

Playing this formation away against quick, well skilled teams will leave us way too vulnerable. Especially on the counter.

 

[blackmore]

I believe away from home (especially in CL, or Vs teams like Palermo, Udinese) we need to play a tight, compact midfield and try hit them on the counter as we can't afford to leave the spaces we do at the back. The formation that Gasp started with yesterday, is the type of formation we should be playing at home against smaller teams, since we will need a game style of width to be able to break them down.

Playing this formation away against quick, well skilled teams will leave us way too vulnerable. Especially on the counter.

we know that....but the thing is will Gasp realise it? we have to give him a window of opportunity, i mean even Jose ran with his 433 for a while. hopefully he dosent turn out to be hard headed like the fatone.

 

[Choppin Onions]

Lol....Seriously all I can do is laugh. Now we are talking about MF and lack of a CM for our team. How many times during the off season did I mention that all this tevez and eto drama has detered us in doing what we needed to do this mercato....find a proper CM. still can't believe ppl were happy with the poli signing. The only person for me who can bring something to the table is Alvarez, and that only if cuchu is utilized properly. I was just waiting for the first post of our new season which read "our mf sux". It's been an ongoing cliche in this forum for years now.

I think Inter management are betting on Obi and Alvarez (Poli too I assume) That's why we probably didn't see any huge moves in that area. Whether those players become great or even competent midfielders is still to be decided.

 

[La Brujita]

Man, with Gasperini, I seriously can't blame someone other than him these days. With Rafa, there were plenty of problems. The squad seemed unmotivated, the injuries, and the squad at his disposal was much less complete than the squad we have now. Not to mention Rafa's own tactical decisions of trying to change a team that won everything out of jealous. With Leo, the players were also motivated, but he always had fuck the defense motto, which is probably why he didn't have a future here, but I think he was a fairly successful coach giving his circumstances.


Gasperini.. we got a more complete squad. There are much more options to choose from. The players are motivated. They just lost the title they had for 5 years, and it's time to win it back again! However, all I can say is that yesterday we lost because of the 3-4-3. We were always exposed in the back 3, and sooner or later it was obvious that it will bite us in the ass, and it did!

Before yesterday, the formation is not important it's the numbers of players who defend. So yesterday we constantly saw attackers coming to the back to help defenders out. Zarate did that in the beginning and he was owned. He just loves getting players out of their comfort zones, and that's cool sometimes. But sometimes it's just better to use what works. Only Milito and JC yesterday were playing in their best positions, and 9 other players were just not in their best positions. Even Zarate who is a winger, played on the right side, which isn't his best position.


What's making me feel more comfortable is that this guy seems not so stubborn, and he's willing to change his formation if things are working.

For the sake of this team, I really hope he does. I'm just sick of hiring and firing coaches with no quality improvement whatsoever.

 

[Johnny Ludlow]

We actually did play kind of well on possession, but we also attacked with like 7 men. Whenever we lost the ball, it was trouble. I have never seen a top team be so easy to beat on counter, bar one particular game last season. Off the ball we DIDN'T HAVE A MIDFIELD AT ALL. For years we have been very tough to crack if we play in a conservative manner; men behind the ball and with not too high defensive line. Do anybody remember what happened when Samuel went to Real and played with a high line? He was destroyed. These players are trained for all their lives to play in a certain manner. Gasp can't change this. He should just go for the 4-3-1-2 and grind the results. Period.

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I have to add, that I'm not hopeless. Gasperini knows how to play fluid attacking football. He really really needs to balance things out; it's not easy but it's possible. One year ago there were no reasons for excitement or hopefulness. We were simply flat, uninspired and clueless in both ends. There were no positives. No there is; Obi is looking very good, as are Alvarez and Jonathan. Our attacking trio of yesterday, Sneijder, Milito and Forlan, showed glimpses of good combinations.

Gasperini, please prove us wrong and turn Inter into a machine.

 

[sigao]

PLEASE MORATTI SACK THIS GUY BEFORE HE RUINED INTER.

 

[I4E]

Alarm bells were ringing during the pre-season. Our defense is too leaky and slow.

Gasp needs to play the formation suited to the players at his disposal. If a relatively new look Palermo can put 4 goals against us, then I'm afraid what the top clubs in europe will do to us

WARNING: Patch the leaky defence and start providing results, or you gonna end up like this guy

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