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Extended Clip - Simone Inzaghi: Should Inter Milan Replace Him At End Of The Season?
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After a humiliating shock defeat against Spezia, Nima Tavallaey and Carlo Garganese discuss and analyze if Inter should sack Simone Inzaghi at the end of this season.
This is an extended clip from this weeks free Monday episode of The Italian Football Podcast which is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google podcasts.
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Transcript
Introduction to the Italian Football Podcast
00:00:02
Speaker
Welcome to the Italian football podcast. And that leads us nicely into Simona Nzagi as well, because this is, again, the game against Spezia is not where it went wrong at
Should Simona Inzaghi be Replaced as Coach?
00:00:18
Speaker
all. Let me pose the question outright then, because a lot of Inter fans are talking about this right now. Should Inter consider replacing Nzagi at the end of the season?
00:00:30
Speaker
I think you need to have the conversation, but the question becomes, okay, get rid of Inzagi, he's got a contract until 2025, you have a financial difficulty, who are you going to replace him with? So you're going to pay him until 2025, you're already in a situation with wages and finances because of, you know, sooning.
Analyzing Potential Replacements for Inzaghi
00:00:52
Speaker
So who are you going to bring in? Who can you bring in? Who can you afford to bring in? That can do it better.
00:00:58
Speaker
And if you say Tiago Mota, I'm leaving the room because that's ridiculous. Yeah, well, of course, as a human Tino, you want that because you'll get your interval finish 10th and league 90 goals. So no, it's as simple as that. But at the same point,
00:01:15
Speaker
I really look around and I'm thinking, no, he should not be at risk. He really needs to become more assertive. Look, I have no doubts tactically about how he reads games, how he prepares for them. His in-game management can improve, of course, but I have no doubts about the tactical side of things. What I have a doubt, big, big question marks is,
00:01:42
Speaker
how he controls the group, how assertive he is with the group. And I'll give you an example. After that game against Spezia, he's asked about penalty takers, exact same situation three years before with Antonio Conte in his first season.
Leadership and Decision-Making Under Inzaghi
00:01:59
Speaker
There's penalties being missed, Lautaro misses, Alexis misses, Lukaku's on the pitch. When that happens, he comes out and says, we're going to have a conversation about this and we're going to decide the hierarchy. That's what Konta says. Inzaghi comes out and goes on a long tirade about how we have two world-class penalty takers. We haven't decided who's going to take it. This was the first time that they were both on the pitch. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, no, no, no.
00:02:25
Speaker
Romelu Lukaku has 13 out of 13. Inza is Lautaro Martinez has four out of seven. There is no discussion here. What are you doing? Stop talking nonsense. Go out there, say we're going to have this conversation privately, and then we'll come back to it. But be assertive. He's not assertive. He thinks he doesn't understand that he's a coach. I understand that you have different kinds of leadership where you have leadership that is you're one of the guys, you're one of the teammates. I get that.
00:02:54
Speaker
But he seems to literally think that he's one of the players in the squad in terms of how he leads this group. And it's not going to work. It isn't working. And he's throwing away points. And he's throwing away his career this way, because everyone is watching this. You can play as beautiful football as possible as much as you want. But if you don't know how to control a group, then it's going to go like this.
00:03:19
Speaker
And it's frustrating. It's incredibly frustrating. No, I agree 100% on him not being assertive enough. That was the point I was making before about the penalty takers. You make it clear this is your hierarchy. You can't have players deciding on the pitch. That needs to be absolutely clear cut before you go onto the pitch. Who is the penalty taker? There should be no, it shouldn't even be a discussion. But there's also another thing I wanted to discuss as well.
00:03:44
Speaker
Look, the problem with why you can't figure Inter out is because we have a weak management, a weak ownership, we have no structure. How many players are on expiring contracts at Inter and are leaving in the summer? How many of those players that have contracts that even go past this summer are even certain of staying?
Inter's Management and Ownership Challenges
00:04:05
Speaker
You can't run a football club like this. It's not sustainable. That's what happens when you're on your ship. The ownership is in limbo. That's what happens. It breeds uncertainty. It's all it does. And that can seep onto the pitch as well. Of course it is. And it has. And it is doing. From Handana, which is D'Ambrosio, to Galliardini, to Lukaku, to Jeko. I mean, come on.
00:04:29
Speaker
And the players that have long-term contracts, well, they know, as Bergomi Serriesteri on Skyclub Culture, he said, you win the Seria, and instead of building on that, what you do instead is go into this discussion about how to cut.
00:04:47
Speaker
What are we talking about? This is a waste of time and talent and money. And it all comes down to Suning. All of it. Every single thing. That's the root heart. Look, as long as these guys are there, as long as Suning are there, Inter are going to sink into mediocrity slowly but surely. It's like watching a collapse in slow motion.
00:05:10
Speaker
And Tiago Mota, Ivan Urich, look, I don't know how many coaches are going to burn out the way Chelsea eats coaches, the way Zamparini used to eat coaches, because that's the situation we're in. This isn't just a leadership issue from the coach. This is a lack of coherent project and clarity throughout.
Inter's Performance Against Different Teams
00:05:33
Speaker
It's still bizarre. When I look at just the results, again, the record against the smaller clubs versus the bigger teams, beating Napoli, Barca and drawing to Barca away and Milan beating them twice, Atalanta twice, beating Porto just the other week and then losing to Spezia.
00:05:55
Speaker
It's just insane, Bologna, Empoli, drawing with Sampdoria, drawing with Monza. It's inexplicable. The thing that pisses everyone off, and I agree with, is that if they had only delivered normal results against Monza, Sampdoria, Bologna, Empoli, they'd be two points behind Napoli. Yeah.
00:06:12
Speaker
which is again, this funny thing. I do think they've been a little bit unlucky. I do. They think they've been a little bit unlucky. I'm looking at the X points table and they're expected points is five behind Napoli, just over five, five point two behind Napoli. Um, so, um, you know, I mean, obviously, you know, there's, there's other ways of looking at that. The fact that Napoli have got two world-class attackers in Clara and Osman means that they're going to clinical.
00:06:39
Speaker
Yeah. And well-class players will stop. They're going to turn, expect, you know, their expected points is going to be higher because they've got well-class attackers. I mean, so there is that. But I do think, yeah, I do think Inter have been a little bit unlucky. I mean, this game, 27 shots they had in the game, 13 corners to one, 69% possession, 3.97 XG, especially had a non penalty XG of 0.24. I mean, it's just, I think it's also,
00:07:08
Speaker
Yeah, but it's one of those games in isolation. This is just one of those games. Yeah, but it's just it's a car. It's a car. It's a it's a combination of everything at once. Not just one ingredient. This this this shitty stew has many ingredients.
Critique of Dumfries and Suning's Management
00:07:22
Speaker
And one of them is players that aren't good enough, namely like Denzel Dumfries. He has no football brain or IQ whatsoever. It's dead. He is brain dead football. Any rest of you deployed? Yeah.
00:07:35
Speaker
Oh, really? Nearly, did he? Oh, nearly. He also gave it away two minutes later by the most asinine challenge that I think I've ever seen someone do at that point. It's like the man has no body control. He has no control over his body parts. It's not the first time he's done something stupid as well. Remember against Barcelona earlier in the season? He almost threw that game away as well, with a stupid challenge with that one.
00:08:00
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, this guy, look, you sell Hakeemie and you bring Denzel Dumfries. Nothing is a better example of what is wrong with Suning's running of this club than that. You sell Hakeemie, you replace with Denzel Dumfries. You get what you, you reap what you saw.