Inter came very close to signing Luca Toni in 2006 before the outbreak of the calciopoli scandal caused the deal to collapse, according to the player’s former agent Tullio Tinti.
Toni set a new club record for goals scored in a single Serie A season during the 2005-06 campaign, when he netted 31 times for Fiorentina under Cesare Prandelli.
He then helped Italy to win the 2006 World Cup in Germany before signing for Bayern Munich the following summer – but had it not been for calciopoli the previous summer it seems he could have joined Inter instead.
“We’d agreed a deal with [Massimo] Moratti for €25 million,” Tinti told Gazzetta dello Sport on Sunday.
“But the points deduction Fiorentina received as a result of calciopoli caused the Della Valle brothers to change their minds and keep him.
“Then the following year he signed for Bayern when they exercised his €11 million release clause.
“I think we should use release clauses more in Italy, like they do in other countries.”
