Cagliari manager and legendary Inter goalkeeper Walter Zenga has admitted he is surprised by the fact Radja Nainggolan is on loan at Cagliari and not still at Inter.
The former Belgian national team midfielder was judged to be out of Inter’s project this past Summer and was subsequently loaned to the Rossoblu club for this season and his future is up in the air.
“Radja is a superior player. I was rather surprised that he didn’t stay at Inter,” Zenga explained in an interview with Italian daily newspaper Tuttosport, which appeared in yesterday’s print edition.
“For me he, and I have said it before and I will say it again, is an Inter player all his life and we know very well that he is only passing through at Cagliari. I will always cheer for him because, he is a really nice person.”
Zenga, who has been in charge at Cagliari since March this year, then progressed to discuss the criticism that Inter striker Lautaro Martinez has received following his poor performance against Napoli this past weekend.
“Anyone can play a bad game and this does not change their value or their strength,” he explained.
Zenga, who is widely regarded as one of Inter’s greatest goalkeepers, is a product of Inter’s academy and joined the club at youth level back in 1971. He made his first team debut in 1978 and spent the following 16 years with the club before departing for Sampdoria.
