As a guest on TMW`s daily feature `Face to Face`, former football executive Luciano Moggi, who spent a lifetime at Juventus but also had spells at Napoli and Toro, spoke.
Moggi said on the matter: “I read all the newspapers about Conte`s statements suggesting goodbye. He learned from us that you have to give teams a goal. And so Conte felt the duty to wake up a team. He proposed objectives to the players. He knows perfectly well that the Napoli crowd is sporting, but he said certain things to wake the team from the sleep that had accompanied them throughout the match. It wasn`t a detachment, he spoke of motivations. As for his previous reference to Kvara`s sale, well, that`s a fact. But there is full agreement between Napoli and Conte. Note this: De Laurentiis did not reply. And having the books in order and being first means knowing your job.”
What`s happening at Inter? Moggi says: “They are the strongest team in the league. The eleven who play are the strongest, the reserves a bit less so. Every time there are injuries and various things. When Thuram is missing, the absence is felt. The fundamental problem is that a strong castle was built with the eleven to be sent onto the field continuously. But they cannot continuously take the field; there should be substitutes equal to the starters who go onto the field. But you can`t have twenty-five starters. This team pays for having been important, it went far in all three competitions. And evidently, three competitions are too many. When you put in people like Correa or Asllani, they are not worth the others. When they tell De Laurentiis that he didn`t replace Kvara, he still brought in Conte to win, and the coach made a virtue out of necessity.”