AUSILIO-INTER: È GIUSTO SEPARARSI? Il vero motivo per cui serviva una svolta — Transcript

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1. 0:00Ausilio and Inter are parting ways
2. 0:02after 28 years of work. But is this the
3. 0:05right choice? Is it better to move on
4. 0:08from the past and look for something
5. 0:11new that can take us another step
6. 0:14forward? Or was Ausilio still the right
7. 0:19person, not just for having brought us
8. 0:22to this level, but for raising it even
9. 0:25higher? Well, that is the great dilemma
10. 0:31. The reality is that as of yesterday,
11. 0:35Ausilio is no longer the sporting
12. 0:38director of Inter. Pros and cons of
13. 0:43Ausilio, who stayed here for 28 years
14. 0:47alongside our beloved black and blue
15. 0:51shirt. You can't give him a negative
16. 0:54rating. But the point is clear, he did
17. 0:58many good things. Think about having
18. 1:02found a young Lautaro Martinez, who was
19. 1:05still a nobody and today is our captain
20. 1:08and the idol of all the fans. Beyond
21. 1:11being a great goalscorer, beyond
22. 1:14finding the likes of Lukaku, Hakimi,
23. 1:17think of the various players who were
24. 1:20the first to provide that step that
25. 1:23brought us where we are today. The
26. 1:27signing of Thuram, well, Frattesi was
27. 1:30also an important signing, he was a
28. 1:33valuable player who is still at Inter,
29. 1:37but perhaps he wasn't integrated the
30. 1:40right way. There are many good signings
31. 1:44, but there are also less good ones.
32. 1:47Think of the Luis Enrique of today,
33. 1:50think of a Dumfries who is proving
34. 1:52strong but recycled into another role.
35. 1:56He had been brought in as a defensive
36. 1:58midfielder. Think of Asllani, think of
37. 2:01so many players, think of Gagliardini,
38. 2:04paid almost 30 million euros to be a
39. 2:07player who was just okay, played only
40. 2:09against the small teams. There are so
41. 2:13many, many things. Ausilio really, in
42. 2:1730 years—in almost 30 years, sorry—
43. 2:19it was almost impossible for him to do
44. 2:21everything right, but it was also
45. 2:22almost impossible for him to do
46. 2:24everything wrong. Clearly, he was a
47. 2:29cornerstone for our rise, but the
48. 2:33question is what Inter needs right now.
49. 2:39Do we still need Ausilio, or have we
50. 2:43simply reached the maximum level?
51. 2:48Thanks to him, yes, but to take the
52. 2:49next step, something else is needed.
53. 2:53Let’s tell the truth, I um would like
54. 2:58to do a slightly more complete analysis
55. 3:00, that is, from Inter's side and
56. 3:02Ausilio's side. Let’s start with the
57. 3:06Ausilio side, which is perhaps the
58. 3:08fastest and most direct. If I had been
59. 3:13Ausilio, I’ll tell you the truth, I
60. 3:15would have tried something new some
61. 3:18time ago, but not because he wasn't
62. 3:20happy at Inter. That's not the problem.
63. 3:25Ausilio always complained about
64. 3:27maneuverability issues, meaning that up
65. 3:30to a certain point, Ausilio could
66. 3:33operate with complete autonomy. From a
67. 3:38certain point on, Ausilio was blocked,
68. 3:41he couldn't do much more, and so on.
69. 3:45This was a sense of discontent that
70. 3:48hadn't just emerged in this transfer
71. 3:50window, this latest one that just
72. 3:52passed and closed, but in other windows
73. 3:54as well. It was always something that
74. 3:59bothered him, because there are many
75. 4:02sporting directors in Italy who perhaps
76. 4:06have much less status than him, but are
77. 4:09freer, can do many more things, can
78. 4:12really pull off very, very important
79. 4:15deals without having to ask—pardon
80. 4:18the repetition—for Ausilio's help,
81. 4:21okay? Excuse the pun, but I mean, in
82. 4:27Italy, at least in many teams, a
83. 4:31sporting director is free to do more or
84. 4:35less what they want within set
85. 4:39parameters. Ausilio was even more
86. 4:43limited. Okay, so in my opinion, I
87. 4:47would have moved on, especially since
88. 4:50being under Marotta, well, let's say
89. 4:54Marotta is someone you can learn a lot
90. 4:57from, but rightfully he is the best,
91. 5:01and certain tricks, clever moves, or
92. 5:04cunning skills he isn't going to teach
93. 5:08you. It's clear he keeps those to
94. 5:11himself; the best ones all do that.
95. 5:13They've always done that since the dawn
96. 5:15of time. So at a certain point you say,
97. 5:20"Okay, he's an excellent teacher," but
98. 5:23then the rest of the craftiness, the
99. 5:25insights—if you can call it that—
100. 5:28I'll build them myself. Okay? So for
101. 5:33him too, I would have made this choice.
102. 5:37Then again, being at Inter is a
103. 5:38completely different thing, as he
104. 5:40himself said in his farewell letter, "I
105. 5:43was part of a giant." He also operated
106. 5:48and contributed to making it a giant.
107. 5:54There is no doubt. There is no doubt
108. 5:56about this. But perhaps if he wanted to
109. 6:01make a better leap to get better
110. 6:04recognition, I would have done it. I
111. 6:08say this also from life experience. For
112. 6:11a long time, in certain things, I was
113. 6:13always the one considered talented but
114. 6:19good, but because there was always
115. 6:21someone who had to be above. All right?
116. 6:25It's also for this reason that I said,
117. 6:27"Okay." No, no, I want to be the one
118. 6:30who is just talented in my life,
119. 6:32without the "but" and without the "good
120. 6:35" and without the "but." Well, I see
121. 6:40Ausilio a bit in this situation,
122. 6:42someone who is truly talented,
123. 6:44seriously, but who needs to remove that
124. 6:47"but," that question mark he absolutely
125. 6:50doesn't deserve. On the other hand, um,
126. 6:56talking about Inter. Inter, in my
127. 7:00opinion, on the other hand—and it's
128. 7:03true—had excellent certainties with
129. 7:06Ausilio. But, uh, we are in 2026, and
130. 7:11Ausilio, like Marotta—well, Marotta
131. 7:15himself—is one of those directors who
132. 7:19work the way they used to, a bit
133. 7:22opportunistically; the same goes for
134. 7:26Sabatini, Rino Foschi, and even some
135. 7:29managers today. There are many like
136. 7:34that—to give a few examples, Giuntoli
137. 7:38—they are all people who, I don’t
138. 7:42know, go after a flashy name where they
139. 7:47can save a little money, or they go
140. 7:50after an unknown player. Yes, but I
141. 7:54don't make evaluations based on
142. 7:55paperwork; I do it by eye. "Looks
143. 7:58strong to me"—I mean, for example,
144. 8:01with this approach, someone like
145. 8:03Sabatini found a very strong player
146. 8:06like Dzeko, but he also found a player
147. 8:09like Dalbert who turned out to be what
148. 8:11he is. So, the eye alone is not enough.
149. 8:17I, um, obviously it has arrived, now
150. 8:20Baccin is there instead of Ausilio,
151. 8:23which has already been, uh, hinted at,
152. 8:26though not yet official, but rumors are
153. 8:30circulating. He will be the next DS
154. 8:34replacing Ausilio. My small piece of
155. 8:42advice is not to rely only on what the
156. 8:45eyes see or only on what sounds good
157. 8:49economically. Okay? That’s the point.
158. 8:55Often you also need knowledge of the
159. 8:59team, knowledge of the coach, how they
160. 9:03train, and so on; many directors don't
161. 9:07have this. I mean, to give an example,
162. 9:12signing Stones on a free transfer: in
163. 9:15my opinion, Stones was a perfect player
164. 9:17for Inzaghi, because he is a player who
165. 9:20isn't very fast but has great technique
166. 9:23and vision, so building from the back
167. 9:26was perfect. In the case of KIV, which
168. 9:30is all about transition, running, and
169. 9:33turning the action around, um. In short
170. 9:36, a player who is a bit slow like that,
171. 9:40well, fits in less well. So, you have
172. 9:44to think about all these little things
173. 9:47when you go to sign players, meaning
174. 9:49learning to read numbers, data, and
175. 9:52percentiles. This channel, this segment
176. 9:57, excuse me, was created to bring in
177. 10:00some players and know how to read them
178. 10:03through percentile data, not just
179. 10:05looking at whether they are strong or
180. 10:08not, because "strong" players,
181. 10:10quote-unquote, are a dime a dozen; you
182. 10:13have to see if these players are useful
183. 10:15and suitable, okay? But also the
184. 10:19expenses, if they are useful and
185. 10:21suitable; you have to look at
186. 10:22everything. This is basically what I
187. 10:27can recommend. I definitely have a lot
188. 10:31to learn from Baccin, who has been in
189. 10:34football for over 10 years. He is a
190. 10:38competent figure and has been Ausilio's
191. 10:41deputy for several years, so he knows
192. 10:44Inter very, very well and won't have
193. 10:47any issues. I am convinced he will
194. 10:53adapt perfectly, but let's just say
195. 10:56that the executive of the past was more
196. 10:59"hands-on," you know: negotiating
197. 11:02face-to-face, eye-to-eye, and so on.
198. 11:07There’s so much, ah, we look at the
199. 11:10opportunity, the idea, and then maybe
200. 11:13the player isn't suitable or doesn't
201. 11:16fit the coach's style of play. I think
202. 11:20the most obvious example is Paratici; I
203. 11:23mean, Paratici built a team here in
204. 11:25Florence for Grosso that, in my opinion
205. 11:28, isn't ideal for Grosso's style of
206. 11:32play. Grosso is another coach who
207. 11:35thinks a lot like Chivu—lots of
208. 11:37physicality, lots of transitions, and
209. 11:39so on. When you go and sign Oulai,
210. 11:43Mastantuono, and other players who are
211. 11:46more about building from the back, you
212. 11:49see? It sounds wrong. You have to look
213. 11:54at these things; they might seem like
214. 11:57trifles, but on the pitch, you can tell
215. 12:01if things were done in an organized way
216. 12:04with a clear idea or just by adding
217. 12:07names for the sake of it. So, in
218. 12:11conclusion, I say: Ausilio, in my
219. 12:14opinion, has done an excellent job. I
220. 12:18wish him the best, and I especially
221. 12:20hope he sheds that "talented, but..."
222. 12:24label that has followed him all these
223. 12:27years, even if it wasn't said on TV, it
224. 12:30was always there, you know, "yeah, but
225. 12:33without Marotta,""yeah, but without
226. 12:36Branca." I mean, it's disrespectful and
227. 12:42unfair to someone who has done a great
228. 12:46job at Inter for almost 30 years, I
229. 12:48don't know. So, best wishes to Ausilio,
230. 12:53best wishes to Baccin for starting this
231. 12:56new adventure, and I wish the best for
232. 12:59Inter, that they can finally take that
233. 13:02next step. In Italy, we've reached the
234. 13:07top, now there's Europe, we've known
235. 13:10that for a long, long time. Now we need
236. 13:14to aim for that and do it consciously,
237. 13:18knowing the financial means we have and
238. 13:21the knowledge we need to implement.
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