Nicola Berti says Michael Bolingbroke, Massimo Moratti and Walter Mazzarri are all to blame for the Honorary President’s resignation.
Nicola Berti says Michael Bolingbroke, Massimo Moratti and Walter Mazzarri are all to blame for the Honorary President’s resignation.
The former Nerazzurri and Tottenham midfielder thinks that the events which unfolded over the last few days just unearthed some truths.
“Considering what’s happened in recent days, I think that’s the stupidest ending,” Berti has commented in an interview with the Gazzetta dello Sport.
“This has all been really useless and also damaging for Inter. It just gives the impression of a big break-up, of great confusion.
“Inter are Inter and they’ve got their image to defend, but in this way it’s pretty clear that they were conveying a distorted image.”
In fact, according to Berti, the partnership between Moratti and Erick Thohir has always been disingenuous.
“I am angry with everyone, because everybody was wrong in this story. I don’t say this because I want to sit on the fence, but to me it’s pretty clear.
“Obviously we can’t ignore that everything has happened as a consequence of all that’s been said in these last few days.
“Nobody really knows what the relationship between Moratti and Thohir is, so we can only judge from what we can see. And I am pretty sure that everybody in turn could have avoided doing something.
“First it was Bolingbroke – we didn’t need him to tell us that Inter was financially struggling. We knew that they were paying for mistakes previously made, but Moratti himself had admitted this.
“But one thing is to know something, and another is laying your cards on the table in that way. Then obviously there was no need from Moratti to be angry with Mazzarri. I don’t understand why.
“You can like or dislike Mazzarri, and I am sure that he hasn’t achieved the results everybody hoped so far. But there was no need to de-legitimise him in that way because Thohir can’t do anything but protect his manager who is struggling at the moment.
“What should he have done? Fire him? The majority of fans don’t like Mazzarri, so there was no need to attack him like that.
“In that way Moratti just weakened Mazzarri’s position even more. But I must say that also Mazzarri was wrong because he should have bitten his tongue.
“Moratti is a President that in almost 20 years has won a lot and spent even more – whatever he said, albeit wrong, it was better not to answer for Inter’s sake.”
Berti thinks that Moratti has resigned for some reason other than specified and that we are yet to see the ending of this story.
“I doubt that Moratti will eventually sell his shares. I think that he acted in order to force the situation. But where he intended to get to remains to be seen.”