Simone Inzaghi

[Sqnalkel]

No, to be honest, even a run to the finals is very lucky in terms of the draw. We have a potato Milan team, and basically two decent portugese teams but we've not run into ANY really hard challenge - the people like City, PSG, Real, etc. I dont think its at all contentious to say that we're lucky this season in our draw. There's nothing wrong with that, either, its just a statement of fact?

The CL is the most important competition, unless its *at the cost* of the Serie A performance. 5th and CL finalists is a worse result than 4th and CL quarters, imho, because of the ramifications next season. The only acceptable non-top-4 finish in Serie A would be CL winners.


Like, yeah, I'd happily sacrifice 2nd place to get to the CL semis/final, AS LONG AS WE STILL finish top 4.

So PSG somehow is a real challenge but Benfica who outplayed and topped their group isn't.

Yeah, Madrid and City are clearly above the rest, but Napoli and Benfica were also clearly 3rd and 4th best in the UCL (at least after Bayern became a joke after Nagelsmann firing), saying is one of the most lopsided draws in history is ridiculous.

 

[forzainter257]

Many people credit Inzaghi for our CL run, but forget that the vast majority of contributions are coming from players who were key under Conte and gathered years of CL experience. They have been slacking in the league and this is where Inzaghi's ability to manage should have come in handy, but he failed in that regard.

If you want some comparison, look at Barca, they weren't able to qualify from group stages for what, 2 years? Their team is also under construction and Xavi's work is giving fruits now that they are close to winning the laliga. Guess what, they will be a strong favorites next season if they continue their project with Xavi. And if somehow Barca decides to sack Xavi and hire let's say Valverde who will then reach the CL semis, would you not think that the success partly belong to Xavi?

 

[.h.]

So PSG somehow is a real challenge but Benfica who outplayed and topped their group isn't.

Yeah, Madrid and City are clearly above the rest, but Napoli and Benfica were also clearly 3rd and 4th best in the UCL (at least after Bayern became a joke after Nagelsmann firing), saying is one of the most lopsided draws in history is ridiculous.

I mean in terms of perceptions around big european teams, clearly any given day a team that's in the latter stages of the CL deserves to be there, but when was the last time Benfica were in the semis or final? They're basically chronically group stages and R16, with the odd QF appearance every now and then, they arent exactly european giants?

Like, to me right now, European giants (some are in poor form this season, but in general) are something like:

City, PSG, Bayern, Barca, Real, Liverpool as a starting point. You might be able to extend that on longer term rather than the last few seasons to include Juve, United, Chelsea as well, but like, if you wrote down at the start of the season who is going to be in the semi finals of the CL, I dont think anyone would have said Benfica, Porto, maybe a couple of people would have said Milan (doubtful). A lot of people would have written PSG, Bayern, etc.

And that's kinda the point - we've had a quite luckly run to the CL semi finals. I dont think that's at all contentious - its not our "fault". you play with the cards you get given... But we cant use it as a massive redeeming point on what otherwise is a fucking disaster of a season for us so far. We should be able to look at this pretty critically, appreciate the fact that there is a world where, say, we draw Bayern or someone at the R16, get knocked out, and suddenly this season looks like a fucking disaster fighting for 4th so late, rather than fighting for 2nd.


Top 4 is a simply-not-negotiable for Inter, because of the financial implications to us right now. CL performance is a nice to have against that. I know its all romantic and great that we're having this deep run into the CL, but for the sake of the future fo the club, we cannot compromise top 4 against that goal. 4th and CL group stages is a better result for Inter (in the long term) than 5th and CL Semifinalists. Our finances next season will be utterly fucked if we dont make the CL, more severely than any offsetting from even the CL final would get us.

Well, rather, CL qualification is not-negotiable - there is obviously a chance we do that by finishing out side of the top4 and still winning the CL.

 

[andrei]

I agree with you that is a dose of luck, because we didn`t need to fight with any powerhouse from Spain and England. But I think it is more often that it seems. And this is nothing against us. We didn`t choose our opponent.

If top 4 is not-negotiable for Inter as you say and I get your point, than we need to sacrifice from the beginning Coppa Italia and even CL if we qualify for knock-out phase. Our team is just too thin and even old to fight successfully on 3 fronts. We need to make our priorities pretty clear.

 

[.h.]

I agree with you that is a dose of luck, because we didn`t need to fight with any powerhouse from Spain and England. But I think it is more often that it seems. And this is nothing against us. We didn`t choose our opponent.

If top 4 is not-negotiable for Inter as you say and I get your point, than we need to sacrifice from the beginning Coppa Italia and even CL if we qualify for knock-out phase. Our team is just too thin and even old to fight successfully on 3 fronts. We need to make our priorities pretty clear.

Well, for me, its non-negotiable tbh. If we dont make top 4, we're going to end up having to sell like 3-4 people in the summer just to cover the 60-80mil revenue we'd be missing out for, let alone the (probably?) 60mil we'd have to raise anyway.

Obviously my priorities dont reflect the club's priorities, but in terms of the long term future of Inter, we need that CL revenue (esp since all of our sponsorship revenue is unreliable) to even have a chance of sustaining the club

 

[bubba zanetti]

Many people credit Inzaghi for our CL run, but forget that the vast majority of contributions are coming from players who were key under Conte and gathered years of CL experience. They have been slacking in the league and this is where Inzaghi's ability to manage should have come in handy, but he failed in that regard.

If you want some comparison, look at Barca, they weren't able to qualify from group stages for what, 2 years? Their team is also under construction and Xavi's work is giving fruits now that they are close to winning the laliga. Guess what, they will be a strong favorites next season if they continue their project with Xavi. And if somehow Barca decides to sack Xavi and hire let's say Valverde who will then reach the CL semis, would you not think that the success partly belong to Xavi?

Are you saying that we should give credit to Conte for reaching semifinal of CL??Are you fucking serious?

 

[Sevag]

Inzaghi deserves full credit for the CL run, despite our easy draws in the knockout rounds. Let's not forget how we always shat our pants in Europe with everyone other than Mourinho in the past 20 years. If we want to speak about recent times, Spaletti and Conte fucked up against much weaker teams than Porto and Benfica.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Our season has been affected by so many things we can't just put the blame on Inzaghi for the poor results. Start of the season was ruined by so many things (Lukaku, Brozovic, Skriniar).

We made ourselves back into the game by beating Napoli. But then shit started to happen (in 2023). Inzaghi didn't change anything in our game because we kept dominating in most of the matches. Our players just refused to score goals. It wasn't like we hit a stone wall like happened with Spalletti (and earlier with other coaches who first got some good results). With Inzaghi, we've always been generating chances. The lack of scoring cannot be attributed to Inzaghi in 2023, he can't come to the pitch and put the ball to the net.

I'm fine changing him if we can find a good replacement ie. probably start a new project. But that will happen only if we drop out of CL. Since then we have to make money by big sales and some of our core will be gone.

If Inzaghi makes it to top4, I simply do not see us changing him unless he resigns by himself and the club accepts it (meaning we have a replacement ready).

 

[forzainter257]

Are you saying that we should give credit to Conte for reaching semifinal of CL??Are you fucking serious?

Of course.
Or are you telling me that if we hired Inzaghi after Spalletti, we would have been reaching CL semifinals every year?

 

[#NotForMe]

Of course.
Or are you telling me that if we hired Inzaghi after Spalletti, we would have been reaching CL semifinals every year?

With the spending of Conte had, maybe

 

[brakbrak]

Of course.
Or are you telling me that if we hired Inzaghi after Spalletti, we would have been reaching CL semifinals every year?

So Conte who couldn't improve our CL performance in his second year somehow gets a credit for Inzaghi's "success" in CL? Talk about reaching.

Inzaghi has been shit in the league, no doubt, there's no sugar coating it but what he's done in CL this season has been miraculous given that you, myself and 90% of the football population wrote off Inter after that draw with Barca and Munich. All odds were against inter vs benfica, yet we were able to walk past Benfica quite easily. Credit when credit is due.

 

[NimAraya]

Conte had more impact in helping AC Milan reaching the semi final than he ever had for Inter's run in the CL.

 

[varmin]

Conte had an impact of constructing this Inter, but he is not related to our CL run at all.

 

[Fitzy]

Conte had an impact of constructing this Inter, but he is not related to our CL run at all.

Sure he is. He left.

 

[Aliano]

Well, he would definitely deserve another chance if he secured us a CL final, a CL spot for next year, and a Coppa as the cherry on top!

 

[Glass box]

When Spaletti was here, he was sacked despite securing top4, but that's because Marotta wanted to bring in Conte to win the league and Suning could spend money.

Now that Suning can't spend, if Inzaghi can secure top4 he'll stay even if he gets eliminated vs Milan and loses the Coppa final, cause we won't have Scudetto aspirations next year. The squad will be downgraded even further than now, and Limone brought a lot of money to the club this year. He is perfect in Zhang's and Marotta's minds for the job.

 

[Nerazzurri_Ninja]

Fuck you Limone, you better win Champions league and secure top 4

 

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

Conte had an impact of constructing this Inter, but he is not related to our CL run at all.

I’m not even sure that’s true. The only guys we have who are performing weren’t Conte requests other than Lukaku.

 

[Nyall]

I dont know, to be honest. For me, its less about specific names, more about trying to understand what each manager's vision is, what transfers/support they need to achieve that, and then deciding if we buy into those plans or not and are capable of executing them.

I thought you knew our finances better than anyone here.. do you actually think the Scudetto winning team that Inzhagi took over that has slowly been taken apart bit by bit and replaced with free transfers is his vision?

Or some new coach is going to make Suning spend?

 

[Alex de Large]

The fact that they even gave money to Conte to leave because he was demanding, that's says everything.