If Inter is first, there will be a reason. Yet, to hear the large swarm of experts, who in Italy will count if not 50 million at least half in terms of members, when things don’t go wrong they simply go as they should go.
The new fashion, since Inter are close to the first position, is the following: “Inter are doing what they have to do”. Cleared through customs without shame the obligation to win the Scudetto. “Inter are doing very normal things”, dicitur. From TV to newspapers, from lounges to courtyards: Inter are very strong and are doing nothing but the minimum wage. “Same points as last year”. At the limit, they change the cards on the table saying that “the antagonists are missing”. Ah. After months of talking about Serie A finally competitive, balanced, with the return of the 7 sisters, are the antagonists missing now? Have Inter become the guardians of Barcelona? Instead, it will be that giving credit to Handanovic and his teammates must be something not contemplated. Too difficult, too heavy to accept. May it ever be. When the discussion turns to the obvious dominance in the field, the answer is ready: “Look at Roma, look at Milan, look at Atalanta. Inter? They don’t make a good football.”. No failure even if the low-cost market is pointed out to him after the purchase of Hakimi: “And what was the transfer market for a team that finished in the Europa League final and second in the league?”. Madness. Looks like a big one Truman Show in Nerazzurri colors.
Nothing is good. If Inter loses, they are criticized. If Inter wins, they do theirs. And yet for the others it is not so. Basically, he is right Beppe Bergomi: Inter are strong, no one denies it. But the others are also strong. And it is not clear why what Inter does is due, while what the others do is exalted as if it were exceptional. Two weights and two measures.
But then, let’s face it: due why? Obligation of what? Here nothing is taken for granted and if you think about it there are only two reasons: bad faith or incompetence. Perisic top-player? And according to which god? Perisic it is an excellent element, which however in his career has never made the fifth: will Conte have some merit or is it only grace received? Come on Eriksen? True, in other times (and with other offers …) the Dane would already be far from Appiano. But this does not mean that the work of the player and the coach must be recognized given today’s result. And to the gentlemen who underline the “luck” of both missed departures, one can safely answer that yes, maybe now Ivan and Christian would be making the fortunes of other coaches, but maybe two equally strong players would have arrived in their place. and finished for their respective roles. Have you not thought about this or does it make fun not to think about it?
But it is a discourse that can be extended to 360 degrees. Just think of the controversy over Lukaku, you started even before he became Nerazzurri. From the controversy on the cost considered exaggerated to the stupidities on its weight, from the nonsense on “does not score in decisive matches” to the indefinite denial of exponential growth. And if you accept its greatness, it derails the Lukaku-addiction discourse. But on the other hand, for months we have witnessed the negative judgments towards Vidal and, now that another player plays in his place, the controversy has started over the Chilean who does not see the field: “From leader to the bench”. It does not come out. Inter first, Inter surrounded. Meanwhile, on the pitch, the team doesn’t care and goes on without caring about the various amenities. Right so.
“In case I don’t see you again, good afternoon, good evening and good night!”.
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