I don't think Inter will go that far, Roma is better.
Anyway, as I said at the end of the mercato, given the mess it was and the huge amount of new players, most young and inexperienced, this is a transition year. Also the players brought don't really mesh well, chemistry is doubtful. It was just poor mercato management, while spending a lot of money.
So I don't expect us to win Serie A. I expect us to contend for it till the last rounds, and qualify for CL.
In CL, I expect us to get to 4 finals.
Advantage Inte have over Roma is Mancini. The thing is that winning titles requires a certain understanding and ability to keep your team calm in crisis, and that's where Mancini has the edge because he's won the serie a before and he knows how to win it. Roma have the quality no doubt but it will be harder for them because neither their coach nor the the club management have that repertoire. Not impossible obviously, but if all things remain even, I'd expect inter to have the edge in that race.
As for Juve, we have changed too much to quickly. No matter what anyone says, letting go of Vidal was extremely poor decision making with almost no vision ahead on how to cope with it. And what most people forget that it's all fine and dandy to have exciting youngsters in the squad, but if they aren't slightly protected by experience and leadership, their break in period can be severely hampered alongside their growth process. Sturaro for example will 100 times out of 100 play a more composed game with Vidal, Pogba or Marchisio or Pirlo beside him rather than another youngster who will himself be looking to play his natural game while dealing with severe pressure.
We didn't quite seem to comprehend that when we decided to put this so called transition into effect. And if things go south, the management definitely deserve more of the blame rather than the coach. It's just how it is. We buy Cuadrado and then let go of our only other natural winger in Coman. Opportunity means nothing if it isn't aided by a little bit of vision. Marrotta seemingly keeps saying we have no alibis and we have lost charisma. But we are to blame for losing some of that charisma, coz we sold Vidal, and then acknowledged that he was happy to stay in Beppes own words. To me, he's trying to put all the pressure on the coach, and I don't quite think any coach in his right mind would let go of Vidal if he'd know Hernanes would be the replacement. Beppe is the first guy to not get the alibis he's talking about.
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I could live with us not winning the league but just not Inter.
If we don't establish identity, and quickly, we may not even be top 2-3.
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