What's going on??

[Quixote]

Dear fellow masochists,

I can't say I post a lot here, quite the contrary, I am a "tourist" most of the time. But I am a loyal reader. Before and after every game, I find myself coming to these pages, looking for god knows what. Insight? The key to the madness? News that it was a joke after all?

Because let me be clear, I think an Interista would be better off at the closest bar, drinking himself silly. Or maybe at temple, singing "I was blind/But now I see".

I am amazed at the endurance shown in here, week after wasteful week. Hearts melting, guts in turmoil, heads turned inside out by twisted logic... We're beaten black and blue, yet keep coming back for more. It's beautiful!

Today I felt the urge to write something, O Romantic Brothers, because it's getting too much too soon for me, and we're not even in October yet! So if you'll forgive me the somewhat pointless intro, I'd like to get to the, uhh, even more pointless point: Mancini.

Ahh, Mancio, Mancio, Mancio... That he is still the "boss" of us, and not in Japan doing commercials for hair conditioner, or some sun lotion or something, is a bigger mistery to me than what is really going on in the series Lost. And as those of you who, like me, watch that crappy show will know, Lost is "very mysterious". (The comparison is not that crazy really, since both the makers of Lost and the makers of Inter seem to have thrown the screenplay in the fire before the the word "action" was first said!)

Anyway. Mancini. What is going on here?? How did that fool find his way to a third season? And really, does anyone believe this year is going to be different? With him in command? Don't do it to yourselves, dudes. A football team is like a ship, and when the captain doesn't know a thing about the sea, well, you can either go for mutiny or you will "sleep with the fishes". And with a team leader like Zanetti, who for all his loyalty and consistency, which I truly admire, never once speaks out from the gut, I don't see mutiny happening soon. (Maybe Sinisa will "take care" of Mancio, that is if he can get his tongue out of the boss's butt...).

The things I've heard that poseur Mancini say in the space of a few weeks is enough to make any rational, well-intentioned man sick to his stomach. He is a bad example, a bad influence and simply a bad coach. He has no tactical skills and no motivational skills. He cannot analyze and cannnot improvise. Things didn't work out? Blame Adriano. Things didn't work out? Blame the referee. Seriously, what is going on??

Can you believe that game against Sporting Lisboa? Any coach worthy of being called one would have acted and made some tactical changes after only 15 minutes: Figo marked out in the center, Maicon fighting 2 men (when 1 is already hard for him defensively!), Dejan lost in la-la-land... It goes on and on, and that fool Mancio does nothing!! I watched the game with my uncle, who knows a lot about football, and he stood up after 25 minutes, said "I'll never understand why you like that team so much" and went out to walk the dog. I saw the rest of the game alone and felt like hurting someone. Me. Or Mancini. Planet Inter is not big enough for both of us.

I won't even start about yesterday's game, against Sampdoria, except: when you've got 3 players on the bench who can play left back (Grosso, Maxwell, Solari) and you play Zanetti there instead, your name must be Mancini.

I've used up a lot of space so I'll wrap it up and shut my mouth now, but before I go I want to say I hope we get trashed by Roma next week and then lose against Bayern. As much as that would hurt, it's the only way I see to get rid of that fool. Sack his balls! Name Recoba player-manager, use 433 and bring on the good times!

Seriously,

Quixote

[Pape]

:rockon:

I started reading your post and said I won't read this its too long but every paragraph kept me comming back for more wise words. Well said, would love to have you post more here.

Mancini:
:bowl: ..................................................|:faint2:

[devious]

hehe.. that was the brief of Inter`s misery with Mancini.. thanks for the post mate..
keep in touch! :)

[Ryan27]

As much as that would hurt, it's the only way I see to get rid of that fool. Sack his balls! Name Recoba player-manager, use 433 and bring on the good times!
It's difficult to imagine Recoba as manager, but I'd be 100% for it ;). Excellent writing btw and I certainly remember you.

I think first I should fess up and say I misinterpreted the tactics against Sporting in our Champions League thread. That's what happens when you watch a replay of the match at 3 or 4 am :o. I saw some of the game again the other day and realized Mancini was indeed trying to use the rhombus, though in the end it didn't function any differently than his straight line midfield, which is probably why I made my error. In this case, Mancini is correct that there is little difference when he uses straight 4-4-2 and the 4-3-1-2; the team plays disorganized and inefficiently regardless because he doesn't know how to use either tactic.

It's discouraging that Mancini doesn't seem to know anything else he could possibly do to get the best out of the squad. He lacks imagination and is out of ideas. He also probably doesn't see any of the mediocrity as his fault. I dunno if he should be sacked yet though because it seems that every coach fails at Inter, not just him. Perhaps we should stick with him through the season for the sake of continuity. I don't want to throw away a season like Inter did when they sacked Cuper. But it is worrisome that we're experiencing all of the same problems with this team all over again and that Mancini doesn't look like he's improving.

[ilcapitano]

Good stuff, Quixote. What a name you have chosen! I guess were all Quixotes in this forum, endlesly fighting those windmills and believing that the wanted treasure (the magical scudetto) will arrive after our "heroic" support. Anyway, you have to be an idealist to believe in a team like this...

I am starting to agree with everything you wrote about Mancini. Before this season I still gave him the benefit of a doubt, but his behavior has become even more arrogant and unflexible. I was laughing when I read the comments after the Sampdoria game. Mancini said that the referee ruined our chances; in fact, the ref could have given Cordoba a red card for that penalty situation...and then where would have we been?

If Inter would change the coach, it should be at an early stage. There's little sense in sacking him in the middle of season. Then again, who is available that is any good? Maybe Moratti can get mr Lippi to return to Inter...(no, I'm not serious)

[Quixote]

Dearest friends,

I don't want to spoil the mood after a good week, with an important win at Roma wednesday and 3 points against Chievo today, but...

...but that fool Mancini! Seriously, what is going on with that man? I'm beginning to think he's really a comedian or a performance artist, someone with a superior sense of humour, fooling us all, just impersonating a coach. Because today's substitutions were pure comedic art. Genius!

If he wasn't Inter's coach and I didn't have to go through 3 heart-attacks every game, I'd actually be a big fan of him and his loco stylee. Say if he was coach of some team I don't really care about, I could just relax and enjoy his show, be part of the experiment. I would love it. Because I would know that something interesting is bound to happen in the game, because that comedian wants to make us all laugh again, right?

Anyway, here's Mancini's quote after the game: "It wasn’t the fault of the players, it was mine, as my substitutions created a few problems".

I just hope he gets tired of his own "jokes" sooner rather than later.

Get real, Mancio!

[Ryan27]

In fairness to Mancini, I should say that Dacourt and Stankovic did look worn out and we desperately need them in top shape against Bayern. Vieira's lack of discipline, Cambiasso's injury, and Inter's transfer 'gurus' (selling and not replacing Pizarro) all forced Mancini's hand and he experimented using fullbacks and wingers to fill in for Dacourt. It clearly didn't work, but he didn't really have any other solutions if he wanted to rest his center mid's. Let's just be glad we still got the three points and hope we can hold on until Cambiasso hurries back. Maybe Vieira can get his suspension reduced too and stop getting sent off.

[Quixote]

Ryan, you're absolutely right: Mancini is doing the best he can.

That's what's worrying me!

Nobody asked him to play Vieira+Dacourt+Cambiasso together in midfield... One of these guys per game is enough, maybe two for though ones where a packed, physical midfield is needed. Now, like you said, one is injured, one is banned, and one is tired. Big surprise!

As for Pizzaro, if Mancio had played him a few more times last year, he would never have left. That's a fact. Now that fool Mancini suddenly wishes Pizzaro was still there. Doesn't make sense? Big surprise!

Inter is a team that can win both the Seria A and the CL, and has the players to do it in style. But that comedian is trying hard enough to make me believe we'll do neither. Big surprise!

Your local optimist,

Quixote

[Zek]

impressive, passionate, romantic, erotic...

yes that's not a new book or a sentimental movie - that's the post Quixote put in!

Man - thanks for the post and thread, yes Mancini is worrying me too, I am confused how he managed to win something with Lazio... Moratti is another amusing person, with his endless transfers and stupidity, I still do not understand how he managed not to vanish his farther's money.

Game after game Inter disappoints me, last time I asked my dad to watch Udinese game and he left after first 15 mins - saying the team has no future. And unfortunately it does not, on transfer market we consistently sell youngsters and buy oldies, on a pitch we are slow and lack any ideas anywhere, moreover we field same squad everyday so get even more predictable.

Anyway, we are still passionate about Inter for no practical reasons and still watch it... Hoping for luck to turn its face to us, rather than us making it up to win something.

cheers,
Zek

[Zek]

wonder what Quixote will say as of today?

Suprisingly we top the league and managed to beat Palermo, but nevertheless Totti and Co. are in brilliant shape

[Quixote]

Well said, Zek. I wonder what I'll say next too...

Because I honestly don't know what to say. I look at the monitor-screen and all I can see is Adriano, that fat, mad, beautiful, child-emperor baboon, as he runs up the right channel one more time, sweat oozing out by the gallon, holding up the ball like it was made of his mama's thighs, running up there as if this is the last game he'll ever play! I could have cried out of pure gratefulness. It was bliss. I am a believer!

As Adriano looked up to heaven to pray before the game, so did I. I looked up to the ceiling and said to no-one in particular: "Oh no... OH NO!! That Mancio's done it again!". My prayer, as we know, and to the benefit of us all, stayed unheard. His prayer... I don't know which gods combined their powers to be with him last night, but it was nothing short of miraculous. Was it Concordia, goddess of harmony? Was it Mithras, god of discipline and courage? Was it maybe Ganesh, god of good fortune and destroyer of all obstacles? Or was it just Mancini?

What that boy-man-emperor showed last night was total commitment. Total focus. Even if he kept slipping down all the time, even if he could have played 10 times better technically, last night was a sign. If all players played with such willpower all the time we'd be unbeatable. Hell, if only Adriano himself played with such willpower only half the time, we'd be very very scary.
(note: I don't mean other players don't give their all, most do. I'm just saying...)

I had given up all hope on Adriano, I thought he would leave Inter by the backdoor, a broken boy, and that would be the end of it. But now I see glimpses of the Emperor, the all devouring monster-attacker. May the gods stay with him!

Zek, as is the custom with Inter they leave you in such confusion that the only rational reaction is to abandon all rationality, accept the call of the unknown and plunge headfirst in absurdity - and yesterday was no exception, although the confusion was sweet and joyful this time, extatic even!

Yesterday's game against Palermo, more than any other game this year, made me very very glad to be "possibly wrong" about Mancini. I'd trade my low opinion of him against an Inter success any day of the week, any time, for free, I'll even pay for it, I'll even take in Adriano myself next time he needs to chill, take care of him as if he was my own child, feed him good food, sing him sweet lullabyes for his siesta, I'll cut Mancini's hair and put on his make-up, I'll do the dishes at Inter Cantina and I'll wash ALL their dirty, smelly laundry...

All I want is Inter to win and, if possible, to win in style. With the players at disposal, that should already have happened. This year, it will - it must! - happen. Now if Mancini can do it, if he wins the Serie A, then he's the man. And if wins the CL, then he's The Man. And if next year, when Juve, Milan, Fiorentina etc. are back he wins again, dude, then he's My Man! But until then, I'll keep my doubts close, in my side pocket, at hand's reach, and throw them out in the open now and again, and say the words: "Oh Black! O Blue! What curious creature are you!"

Sincerely,

Quixote

[Zek]

Zek, as is the custom with Inter they leave you in such confusion that the only rational reaction is to abandon all rationality, accept the call of the unknown and plunge headfirst in absurdity - and yesterday was no exception, although the confusion was sweet and joyful this time, extatic even!

RESPECT ALL THE WAY! I am SPEECHLESS!

you really need to publish yourself :)

[GiorgioII]

Well said, Zek. I wonder what I'll say next too...

Because I honestly don't know what to say. I look at the monitor-screen and all I can see is Adriano, that fat, mad, beautiful, child-emperor baboon, as he runs up the right channel one more time, sweat oozing out by the gallon, holding up the ball like it was made of his mama's thighs, running up there as if this is the last game he'll ever play! I could have cried out of pure gratefulness. It was bliss. I am a believer!

As Adriano looked up to heaven to pray before the game, so did I. I looked up to the ceiling and said to no-one in particular: "Oh no... OH NO!! That Mancio's done it again!". My prayer, as we know, and to the benefit of us all, stayed unheard. His prayer... I don't know which gods combined their powers to be with him last night, but it was nothing short of miraculous. Was it Concordia, goddess of harmony? Was it Mithras, god of discipline and courage? Was it maybe Ganesh, god of good fortune and destroyer of all obstacles? Or was it just Mancini?

What that boy-man-emperor showed last night was total commitment. Total focus. Even if he kept slipping down all the time, even if he could have played 10 times better technically, last night was a sign. If all players played with such willpower all the time we'd be unbeatable. Hell, if only Adriano himself played with such willpower only half the time, we'd be very very scary.
(note: I don't mean other players don't give their all, most do. I'm just saying...)

I had given up all hope on Adriano, I thought he would leave Inter by the backdoor, a broken boy, and that would be the end of it. But now I see glimpses of the Emperor, the all devouring monster-attacker. May the gods stay with him!

Zek, as is the custom with Inter they leave you in such confusion that the only rational reaction is to abandon all rationality, accept the call of the unknown and plunge headfirst in absurdity - and yesterday was no exception, although the confusion was sweet and joyful this time, extatic even!

Yesterday's game against Palermo, more than any other game this year, made me very very glad to be "possibly wrong" about Mancini. I'd trade my low opinion of him against an Inter success any day of the week, any time, for free, I'll even pay for it, I'll even take in Adriano myself next time he needs to chill, take care of him as if he was my own child, feed him good food, sing him sweet lullabyes for his siesta, I'll cut Mancini's hair and put on his make-up, I'll do the dishes at Inter Cantina and I'll wash ALL their dirty, smelly laundry...

All I want is Inter to win and, if possible, to win in style. With the players at disposal, that should already have happened. This year, it will - it must! - happen. Now if Mancini can do it, if he wins the Serie A, then he's the man. And if wins the CL, then he's The Man. And if next year, when Juve, Milan, Fiorentina etc. are back he wins again, dude, then he's My Man! But until then, I'll keep my doubts close, in my side pocket, at hand's reach, and throw them out in the open now and again, and say the words: "Oh Black! O Blue! What curious creature are you!"

Sincerely,

Quixote

This is the best post I have seen around these parts for some time!!

It is exactly how I feel. You expressed the same feelings I have but in a far better style than I would have done!

[Laury84]

omg..I don't know who u are and what u do in ur life but u'r really good with words!

btw Mancini will never be "your man" coz the next season he'll be in england!

[ilcapitano]

Quixote is the poet laureate of our forum :hail:

[Laury84]

all right...I didn't know that...:)
he's great...

[Quixote]

Thank you for your very kind words, brothers & sisters.

Let no one say nothing ever comes out of this team, because in here we prove the opposite.

And good luck for tonight! I know it's only the coppa, but more than that it's Adriano's chance to confirm he is on the way back.

Now go and score that goal already Adri, because...

[Fenerliyim]

all i have to say is holy shit this guy can write. I have never seen a poster who can actually make me enjoy reading long posts. Hope u stay more.

[Laury84]

all i have to say is holy shit this guy can write. I have never seen a poster who can actually make me enjoy reading long posts. Hope u stay more.
yeah u'r right!he's a genius..

[Laury84]

Thank you for your very kind words, brothers & sisters.

Let no one say nothing ever comes out of this team, because in here we prove the opposite.

And good luck for tonight! I know it's only the coppa, but more than that it's Adriano's chance to confirm he is on the way back.

Now go and score that goal already Adri, because...
no it's not only the coppa...it's our COPPA!We all know how much Mancini loves it! :lol:

[Stormvogel]

I thought that nobody is interested in the coppa,very few spectators etc.Laury,there are rumours here that Maxwell will go to Eindhoven on loan,do you know something about that?.

[Laury84]

I really don't know nothing about that rumor...I'm sorry...But I would like to see him in my team..coz he's really good!Yesterday he played really well!

[Stormvogel]

Yes,he played very well at Ajax too.He was chosen Dutch player of the year a few years back,and had an terrible injury before he joined Inter early this year.He was one of my favorite players at Ajax,a similar kind of player like the outstanding Javier Zanetti.And lets not forget the magic Ibrahimovic.

[Laury84]

yeah...u've got always a lot of talented players...

[Zek]

all i have to say is holy shit this guy can write. I have never seen a poster who can actually make me enjoy reading long posts. Hope u stay more.

you're visting Inter forum my friend :)


and guys let's discuss Copa details in the other thread please