Walter Sabatini

[Wallace]

For the 300th time he did exactly that! He offered his resignation to suning cause he did not agree with the j mario and gabi g signings.

Atleast that s what was reported at that time.

Why is he still here?

 

[Il Drago]

Sabatini: I'd find Wanda a new man
By Football Italia staff

Former Inter director Walter Sabatini claims ‘I’d find a new boyfriend for Wanda Nara’ if Mauro Icardi was still his player.

Sabatini was Inter’s technical co-ordinator between 2017 and 2018, while Nerazzurri fans have blamed Wanda for Icardi’s troubles, which have seen him go from being their captain to not even part of their first team.

“If Icardi was my player, I’d find a boyfriend for Wanda so that she stepped away from Mauro, who’s a wonderful lad and a loving father,” the 64-year-old told Gazzetta dello Sport.

The former Roma man has since put health problems behind him to become Bologna’s sporting director, although the club are currently reeling from Coach Sinisa Mihajlovic’s cancer diagnosis.

“With Sinisa, I wanted to take on the world immediately and irreverently. Now it’ll take longer, but not by much. He’ll make it through.

“‘Resilience’ is the key word. I’ve often come up against things with resilience too. I’ve never made pacts with the devil, only with myself, perhaps because I myself am the devil.

“I’ve been in contact with the afterlife: like the doctors said, I died twice in the 40 days I was comatose. I made myself heard.

“I also negotiated with God, with politeness but also fury. I felt ready for heaven, but he didn’t give me the keys.

“I was surprised by [Mattia] Destro’s reaction: he’s never been so intellectually open. He was edgier before.

“He cried when he heard Sinisa’s name: it meant Mihajlovic had really entered his heart.”

 

[Palacio]

Where was his resilience when he was at Inter?

 

[Dogen]

Where was his resilience when he was at Inter?

It's a fair objection, but, in his defense, Sabatini already pleaded guilty and was intellectually honest about his career choice during the first press-conference as Bologna’s technical coordinator, back in June:

“With Suning, things went wrong because of me, I was in a hurry to do everything right away".

His resiliency was already put to the test when Suning didn't follow through with their promises and quickly discarded the project of an international network of satellite clubs (it was the same idea/dream Sabatini has had for a very long time and was eager to realize).

 

[InterFCAustin]

Icardi was his player. Why didn’t he find him a new agent?
Man, I like Sabatini and his flamboyant maverick style, but stop talking how’d you do things at inter, you were here and got your panties in a bunch and quit. Weak.

 

[Palacio]

Icardi was his player. Why didn’t he find him a new agent?
Man, I like Sabatini and his flamboyant maverick style, but stop talking how’d you do things at inter, you were here and got your panties in a bunch and quit. Weak.

My answer is he was too busy smoking.

 

[DARi0]

Man, I like Sabatini and his flamboyant maverick style, but stop talking how’d you do things at inter, you were here and got your panties in a bunch and quit. Weak.

Speaking at Social Football Summit in Rome, former Inter technical director, Walter Sabatini, spoke about his brief employment for Suning.

“Suning was perfect and I made mistakes. I just didn’t have patience, I wanted to build a Scudetto worthy Inter right away while they wanted to study Italian football better first. They were perfectly right. Then there was a small complication with Jiangsu Suning and I was responsible too. They then became worried. When they started losing, the Chinese were worried, just like us the Italians. But they were perfect with me and I wasn’t with them. If I had the chance to go back, I would not make the same mistakes. I’m very sorry.”

 

[Puma]

Speaking at Social Football Summit in Rome, former Inter technical director, Walter Sabatini, spoke about his brief employment for Suning.

“Suning was perfect and I made mistakes. I just didn’t have patience, I wanted to build a Scudetto worthy Inter right away while they wanted to study Italian football better first. They were perfectly right. Then there was a small complication with Jiangsu Suning and I was responsible too. They then became worried. When they started losing, the Chinese were worried, just like us the Italians. But they were perfect with me and I wasn’t with them. If I had the chance to go back, I would not make the same mistakes. I’m very sorry.”

He actually sounds apologetic and humbled from his experience at Inter. It makes a change to what we have heard in the past. Unfortunately for Sabatini, his Inter ship set sail a long time ago and is not going to come back for him. Some times, an opportunity can be fleeting and a person fails to put their best foot forward and realise the opportunity that has presented itself. From his comment above, that seems to have been the case for Sabatini. Perhaps the same could also be said for Gabriel Barbosa and his limited time at Inter.

Sabatini left without really giving us a chance. I was optimistic about his arrival given what he had done in the past but he walked out like a little bitch. Inter as a club should not waste their time with primadonas that throw their toys our of the pram (both players and directors).

Onwards and upwards.

FORZA INTER!

 

[thatdude]

I would take him back in some type of advisory role but not as sporting director. He’s got an eye for talent, especially CBs.

Is he the reason we have Bastoni? I know Skriniar was him.

 

[brehme1989]

I would take him back in some type of advisory role but not as sporting director. He’s got an eye for talent, especially CBs.

Is he the reason we have Bastoni? I know Skriniar was him.

Skriniar was all Ausilio.

He started contacts on February 2017 with a key person in the Sampdoria ranks. We wanted Schick and Skriniar. A deal waa agreed on both apparently but then two things happened. The Chinese restricted our spending and Sampdoria got greedy when Juventus came knocking.
For Skriniar we had agreed a 20m deal but we added Caprari there who was reserved for the Schick deal so we ended up inflating the value of Skriniar in order to maintain that 15m sale of Caprari that Doria had agreed to.

All Sabatini did was to OK the move.

Bastoni was also Ausilio's pick which was delayed as we had to find a solution to sell youth players for FFP.

Ausilio was actually between Bastoni and Skriniar. He ended up getting both. Credit to Sabatini of course for helping him pull it off.
Sabatini was not at Inter when we initiated conversation with their clubs about a potential move.

Sabatini didn't as much go for players at Inter. It was one of his complaints towards Suning. He was quite restricted. He had more of a say in Jiangsu signings.

 

[Universe]

He’s got an eye for talent, especially CBs.

If I'm not mistaken, his latest young CB is that Tomiyasu kid. We'll see how he turns out.

 

[PHM1605]

Skriniar was all Ausilio.

He started contacts on February 2017 with a key person in the Sampdoria ranks. We wanted Schick and Skriniar. A deal waa agreed on both apparently but then two things happened. The Chinese restricted our spending and Sampdoria got greedy when Juventus came knocking.
For Skriniar we had agreed a 20m deal but we added Caprari there who was reserved for the Schick deal so we ended up inflating the value of Skriniar in order to maintain that 15m sale of Caprari that Doria had agreed to.

All Sabatini did was to OK the move.

Bastoni was also Ausilio's pick which was delayed as we had to find a solution to sell youth players for FFP.

Ausilio was actually between Bastoni and Skriniar. He ended up getting both. Credit to Sabatini of course for helping him pull it off.
Sabatini was not at Inter when we initiated conversation with their clubs about a potential move.

Sabatini didn't as much go for players at Inter. It was one of his complaints towards Suning. He was quite restricted. He had more of a say in Jiangsu signings.

Skriniar was on Sabatini. At that time we were linked to Rüdiger and when was asked about him, Sabatini said out loud that he did scout another player, and afterwards we brought Skriniar.

https://romapress.net/2017/05/29/sabatini-totti-spalletti/

 

[brehme1989]

Sabatini was the one who wanted Rudiger. So did Spalletti. Ausilio wanted Skriniar, Sabatini accepted.

Check the first rumours of Inter wanting both (either) Bastoni and Skriniar. They surfaced around March 2017 iirc. Maybe even earlier. The official contact started on February that year.
Around the same time we were rumoured to want Patrik Schick.

Neither Sabatini nor Spalletti were at Inter then.

 

[PHM1605]

If you even read the link, Sabatini never wanted Rüdiger. The interview was during his first months at Inter and he denied the rumour completely. That was the journalists kept linking us with Rüdiger coz Spalletti was our coach.

These are his words, not mine:

“I didn’t buy players at Roma who I bought previously. I said the exact opposite. Buying a player twice and being judged twice is not worth it. When I did this I was persecuted so I hope not to run into this situation.”

If you claimed he wanted him, care to provide the proof?

 

[brehme1989]

My bad, it was Spalletti who wanted him.

 

[Il Drago]

Skriniar was both Ausilio and Sabatini. And the same goes for Dalbert. From an Ausilio interview to Tuttosport in November 2017:

Inter Milan chief Piero Ausilio says he and fellow director Walter Sabatini are working well together.

Talk of tension between the transfer gurus has been dismissed by Ausilio.

“Unlike what a lot of people think, we're friends and we've respected each other for a long time," he told Tuttosport.

“We came across each other a bit by accident, but we find it easy to work with each other.

“We've found a balance and the beautiful thing is that we have a similar view of football: there'll be ten players I like, nine that he likes and vice versa.

“When I noted down the names of Skriniar and Dalbert, he told me to sign them right away.

 

[brehme1989]

That's basically what I said, but with more detail. Sabatini OKd tbe move for Skriniar, he did not recommend him or anything. Ausilio just had a deal in place. That had collapsed due to Schick and we then made a slightly different one.

With Dalbert what I remember happening is that we had a deal for 8m with Nice but we stalled because we tried to go for someone else in a different position and pretty much let that on hold. Probably it was Nainggolan where Roma was reluctant to let go and we had to allocate funds just in case. Then Nice and their agent milked that interest and the valuation increased. Ausilio wanted to go for an alternative yet Sabatini was insisted on Dalbert since he was already scouted and was determined to be a good fit. An alternative was either a stop gap or a player that had to be scouted almost from scratch.

Most of our moves back then were in sync and then Spalletti had some specific requests (unknown if it was names after failing to bring Radja or characteristics).

 

[Il Drago]

Sabatini has officially left Bologna by mutual conscent.

 

[Il Drago]

Sabatini is the new sporting director of Salernitana.

 

[Puma]

And he’s still a fuckwit.