Sandro Sabatini goads Beppe Marotta and Fabrizio Biasin
Sandro Sabatini, during the Numer1 podcast, did not back down: “I am addressing Biasin, Marotta, all students and followers,” said the journalist. “I ask: are you happy that you won the Scudetto? Yes. You must be happy without needing me to tell you. This is a great feat of Chivu, he is managing and has managed in the best way an epochal passage from one cycle to the next and you have to say it you who were orphans of Simone Inzaghi or worshippers of Cesc Fabregas and honestly you don’t know so well why.”
“You also have to say it when I make a provocation: last year was good? It wasn’t fine for you even though you made Champions League final, Italian Cup semifinal and second place in the league and you don’t have to be offended. You tell me so much about the videini but I made my prediction at the beginning of the year and I put Inter first, Napoli second and Juventus third. Why don’t you say it now? And then get it over with the referees, the mother of all controversies this year was another one and you know it,” added the former press office chief of the Nerazzurri.
This is not the first time Sabatini has found himself commenting on Nerazzurri affairs in biting tones. Last February, the journalist had spoken at the microphones of Radio Marte to criticize some of Chivu’s statements regarding Diego Armando Maradona, showing himself decidedly caustic: “I was astonished by the Nerazzurri coach’s phrases about Maradona. Sticks and Maradona in the same sentence cannot fit.” An episode that had made people discuss and that testifies how the relationship between Sabatini and the Interista environment has always been characterized by heated and never trivial exchanges.
For his part, Fabrizio Biasin – one of the direct recipients of Sabatini’s stoccate – had defended his Inter team even in the most difficult moments of the season. At the end of March, when the Nerazzurri were paying dearly for the absence of Lautaro Martinez, the journalist had written on social media, “Any Inter fan last summer would have signed up to arrive at the beginning of April in such a situation; any opponent of the Nerazzurri looking at this ranking would hardly have smiled.” Words that, in the light of the Scudetto then won, now seem more like a prophecy than an unofficial defense.
On the market front, meanwhile, the future of the title-winning Inter is already being considered. The Nerazzurri management has been working over the course of the season to plan the restyling of the squad, with a particular focus on the defensive department after the almost certain goodbyes of veterans such as Acerbi and De Vrij, both of whom are expiring contracts. Among the profiles being followed is Bologna’s Jhon Lucumí, identified as an economically sustainable option with a valuation around 20 million euros, also with a view to cover in case of a possible Barcelona assault on Alessandro Bastoni.
Chapter coach: the name of Simone Inzaghi, repeatedly evoked by the Nerazzurri square as a regret, is back in the market key, but this time at Milan. The experience of the coach from Piacenza in Saudi Arabia may not last long, and the Rossoneri – grappling with the choice of the post-Allegri, who is increasingly projected toward the bench of the national team – would be monitoring him as a possible solution for the future. A sensational hypothesis that, if it were to materialize, would bring Inzaghi back to Serie A but on the other side of the Naviglio.
