For Walter Sabatini, there is a superior footballer to Rafael Leao
Walter Sabatini’s words
Walter Sabatini, former sporting director of Salernitana gave a long interview to “Corriere dello Sport,” in which he covered various topics, including Napoli’s new star Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.
Sabatini admitted his displeasure at leaving Salernitana: “You should know how they spin me. I’m really pissed off, because being out doesn’t feel right. I don’t find myself in the role of spectator, I’m not capable of it. I did it for the city of Salerno, which loves me and is reciprocated. When spring returns we will go away and eat a little fish by the sea, I will even put my feet in the water like children, and I will tell you about it. Crazy and visionary I like them, they suit my nature. It was a great trip and I still feel the affection of the people. The rest, bitterness included for the epilogue, I put aside and I don’t talk about it.”
He then commented on Spalletti’s Napoli: “A European team to be considered among the strongest. The cocktail between what that stellar coach called Spalletti has done and what a brave club like few has been able to do. Spalletti? I can tell him anything. Me, while I’m enjoying Napoli, I sit in religious silence. Pay attention to them: they express themselves as if they were in hypnosis, induced by their own coach, which increases their performance tenfold. Mario Rui, whom I took at Roma and who unfortunately got injured right away, has become the reference for ferocity, determination, elegance in crossing and personality.”
“All this, all this spectacle that is given to us, has generated that raving madman on the bench. Underrated? One has to say. Because Luciano was born good, in fact very good,” Sabatini continued. “His teaching knowledge is impressive. He can add little, almost nothing: Napoli has the precision of the first clock invented in Switzerland. Every play is a movement, with and without the ball, modern dynamics for 30 years, since he has been on the bench. He changed Roma, he took Inter to where they wanted to be, to the Champions League.”
And speaking of Napoli, impossible not to mention Kvaratskhelia: “I’ve never known envy, except now that I discovered this guy. Giuntoli has been a phenomenon, to be applauded, because this is a work of art. The management of the market is a lesson for everyone, kudos must also be given to AdL: they revolutionized, they got rid – I would say with little elegance by cleaning up – of a group that by now had given everything and they even cut costs and raised the technical rate. Then they entrusted everything to that great genius Luciano and off they went.
“Leao tears you apart, for crying out loud. But the Georgian is bad, decisive, impactful. I vote for Kvara. Tell me Cristiano how did you draw him? How?” concluded Sabatini, unbalancing himself in favor of the Georgian.
