“The regret is the relegation, for sure.” Giovanni Rossiwho today announced his farewell to Sassuolo after 18 years, he has no major doubts. The sporting director speaks thus of an unfortunate season: “If I look back, and I’m not used to doing so, for me there isn’t a mistake, in my opinion it’s never just one thing that determines the result, there are many things that they didn’t fit together in the right way but today it’s not the main reason. Whoever arrives after me must think about rebuilding and I think Sassuolo has all the means to be able to recreate a dream.”
How much did Berardi’s injury have an impact?
“It’s one of the regions that has contributed. I think it’s very important because I’ve been here for many years, don’t even think and one has to start that results can be achieved even without Berardi because when you have an absence of a player who this year he had a meniscus and tendon injury, mentally you can get into difficulty.”
In the first year of Serie A he said that there were many players who didn’t want to come to Sassuolo and that he would then name the names, which he didn’t do. The time has come: who rejected Sassuolo?“This is one of the improvements that Sassuolo has made and will have to do further. In the first year there were difficulties, everyone thought we were done for, they didn’t know the strength of the Squinzi family, but after these were resolved and there were many problems in convincing both coaches and players to come to Sassuolo”.
Rossi’s press conference.