Luciano Spalletti wants to "send the fans' hearts racing" again after being officially presented as Inter Milan's new coach.
Spalletti was confirmed as the Nerazzurri's new coach last week after meeting with bosses of the club's owners Suning Group in China, but he spoke for the first time from Inter's Appiano Gentile training ground on Tuesday and outlined his ambitions.
"I want to get Inter back in touch with its history," Spalletti said. "Inter have got to be a team who send the fans' hearts racing, with a clear identity on the field. Many people say I'm on a hiding to nothing having accepted this role, but I don't see it like that.
"[Inter's] position is horrible, and as many people told me on the plane here, it's even scandalous, and the gap in points [to the top] makes you realise that something has got to change from the roots. Twenty-five or 26 points equates to winning eight or nine extra games in the season, so it's fundamental that we change something.
"If I am not mistaken, we've not been winning anything for several years now, so either we do something different, or we will go on without winning things.
"People keep asking how it's possible that Inter are not in Europe for so many years, and it's almost a scandal. It looked like that to me from the outside, and I wanted to get involved and see for myself. I'm no better than all of the coaches who have been here before me, I am just different. I trust my own methods and I ask the players to have faith in me, because I will be by their side 100 percent in any situation, no matter what happens."
Spalletti has been brought in to make changes, but he was keen to establish that it is something which can only be achieved if everybody pulls in the same direction, from the players, through the coaching staff to the management and the fans.
"I don't ever want to hear chants for Luciano Spalletti," he said. "Spalletti cannot score goals, he is only here to be part of a professional group of staff and to indicate the best way to win matches.
"We also need the fans for this because if they are close to us, they give us an extra hand, and then we are all together. The better we do this, the greater our story will become. I can imagine an Inter with a history full of beautiful things, and I want to be part of all of this."
Spalletti says that dealing with the final season of Francesco Totti's career had made his role as Roma coach untenable, which is why he left the Giallorossi this summer.
He will forego Champions League football to join a club who finished seventh and will not be playing in Europe next season, but he says he had little choice.
"I had become the man who was dividing rather than the one who was uniting," Spalletti said. "There was this huge problem about what would have happened at the end of managing the legend -- as he is rightly known -- of Roma, because Francesco was a legend.
"There was this position where the love for the most important player was becoming greater than the love there should have been for the whole team. If I am not able to manage both of these and unite them, then it means I did not do my job well.
"Since I didn't do that well, I was struggling. I was struggling because I could hear the rumours, I could hear what people were saying. When you live in Rome, you hear these things when you go and get a coffee in the morning; you hear it when you are stuck at the traffic lights.
"There were a lot in favour of me, but there was a clear demarcation line between those in favour and those against. My job is not like that -- I need to be getting everybody over on one side. If I can't do that, I need to step aside because that can become a serious problem."
"From the bottom of my heart, I hope that Roma can find a way of becoming united, without me, towards their objective."