After the Milan derby, Inter did not have much time to reflect on the problems and was challenged by Mourinho in the cup.
According to a number of reporters who followed the team before the comprehensive match, this Warring States Rice will undergo a small rotation, in addition to the front, it is the defensive mid-line DeFrey.
In the Milan derby, several Inter players were criticised for their performances.
Some are due to physical problems, such as the obvious role of Dzeko in the front waist position in the first half, and the role is not after the decline in physical fitness in the second half.
Some of it is because of age, if Handanovic had been 3-5 years younger, the game might have been completely different.
Some are because of ability issues, Di Marco and so on.
But the person who caused more controversy among them was DeFrey, who made a major mistake. The Inter stalwart, who has just turned 30, is in the golden age of his career, but he has not played at the level he should have when defending Olivier Giroud, and de Vrai's form has dropped significantly since the previous two years.
Let's list the proportion of Defrey's appearance time in the past three years, accounting for the largest theoretical time.
In the 2019-20 season, 82.7% of the league and 100% of the Champions League.
In the 2020-21 season, 80% of the league and 100% of the Champions League.
This season, 72.6% of the league and 65.6% of the Champions League have fallen badly, so this season, the question of "who for DeFrey" has plagued Inter several times.
This is related to injuries, de Frei's muscle strain on November 13, not coming back until December 12, and in the Battle of Inter and Atalanta on January 16, DeFrey's body once again had some minor problems, although the injury was not serious, but it affected the state.
The main reason is that the players are "uncertain".
With regard to DeFrey, there are two facts that need to be described.
The first is at Euro 2021.
At that time, Inter had already decided to sell Ashraf and had not yet sold Lukaku. During DeFrey's game in the Netherlands, the Dutch coach and FA boss fired angrily, slamming DeFrey for discussing transfers with agents and lawyers every day and being distracted by the national team.
Later, the city experts decrypted: at that time, a team issued an invitation to Defrey, and the player team intended to evaluate the offer after the game, but then the Chelsea request for Lukaku broke out, and Inter could not afford to lose three absolute main players in a summer window, and the matter was pushed down.
Another thing about renewals.
According to Di Marzio, Romano and others, at the time of "Kong II", Marotta and Laiola had reached a verbal agreement on the renewal of the player's contract, but because inter cash flow problems broke out, all contract extensions were shelved, and the matter was temporarily put aside.
Since the beginning of this season, Inter's cash flow problems have been alleviated, and the team has begun to renew contracts, such as Lautaro, Barrera, Bastoni, Di Marco, etc. have achieved salary increases and renewals, Brozovic is talking, and Shkrinar is about to start talking. Coupled with the arrival of high-paid players such as Zheko and Char khanoglu, Defrei's salary ranking in the team has gone all the way down.
However, as if tacitly, Inter or Raiola will no longer talk about the renewal agreement that has been reached before.
This raises a problem: two years ago the Dutchman was in the top 5-6 of the team's salary list, but now he is watching his teammates raise their salaries, and his problems are unresolved, and it is obvious that the players have paid no attention to this.
Or that sentence: players rely on playing football to support their families, and their sensitivity to salary exceeds the common sense of fans, spectators, and people.
Guaro revealed: Recently, Marotta and Laiola have communicated, and the consensus reached by the two sides is that they will never let DeFrey transfer freely after the expiration of his contract.
It was a conceptual agreement and did not determine whether or not to resell.
Because whether DeFrey will transfer or leave is not up to Inter to decide, but to the buyer. If there is no offer from the outside world, or the offer is too low, whether the Nerazzurri is the main force of "selling cheaply" or negotiating a contract renewal with the players will have to be specifically evaluated at that time.
In short, Inter do a two-hand layout, if there is a good price, sell DeFrey, the introduction of its double. But on the other hand, without a good price, Inter will not close the door to DeFrey's contract extension, because it is pointless to sell cheaply.
It is clear to people that DeFrey, though large, is actually a "pianist", sensitive, delicate, and not good at stress.
Inzaghi Jr. has a bloody lesson about this: when inter and Lazio competed for the last ticket to the Champions League, DeFrei has reached a free transfer agreement with Inter, and most of Lazio's die-hard loyalists have suggested that Inzagimo Jr. should let Defrey start, but Inzaghi Jr. firmly believes in Defrey's professionalism. But in fact, in that battle, DeFrey swung himself, and before he joined Inter, he became the "hero" of the Nerazzurri returning to the Champions League.
After that battle, Defrey had an emotional breakdown, and Inzaghi Jr. went to comfort him for the first time after the game. But the coach clearly doesn't want that to happen again.
Now every time DeFrey returns to the Olympic Stadium, he receives boos because Lazio fans believe that the incident is that "Inter gave him the task" and that he betrayed Lazio for money.
But personally, I think this is because DeFrey himself is a player who is not good at coping with pressure, and under the pressure, he did not hold on.
Now, DeFrey has once again entered a period of mixed emotions, which may have been one of the reasons for his key mistakes in derby.
At this point, it is necessary for Inter to let him take a proper break to adjust his mood, which is a stopgap measure.
The city experts pointed out that in order to really solve the problem, It is necessary for Marotta, Laiola and others to come up with a clear charter. If you want to renew your contract, at least start negotiations first. If you want to transfer, Raiola should start to go to Zhang Luo. If it is still in this state of not being up and down, then Inter should consider how to reduce the pressure on the backbone and provide psychological counseling for it.