Former Roma director Walter Sabatini believes Napoli play the best football in the league and revealed his frustrations at losing the scudetto to Juventus. Sabatini spoke at length with il Corriere dello Sport about the current situation in Serie A, and started by addressing the recent international break and how it may impact teams when the league resumes in January:
The restart is an unknown quantity for everyone, this break was uncomfortable. I have a particular fondness for Napoli because of my deep friendship with Spalletti.
Napoli play erotic, sensual football, precisely close to eroticism. They play for the pleasure of it. Kvaratskhelia is like Guccini’s Locomotive, a young colt who as soon as the brake is released, bites the rail with steel muscles. Unfortunately, I didn’t do the signing.
The World Cup? I liked Morocco’s number eight, Ounahi.
My time at Salernitana? Getting into the car, I said to myself, I left when the light was rampant. And I regretted that. You can enjoy the light if you have something important behind you.
To this day I still have a wish to fulfil: to eat a fried fish barefoot by the sea. They have stayed with me here.
How do I feel about Juventus? I feel cheated. While Juve were doing what is being alleged, I was losing a Scudetto at Roma with 87 points.
Roma? They’re a boring team, they play scattershot football, which I don’t like. Then they can win, because Mourinho is a master at winning.
Just remember how they won against Salernitana last year, that point in Rome would have been the point of salvation for us, then obtained on the last day.”
