Lazio away is a tough way to finish the season so I want to our work before then and get the Champ’s League place before we face them. Hopefully, with Loaiza back and firing again we can drag ourselves across the line.
04.05.31, Serie A, Brescia
Veteran winger Iwobi comes up with the goods in this one – scoring a fine belter into the far corner and superb header to give us the win. Two wins in the last three games will give us the Champ’s League football.
So we won't be achieving our target of winning the league this season then. TBF, Inter have been pretty good this year.
12.05.31, Serie A, Cagliari
We find out prior to this game that we’re only 1 win away from Champ’s League now thanks to other results. We also find out that Inter have secured the domestic treble. We fail to get the win we need. We trail for a good chunk of the game until Loaiza scores a stunner to bring us level. We now need a win.
17.05.31, Serie A, Sampdoria
At last, we secure the win needed to get Champions League football for next season. I don’t expect the club’s finances to jump up overnight but I hope that it will help make things a little more positive than they are at the moment.
An end-of-season end-to-end cracker. Sagman scores two beauties including a stunning free kick. It’s not a bad way to finish. Oh, and I might have sent a letter to Liverpool who have just relieved Gerrard of his duties.
So we finish third. In the end, it's probably a fair reflection on how most of our season has gone and, in the period where Loazia was injured, this could have been a heck of a lot worse for sure.
This chart shows that we've started to peel back on the bad place the clubs finances are in but we still have a long, long way to go in turning things around.
Here are the Serie A awards and I'm quite pleased to have got a couple of names in there.
Pulcini was my spot of the season so I was pretty glad to see the next two awards.
At the end of the season, Iwobi and Strakosha both announce their retirement:
The biggest news of all though comes in the form of a row between me and the board. Disappointed that we didn't win the league, they wanted to have a chat. I did everything I could to avoid a points promise as I've been there before. I said that the process was key (or at least I think that's what I clicked on) and the board decided at that point to give me the chop! So I'm on the move again!