Genoa director general Giorgio Perinetti assured Giuseppe Rossi “is a player of unique honesty” and the failed doping test must be a misunderstanding.
The Italy international tested positive for dorzolamide after Benevento-Genoa in May.
He is currently without a club and has been interviewed twice by investigators, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport.
Genoa director general Giorgio Perinetti assured Giuseppe Rossi “is a player of unique honesty” and the failed doping test must be a misunderstanding.
The Italy international tested positive for dorzolamide after Benevento-Genoa in May.
He is currently without a club and has been interviewed twice by investigators, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport.
“Giuseppe is a player of unique honesty, so we are convinced he can prove his innocence,” Perinetti told Sky Sport Italia.
“It must be a misunderstanding. We’ve already had cases where players took medication for a very different reason to a desire to alter sporting performance.
“In any case, we are utterly convinced the player can prove he knew nothing about it.”
Rossi is currently a free agent, as his contract with Genoa expired in June.
“The interruption of our rapport with Rossi happened consensually. We had an option that we did not exercise, in accordance with the player. We had other plans, he probably expected to be used more and we couldn’t guarantee that, so we made this decision together.
“Once we found out about the positive doping test, he was already no longer our player. The club was warned that there was an investigation, as at the time Rossi was in the Genoa squad.
“We’ve never given anything to the player that we weren’t aware of, while the player maintains he took nothing either. We now hope the whole situation can be clarified.”