They say that Walter Mazzarri is the top player in Inter's transfer campaign. It's the usual exaltation of the thaumaturgical role of the coach, capable of transforming a tiny jumble of players into a team worthy of the recent past. As an Inter fan, I hope I'm very wrong, but in the history of football you don't see miracles like that very often. I rather remember the hasty escape from Cagliari of the great Trap who had also arrived in Sardinia in the 1995-96 season full of medals and championships won on the field with Juventus, Inter and Bayern Munich.
But used to coaching Platini and Matthaeus, Trapattoni too, struggling with Pusceddu and Bisoli, soon gave up. On the other hand, even José Mourinho himself, for the Nerazzurri fans the archistar of the treble, is careful not to marry in clubs that are not of the highest level, with presidents always in hand with an open wallet. Chelsea, Real, Inter themselves have made the most valuable players on the market available to the "Special one": from Ibra and Eto'o to Cristiano Ronaldo. Winning champions regardless of the coach.
Ancelotti has understood this for some time too, that in order to better increase his glory and his bank account, he left the wealthy PSG for Madrid. In essence, how much can a good coach improve a team's potential? Someone says 20% – see Guidolin at Udinese – maybe it's more sensible not to go beyond 10%. The certain truth is that without champions there is no manager who holds. It is easier, scrolling through the annals of football, to see failures of VIP trainers even with high-ranking players (see Lippi in his bitter Inter season despite having Vieri, Baggio and even Ronaldo at his disposal until he broke) rather than miracles of wizards in the province.
And among the coaches who have done even damage to Inter there is also Tardelli, an unforgettable blue in the Spanish Mundial, but such an embarrassing coach on the Nerazzurri bench that he does not even understand Pirlo's talent to the point of marginalizing him. Mazzarri has never failed so far where he has coached. His Neapolitan experience is important: but in Fuorigrotta he could have Cavani, Hamsik, and up to the year before Lavezzi. Quality players who don't exist in today's Inter. With Pereira, Jonathan, Kuzmanovic and many others in the current Nerazzurri squad, we won't go far.
The foolishness remedied in the US tour are a wake-up call, albeit in summer, which heralds bitter Sundays in autumn and winter if you don't run for cover. Mazzarri realized this and finally it was decided to come out claiming quality purchases. A quality that for now is not seen in some of the new ones, from Icardi and Belfodil. Benitez, Gasperini, Stramaccioni: a coach classified as a VIP, an honest trainer in that of Genoa rossoblu, an up-and-coming who was liked by the fan president: three different professional paths, an identical flop. Mazzarri, after just two months with the Nerazzurri, already smells something burning and has raised the alarm. But the losses of Saras, more than the financial fairplay from the nebulous application, give no hope that Moratti will shell out big money. At this point we also have to ask ourselves what interest Tohir, the Indonesian tycoon who should take over the club, might have in joining a club today that risks another season in a bain-marie, filling the mid-August holiday for the Nerazzurri fans with bad omens.
