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Mancini is one of the main reasons Inter did bad in the Europe, not to mention the large amount of terrible players he signed and played and his bias towards certain players, questionable subs, tactics and starting players. He is a coach who i thought would improve after Lazio and Fiorentina and all of us while we do appreciate the league wins, as time told we were right.
With Italy, he is off-course among the best choices, good thing is that he cant sign anyone for Italy.
I respectfully disagree. In my 30 years of following Inter, some of Inter's most sensible transfer campaigns have been during Mancini's time.
In his first spell at Inter, we spent only €124m in total in 4 seasons (average total spend of just €31m per season). The net spend in those 4 years was just €26m (average net spend of just €7m per season!). Even with that little spend, he left a far superior team to the one he inherited, 3 time scudetto winners. Some of the players he bought included Julio Cesar, Maicon, Cambiasso, Samuel, Figo, Maxwell, Ibrahimovic, Chivu and Vieira.
In his second spell at Inter in 18 months, we spent €101m with a net spend of -€10m. We sold more than we bought. Again, in my opinion he left a better team than he inherited - some of the good players he bought included Miranda, Brozovic and Perisic. But the big change he brought was that sought after players started considering us over big european teams again, like Kondogbia choosing us over Arsenal, Shaqiri choosing us over Liverpool, etc.
Just look at our transfer campaigns before/after Mancini's spells for comparison - Mourinho's spell apart, the rest were absolutely disastrous transfer campaigns - the worst being last season where we spent €157m (net spend of €138m). In Mancini's almost 6 seasons with Inter, his net transfer spend was €16m in total.
I know its fashionable to hate Mancini in this forum, perhaps hate every coach who hasn't won us the treble. But lets give credit where its due, Mancini may have many faults but he is usually very competent in transfers considering the constraints. Instead of focussing on the transfer mistakes he made, look at the overall picture and compare him with other Inter coaches. Any coach who walks away from a very lucrative 3 year contract because he does not want to spend €80m on Yao Mario and Gabishit is aces in my books.
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