Cristian Chivu is the next Inter coach, chosen by Marotta to collect Inzaghi’s legacy flown to Arabia. Two -year contract, little experience but the Nerazzurri cycle will be evaluated on the market
Cristian Chivu is the new Inter coach, a “light” two -year contract (2 million euros per season) and immediate test bench because the club world championship represents an immediate compatibility verification for him with a top team. Chivu was a great footballer, the protagonist of the Triplete season signed by Mourinho. He is not yet a real coach, in the sense that his experience with the adults is limited to a handful of games (13) at the helm of Parma. He saved him and this is a merit, but the distance between Emilia in the middle of the year and Inter from the beginning on the long wave of the disappointments of this season finale is like going from the earth to the moon.
Intelligent and humble person, Chivu first is aware of this difficulty. The choice of his profile and the tsunami of the post Monaco of Bavaria, from the farewell of Inzaghi to the failed attempt to hook Fabregas, are the perfect mixture to explode the discontent of the Inter people who is shaken at the limits of the nervous crisis. A negative condition in addition of which, however, the Romanian technician is not responsible: the more quickly the environment around Appiano Gentile will understand, the greater the possibilities will be the graft to work.
Marotta chose Chivu for Inter: a bet
The weight of the decision to make Cristian Chivu sit on the Inter bench after Inzaghi falls entirely on the shoulders of Beppe Marotta. It is a bet, the time will say whether to lose or fruitful. From a tactical point of view Chivu seems suitable for the characteristics of the rose that inherits, starting from the three -way defense which was the Inzaghian trademark. All the rest, however, resembles a leap into the void that has few precedents in modern football. What comes to mind hot is the choice that Andrea Agnelli did in 2020 by entrusting Cristiano Ronaldo’s last Juventus to Andrea Pirlo, an absolute novice: to the bianconeri he did not go very well, because it is necessary that the company is stringing strongly around the coach filling the gap of experience and charisma with the daily presence.
The first climb that Chivu will have to face will be to find the key to talking to a locker room psychologically destroyed by the season finale. The slaps of Munich will leave signs for months: the Romanian, who was a great player, immediately finds the connection with the group or the risk is that the search for shared language burns many of the potential of the team.
Chivu is not the signal of Inter downsizing
The great fear of the Inter fans is that a “minor” choice after the tear with Inzaghi is the signal of a progressive, not too slow, downsizing of Inter’s ambitions. No later than a few weeks ago Marotta theorized the idea of a cycle to revitalize but who still had victories and trophies to look for: is Munich’s shoulder strap for making him change his mind? The answer is no. Chivu is not the symptom of the desire to cut and downsize and cannot be even for the Oaktree fund: to have understood that even the rebalancing of the accounts passes a lot through the results of the field (and, therefore, the consequent revenues) was one of the secrets of a 2025 that will close with a record budget.
In short, it would be self -harm, imagine that suddenly from Oaktree the order has come to break everything. Chivu is certainly the product of a moment of difficulty perhaps underestimated -Inzaghi’s will to go to Arabia, not having blocked Allegri and having vainly chased Fabregas -, transformed into apparent improvisation, but the new inter account will be presented when the trajectory of the summer market is clear.
Also Marotta, in the heart of winter, explained that it would finally be possible to conduct an investment session and not strict search for zero balance. Difference compared to the past, favoring the expense for young talents to be enhanced rather than thirty -year -old players immediately spent. Inzaghi did not care, Chivu who so far has almost always and only worked with the boys could be more suitable as a task.
The rest, however, will have to do the company by giving concreteness to these programs. It is also the only way to start weaving the canvas with a shaken and angry people. An at least level striker, a central defender and a midfielder in addition to the two new arrivals already announced (Sucic and Luis Henrique); the rest of the outline. Here is what is waiting for Marotta’s summer and aid to blow the clouds of pessimism and anger away which today make the air around Inter irresparable.
Cristian Chivu’s career, an Inter coach of Inter
Chivu is at home at Inter and not only for having been one of the protagonists of the perfect season of 2010. After 115 appearances on the pitch with the Nerazzurri shirt, the Romanian has started his career as a coach in interesting and Appiano Gentile. A six -year parenthesis, which began with the smallest teams and then embellished with the conquest of the spring championship in 2022, but with some shadow also given the early eliminations before and after having conquered the tricolor.
From there the decision to give up Inter to start up to the call of Parma last February. The ducals sailed in bad waters, full relegation zone, with low morality after a good start to the season. Chivu has done well enough in Emilia to get to salvation: 16 points in 13 games including the tie imposed on Napoli on the night of Inter sports suicide in San Siro with Lazio. It could have been the Sliding Door Scudetto for the Nerazzurri, the feat of a team that the technician at the first experience has shown that he knows how to shape in a short time.
Now the bar rises. Chivu has never trained from the beginning of the season and will have to do it starting from the club world championship in a very difficult psychological situation, with the slag of the disappointment of Munich to be disposed of, tired and stressed players and no protection networks. A choice that knows of a risky bet by Marotta and the Inter leadership. The signal that really starts a new cycle.
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