Radja Nainggolan, a former Roma and Inter player, gave an interview to today’s edition of Gazzetta dello Sport. Here are the words of the Belgian midfielder: “The Nerazzurri have players with the right personality to overcome the two defeats, it is a situation they are not used to. I would like Roma to continue the positive streak, but the level between the roses is different and at San Siro there will be a desire to react.”
Inzaghi or Ranieri: who would you have been better off with?
“Inzaghi I know, I was with him a little bit: a good person who works very well tactically. Ranieri I never had him, but he seems like a great gentleman. And everywhere he goes I see players ready to throw themselves into the fire for him: that must count for something. With him Roma has been reborn.”
By the way, if you could choose you, who would be the next Roma coach?
“One should not pull Ranieri by the jacket and respect him. Then my name is always De Rossi who, when he came to the Roma bench, did better than Mou. And he deserved more time.”
But is it true that when De Rossi was there you could have come back?
“No.”
Which of those on the field is the player who most excites you?
“Stretcher because I kind of see myself in him in generosity, I saw him grow up as a child and now he is at a crazy level. He works so hard for others, he brings out the qualities of those around him, he works his ‘ass off’ for the team even if he doesn’t score as much.”
Barella-Calha-Micki: are they stronger than his midfield at Roma, when he played with Strootman, Pjanic and De Rossi?
“Not only in midfield, but between this Inter and my Roma we always win. Today the level is lower, we missed the Scudetto because there was a great Juve. But without Bonucci, Barzagli and Chiellini, they went down as well.”
Saelemaekers and Svilar, two Belgians like her in Rome.
“The 20 million to redeem Saelemaekers should be paid immediately. Svilar is from Antwerp like me and deserves to play to win: I hope Roma will allow him to do so sooner or later. And that he plays for the national team soon.”
“How many times I had to insult him,” Walter Sabatini said of her: any examples?
“F-head at least once a day. But from him I always accepted it. He remains one of the most important people in my career. If you talk about soccer, no one can explain like him.”
Source: Sports Gazette
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