Gazzetta Dello Sport revealed how close current Valencia manager, Marcelino, was to managing Inter, but that the Nerazzurri decided to hire Stefano Pioli instead.
“A year ago, my staff and I were contacted by Inter’s executives. We went to Milan and had arranged two technical meetings. After the second we were sure we would have been training Inter. And instead, between Saturday and midday on Sunday, things changed. In 13 hours our application lost energy: obviously in Inter there were those who wanted to entrust the team and who instead preferred to give it to someone else.
No regrets, only the consciousness of living in a world like this?
“Exactly, we liked the idea of training in Italy. Instead, we did not go, we arrived in Valencia and we are very happy.”
You’ve recovered Kondogbia. Things did not go well in Italy, but you believed in him.
“It was clear that his qualities were so… cut off, but they were there…We were curious that in an environmentally friendly situation they could awaken. He already knew La Liga and seemed perfect for this season.”
