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Rudderless Inter head for the rocks

PAUL GRECH sees tough times ahead for Inter after they fail to give another manager time

As Giampiero Gasperini exited his Inter job after only three league games, the complaints were eerily familiar.
Even though he kept a dignified silence there were plenty eager to point out that Inter had not made available the kind of players capable of playing his favoured 3-4-3 formation.
His own tactical rigidity and the strange reluctance to play Giampaolo Pazzini precipitated his demise yet such an outcome had looked almost inevitable ever since the defeat against Milan in the Italian Super Cu...

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