Re: Serie A Thread - 2010/11 Season
it would be a bad call for both of em. vilas boas needs probably needs a younger, hungrier team (like u said gerd), but also inter needs a coach who can give em some "guarrantees" in terms of skills... and at this point in his carreer (especially after the london debacle) vilas boas can't provide those guarrantees (yet).
of course IF moratti were willing to do the unthinkable this summer..... dismantling the entire squad, offload all the stars, put in the youth team those who refuse to leave, and rebuild the entire team around those few players who came after the treble (pazzini, ranocchia, poli)... to put it simple,
if moratti were willing to spend around 250 millions this summer (that's why i said it would be "unthinkable"), then inter would suddenly become the greatest chance in vilas boas carreer.
anyway it's not about the coach really. anyone is deemed to fail with this inter. and i believe even moratti realised it by now.... but admitting a problem doesn't necessarily imply "doing something about it". in order to "do something about it", moratti would have to spend a lot of money this summer... and i'm not sure he feels like doing it.
Gerd said:
This is a very similar team to Chelsea: a bunch of succesfull players who are nearing the end of their carreer.
yup, good call. chelsea and inter do have the same problem indeed. but i don't think this is a players issue. it's not an individual problem, it's a collective problem.
some players are certainly nearing the end of their carreer, and most of them are past their peak, but that's not the issue here imo. u see i'm pretty sure that snejder (27 yo) could still perform at a top class level (just not in milano)... maicon is still 30 and has at least 2 seasons of football at his best level ahead of him... age is definitely not the reason of his poor performances and i wouldn't be surprised if he moved somewhere else this summer and got back to his world class standards.
cambiasso is 31 (and if u guys think 31 is "old" for a metodista, then think again, coz you're wrong) and just like for maicon, i wouldn't be shocked if he would instantly become a key player in another team.... i just think he can't be a key player in this inter anymore.
like i said, this is not an individual problem, it's a collective problem. the issue here is not the players' age (as a matter of fact there are plenty of older teams than inter out there, which are doing great).
the players aren't finished. the team is finished. it's not like maicon, snejder, cambiasso, julio cesar, milito can't perform anymore...
they just can't perform together anymore.
this team has lost the drive to win because the players grew accustomed to each others. there's no competition inside the team anymore, there's no hunger anymore (because theese players already won everything there was to win), and there's no mental energy anymore because mourinho drained whatever mental strenght was left in this team (and that's probably the reason why they can't seem to keep their focus on the game for 90 minutes anymore).
it's the team that is dead, not the players. if the players would move somewhere else, they would find new motivations and get back on track.... for this inter team instead there's no future and no present either.
and i believe the same is happening at stanford bridge. to be honest i thought the situation was a little less serious for chelsea than it is for inter. but after watching
their pathetic display against napoli, i realised inter and chelsea are pretty much at the same stage. both teams are in some sort of a persistent vegetative state.... they're not really "alive" anymore as teams and the only thing keeping them from "diying" is the will of their owners (moratti and abramovich), who aren't really excited at the idea of wasting all the money required to rebuild the team. but for all intents and purposes, both teams are already clinically dead.
after watching pirlo playing tonight for juve i can now say that ireland will get no points at euro 2012 : (
cheer up mate, we always find new exotic ways to screw up at the euros... it's just not our competition i guess
besides i agree with edmundo about trap. he's a dinosaur, a relic of a distant past, and u will hate him for the boring and conservative football he will get your team to play..... but there are few people who know the game aswell as he does have a reputation for "getting things done".
