If we truly are hiring coaches and not supporting them (which I've read on both sides of the Branca argument), we really are a bunch of stupid cunts.
And sadly that is the case. We clearly publicly didn't support Gasperini, we publicly didn't support Benitez. We didn't get who Ranieri asked for.
Like I said a while ago, when you hire a coach, that's obviously a show of faith in him already. So why hire him, if you don't have any faith in him (e.g. Gasperini)
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mou wanted carvalho and branca got him Lucio
You've hit the nail on the head.
Mourinho identified exactly the type of player we needed at Inter - bear in mind this wasn't some kind of REVOLUTION, we've been playing Cordoba/Samuel/Chivu/Materazzi for like 2-3 years by this point, and drop Chivu and that's like 6 years, all of which during Branca worked at Inter.
The player Mourinho originally identified was not available, and they worked together to find a suitable replacement.
So in those 6 years, Branca didn't once think we could do with a ball playing defender, Mourinho comes along, convinces him he's wrong, and all of a sudden its now the done thing at Inter.
Point. In. Hand. Branca could have rectified that any point in the 6 years leading up to when Mourinho was our manager, but he didnt.
He makes me think of some kind of blind but very fast marathon runner. Put him in the right direction, he'll do a great job. If you don't, then he'll end up in the middle of nowhere running around like a headless chicken
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like I've said 100 times
I give him full credit when he works with the coaches. When there's someone there to say 'hey, wanca, we need X or someone like X'.
When he's left to do his own thing, not so good.