Walter Sabatini

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Former Inter Sporting Director Walter Sabatini doesn’t regret joining the club but feels that part of the reason why his time at the Nerazzurri didn’t work out was that he was not included in the club’s official organizational structure

Speaking to Italian broadcaster DAZN after his current team Salernitana’s 1-1 draw with Bologna, the executive opened up about his time with the Nerazzurri and explained that he accepted a condition not to be part of the organization chart, and that he wouldn’t have in retrospect.

Sabatini, who is currently the Sporting Director at relegation-battlers Salernitana, held a position as technical coordinator at the Nerazzurri and Jiangsu Suning between 2017 and 2018, but it didn’t quite work out for him.

Despite that, he still does not feel that joining the Nerazzurri was a mistake, but rather feels that with hindsight he should have done certain things differently and especially not accepted the condition regarding the organization chart.

“I never said I regret going to Inter,” he said, “it was the crowning glory of a career. I regret how I joined the club. I was asked from inside not to appear in the organization chart, looking back I would not accept that condition.”

“This affected my future activity at the club,” he added, “it was as though I was there but not there at the same time. I often went to Nanjing to follow Jiangsu Suning with Fabio Capello. I didn’t enjoy being at Inter.”

“I don’t want any confusion with the Inter fans,” Sabatini continued, “I would have liked to give much more to Inter, who are a wonderful club and were a dream come true for me.”

 

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OFFICIAL: SABATINI QUITS SALERNITANA, NICOLA COULD FOLLOW​

Salernitana are in chaos after formally announcing director of sport Walter Sabatini has left, raising speculation over coach Davide Nicola and many players too.

The reports of issues between President Danilo Iervolino and director Sabatini had emerged over the last 24 hours and got progressively stronger. This afternoon, the Serie A club released a statement confirming Sabatini will not continue working there for the 2022-23 campaign.

He had only arrived in January, which was when Iervolino bought the club from Lazio chief Claudio Lotito, and completely transformed a squad that was rock bottom of the table.

They managed to avoid relegation in the final minutes of the season and had been seemingly ready to build on that success going forward.

Instead, with Sabatini’s departure, the position of coach Nicola is also now in doubt. Sabatini is something of a legend in Italian football circles, the chain-smoking 67-year-old having worked at Palermo, Roma, Sampdoria, Bologna, Inter, Salernitana and Montreal Impact.

Seems like they are heading back to Serie B in about 1 year.

 

[Puma]

Seems like Walter can't hold down a job because he's always ducking out to the shop to get smokes.

 

[andrei]

Fucking Sabatini! The man has a problem.
Still he knows his shit. Look at his last team, Bologna, where he was for something like 2 and half years.
When he came that was a relegation team full of recycled old farts.
He bought them Tomiyasu, Schouten, Domingez, Hickey, Barrow, even that belgian CB Theate is not bad.
A lot of young promising players. This is a nice foundation to develop a good squad, if their owner has a bit of ambition and money obviously.

 

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SABATINI THREATENS SALERNITANA PRESIDENT WITH COURT AS LYING ROW ESCALATES​

Former Salernitana director Walter Sabatini has threatened to take his ex-president, Danilo Iervolino, to court after being accused of lying as their row continues to escalate.

Sabatini left his role at Salernitana at the end of last season despite their near-miraculous survival act which saw them stay in Serie A on the final day of the season.
Sabatini recently told Il Corriere della Sera the whole thing was a misunderstanding over a contract extension for midfielder Lassana Coulibaly.

Sabatini said he paid the player’s agent a huge commission fee to ensure the deal was signed as he said Iervolino had given him carte blanche to whatever it took to get the extension sealed.

However, Iervolino category refuted this. He told Gazzetta dello Sport: “Sabatini think everybody is stupid but the only misunderstanding is his.
“He thinks he is more intelligent but was just lying. He wanted to pay the agent’s commission, we argued because I don’t accept these distortions.”
Iervolino added: “We wanted to give Lassana Coulibaly an increase of €200,000 but in order to complete the negotiations we would have had to give his agent €1m: a negotiation Sabatini had taken on, perhaps wary the same agent would take interest in other offers.

“I will never bend to this system: if a player gets a better offer from another club, he is free to go. Sabatini actually told me that he has been dealing in this way for some time now.
“And in the group chat we have with the Salernitana director and the PR representative, he wrote that, given my position in relation to commission, he did not believe he was the right man for Salernitana.
“I’m now reading that he thinks he’s at Champions League level, let’s see where he goes: he doesn’t even know how to use a computer or send an e-mail.
“But, on a personal level, I am disappointed with how it ended. I brought Sabatini to Salerno, I didn’t find him here and I wouldn’t have let him go.
“But I consider the things that happened to be serious. I want another type of football.”


Sabatini hit back on Monday and said he would take Iervolino to court and conceded that, while he agreed in principle with his former president on the notion of paying agency fees, he accepts this is part of football and regrets previous deals he missed out on by not paying the commission.
Sabatini told Radio Anch’io Sport: “If he called me a liar, I’ll see him in court, even if he does have great lawyers. I think it’s shows a lack of class and is in poor taste.
On paying agency fees, he added: “The problem with the commissions is not my issue but a a football one ideologically. I am not arguing this and I accept what Iervolino says.
“To this day I regret not having paid the €4m to [Mino] Raiola to get [Paul] Pogba to Roma. To this day, I feel I damaged Roma, even for [Marko] Arnautovic at Bologna, I fought for the commission to be paid and think I did the right thing.”

It`s incredible how football government bodies have not regulated agent fees so far.

 

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Interesting tidbit from his latest interview:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1533826767441518599

"Iervolino told me he would rather increase capital with his own money than sell players."

The president of fucking Salernitana is willing to inject their money into the club before selling, but not that of Inter. I'm not sure how much lower we can sink.

 

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Former Inter, Lazio, Roma, and Bologna Sporting Director Walter Sabatini feels that current Nerazzurri coach Simone Inzaghi showed a coach-like attitude as a player unlike any other player he had ever seen

Speaking to Italian broadcaster DAZN, Sabatini joked that Inzaghi had made himself a “pain in the ass” with his insistence on details and plans whilst he was a striker for Lazio, and also weighed in on some current Nerazzurri players including Kristjan Asllani and Edin Dzeko.

It was never a big secret that Inzaghi was likely to go into coaching, as the former striker made the transition from player to coach quite quickly, becoming a youth team coach for the Biancocelesti shortly after hanging up his boots.

The 46-year-old has only taken it from there, as he impressed in a big way upon his promotion to the bench of Lazio’s senior team before he joined Inter last summer as the replacement for Antonio Conte.

“I worked with him at Lazio,” he recalled of his time as Biancocelesti Sporting director, “he was a pain in the ass like I’d never seen before because he was already acting like the coach on the pitch – he talked to everyone, asked everyone to do things, was always proactive.”

“He’s done very well as a coach,” Sabatini said of the Inter coach, “his Lazio played amazing football.”

“Inter asks for more,” he noted of the demands of coaching the Nerazzurri, “Lazio have a very particular President in the form of Claudio Lotito, but he allows his coaches to work calmly.”

“You have to give Inzaghi time and then see what Inter will need in January,” Sabatini argued, “because something will be needed even if I don’t know what – Beppe Marotta and Piero Ausilio will take care of that.”

Of Nerazzurri midfielder Asllani, Sabatini said that the Albanian’s best quality is “Immediacy, he can always propose an immediate solution on the pitch, even if it’s an interlocutory one, he always has one.”

 

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