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I am happy that we get rid of mediocrity out of this club.

Marotta, then Conte are world class. We are moving in the right direction. Dont know about Faggiano but at least I dont have to see Ausilio leading a “project” once again. Coz he is a joke at that task.
 

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He will be remembered for his mastery in the art of plusvalenza
 

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Ausilio is a bald fraud. During his tenure we had one of the worst years of the banter era.

Fuck up after fuck up, now that he had some guidance and actual strategy by much better sporting directors like Sabatini and Marotta the ship straightened a bit. The before and after is as clear as day. Or is it just a coincidence?

He might be semidecent at operating a fax machine brehme, but he ain't no fucking sporting director.
 

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Ausilio is a bald fraud. During his tenure we had one of the worst years of the banter era.

Fuck up after fuck up, now that he had some guidance and actual strategy by much better sporting directors like Sabatini and Marotta the ship straightened a bit. The before and after is as clear as day. Or is it just a coincidence?

He might be semidecent at operating a fax machine brehme, but he ain't no fucking sporting director.

Yeah and the fact that he started out with less than half of the revenue we have now has nothing to do with it, right? I mean whats an extra $200+ mil euro a year anyway...
 

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Lol, and you think that has to do with Ausilio's work, is that so?
 

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Can you compare Inter revenue with that of Lazio during Ausilio and Igli Tare tenures? Please educate some of us here who consider Ausilio to be one major obstacle for Inter’s comeback.
 

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BTW it's not like Marotta outmuscled everyone financially in order to build a competitive side that won Serie A numerous times and was a CL finalist twice.

If you draw the line, free transfers or not, I reckon we've spent around the same amount of money on transfers, yet we did fuck all for years.
 

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Ausilio is a bald fraud. During his tenure we had one of the worst years of the banter era.

Fuck up after fuck up, now that he had some guidance and actual strategy by much better sporting directors like Sabatini and Marotta the ship straightened a bit. The before and after is as clear as day. Or is it just a coincidence?

He might be semidecent at operating a fax machine brehme, but he ain't no fucking sporting director.

What exactly was there before? Go back a page and you will see what Ausilio inherited.

He took over in February 2014. No transfers during that period and a bunch of concluded deals. He was one of the guys that wanted to clear the old guard and start over with younger blood, along with the coach Mazzarri. Problem was that Mazzarri had his own idea of what "young blood" was.
Mazzarr had demanded the following players from the ones that ended up at Inter: Medel, Dodo, M'Vila. Ausilio wanted to bring Osvaldo since we could not reach an agreement for the forwards Mazzarri had in mind. And then there was M'Vila which was also Ausilio's pick.
The player Mazzarri wanted but did not get was Roberto Perreyra of Udinese (now Watford I think).

Mazzarri goes out, enter Mancini. He wants to change the formation and have more width. So we bring him Shaqiri and Podolski while Ausilio corrects his mistake with M'Vila, sends him packing and brings a certain Brozovic to replace him.

Mancini had requested players like Yaya Toure and even Eder but they were unattainable for us at the moment. He only managed to get Felipe Melo from his initial wishlist. So he instead settled for Kondogbia and Jovetic. He also specified Alex Telles as a target and he was brought over. Ausilio had also brought him Ljajic to indirectly replace Shaqiri, Ivan Perisic to indirectly replace Podolski, Miranda to lead the defence, Murillo as a prospect/young starter and also Montoya who was a Barcelona prospect for the right back spot which didn't pan out really well.
Mancini did manage to get his Eder in the winter.

The next summer was a bit more crazy, though Ausilio and Mancini had developed a relatively good relationship. Mancini demanded Caner Erkin to replace Alex Telles, so we signed the Turk and did not complete the transfer for the Brazilian. End of the summer both were gone, which was batshit crazy. I don't even want to remember what happened there but you can relive the moments through FIF if you check below*.

We ended up with that Mazzarri transfer in Dodo becoming an official, blame FFP for that. And we started to pass him around ever since. And Mancini demanded Ansaldi to become our starting LB so we went to buy the guy for him.
We signed Caprari as there were cries for a lack of Italian talents. He ended up being helpful in the Skriniar deal. And since Mancini threw Kovacic under the bus and demanded a "midfielder who can pass", we ended up with Ever Banega on a free deal. Last but not least, Mancini wanted more Italian blood and someone who could play on the right and Candreva was the man both him and Ausilio had identified. And he arrived.

But it was Suning's year and they wanted to prove to the Chinese oligarchy that they knew what they were doing by making that Kia guy pull the strings. We ended up with 4 different people coaching the team that season and none of them had a full pre-season. Half the players were brought for Mancini (via Ausilio) and the other half came for Kia's pockets (via Suning) whilst De Boer had no say whatsover about any potential transfers even if he had suggested a couple of decent guys late in August.

Then Sabatini came so all transfers were credited to him, even the ones like Skriniar who were 100% Ausilio's pick that Sabatini just had to conclude because it was in his job description, as with every other transfer that was made.

When Sabatini left, we had the 2018 mercato under Ausilio with Lautaro, De Vrij, Asamoah, Vrsaljko, Politano and the two gifts to Spalletti, Radja Nainggolan and Keita Balde. We could have done something more but we failed to sell players that are still under contract (Joao Mario, Borja Valero, Gagliardini etc). All these guys except Keita Balde, were brought to be starters and were actually starters.

Now with Marotta, again, every good deal = Marotta, every bad one = Ausilio. When in fact thus far, Barella, Sensi and Sanchez were initiated by Ausilio, Conte demanded personally Lukaku, Lazaro and now Ashley Young plus Victor Moses. And Giroud. Whilst Marotta played his part in the deals for Godin (Bosman that was on the cards before his arrival but he was a significant part of the initial official contact) and Biraghi (in an effort to offload Dalbert). All business deals were negotiated and concluded by Marotta himself, Ausilio is there just for the introduction.

*2016-17: http://forzainterforums.com/showthread.php?13481-Serie-A-Calcio-Mercato-Summer-2016-2017
http://forzainterforums.com/showthread.php?13514-2016-2017-Defenders-Rumour-Thread
http://forzainterforums.com/showthread.php?13513-2016-2017-Midfielder-Rumours-Thread
http://forzainterforums.com/showthread.php?13512-2016-2017-Forwards-Rumours-Thread


Honestly, can you really tell me what are you blaming Ausilio for? Is he for some bizarre reason the personification of Inter not being in the Champions League? Because from the looks of his history, this guy along with Handanovic and Icardi, was one of the few good thins we've had since the 2011 Coppa win. Sure, he made mistakes, sure he could have done some better deals but at the end of the day, he's not some all powerful person at Inter, he's just a highly ranked employee and is in a weird position of being bossed around by someone he occasionally has the power to sack.

If anything, you should look at the big picture. This is a guy that came to a shit role in the middle of the most cataclysmic season of the decade, the year that Zanetti decided he was retiring, Milito was returning to Argentina and the Asado clan was to be no more, with someone like Thohir in charge who had bought a crippled club and crippled our limited funds even further by trying to get players like Vidic over and he managed to sail this rowboat to Champions League football with Suning's investments of course, but with a budget that allowed only for guys like Vecino to be one of our most important midfielders whilst we had to lose Banega for a measly 9m due to our financial turmoil. In the football world Ausilio is considered a mastermind, on FIF he's some sort of a clown.

And I haven't even factored in the bad influence that Fassone and Mirabelli had on the club whilst Ausilio was here. Nor did I mention the amount of talent he brought at Inter such as Zaniolo, Bastoni, Mulattieri and others that we may or may not see play at Inter at some point.

I've made this comparison before and I'll keep doing it until it sticks. The diss Ausilio gets is the equivalent of blaming Handanovic for Inter being out of the Champions League for so many years. The only reason why people aren't making this is because they bothered to realize that Handanovic was not one of the faults of Inter's lack of success, but in fact one of the few worthy of being there. The same applies with Ausilio as much as people like to make fun of him. Probably they're jealous because they think that Ausilio is some sort of real life 'Football Manager' guy that controls Inter and does whatever the fuck he wants as if it's a video game....
 

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I'm sorry but I stopped reading at some point. Ausilio, the poor soul, was asleep on the wheel. He wasn't responsible for the crash, that despicable car and the other passangers were. Ausilio has no vision, no strategy. We've already discussed this dude, I'm tired to go over this all over again. I remember I even showed you we were in the top 10 in net expenditure in Ausilio's time, 2016 onward and we won SHIT. Jack... shit. The other teams all were winning or constantly competing.

Hate Marotta all you want but it's pretty visible how he's influenced the team. He brought a winning coach, got some top-notch Italian talent and is actively slapping Conte when he wants to make a shit deal, ala Vidal, even though he appointed him in the first place. He is making executive decisions that mostly make sense, he's having the influence and the balls to drive change and he is not afraid to be the bad guy if this helps the team (the Icardi, Perisic, Nainggolan debacle). Even when we were super cash strapped we were constantly spending nearly as much on transfers with nothing to show for. And yeah, Ausilio hit gold a couple of times, of course he did, even a broken clock is on time twice a day. 90% of the names you named were pure trash, unusable and unsellable, doesnt matter if he was pressured to buy them or not. Also, what kind of a director is so spineless to be the yes man to everyone for years? That's inexcusable in itself.
 

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I'm sorry but I stopped reading at some point. Ausilio, the poor soul, was asleep on the wheel. He wasn't responsible for the crash, that despicable car and the other passangers were.

And here's where I stop reading.

Ausilio was not on the wheel. You keep saying that Sabatini and Marotta were guiding on whatever so he straightened up or whatever, but wasn't it Fassone prior to them in the very same role? Was Fassone driving or Ausilio? Is Ausilio the guy on the wheel now or Marotta? Stop cherrypicking for fuck's sake and acknowledge that you draw rush conclusions just because you think that the guy you're talking about has a much more important role than he actually does.

Where the fuck is the coherence with all this Ausilio hate? There's none of it. It's as if whenever we need to find a scapegoat, a wild Ausilio appears!

As for Marotta and the "top notch Italian talent", that was all Ausilio man, stop fooling yourself. Who is this top talent? I'm assuming you're talking about Sensi who Ausilio tried to sign when he was back at Cesena but was blocked by our then manager. And obviously Barella, who was a done deal since October 2018 and all we had to do was give Cagliari the 35m they asked for. And we gave them 37 :lol: ... Who else is the top talent? Bastoni? All Ausilio. Anyone else? Biraghi? Top talent? Wouldn't see himself claim so. Zaniolo? Ausilio's choice. Mulattieri? Ausilio's choice. Pinamonti? Ausilio's choice.

As for Vidal, why did we make Barcelona a new offer for him YESTERDAY if he's "slapping" Conte? And why are we signing bullshit players like Victor Moses and Ashley Young that Conte demanded if we're "slapping" Conte? Get over your head man. The only real protest Marotta is doing over Conte is going for Llorente instead of Giroud.
 

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He didn't have any power, yet he got all the "gems"... Pick one dude. Pick one.
 

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He didn't have any power, yet he got all the "gems"... Pick one dude. Pick one.

Indeed, pick one...

He bossed around Fassone, Sabatini and Marotta and he made ALL the transfers.

Or he didn't boss around Fassone, Sabatini and Marotta and did not make ALL the transfers.

Pick one...

P.S: Please tell me what Ausilio's job description is. Then cross that over with your responsibility blame for lack of trophies and you will see that Error 404 may appear. Assuming you get the first one right...
 

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What exactly was there before? Go back a page and you will see what Ausilio inherited.

He took over in February 2014. No transfers during that period and a bunch of concluded deals. He was one of the guys that wanted to clear the old guard and start over with younger blood, along with the coach Mazzarri. Problem was that Mazzarri had his own idea of what "young blood" was.
Mazzarr had demanded the following players from the ones that ended up at Inter: Medel, Dodo, M'Vila. Ausilio wanted to bring Osvaldo since we could not reach an agreement for the forwards Mazzarri had in mind. And then there was M'Vila which was also Ausilio's pick.
The player Mazzarri wanted but did not get was Roberto Perreyra of Udinese (now Watford I think).

Mazzarri goes out, enter Mancini. He wants to change the formation and have more width. So we bring him Shaqiri and Podolski while Ausilio corrects his mistake with M'Vila, sends him packing and brings a certain Brozovic to replace him.

Mancini had requested players like Yaya Toure and even Eder but they were unattainable for us at the moment. He only managed to get Felipe Melo from his initial wishlist. So he instead settled for Kondogbia and Jovetic. He also specified Alex Telles as a target and he was brought over. Ausilio had also brought him Ljajic to indirectly replace Shaqiri, Ivan Perisic to indirectly replace Podolski, Miranda to lead the defence, Murillo as a prospect/young starter and also Montoya who was a Barcelona prospect for the right back spot which didn't pan out really well.
Mancini did manage to get his Eder in the winter.

The next summer was a bit more crazy, though Ausilio and Mancini had developed a relatively good relationship. Mancini demanded Caner Erkin to replace Alex Telles, so we signed the Turk and did not complete the transfer for the Brazilian. End of the summer both were gone, which was batshit crazy. I don't even want to remember what happened there but you can relive the moments through FIF if you check below*.

We ended up with that Mazzarri transfer in Dodo becoming an official, blame FFP for that. And we started to pass him around ever since. And Mancini demanded Ansaldi to become our starting LB so we went to buy the guy for him.
We signed Caprari as there were cries for a lack of Italian talents. He ended up being helpful in the Skriniar deal. And since Mancini threw Kovacic under the bus and demanded a "midfielder who can pass", we ended up with Ever Banega on a free deal. Last but not least, Mancini wanted more Italian blood and someone who could play on the right and Candreva was the man both him and Ausilio had identified. And he arrived.

But it was Suning's year and they wanted to prove to the Chinese oligarchy that they knew what they were doing by making that Kia guy pull the strings. We ended up with 4 different people coaching the team that season and none of them had a full pre-season. Half the players were brought for Mancini (via Ausilio) and the other half came for Kia's pockets (via Suning) whilst De Boer had no say whatsover about any potential transfers even if he had suggested a couple of decent guys late in August.

Then Sabatini came so all transfers were credited to him, even the ones like Skriniar who were 100% Ausilio's pick that Sabatini just had to conclude because it was in his job description, as with every other transfer that was made.

When Sabatini left, we had the 2018 mercato under Ausilio with Lautaro, De Vrij, Asamoah, Vrsaljko, Politano and the two gifts to Spalletti, Radja Nainggolan and Keita Balde. We could have done something more but we failed to sell players that are still under contract (Joao Mario, Borja Valero, Gagliardini etc). All these guys except Keita Balde, were brought to be starters and were actually starters.

Now with Marotta, again, every good deal = Marotta, every bad one = Ausilio. When in fact thus far, Barella, Sensi and Sanchez were initiated by Ausilio, Conte demanded personally Lukaku, Lazaro and now Ashley Young plus Victor Moses. And Giroud. Whilst Marotta played his part in the deals for Godin (Bosman that was on the cards before his arrival but he was a significant part of the initial official contact) and Biraghi (in an effort to offload Dalbert). All business deals were negotiated and concluded by Marotta himself, Ausilio is there just for the introduction.

*2016-17: http://forzainterforums.com/showthread.php?13481-Serie-A-Calcio-Mercato-Summer-2016-2017
http://forzainterforums.com/showthread.php?13514-2016-2017-Defenders-Rumour-Thread
http://forzainterforums.com/showthread.php?13513-2016-2017-Midfielder-Rumours-Thread
http://forzainterforums.com/showthread.php?13512-2016-2017-Forwards-Rumours-Thread


Honestly, can you really tell me what are you blaming Ausilio for? Is he for some bizarre reason the personification of Inter not being in the Champions League? Because from the looks of his history, this guy along with Handanovic and Icardi, was one of the few good thins we've had since the 2011 Coppa win. Sure, he made mistakes, sure he could have done some better deals but at the end of the day, he's not some all powerful person at Inter, he's just a highly ranked employee and is in a weird position of being bossed around by someone he occasionally has the power to sack.

If anything, you should look at the big picture. This is a guy that came to a shit role in the middle of the most cataclysmic season of the decade, the year that Zanetti decided he was retiring, Milito was returning to Argentina and the Asado clan was to be no more, with someone like Thohir in charge who had bought a crippled club and crippled our limited funds even further by trying to get players like Vidic over and he managed to sail this rowboat to Champions League football with Suning's investments of course, but with a budget that allowed only for guys like Vecino to be one of our most important midfielders whilst we had to lose Banega for a measly 9m due to our financial turmoil. In the football world Ausilio is considered a mastermind, on FIF he's some sort of a clown.

And I haven't even factored in the bad influence that Fassone and Mirabelli had on the club whilst Ausilio was here. Nor did I mention the amount of talent he brought at Inter such as Zaniolo, Bastoni, Mulattieri and others that we may or may not see play at Inter at some point.

I've made this comparison before and I'll keep doing it until it sticks. The diss Ausilio gets is the equivalent of blaming Handanovic for Inter being out of the Champions League for so many years. The only reason why people aren't making this is because they bothered to realize that Handanovic was not one of the faults of Inter's lack of success, but in fact one of the few worthy of being there. The same applies with Ausilio as much as people like to make fun of him. Probably they're jealous because they think that Ausilio is some sort of real life 'Football Manager' guy that controls Inter and does whatever the fuck he wants as if it's a video game....

What I'm getting from this is that Ausilio's buying record is hit and miss, and obviously FFP was a big reason, but his selling record is atrocious. And throughout the years Ausilio has been in charge, it's not felt that the club had any sort of plan, or system, or anything to stabilize the team through the chaos of ownership and managerial changes. Wasn't that sort of duty part of Ausilio's job? Is he just a rag, taking directions from others? If the positives for him are that he brought in some good players, maybe his formal position should be head scout, at least that would clear up the confusion of what exactly he's been doing all this time.
 

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What I'm getting from this is that Ausilio's buying record is hit and miss, and obviously FFP was a big reason, but his selling record is atrocious. And throughout the years Ausilio has been in charge, it's not felt that the club had any sort of plan, or system, or anything to stabilize the team through the chaos of ownership and managerial changes. Wasn't that sort of duty part of Ausilio's job? Is he just a rag, taking directions from others? If the positives for him are that he brought in some good players, maybe his formal position should be head scout, at least that would clear up the confusion of what exactly he's been doing all this time.

He pretty much is Head Scout in some sense. He's actually the direct supervisor of the head of scouting. That's his job. Whether he tells the scouting people who to look for or where to check is irrelevant. He's overseeing the entire operation and it's mostly up to him to have Samaden "collect" kids from all over Italy. He allocates the youth sector transfer budget entrusted with him by the management for example.

He's also in charge of buying and selling young players. He okays the deals or he himself arranges for transfers from abroad. And he sells youth players, we all have realized that already.

Our selling record has been awful under Ausilio for two reasons. First is because he inherited unsellable players that carried a significant financial weight. Alvaro Pereira, Ricardo Alvarez, Yuto Nagatomo, Andrea Ranocchia and so on.
The second reason is that Inter is not a selling club. We have an awful track record in general when it comes to sales because we've never done it. We never buy players with the goal of eventually selling them. This is what FFP forced us to do and we were incapable, under Moratti, of comprehending the new situation in European football.

The hiring of coaches is the main job of the owners and Ausilio's bosses (Fassone or Sabatini or Marotta in this case). Ausilio can only say "I cannot work with this guy, let's hire this guy who is more in line". He cannot just go about and fire or hire coaches himself. Now when a new coach is hired, he's always requiring assurances. Conte demanded to have guys like Lukaku and others around and Ausilio's job is to make the coach happy. Not to tell the coach what to do, but to make him happy. Ausilio on the other hand has the luxury of being in the big boys' table with Marotta/Sabatini/Fassone and be part of the club's strategy making. Under Fassone the strategy was clear. There is no strategy. We just need to get rid of expensive players and get cheaper players. That was the whole idea. Under Sabatini the idea was to get a team working that can carry us back to the Champions League at any cost possible (so even Icardi and Handanovic could have been sold at a time that everyone felt that these guys were the building blocks here). And under Marotta there's another strategy, which is somewhere in between Sabatini's and Ausilio's philosophy. Marotta is similar with Sabatini, as in everyone is expendable, but Sabatini wanted to build around young promising players that we'd sign from anywhere whereas Marotta mostly wants to invest in the domestic market for talents and try to get a top player on the cheap at the same time. Ausilio had underlined his philosophy publicly several times especially in his earlier days and that's to invest in young players at a very young age and have these Primavera graduates play ofr the first team while we sign top(great) players to play next to them so that they can learn.

Do you think we've had the luxury at any time since 2014 until today to pull this off? The only time was this summer, but you cannot simply promote half a Primavera team as Ausilio had to sell most of the others for FFP reasons or because another team wanted them in exchange, and then add Modric, Eriksen and Sanchez and tell them "okay, go for the Scudetto now". If Ausilio was a decision maker and we could follow his strategy, we wouldn't have sold half the taem and our bench and even starting lineup could have much more Primavera talent instead of expensive players that don't offer that much over the long run.

You cannot expect someone like Ausilio to coexist happily with coaches that have to produce results now and cannot wait for the next talent crop to appear. And you cannot have someone like Ausilio run the show as long as the management is not on board with that and want them to do something completely different, which is "win now" despite not being in any capacity to do so and have no financial backing to go for that. At the end of the day, there are way too many restrictions for this type of job and when you don't even have more power in first team matters than the coach and your main priority as far as first team is concerned is to do errands for the coach and technical director (or Sport CEO whatever), this should be the limit of your blame. There's a reason why Ausilio oversees the Primavera and that's because that's supposed to be part of the talent pool available for the coach. If a coach doesn't want to check it out (ie Spalletti), it's not Ausilio's fault. If a coach just wants to use these kids just to give them a couple of appearances off the bench (ie Mancini), it's also not Ausilio's fault. He's not going to tell a coach "you have to play this guy". Not even the actual CEO can say that, unless you are Berlusconi and then the press will have a laugh at you when it leaks. What he may do is compile youth player reports that others prepare for him and provide the list of players that the coach should have a look at every now and then. And then the coach may say "ah I could use this kid". As Conte is doing with both Esposito and Bastoni when he later on rejected to let them go away on loan. Had Conte wanted let's say Chiesa and we had to give up Bastoni for him, I'm pretty sure most of you would have said "whatever, just give them what they want" but after a while you'd be like "wtf did you do Ausilio?" just like with the Zaniolo situation.

P.S: It's okay not to know what Ausilio is supposed to do guys. But for fuck's sake, stop making up shit just because you think you've found the one and only scapegoat for Inter's abysmal decade. Because as I said and will keep repeating, Handanovic is probably our worst goalkeeper ever since we haven't won a trophy with him. Yeap, that's exactly the same argument some of you guys are making about Ausilio...
 

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He pretty much is Head Scout in some sense. He's actually the direct supervisor of the head of scouting. That's his job. Whether he tells the scouting people who to look for or where to check is irrelevant. He's overseeing the entire operation and it's mostly up to him to have Samaden "collect" kids from all over Italy. He allocates the youth sector transfer budget entrusted with him by the management for example.

He's also in charge of buying and selling young players. He okays the deals or he himself arranges for transfers from abroad. And he sells youth players, we all have realized that already.

Our selling record has been awful under Ausilio for two reasons. First is because he inherited unsellable players that carried a significant financial weight. Alvaro Pereira, Ricardo Alvarez, Yuto Nagatomo, Andrea Ranocchia and so on.
The second reason is that Inter is not a selling club. We have an awful track record in general when it comes to sales because we've never done it. We never buy players with the goal of eventually selling them. This is what FFP forced us to do and we were incapable, under Moratti, of comprehending the new situation in European football.

The hiring of coaches is the main job of the owners and Ausilio's bosses (Fassone or Sabatini or Marotta in this case). Ausilio can only say "I cannot work with this guy, let's hire this guy who is more in line". He cannot just go about and fire or hire coaches himself. Now when a new coach is hired, he's always requiring assurances. Conte demanded to have guys like Lukaku and others around and Ausilio's job is to make the coach happy. Not to tell the coach what to do, but to make him happy. Ausilio on the other hand has the luxury of being in the big boys' table with Marotta/Sabatini/Fassone and be part of the club's strategy making. Under Fassone the strategy was clear. There is no strategy. We just need to get rid of expensive players and get cheaper players. That was the whole idea. Under Sabatini the idea was to get a team working that can carry us back to the Champions League at any cost possible (so even Icardi and Handanovic could have been sold at a time that everyone felt that these guys were the building blocks here). And under Marotta there's another strategy, which is somewhere in between Sabatini's and Ausilio's philosophy. Marotta is similar with Sabatini, as in everyone is expendable, but Sabatini wanted to build around young promising players that we'd sign from anywhere whereas Marotta mostly wants to invest in the domestic market for talents and try to get a top player on the cheap at the same time. Ausilio had underlined his philosophy publicly several times especially in his earlier days and that's to invest in young players at a very young age and have these Primavera graduates play ofr the first team while we sign top(great) players to play next to them so that they can learn.

Do you think we've had the luxury at any time since 2014 until today to pull this off? The only time was this summer, but you cannot simply promote half a Primavera team as Ausilio had to sell most of the others for FFP reasons or because another team wanted them in exchange, and then add Modric, Eriksen and Sanchez and tell them "okay, go for the Scudetto now". If Ausilio was a decision maker and we could follow his strategy, we wouldn't have sold half the taem and our bench and even starting lineup could have much more Primavera talent instead of expensive players that don't offer that much over the long run.

You cannot expect someone like Ausilio to coexist happily with coaches that have to produce results now and cannot wait for the next talent crop to appear. And you cannot have someone like Ausilio run the show as long as the management is not on board with that and want them to do something completely different, which is "win now" despite not being in any capacity to do so and have no financial backing to go for that. At the end of the day, there are way too many restrictions for this type of job and when you don't even have more power in first team matters than the coach and your main priority as far as first team is concerned is to do errands for the coach and technical director (or Sport CEO whatever), this should be the limit of your blame. There's a reason why Ausilio oversees the Primavera and that's because that's supposed to be part of the talent pool available for the coach. If a coach doesn't want to check it out (ie Spalletti), it's not Ausilio's fault. If a coach just wants to use these kids just to give them a couple of appearances off the bench (ie Mancini), it's also not Ausilio's fault. He's not going to tell a coach "you have to play this guy". Not even the actual CEO can say that, unless you are Berlusconi and then the press will have a laugh at you when it leaks. What he may do is compile youth player reports that others prepare for him and provide the list of players that the coach should have a look at every now and then. And then the coach may say "ah I could use this kid". As Conte is doing with both Esposito and Bastoni when he later on rejected to let them go away on loan. Had Conte wanted let's say Chiesa and we had to give up Bastoni for him, I'm pretty sure most of you would have said "whatever, just give them what they want" but after a while you'd be like "wtf did you do Ausilio?" just like with the Zaniolo situation.

P.S: It's okay not to know what Ausilio is supposed to do guys. But for fuck's sake, stop making up shit just because you think you've found the one and only scapegoat for Inter's abysmal decade. Because as I said and will keep repeating, Handanovic is probably our worst goalkeeper ever since we haven't won a trophy with him. Yeap, that's exactly the same argument some of you guys are making about Ausilio...

Very informative and some information I didn't know, thanks for this write up. It makes sense of what's already happened. I'm certain there are a lot of limitations on what you can do in a job like this. So you have this period from 2014, obviously lots of changes, looming threat of FFP. Up until Marotta is appointed a bit over a year ago, until then wasn't Ausilio the guy in charge of sport? Obviously there was some overlap with Sabatini's duties while Walter was here (though the guy also had to manage Jiangsu so not all of his attention was on Inter). During the time before that, Ausilio was just buying and selling with a voice but no choice over how the team was structured? But through this time period, Ausilio, director of sport and the top guy in charge of planning and building a team -- all he's doing is scouting and buying for the coach? Throughout this time, and we're talking about four year here, Ausilio has this vision for an Inter utilizing youth players, but he devised no plan for how to reach his goal? Not able to impose himself, suggest a system for longer term growth? Just floating along on the waves as Inter pursued goals far from what he thought would bring success to the club? Seems a bit passive.

And here's the real issue: if Ausilio's approach is so very different from what the management envisions for the club, i.e. if the ownership never plans to use academy youth in the first team in any systematic way, then isn't Ausilio fundamentally incompatible with this club?
 

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Bringing up Handanovic to excuse for Ausilio is the most ridiculous thing I have seen for quite a while. Handa is ONE player, Ausilio was the fucking director, not a head scout.

Scout = identify talents, make a shortlist. But has NOTHING to do with the price.

Director = negotiate, pick players, discuss with the coach for new players/ selling unused players. Reject coach’s choices and suggest alternative if too expensive. (similar to when Branca rejected Lampard and Carvalho requested by Mourinho, then brought Sneijder and Lucio. Or Marotta puts a stop to Conte request for Vidal). You can see how “good” Ausilio was with these tasks.

If Marotta is not here I am 100% sure Ausilio would have bought De Paul for 35m and Brehme here still blames the coach for that. But ignoring the crappy negotiation.
 
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It's funny, Parma's Director, Faggiano was at Inter HQ. The only thing he confirmed regarding the meeting is that they did not talk about a loan for Esposito or Darmian.

It's pretty odd because usually comments come out about what was discussed rather than what was not discussed. It makes you wonder why he visited. Perhaps Inter offered him a new contract for the start of next season. The timing of the visit is also interesting: straight after the collapse of the Spinazzola and Politano deal.
 
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Branca did not reject Lampard and Carvalho. He made bids for those players that were unsuccessful since those were the coach's options. Mourinho wasn't a bitch about it and accepted players that carried the characteristics that he wanted.
 

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Looks like this man's contract renewal is almost done, till 2022.

The king of plusvalenza lives on :datass:
 
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