Mauro Icardi

[Candreva Crosses]

Finally the haters are gone. This dude silenced them the first game

 

[ElDuccio]

Where ElDuccio at?

He made a good job. But it was Fiorentina, not Roma. Im not saying that he is shit, i always said that there are a lot of players that can also make the diffrence if you put him with Perisic (for me a World class player) and Candreva (decent player, nothing more).Im Inter fan ffs, its human to excpect a great Striker ala Milito or Adriano. And i never said that he is Rocchi or Amauri, i just want that he can be consistent. If he scores every match 1 goal or is always important for our team, then im ok with it. But if he scores 2-3 goals and after a week he sucks, then fuck. Sadly its the problem of players with this style. Your good at scoring but bad when it comes to help our team play most times. And the matches you not score you are automaticly bad because making other things are difficult for him. Just like Higuain at Juve. This guy is not 90M worth, Napoli made a big deal. I liked Morata much more.
Sometimes i think that Icardi (at last) is better then fucking Higuain. But im not fan of such players, in past we had diffrent strikers. Adriano who basicly can score from all position and was always present on the pitch. Etoo a player that you just cant stop. Milito, Ronaldo, Zamorano... of course we had also shitty strikers. Icardi is not shit, but he also isnt (for me) one of the best ever... Icardi makes hes job good. I hate the job he makes , thats the problem here. The problem of this job is (as i said) you can only be good/world class or bad/very bad. Icardi is only good. And its hard to get better if you only focus on your Job. He is and will be a poacher forever, probably.

To get World class we need to play for him like Napoli with Higuain did. But we will win no trophies with this mentality.

 

[Provenzano]

He made a good job. But it was Fiorentina, not Roma.

Do you want to tell you what you would say if we played against Roma this night or if Icardi scores new two goals next week?

ElDuccio: "But it was Roma, not Real Madrid"

 

[Cómi]

He made a good job. But it was Fiorentina, not Roma. Im not saying that he is shit, i always said that there are a lot of players that can also make the diffrence if you put him with Perisic (for me a World class player) and Candreva (decent player, nothing more).Im Inter fan ffs, its human to excpect a great Striker ala Milito or Adriano. And i never said that he is Rocchi or Amauri, i just want that he can be consistent. If he scores every match 1 goal or is always important for our team, then im ok with it. But if he scores 2-3 goals and after a week he sucks, then fuck. Sadly its the problem of players with this style. Your good at scoring but bad when it comes to help our team play most times. And the matches you not score you are automaticly bad because making other things are difficult for him. Just like Higuain at Juve. This guy is not 90M worth, Napoli made a big deal. I liked Morata much more.
Sometimes i think that Icardi (at last) is better then fucking Higuain. But im not fan of such players, in past we had diffrent strikers. Adriano who basicly can score from all position and was always present on the pitch. Etoo a player that you just cant stop. Milito, Ronaldo, Zamorano... of course we had also shitty strikers. Icardi is not shit, but he also isnt (for me) one of the best ever... Icardi makes hes job good. I hate the job he makes , thats the problem here. The problem of this job is (as i said) you can only be good/world class or bad/very bad. Icardi is only good.

"If he doesn't play as well as Messi, he sucks."

 

[thatdude]

"If he doesn't play as well as Messi, he sucks."

I think that's exactly the opposite of what his post was saying...

 

[ElDuccio]

Do you want to tell you what you would say if we played against Roma this night or if Icardi scores new two goals next week?

ElDuccio: "But it was Roma, not Real Madrid"

Maybe it was a litle bit hard but this quote is generely speaking for all our players. How much games we saw a great Inter and then we finished 5. or 7-8.? We also won 4-2 against Fiorentina last year. Icardi with a phenomenal dribling at the goal (which sadly was only crap defending from Fiorentina + icardi never did this goal again), Candreva with a screamer (tipical goal at such games and then he sucks balls the next week when he has to play against Padoin or some other crap defender that will look like fucking Sergio Ramos),


Bla bla bla, you guys know what i mean.. its nice, he made two goals. But the things i said still are the same. It was only a game against Fiorentina which this year will probably finish 6. or worse. And im reading "where is El Duccio" like we are at the first position with Inter +10 points and Icardi top striker of the league with 35 goals. Based on this we can say that all Brozovic haters was wrong or that Skriniar is already better then Bonucci.. ridiciolous.

He is good, i never said he is bad. I only said that we have other strikers, that we will score with this strikers too, that we will play more as team with others. Maybe a Eder scores less but can help us more buidiling up the game. Maybe there are games where we need more Icardi then Eder for dont wasting our chances. But Icardi is not irreplaceable, everyone can look good and no one is world class. End.


Spalletti is working to make our game unpredictable. Today only the first goal (penalty) came from a Nagatomo long ball. The second and third was from a tipical cross. But there are improvements, specialy on counter attacks.
Icardi is to much focused to stay forward and we dont have someone who can help him to run central. We play always on the the wings because of this and i dont like it. With Eder and Jojo it works much better. If we want to do this with Icardi too we need a new Tre quartista, simple.

Last thing: Did someone saw playing Jovetic or Eder instead of Icardi? I saw Eder 3-4 times last Season + in pre Season. The thing i can say is that we played better as team, but maybe sometimes less dangerous. How the fuck you can say he is world class or irreplaceable if you never saw playing someone else regulary at his position? I saw Eder in this pre season games and have to say that we can play good football even without Icardi. Jovetic also made some great things especially good for our unpredictable game building. If Icardi scores a lot that dont means he is the best thing ever. With someone else maybe we can see Perisic and Candreva scoring more. There are other important thing too, a striker is not based only how much he scored or how much asist he makes. The presence on the field, runs, team building, creating important chances, taking the right decisions.. this are all things that are important for the Team. I want Inter to see wining, not only to see a striker scoring goals and becoming capo cannoniere.


Does this mean i prefer Eder or Jojo? I dont know, we saw him only in pre season playing there. Hard to say, i mean Eder is something like 31 and Jovetic had motivation problems 2 years ago. So at the end they are all 3 good strikers but just not world class. What i want to say is that i would like to see them. There are games where we need Icardi and games where we need Eder-Jojo. Of course i like to see the second thing, with this players we have at this moment. Or also try Jovetic behind Icardi, why not. But starting Icardi everygame 90 minutes like he is Ibra or something like that... i dont understand this. At this point we should really give Eder to Samp to get Schick and hope that our game building will be better with him, seriously...

 

[CoolMan44]

He made a good job. But it was Fiorentina, not Roma. Im not saying that he is shit, i always said that there are a lot of players that can also make the diffrence if you put him with Perisic (for me a World class player) and Candreva (decent player, nothing more).Im Inter fan ffs, its human to excpect a great Striker ala Milito or Adriano. And i never said that he is Rocchi or Amauri, i just want that he can be consistent. If he scores every match 1 goal or is always important for our team, then im ok with it. But if he scores 2-3 goals and after a week he sucks, then fuck. Sadly its the problem of players with this style. Your good at scoring but bad when it comes to help our team play most times. And the matches you not score you are automaticly bad because making other things are difficult for him. Just like Higuain at Juve. This guy is not 90M worth, Napoli made a big deal. I liked Morata much more.
Sometimes i think that Icardi (at last) is better then fucking Higuain. But im not fan of such players, in past we had diffrent strikers. Adriano who basicly can score from all position and was always present on the pitch. Etoo a player that you just cant stop. Milito, Ronaldo, Zamorano... of course we had also shitty strikers. Icardi is not shit, but he also isnt (for me) one of the best ever... Icardi makes hes job good. I hate the job he makes , thats the problem here. The problem of this job is (as i said) you can only be good/world class or bad/very bad. Icardi is only good. And its hard to get better if you only focus on your Job. He is and will be a poacher forever, probably.

To get World class we need to play for him like Napoli with Higuain did. But we will win no trophies with this mentality.

Your example of Adriano is not good in that case. You mentioned consistency but Adriano was very inconsistent. I would say much more than Icardi. I remember the 04/05 and 05/06 season where he was a beast in one half of the season and then had a huge drop the next.

Milito is a legend but he was also inconsistent after his first season. Remember, he had only 5 goals in 10/11 and while he hit 24 the season after, most of them were in the second season while he had something like 5 goals in the first half.

You also just said you'd be Ok with him if he scores 1 goal even match. I'd hope you'd be more than just Ok because I can't think of a single player that scores a goal every game.

 

[ElDuccio]

Im ok with it if he is more usefull every game. Or 3 games of 4-5.(not more), thats what i want to say.

The whole team 10/11 got worser. Yeah Milito was one of the worst maybe. But he was not the player that asks for a perfect cross or pass to score. He was more physical, had a better dribling and also a better shot. We never had this kind of player.(maybe Vieri, hard to say if he was better tbh)
Believe me, if i was Ruve fan yao2 i would hate Higuain. And if i was Napoli fan i would like Mertens a lot. This are players that only works if you have a really great team like Rube.

 

[Pimpin]

I dont even see how he impedes a good playing style. Dude isn't even a ball hog. Like today he set up brozovic great with a one touch backpass, who could've passed back and he would be 1 on 1 with the keeper, also set up gagliardini alone with the keeper albeit an over powered ball. Also perisic fucked up a pass to him that would put him 1 on 1 with the keeper. Seriously guys, do you watch any of the worlds number 9s? Or do you even watch inter games? Don't even get me started on his other qualities that he is improving. I think there is something seriously wrong if you have a problem with how icardi has been playing the last year or so, taking into account that he is STILL improving.

 

[compile]

Guy gets paid to score goals. Scores goals. Fans bitch that he scores goals...

Makes 0 fucking sense. I would understand if he gets paid what he does now and puts in less than 10 a season, but he doesn't. His job is to take a pass and put it in the net. Nothing else. He is a striker in it's purest form. Our wing play has nothing to do with Icardi and more the fact that we have 2 wingers that are known for crossing, why would we NOT utilise their talents and force a completely different game? Sure they could do something different, but that comes with the fact we hardly had any midfielders in the box last year and Icardi was always alone. The fact he scored so many without any other teammates providing extra pressure consistently is astonishing.

Icardi is 24 years old has play 170 games in Serie A and has scored 86 goals (literally a goal every other game...[0.5g/game]).

 

[Puma]

I often think that Inter's supporters are the hardest to satisfy and harshest judges of Icardi. Sometimes, I wonder if the criticism only takes place on this forum amongst overseas Interisti because the way he was celebrated at the Meazza by our supporters against Fiorentina was awesome. Admittedly, a few seasons ago, I was against him for the way he conducted himself off the field and for his appointment as Captain. However, looking back, I may have been too harsh on him. There have been some bumps along the way and he has taken some time to grow into the role but I am glad we have him in our line up. And I can say without hesitation that I would be envious of any other team that had him in their starting eleven.

What bothers me is that we did not see him for the last games of season 2016-2017 and most of this pre-season: he comes back, scores two goals and here we are debating his effectiveness and contribution to the team. I am wondering why some supporters have set the bar so high for Icardi. Why is it that some supporters are never satisfied with what he has to offer as a striker? And why is the bar raised or excuses made whenever he has a good outing, to say that we played against lowly opposition or that scoring two goals when he has been absent from pre-season and trained mostly on his own is "ordinary".

It kind of reminds me of Filippo Inzaghi and the criticism he used to get for not knowing how to play outside the penalty box. Inzaghi was a penalty box goal poacher. That was his job and he excelled at it. In my view, Icardi has more to his game than Inzaghi and he isn't a play acting diver. I just struggle to understand why some of our fans want a greater contribution from him and what it would realistically take to silence the detractors. There were occasions against Fiorentina when he was helping defend in our half. What more do you want? If he is working for the team and scoring goals, how can we be complaining?

I often wonder what Inter would be like if we paired Icardi with another striker and played with two upfront. I wonder whether a dual threat would be better than a single threat as there are games when Icardi goes quiet and might not score. But I think the coach should attempt to address this by making subs or changing formations on a game by game basis depending on who we are playing.

The way I see it, having Icardi at Inter and the contribution he makes in terms of goal scoring should be celebrated rather than questioned. Throughout all of the changes and instability in recent years, his presence and contribution have been our one constant. I am proud that he is our player and in my view, steps should be taken by Inter as a club to raise his buyout clause so he remains black and blue.

 

[Earth]

It's been a bumpy road for him, that's for sure. But we have something special here guys. This guy's lethal, a truly fearsome striker. Hate him or love him, he does the job and is constantly improving. And this is coming from someone who resisted Icardi early on due to his playing style, but no more

 

[wera]

Finally the haters are gone. This dude silenced them the first game

Is everybody gonna be so high and mighty now?

Let me try

Where are the Nagatomo haters?

 

[Sassuolu]

Haters will never be gone from here, I think you can go to the Eto'o thread and find haters, it's that bad.

The first post in Zanetti's thread is about him not being captain, Zanetti! I kid you not, go and check... I'll wait, did you see it? Yeah, it's crazy!

 

[Tombatu]

Yeah can't wait when Icardi not score in 3 games blivious:

 

[ChillBro]

It's fine...atleast elduccio defends his position and actually makes an argument. I disagree with it because I see icardi as more dynamic than him. Others diagree because they think he scores goals and that's all that matters.

Point is, I give credit to elduccio for stating his argument that he doesn't view icardi as a striker capable of leading a dynamic attack. Atleast that is better than just saying "He sucks" like most people on this forum say if they don't like someone.

And again, this is me saying this - someone who thinks icardi is easily top 10 striker in the world.

 

[nurko]

Seriously, he might be a douche, he might be unlikable, Wanda might be trying to rip Inter off of all the money, but complaining about him is simply wrong.

He scores, he participates in the game as well (could be seen last night). What the hell could you all possibly want?

Comparing him to Milito? Guess what Milito scored 22 goals in Serie A (35 matches) in treble winning season with our best team of the recent history. Are those numbers so beyond Icardi? Icardi scored 24 in Serie last season (34 matches). Icardi is still a kid compared to Milito back then who was mature on top of his game striker with the team that won everything. Before the "oh but Milito worked for the team" starts, Milito had 5 assists, Icardi had 7. Last night Icardi dropped deep, went left and right, passed and dribbled. Perhaps he should have formed 3-man defense with Miranda and Skriniar as well before helping out Nagatomo on the left or pacing past Candreva on the right?

You seriously people need to chill and for once be grateful for what you have.

 

[Harpsabu]

On top of everything else he seems to be growing into his captains role. Last night he was constantly talking to his team mates and instructing them. I think this will be the year where he puts the doubts to bed and we will have one hell of a struggle to keep him on top of a good league campaign and world cup. Shaun better be ready to make Pimp a moderator

 

[Sassuolu]

Is he really a douche though? Has he ever missed training because he was out clubbing?

He just enjoys life with his family and he's only treated badly because of the misogynistic culture in football, Wanda and Maxi were separated, the former was not the property of the latter.

But thinking out loud, his lion tattoo and his social media pictures really make him a bit of a twat but he's our twat.

 

[firmino]

i still feel he can do better than yesterday. he could seriously score 40 goals per season (not even considering the coppa italia or european competitions, just serie A).

i feel like he should be focused on the match for all the 90 minutes, whereas he gives me the idea of only "connecting" for some minutes: sometimes it's 30, sometimes 60, or even just 15, but rarely if ever 90.