Inter head coach says that he feels that there have been excessive expectations on his Inter squad heading into the 2025-26 season, that the gamers didn’t have sufficient time to arrange for the Serie A marketing campaign following the Membership World Cup and insists that captain will proceed breaking membership data for years to return.
Chivu on Inter’s 2025-26 season and Lautaro future
The Nerazzurri tactician, who gained the home double throughout his first full season as a head coach in 2025-26, gave a quick overview of his Scudetto and Coppa Italia-winning marketing campaign in an interview with .
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Chivu is a part of an unique record of people to have gained the Serie A title for each as a participant and coach.
“As a participant and a coach now, it’s quite a lot of accountability understanding what the membership means in historical past, what it means for the supporters,” Chivu mentioned. “It’s good on either side of this example as a participant and as a coach.”
MILAN, ITALY – MAY 17: Cristian Chivu, Head Coach of FC Internazionale Milano, seems to be on through the trophy presentation after the Serie A match between FC Internazionale and at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on Might 17, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photograph by Marco Luzzani/Getty Pictures)
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Regardless of the considerations that Inter would battle this season after a thumping within the Champions League remaining by final season and the next departure of Simone Inzaghi, Inter went nearly uncontested for the Serie A title this time period.
Nonetheless, Chivu thinks that there was an excessive amount of exterior stress placed on his gamers.
“The expectation was excessive. Don’t neglect that we didn’t have time to do a correct preparation (due to) the Membership World Cup, we solely had three weeks of vacation and yeah, you may see that.”
However, in the long run, he thinks that onerous work is what gained Inter their 2025-26 titles.
“(It’s quite a lot of) human those who do their half and with the ambitions that they’d, the accountability they’d through the season, and the arduous work that they put into it, every part turns into simpler. Simpler when it comes to making an attempt to be aggressive, making an attempt to be the most effective model of no matter we had at that second. Step-by-step we constructed one thing that allowed us to rejoice on the finish of the season.”
ROME, ITALY – MAY 13: Lautaro Martinez of FC Internazionale Milano celebrates after the crew’s victory within the Coppa Italia Last match between and FC Internazionale at Stadio Olimpico on Might 13, 2026 in Rome, Italy. (Photograph by Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Pictures)
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Chivu additionally spoke about his captain, Lautaro:“The historical past of this membership has all the time had nice strikers who gave their greatest for the membership, they write the historical past of this membership.
“Lautaro is one thing particular as a result of he’s nonetheless taking part in for us and he can nonetheless increase his numbers. If I have a look at the highest scorers within the historical past of Inter, he’s no.3 and he’s nonetheless right here and he’s nonetheless a part of this crew, a part of this membership and I feel he’s going to put in writing extra pages within the historical past of this membership.”