Careful media management is accompanying the last days of theInter and in particular of Antonio Conte, the cover face of the Italian champions, accompanied – for several weeks now – by recurring questions about his future. Fault of the uncertainty that is gripping Inter on the economic and corporate level, fault (also) of the always evasive responses by the Salento coach, who has never been unbalanced in recent weeks, giving certainties about his stay in the Nerazzurri.
It had already happened just on the eve of Inter-Roma, with a press conference first announced, then canceled and replaced by a harmless interview with Inter TV. On still festive days, after the championship victory, the Nerazzurri club is aware of how the focus of the questions and topics touched would be concentrated almost exclusively on the future of the coach and the club’s plans. And so he avoided exposing Conte to a conference that would have turned into a succession of questions about his intentions.
A choice repeated also in the post-match of Inter-Roma: club and coach, by mutual agreement, they decided to send Cristian Stellini in front of the cameras, according to Conte who had already been given space – together with other members of the technical staff – in one of the latest press conferences. The discussion on the pitch with Lautaro Martinez has nothing to do with it. On the one hand, there is the desire to give space to those who worked in the shadows during the season, making an important contribution to the Scudetto ride day by day. On the other hand, it creates the opportunity to dribble any kind of question about Conte’s future.
A theme that will be handled delicately also on the occasion of the next events between now and the end of the championship. Waiting for the meeting with the company, announced several times by Conte, in which clarity will be clarified once and for all.