Inter Milan season 7 review

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Hello and welcome to my first blog post in top 100 and its long overdue. I think ive been in top 100 for 6 seasons now. I haven’t posted because i have learning difficulties, dypraxia, anxiety so find it quite nerve wracking starting something new.

So as you know I took over Inter Milan at the start of season 7 After incredible success with A.S.S.E taking them from div 4 to div 2.

Inter Milan has always been a club close to my heart because I remember watching channel 4’s Italian football with my dad as a kid and watching my idol Ronaldo, what a player he was before his injuries.

Anyway enough of that When I took over from Alex I had to make a pretty tough decision. Inter had a lot of players who were getting on and not a lot of players who were wanted by other teams due to there age. I decided in the end to stick with most of the team alex built and try to get automatic promotion. I did though add a few players to the squad they were Holtby, Modeste, Dzsudzsack, Shaqiri I think cant remember if there was anyone else.

We started the season with two 1-0 victory’s against Valancia and Sampdoria. This gave me more hope that this team could get automatic promotion. Unfortunately after this it all became very frustrating. The main problem seemed to be that we couldn’t finish teams off. This meant that we ended up with the most draws in the league, 15 ! we tried different systems, attacking football, defensive , counter attacking all systems that have worked for me before but it wasn’t working with this group of players. The strange thing was our best game of the season was against the team that walked the league sc international.

2-5 win! where did that game come from we couldn’t perform like that against anyone else.

its clear that we are not easy to beat because we only lost 9 games all season but yet because we drew so many we only just squeezed into 7th place on goal difference. Unfortunately as I expected we didn’t get far in the playoffs.

Where did it all go wrong?

On paper we had several players of decent ability not incredible but should be pushing for promotion. The main problem was if you want to go up your best players need to perform sadly some of them let the club down and have now moved on. The likes of Prieto, Vela, Pepe, Handanovic. were no where near the levels they have produced before. Prieto has now retired but that is not such a bad thing but Motta retiring is a big blow as he has performed very well since coming in.

What Next for inter?
We now have a 2-4 season plan to get back to division 1. We have got the age of the squad down from 31 to 27 with that the ratings of the squad have decreased which means the chances of promotion in season 8 are slimmer but that’s the sacrifice you have to take when your building a future plan for the club. we now have something to look forward to as a club, last season when you looked at the squad it was worrying players towards the end of there careers and not enough potential for the future. now as a manager i can look at this squad and think these guys can be here for many years and help us achieve something special and get inter back to where they deserve to be.