Makes sense now.
Simone Inzaghi | Joining Al-Hilal
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I've followed him since Lazio, I love watching the way his teams play but losing a CL final 5-0 is a big failure for him.
You just don't do that. If you're down 3 or 4, you batten down and just get to the end of the game. To allow a fourth and fifth goal is embarrassing.
This game aside though, to lose a manager of his quality to Saudi would be a bad stain on football
You just don't do that. If you're down 3 or 4, you batten down and just get to the end of the game. To allow a fourth and fifth goal is embarrassing.
This game aside though, to lose a manager of his quality to Saudi would be a bad stain on football
They were totally outclassed tonight, could easily have been double figures, but I wouldn't hold that against him. He's done well to get Inter to two CL finals, and they were very unlucky against City.
No, he's leaving them for Al Hilal
It looks like he is indeed leaving
i wonder if this means they no longer want rasmus
That’s bizarre. Surely he would’ve had European suitors.
Is this the one that was born offside?
But none with the $$$
He’ll be there for a year or two, get that huge money and come back to Europe. I wouldn’t be shocked if he’s touted as an Amorim replacement.
The brother to the offside one.
Laughable, but he’s extremely overrated
After tax salary of €25 mln per year… That’s the equivalent of 960K/week Gross salary in Europe. (+ undisclosed signing fees) On the long run nobody can compete with the Saudi financial power.
FIFA gotta come up with salary caps to stop this kind of stuff.
FIFA gotta come up with salary caps to stop this kind of stuff.
He's done well, and he kept the cheating over hyped Barcelona team out of the CL final. For that I salute him. Shame about the final.
He's been offered a dump truck full of cash and there's no real pressure as no one cares about the Saudi league much.
He's been offered a dump truck full of cash and there's no real pressure as no one cares about the Saudi league much.
FIFA's only priority is to make sure they get to wet their beaks as well.
He has indeed underachieved locally with Inter. They have been the best squad in Italy over 3 of the last 4 seasons. Should have won at least 2 leagues if not 3.
But he has overachieved in the the UCL with a fraction of the purchase power of his European competitors.
Still one of the very best in their modern history.
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Fifa have given Saudi Arabia the 2023 WC, they're not going to do shit apart from milk that cash cow.
That was Filippo. This is his brother.
On a side note: Really hanging out with some young'uns on the Cafe if people can't separate Filippo and Simone. People my age who don't even follow football closely know Filippo.
I think he did well with Inter and previously Lazio. He is not touted as the goat, but i think for todays standards, he is a good manager. I would be surprised if the next guy would do as well with this Inter squad
I wouldn’t want to be the Inter manager coming in after him. Bar a few quality players, it is extremely average and he has done tremendously well to get out of what what he has.
The next coach will get nowhere near a CL final with that team.
The next coach will get nowhere near a CL final with that team.
No different to what the PL has done in the past.
But on the whole, I agree with a salary cap.
They had the best squad and most resources in 4 out of 4 last seasons. One league won is laughable and Moyes would do better than that.
And yes reaching the CL final twice in three years is really good but still they won feck all - first final they never really looked like winning, but you can maybe excuse it anyhow. The second they embarrassed themselves on a scale unseen in CL final before - that will be his European legacy and Inter fans will be long mocked for this disgrace against PSG. I hate Inter with passion so there’s some bias, but I watch Serie A a lot and they played some very unispiring football.
Give the next guy such resources and such advantage over historically shit competiton and he wins more than one league in four.
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Kind of mad really
Ok, thank god you admit to have some bias here... because it really seems you have no clue what you're talking about.
When Inzaghi joined four years ago, Inter were widely considered on the verge of another meltdown, heading towards a very mediocre league campaign, especially after Conte left once it was clear to him that many key players would have been sold to comply with FFP constraints. Indeed, during that summer Hakimi and Lukaku, arguably two of the most important elements of the Scudetto winning team, were sold and replaced with Dumfries and grandpa Dzeko.
Despite taking up an obviously weakened team, Inzaghi still managed to win twice the Italian Cup and Supercup in his first two years, and above all he reached the CL final with a squad nowhere near that level in terms of pure individual player quality. At that point, you would normally expect the team to build on such achievement and be strengthened considerably... and yet, here's the list of signings from that summer: 34 years-old Yann Sommer, Carlos Augusto from Monza, Bisseck from Danish league, 33-year-old Arnautovic, free-agent Thuram and Pavard. How does it compare to the transfer window of any other CL-finalist in recent years, with the aggravating circumstance of a significantly ageing squad?
About the supposed advantage against local competitors in terms of resources... since Inzaghi joined, Juventus and Milan have had a total net spend of over minus £200million, Napoli is around minus £100million, while Inter have had a positive net spend of more than £100million...
Let's leave aside the aestethics of Inzaghi's football proposal as it can be extremely subjective, but to be honest there's quite a general feeling among Inter fans that the team never played so well with a proactive, ball-control oriented style under any of the previous coaches. Judging them from their approach against much stronger sides in the final stages of the CL is not representative of what they've done week in week out in the league, where Inter have had the highest goal scoring and ball possession rates for various years in a row now.
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Was speaking to my mate about this after the final, both agreed he had to leave after that really.
Nah that was pippo. Simone was an average player