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Simone Inzaghi is from Lazio. Very. For more than twenty years that club has been his world, his father Giancarlo says that since 1999 he has parked his car in the same place inside the Formello sports center. He cares about the colors and the fans and it is not rhetoric: today there is no coach so tied to the team he leads. For this reason, it is almost impossible for him to imagine himself far from Rome. However, we think that this time it is only fair for him to leave, first of all for himself and for his future path in football..
Inzaghi and Lotito are at odds as they never did in Simone’s years at Lazio. But this does not mean that the contract that expires in June will surely not be renewed, because in the end it is the simplest and least dangerous solution for both: the change always has a percentage of risk.. However, there is a strong, clear and different feeling that the relationship is already exhausted: Lotito expects results from Inzaghi that he cannot give, at least with this template; Inzaghi believes that he has reached a level where the squad has to be strengthened, otherwise the objectives are not achieved. In short, there is dissatisfaction on both sides. And maintaining ties like this leads to traumatic breakups, like a long marriage without passion, enthusiasm, complicity..
There are two main reasons why Inzaghi should leave Lazio. The first, not fundamental but relevant, is contractual: For the first time since he led this team, the coach is expiring and if it is Lotito it is almost impossible to think of freeing himself with a current contract. Then there is a second reason, this professional and fundamental: today Inzaghi has a market among the most important clubs in Italy and perhaps also in Europe.
Inzaghi at the end of the season could be a target for Juve or Inter. Of course, saying it now may seem premature and out of time, but football has taught us that whoever fails in their goals gets in the door, beyond signed and onerous contracts.. Agnelli cast Sarri as Italian champion and had previously done the same with Allegri; it could be repeated with Pirlo, especially if he doesn’t win trophies. And even Zhang would hardly accept another season without a Scudetto de Conte, after the humiliating and costly elimination of the Champions League. Now they’re all united and compact, at the end of the season some heads will pop. As usual.
It is not obvious that Juve and Inter will accept Inzaghi if they change coaches, of course, but they would surely think about it seriously and he would be among the main candidates.. Above all, it has the extraordinary results of recent seasons (Lazio is the most successful Italian club after Juve), but also the physical role and a cost to hire that is not scary (and important these days).
But all of these paths, like other important ones, would become impossible to follow when Inzaghi signed for Lazio. Will he have the courage to give up his Rome to face himself in other latitudes, and probably on other levels?
@steagresti
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