Former Lazio striker Paolo Di Canio has spoken on Inter manager Antonio Conte’s decision to reintegrate Ivan Perisic and Radja Nainggolan into the Inter team.
Last Summer both players were judged as being out of the club’s project alongside former Inter captain Mauro Icardi and spent last season on loan at Bayern Munich and Cagliari respectively.
Upon their returns at the start of this month both players were widely expected to be sold but both featured heavily during Inter’s pre-season campaign and both also played in Saturday’s 4-3 win over Fiorentina in Inter’s 2020/21 Serie A season opener at San Siro.
“Conte has gone back on some of the choices he made last season in order to achieve the objective he said he is willing to go back on his word,” he explained whilst present in the studios of Italian broadcaster Sky Sport Italia during their Sky Calcio Club show on Sunday.
“Perisic was not part of the project due to his characteristics, Nainggolan for other reasons. Now unless something happens he will keep them both.”
Di Canio, who also represented the likes of West Ham United during his career, then went on to speak about what he feels Conte has to do and something he can take advantage of: “He will have to stop being so rigid. He can exploit the five substitutes.”
