Over the last 3, 4 weeks we have sold Hernanes as well, we have bought Perisic, Ljalic, Telles, Melo, and we have played and won the first three matches, we have understood that Mancini prefers everyone else to Ranocchia, and that Medel is a good player even if he should play as striker or goalkeeper.
Many bloggers and journalists have wrote about the new Inter, the different options Mancini has, and bla, bla, bla, but there is one particular point that I want to focus on. Now we are a team. Let me explain my idea of team.
A team is composed by a group of people that use their abilities for achieving a goal. There are two opposite type of teams: the "Artistic with Creativity" ones and the "Strong with Personality" ones. Such as Atene and Sparta: both of them made the history even though they were completely different between them. If you prefer you could call this difference: Quality and Quantity.
The job of a leader is trying to create a team with some good components from both of these types, and it's exactly what Mancini tried to do in the last market session.
Last years we didn't have a bad team. We had artistic people such as Hernanes, Kovacic, Icardi, Palacio and others, and we also had strong people such as Juan, Medel, Guarin, and others.
The problem was that on a scale rate from 1 (poor personality) to 10 (good personality) and 1(poor creativity) to 10 (good creativity) all of our players were around 5, the middle: no good artists, no good strong. They were the middle, in the average, in the mediocrity.
So, what did Mancini do last months? He bought players at the top of their abilities: Melo, Kondogbia, Murillo, Miranda (strong with personality) and Jovetic, Perisic, Ljalic (artistic with creativity).
The results? Even players such as Juan, Guarin, Santon and Medel have took advantage from them. It's not been a case if Juan has played his best match since his arrival at Inter. It's not been a case if Medel has played better than Ranocchia or most of defensors in Italy. It's not been a case if Guarin has been finally crucial against Carpi (assist and penalty) and Milan (goal).
Did they improve during the summer? No, they are improved thanks to the arrival of players with a strong personality. In particular Felipe Melo (top personality). Probably he has been the most important acquisition together with Jovetic (top creativity with good personality as well: the champion is the one that has a top creativity and a top personality, such as Messi or Ronaldo).
Since his first match (the derby) he has put his strenght, his ambition, his anger, his ability to be the Boss of the midfield on the pitch. He came into the pitch with the eyes of the tiger, he knows what he wants, he wants to be the Boss and everyone will try to take him on will be cleaned away.
His screams against Balotelli awoke his teammates: Juan, for example, was another person. The save against Luis Adriano was an action that seemed impossible for him until a couple of weeks ago (the problem of Juan has always been his concentration: he's a good defensor, but he's rarely concentrated for 90' and this brought him to make mistakes in positioning).
This is what Melo has brought to us: top personality (and also a bit of creativity). Melo and Jovetic are our real top players this year because this is what a top player does: he improves his teammates. Do you remember Luiz Rozario de Lima, called Ronaldo? He was the top player and thanks to him players as Taribo West and Francesco Moriero seemed top players as well. But they weren't. They were good only because of the presence of Ronaldo (and Simeone).
So, let me paraphrase the title of a famous Oscar Wilde's book, because with a player such as Felipe Melo anything seems impossible.
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