President Claudio Lotito says that Inter counterpart Erick Thohir is settling well into the world of Italian football.
The Nerazzurri owner has been recently criticised for his break-up in the relationship with honorary and former President Massimo Moratti.
Lotito has today expressed his view about the alleged spat and backed the Indonesian.
President Claudio Lotito says that Inter counterpart Erick Thohir is settling well into the world of Italian football.
The Nerazzurri owner has been recently criticised for his break-up in the relationship with honorary and former President Massimo Moratti.
Lotito has today expressed his view about the alleged spat and backed the Indonesian.
“I think that Moratti has represented the past – a great philanthropist who has invested a lot of money for pure passion,” Lotito considered to Radio 24 today.
“Whilst today, with Financial Fair Play, football and football clubs need some economic balance.
“So this doesn’t allow anymore nurturing of passions that can either be agreed or disagreed upon like in this specific case.
“I don’t know whether we should have gone as far as Indonesia to find some strictness, but Thohir has showed that he’s got clear ideas about football and actually he has showed that he’s got good management skills.
“He is a President that certainly mirrors the new philosophy of how to do things in football.”
Due to his omnipresence in everything ranging from Serie B to the Italy national team, it was put to Lotito that he has also more influence in the game at the moment than Milan’s Adriano Galliani.
“We can’t measure up the power between me and him. The contractual power in my case is credibility and authority that one acquires through his own colleagues. Galliani is the No 1 CEO in Europe as far as my feelings go.”
Lotito also considered the power balance between footballers and their agents.
“I’ll discuss with the Italian Football Federation board the question about the deregulation of football agents. The agents’ register won’t exist anymore,” Lotito continued.
“In the past there was a kind of connivance between clubs, agents and footballers – a potpourri which eventually led to pact-building. And I am not in favour of pact-building but rather I’m in favour of sharing.
“As deregulation happens, priority for a certain agent goes. Because at the moment every player has a registered football agent, from whom they can’t release.
“They aren’t slaves but in fact they are influenced [in their decision-making]. In this way everybody can take everyone, in the moment he wants and if he wants – and that’s where the contractual power of the agent fails.”