Conte leaves Inter, the end of a short love story

I came, I saw, I conquered. And I left. With seven million severance payments in his pocket. The short love story between Antonio Conte and Inter ended as feared. With the most likely of divorces, come for what is elegantly called “Divergence of views” and more trivially it can be summed up in the passion that has always accompanied the professional career of this coach.

A winning leader, as evidenced by the championship won 11 years after his last success, Mourinho’s Triplete, at Inter.

But also an ambitious manager like few others, not at all sentimental, capable of giving up everything on the best. The reason? Conte asked Zhang reinforcements to aim for the Champions League, but the owner of Inter thinks differently. After a year marked by the pandemic, Inter’s budgets are in the red. The company is about to be mortgaged.

There is a fund ready to take over. It is necessary to lower costs and reduce, as announced by the owners, by at least one fifth the amount of wages. Sell ​​some samples, one for sure between Lukaku and Hakimi. Here then is the break with the coach, who had another year on his contract. Only a few days ago Inter celebrated the Scudetto at San Siro but Conte’s future was going in the opposite direction to that of Inter.

It is a film that has already been seen. After winning three league titles (2011-2014), Conte left Juventus after training has already begun, to go and sit on the bench of the national team and take a run for the European Championships. The same story also at Chelsea, with the victory in the Premier League the first year and the breakup immediately after, as if it were a natural consequence. Winning and saying goodbye, see Antonio Conte.

«The whole Club would like to thank Antonio for the extraordinary work he has done, which culminated in winning the nineteenth Scudetto. Antonio Conte will remain forever in the history of our Club“. This is the press release that appeared on Inter’s official website. His protégé Romelu Lukaku also greeted him and thanked him: “You changed me as a man and a player.”

Now Inter will have to look for a new coach. The number one candidate for the Nerazzurri bench is Max Allegri, who already took the place of his colleague at Juventus, managing to do even better than his predecessor and winning five consecutive league titles. Conte will also have to marry somewhere. He has a salary out of reach for many clubs, let’s talk about a figure that is around 13 million euros per year. But it also has many admirers. Tottenham is in the front row. Contacts have already started. Conte can only go abroad. Inter have inserted a clause that will prevent him from coaching in Italy next season. Seeing him again in Serie A, in fact, would be a joke for the Nerazzurri people.

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