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The blueprint for Ziwo s array change is also to connect with Europe. Should Lautaro have prices but no market change?

11:45am, 28 July 2025【Football】

Recently, transfer expert Romano talked about "changing coaches has a great impact on Inter Milan" in his program. He pointed out that if Inzaghi was on the team, he would definitely urge the team to sell Vlatesi and introduce Raspadori.

Romano firmly believes that "if Inzaghi does not leave, Raspadori will almost certainly become an Inter player."

However, the situation changed drastically after the change of coach. Now the Nerazzurri is fully acquiring other forwards, and at the same time, Flatesi is also away from the market.

Sky Station introduced that after hernia surgery, Taixi was seeking help from relevant experts, hoping to speed up recovery and go to Qiwo's command as soon as possible.

"Milan Sports Daily" discusses the significant changes that may occur in the new coaching era of Inter Milan with the title of "Zivo's Change". In terms of training, more scientific testing will be used and less subjective judgments from coaches. With higher training intensity, the initial stage of training will be a difficult practice two days a day. In terms of lineup rotation, Inter Milan (non-goalkeeper player) will have only three absolute main players in the new season, namely captain Lautaro and two vice captains Bastoni and Barrera.

Inter Milan may have 2 or even 3 regular formations, and changing the formation means that players will be replaced (in fact, this has been reflected during the Club World Cup, and Inter Milan has changed its formation in many Club World Cups).

There is another point worth paying attention to.

"Milan Sports" said: "Zivo decided to make a clear change, which is closer to the 'European model': three attackers. Use tridents to share the position of the forward and attacking midfielders. In the Champions League, the big teams basically use trident formations, with only a few teams exceptions."

In the era of Inzaghi, except for a few games, Inter Milan was an unstoppable 352 formation.

Inzaghi's 352 score was good (especially the Champions League score), but it also caused some side effects.

Some problems, such as the tacticians who say that "the team always repeats the same melody by the same group of players", will inevitably cause the team's "class solidification" problem, because even first-tier stars like Zelinsky and Vlatesi cannot integrate into the main players' gameplay. We've said this many times last season.

Another problem: 352's playing style is essentially different from the mainstream European styles such as 433, 343, 4321, 4231. Therefore, some players in the 352 system, especially frontcourt players, have great variables in the 433 system, which will greatly affect the players' "resale value". A typical example is Lautaro.

The current mainstream media, including FIFA (during the Club World Cup), generally call Lautaro a striker who has World Cup, Copa America, five major league champions and the Golden Boots of the Intercontinental Competition, a "world-class player".

In the global value ranking of "Transfer Market", Lautaro's 95 million euros is not only the number one in Serie A, but also counts around the world.

Nowadays, high-level strikers are the "hot cake" in the market, such as Ekitic's transfer fee of 95 million, Dzekelish's 73.5 million, and Newcastle's Isaac is even priced at 150 million.

Laotaro, who seems to have more intercontinental competition experience than the above players, does not have such market popularity. Before Lautaro renewed his contract with Inter Milan last year, his contract had a long term of 110 million liquidated damages. However, over the years, no team has tried to activate its liquidated damages, whether it is the British, Western and French chaebols or the Middle East tycoons.

If there is a quote, will Lautaro leave? This is one thing. But there has never been a quote, which is another matter.

Why? A very important reason is that Lautaro plays 352 system in Inter Milan, while those chaebol teams generally play 433 or 4231. They will worry, if they really buy Lautaro, where will they play? Center? Wind? Front midfielder? All are unknowns, which will have a great impact.

Inter Milan fans don't care about this issue. After all, fans don't want the captain and ace to leave. It doesn't matter like "there is price but no market".

However, will Oak Capital feel the same way? The California consortium never conceals their value on players’ “resale value”! In contemporary football, the one who is easiest to create "super high resale value" is the frontcourt player.

This may also be one of the reasons why "Ziwo changes the formation and connects with Europe". This is not the first time in the history of Ziwo’s coaching.

When Conte first joined Inter Milan, he issued an order requiring Inter Milan reserve team and all levels of echelons to change to 352. In this way, if the first team lacks personnel, it is more convenient for Conte to go directly to the echelon to hire people.

However, the pressure to coach Inter Milan is too great, and Conte doesn't even care about going to the echelon to watch the game, so naturally he won't really go to the youth training system to promote players. So although this decree is good in its original intention, it is actually useless.

After Conte ran away, Inter Milan had financial difficulties and asked the reserve team to change 352 back to 4231, with the purpose of "connecting with Europe" and allowing players to have higher market popularity. Ziwo caught up with this wave of change (Ziwo took over Inter Milan reserves in August 2021, leading the team in 112 games, and played 433 or 4231 in 106 games). His players such as Kassadi were bought by Premier League chaebols at a high price, which also made great contributions to Inter Milan's financial crisis at that time. This proves that "connecting with Europe" makes some sense.

In summary, Italian media believes that the reason why Inter Milan has to pay a lot of money to poach Lukeman after owning Lautaro, Touram, Boni and Pio is to change the "double striker system" into a "trident". This is to connect with Europe and increase the future market popularity of Inter Milan's frontcourt players..

Perhaps, investors who pursue "resale value" are also happy to see such changes.