Rafa needs to go before he ruins Inter

I can’t believe how badly Inter are doing in Serie A this season. I have liked Inter ever since I first started watching Italian football in 1995.

I have to admit I am not exactly an avid fan but Inter are favourite Italian side. This season though Inter have been awful.

Champions

Inter started this season as Italian and European champions yet they currently sit seventh in the Serie A table 13 points behind bitter-rivals AC Milan with two games in-hand.

They did however claim the title of world club champions by winning the World Club Cup 3-0 against African side TP Mazembe.

No disrespect to their Congolese opponents but Inter should be beating teams of their class. They aren’t exactly top of the footballing tree. Inter now face the winter break six points off the Champions League spots, although they do have a game in hand on fourth place Lazio.

Benitez

A lot of the blame for this poor form must be attached to manager Rafa Benitez. He took over the current European champions and has turned them into also-rans. His side’s poor form has lead to speculation over the Spaniard’s future at the Nerazzurri.

The ex-Liverpool bosses’ agent has denied this however telling Radio Sportiva: “Benitez will stay at Inter Milan at 100 per cent. I spoke with him last night (on Friday) and he told me that he is celebrating the victory with his family.”

He may want to stay but whether he is given the opportunity to stay is another matter. The way the season is going I can’t see president Massimo Moratti leaving the Spaniard in-charge for much longer.

Benitez has urged Moratti to back him or sack him but the Inter president must be questioning his wisdom in hiring the Spaniard just now. It doesn’t seem like he has the full confidence of Moratti and if he hasn’t then Benitez won’t receive money to buy the four or five players he thinks he needs to win trophies this season.

Players

Rafa Benitez inherited a superb squad from former-manager Jose Mourinho. Yet he is moaning about needing four or five players to be successful. Have the Inter players suddenly become poor overnight or has Benitez’s poor management simply baffled them.

Benitez could have lost some of his star players when he arrived but the likes of Maicon, Diego Milito and Wesley Sneijder all decided to stay and give Benitez a chance to prove he was good enough to manage the European Champions.

At the moment he is proving that he is not good enough for Inter and if Benitez doesn’t leave then I can see some of their stars thinking about leaving.

Continuation

His poor management at Inter has just followed on from his poor management of Liverpool. He wasn’t good enough for Liverpool so why was he deemed worthy of the European Champions. I certainly can’t explain the decision.

Maybe it was because his reputation was still high in Europe but surely the Inter hierarchy read and saw what was going on at Liverpool last season? Yet they still went ahead and appointed him as their manager.

Mourinho

Jose Mourinho was a hard man to replace but surely with such good players Benitez’s side should be doing better than what they are now? It was always going to be hard coming in and living up to expectations after Mourinho’s reign and Benitez has struggled.

Dominant

Inter have for so long been the dominant force in Italian football. Nobody really ever threatened their dominance but this season they are struggling and don’t look like the same team as last season.

Bakery

As I say Inter are my favourite Italian team and I don’t like to see them struggling so badly. If Rafa Benitez does manage to turn it around at Inter I would gladly eat humble pie and issue a full apology. However somehow I doubt anybody will need to be baking any humble pies for me at the end of the season!

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