Mauro Icardi’s lawyer appeared to criticise Inter’s treatment of their former captain in a strongly-worded newspaper column this morning.
Paolo Nicoletti told readers of La Repubblica that clubs now treat footballers ‘like accounting entries’, losing all sight of the value they can provide in a sporting sense.
He also expressed concerns supporters now care more about their clubs’ transfer activity than their results on the pitch.
“Fans celebrate a capital gain as enthusiastically as they celebrate a goal nowadays,” Nicoletti wrote.
“The transfer market has become its own competition, assigning ‘trophies’ which people care about more than actual football titles.
“Clubs spend too much time thinking about amortisation policies and the ratio between their revenue and expenditure. Too often they forget about how useful a player can be within their sporting project.”
Icardi recruited Nicoletti as his legal advisor earlier this year after he was stripped of Inter’s captaincy and chose not to play for the Nerazzurri.
The 26-year-old has been excluded from Antonio Conte’s squad for Inter’s upcoming tour of Asia, instead being left to train alone at Appiano Gentile.
