Burdisso's level aside (I suffered it too when he gets in his lunatic mode....)
This is a good moment someone should noticed that for instance your middle was making water and in an italian/argie typical cynical and solid version teams, the defensive system with an absent middle suffers a lot more...very Real Madrid alike since time in Inter, not precisly rock solid mid like when Burdisso or any defender were more solid too as a consequence...
Rivas is going to explode in your face sooner or later like Adriano not being Ronaldo, like Stankovik not being Nedved, like Cambiasso not being Mascherano, like Zanetti being a great full back a regular player in the best sense allways but an hybrid answer to a mid that lacks offensive creativity, Jimenez is not Kaka, Suazo hardly Trez, Maicon is no Zanetti and a large etc....
You have a very solid squad, that when ticking, when everyone doing their task, is pretty damn good...but no special genetical player apart from Pupi and the closer is Ibra with some extraordinary abilities of Adriano....
Your ex elite players as backs are getting old: Crespo, Figo and Vieria, and not aging that well, as the best examples
so in this last tournament that everyone knew (I mean the rest of the clubs) what Inter was playing since time, with injuries and many pieces not tickling is obvious your defense will crumble...
Burdisso ain't Passarela, but neither a muerto de hambre and when Rivas agressive style will turn in reds, in bloopers...like when Adriano's reckless sellfish decissions and brainless moves didn't end in the rival's net and suddenly he wasn't Ronaldo...you should be asking yourselves..
Why every year the same problems and noboddy solving them?
you need since time some BIG name per line to absorve pression and give an extra to your most of the times solid and quite intelligent team...
I know the market isn't full of solutions, but I didn't see in buying jimenes, neither Suazo, neither Rivas, neither Solari the sort of answer this team is asking since time, no wonder that your back line looks way more terrible than it is...
BTW ADRIANO should NOT BE SOLD till you at least try to talk with him and win him back, make regain his form and be back to that fierce (erratic player regarding football reading) but quite a BIG weapon to pass from...
He will never be smart enough to be a real crack like Ronie was, but hey! like if being Ronie is a very typical player to be.
His shot, his power are quite gems in actuall football to not use them, more when Ibra can be the support striker (that scores) and him the finisher...
With the adittion of some creative midfielder or a couple of them, you will be more than fine, do not loose your heads, these problems you are having since time but at least you knew how to play reagarding what you got, sthg many other teams in Italy? didn't...
Fickle band...be smart boludos, you have the upperhand, you have the money, re arm your team, stop seeing magical appearences/gifts in Rivas of this world, keep the role players specially the younger ones, said thanks to oldies in dubios form and try to keep what you had and just starting to have (like Balotelli)...
No sean boludos, Inter problems are hardly Burdisso and is precisly A MAJOR problem to see Rivas as solution, when the real problem is not there in a particular role and more in finding a new way of playing or the same but enforce some positions to play it in the middle more than anywhere else and in the attack...
Burdisso is a sign of how your whole team was suffering from Cruz to him in every line and arrived to the last strech of the championship with more heart than the brain and pragmatism you employed to be the better side in Italy.
More than invidualities Inter like once was that 90's Lazio, was TIMING in joining different aspects of many players like a well oiled machine...is time to give the next step and stop bashing your own players with wrong perceptiosn of what they really are, can give. and could give...