The midfielder moves to Gattuso’s court with a loan formula that overcomes bureaucratic problems. He’s looking for a starter’s shirt that he couldn’t have had at the Nerazzurri.
He was the man who scored the goal that took Inter to the final in Munich, on the night of the crazy comeback and counter-comeback against Barcelona. And before that he had been the man who scored the goal at Bayern Munich and before that Simone Inzaghi’s favorite tactical weapon to break down the opponents’ walls in the ride towards the second star.
Davide Frattesi was many things for Inter but above all he was a great regret. Now that his history with the Nerazzurri has ended with the move to Lazio – the formula that overcame the ‘niet’ of the Serie A League is a loan only on paper -, the balance is definitive and no longer modifiable.
Taken from Sassuolo for a fair amount of millions (35), baptized a bit hastily as Barella’s heir, Frattesi did many things at Appiano but never broke the glass ceiling of undisputed ownership.
If it were basketball, he would have been the ideal sixth man. Being football, the role that Inzaghi had created for him and which also led him to be permanently called up to the national team was not enough for him. While Inter were planning their climb to the Champions League final, he imagined himself elsewhere and sulked. On the market for two years, perhaps distracted by rumors and frustrations and finally left as a cumbersome surplus. Not to take another shot, but going back to the origins with a necessary operation because Chivu wanted another one (Jones) and that’s it.
In short, there was no happy ending. The identity card says that Frattesi still has the chance to build a career in line with expectations but in modern football, the one that is played every three days and there are at least 14-15 starters, the suspicion is that he has already been in the right place at the right time and hasn’t fully understood it.
Midfield raider, tactically anarchic, part midfielder and part sub forward, he is looking for a coach who will put him at the center of the project. Gattuso and Lazio can respond to this need, not to the need to perform on the international stages practiced with Inter. A step forward or backward? Winter will write the answer and with it also Mancini’s first calls in the new blue course.
