Lazio, now it is a duty to start again: Inzaghi between renewal and market demands, but risks losing a big one | First page

The championship dream shattered by an unpredictable and worldwide event such as the coronavirus pandemic and by a series of errors and subsequent tensions in the preparatory phase before the recovery. The honorable knockout against Juventus on Monday evening has put an end to Lazio’s tricolor ambitions, but can become a starting point to look to the future with renewed confidence above all if Claudio Lotito proves to have treasured what could have been better managed in an anomalous season anyway.

INZAGHI’S REQUESTS – The return to the Champions League after 13 years will bring precious resources to the Lazio coffers and it can become lifeblood to try to meet as much as possible the requests of Simone Inzaghi. At the end of the season, he will meet with the top of the club and with the sports director Ighli Tare to clarify what has gone wrong in terms of athletic training and injury management in the lockdown phase, define the renewal of the contract expiring in 2021 and discuss the objectives to deepen a squad that will try to play its cards in the best possible way also in Europe. The arrival of Argentine midfielder Gonzalo Escalante has already been defined as a zero parameter and the attacker owned by Real Madrid Borja Mayoral is targeted to offer an extra alternative to Immobile and Caicedo, much more weight reinforcements are needed to improve the current staff.

THE SACRIFICATE – A new central defender, possibly young and with the ambition to play a starting position (Kumbulla?), to be joined by Luiz Felipe and Acerbi and which offers greater guarantees than the various Bastos, Radu and Vavro; a left outside that replaces a Lulic for which the latest injury risks leaving heavy aftermath, a level alternative to Strakosha for the goal (Inzaghi was not satisfied with the performance of the Albanian goalkeeper), at least one other midfielder – in light of Lucas Leiva’s identity card and ailments – and maybe another offensive player. Numerically “demanding” requests from the biancoceleste coach to convince the new project with conviction, but that could demand a sacrifice from an economic point of view. If so, the clues can only lead to Sergei Milinkovic-Savic, which continues to be a staple of Paris Saint Germain and has a market in the Premier League as well.

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