Serie A coach "internal circulation" is harder than winning the championship

In the early morning of June 5, the Riyadh Crescent Club in Saudi Arabia officially announced that former Inter Milan coach Inzaghi came to coach. It is reported that this sky-high contract lasts for two years, and Xiao Inzaji's annual salary is 26 million euros after tax, which is almost four times his annual salary at Inter Milan.

Junior Inzaghi, who is only 49 years old, will be away from the core of football for two years from now on. Is he just attracted by his annual salary, or does he want to adjust his mindset and avoid the troubled European football world? The answer is unknown. But the shock in the Italian football caused by Inzaghi's departure was not simple.

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The sky-high annual salary is not easy to get

Before the start of the Champions League final on June 1, there was news that Inzaghi will resign after the end of this decisive battle and go to Riyadh Crescent to hunt for gold. In the end, Inter Milan lost 0:5 in the Champions League final. At the post-match press conference, a reporter asked whether Xiao Inzaji would resign. He did not comment or even confirmed whether he could lead the team to participate in the upcoming Club World Cup this month.

Now, Xiao Inzaji's "blue and black" career has been drawn with a termination symbol. Since May 2021, he has taken over the handsome seal from Conte. Through four years of hard work, Inzaghi Jr. has brought the "Blue and Black Legion" to the highest level in the past 15 years: reaching the Champions League final twice, a Serie A championship, two Italian Cup championships and three Italian Super Cup championships. This result allowed Inter Milan to return to the peak of football in Italy and even Europe, and Inzagi himself became a world-class coach.

If Inter Milan wins in the Champions League final, then Inzaji will retire with a relaxed mentality of "resolving the king's affairs in the world". However, this game left a hidden pain for his "blue and black" career that will last a lifetime. The 0:5 loss is really eye-catching. If he were a coach like Guardiola, he might stay and regain his strength. The club hopes that he can continue to lead the team, but all this has come to an end.

Riyadh's annual salary of 26 million euros is really tempting, he was moved.

Stay away from the troubles of European football, Xiao Inzaji's heart, which had been tense for four years, would relax a lot. However, the money is not easy to get. The last famous Italian coach who failed in Saudi Arabia was Mancini, a senior of Inzaghi. If his coaching in Saudi Arabia was not successful, Inzaghi might return to Italian football, after all, his age is not very old.

Serie A coach transfer

As Inzaghi left, Italian football has been chaotic, and a coach transfer that has been brewing for a long time has reached its climax. Currently, six Serie A teams, including Inter Milan, may be preparing to change coaches, accounting for one-third of the entire league. Not only that, after Inter Milan loses this excellent coach, who will choose to take over as the coach of Inzaghi, which is also a topic of concern to fans.

Before Inzaghi left Inter Milan, their neighbor AC Milan took the lead in launching a plan to change coaches. Allegri, known as "Uncle Zeal", once again took over San Siro. Originally, Napoli coach Conte planned to return to Juventus, and Napoli hired Allegri. Now "Uncle Mie" is not going, and Conte is also kept by Napoli.

However, Juventus will not give up changing coaches because of Conte's breaking promise. They are determined to change Tudor, so they also found a new sports director to be responsible for changing coaches. At present, many coaches, including Zidane, Mancini and Pioli, are under the scope of "old woman". Once the negotiations are not going well, Juventus executives will also shake hands with Tudor and make him stay in office.

Amid Juventus' hesitation, two mid- and upper-level teams quietly completed the task of changing coaches. Roma would have been determined to change the coach because their "fire-fighting coach" Ranieri is old and cannot lead the team to coach for a long time. Therefore, shortly after the league ended, Roma's senior executives signed Atlanta coach Gasperini as Ranieri's successor.

Lazio finalized Sarri, Atlanta also wanted to find a new coach, and Fiorentina tended to coach Pioli. Amidst the chaos, the head coaches of the Serie A team all moved their world. If you don’t go, I’ll go, I’ll have fun.

Inter Milan also joined the battle group after losing Inzaghi. At present, the coach that the "Blue and Black Army" values ​​the most is Como coach Fabregas, but Fabruy seems to be very determined to stay in Como. He even rejected Leverkusen's invitation. Inter Milan is likely to be a head-shaving pick. The coach is undecided, and it is hard to say whether Inter Milan can still maintain its leading position in European football next season. With the departure of Inzaghi, Inter Milan's tactical system will also be impacted. Now the "Blue and Black Army" mainly has a 352 formation, and most of the coaches who are interested in coaching, including Spanish coach Fabregas, are good at the four-guard system, which will bring down the tactical rules that Inter Milan relied on for the past four years. A group of veterans of the "35+" age have also passed the year of playing. Today, when the competition in Serie A is getting more and more intense, Inter Milan will fall behind if they are not careful, and they will not even recover for a long time.

When will the "internal cycle" be achieved?

Italy used to be a country full of excellent football coaches. Ancelotti, who succeeded in Real Madrid and was favored by the Brazilian national team, is the best in this coaching group. In recent years, Italian coaches have become increasingly confined to their own small circle and are unwilling to go out, resulting in the change of coaches of Serie A teams in each season being selected among a few people. After you finish your singing, I lack the courage to go out, Ancelotti, Ranieri, Lippi and Capello.

In recent years, veteran coaches such as Conte, Sarri, Gasperini, Allegri, and Spaletti have been changing their coach positions. Even if they have poor performance, they will be "dismissed" through the "acquaintance network". Without exception, the new teams that have been in office are still the Serie A teams..

In fact, when they were younger, coaches such as Conte and Sarri were brave enough to move to a broader stage, but their coaching careers overseas were not going well. Even Ancelotti experienced the lowest point in life in Everton. Until now, only Ancelotti has truly stood at the top, while Conte and others have returned to their hometown and transmitted the concept of "not suitable for overseas stay" to other Italian coaches.

Therefore, for example, Allegrini would rather be at home than go to other European leagues to try out, even if he "goes to the second place" AC Milan, he would not want to try new adventures.

The coaching ideas of Italian coaches are mostly defensive counterattacks, and this thinking also leads them to become more conservative in their actions. Being conservative and contentment is a true portrayal of Italian coaches. Only the younger Inzaghi and former AC Milan coach Pioli walked out with their own strength, but their direction is Saudi Arabia, which is far away from the core area of ​​the football world, and they are all focused on making money.

There are many reasons for this kind of Serie A coach's "internal circulation". On the one hand, Serie A is more exclusive to foreign coaches, which makes local coaches more marketable in the country. When the Bundesliga team hired Belgian Kompani, Espanyol Alonso, Dutchman Tenhager, and Premier League team hired German Klopp and Espanyol Guardiola, the Italian team didn't care about this. The most successful foreign coach in Serie A is Mourinho. Mourinho's coaching style is actually in line with the Italian concept and can be carried forward in Inter Milan.

On the other hand, the lack of talent has also accelerated the "internal circulation". Italy, where coaches are numerous, now has few outstanding figures. Inzagi is 49 years old and is one of the few successful representatives of the strong. Those young coaches who have achieved brilliant achievements in the age of players have failed without exception. For example, Gattuso, Inzagi, Montera, who have coached AC Milan, De Rossi, who have coached Roma and former Juventus coach Mota.

Fear of taking risks is a common problem for Serie A clubs and coaches, which has made the distance between Italian football and European high-level leagues in recent years. Inter Milan is the only exception. They reached the Champions League final twice. Even so, the gap in their level is actually very obvious, and it is proof that they returned twice.

Only by improving this "internal cycle" can Italian football have real hope. As a famous person in the football circle said: "Football needs memory, but also needs to be forgotten, forget the answers that have been tried too many times."