Nel podcast are OCW Sports, Borja Valero he talked about the period he spent at Inter, starting from the summer negotiation that took him to Milan: “In my presentation to Inter I said it, I didn't want to go there, I wanted to stay at Fiorentina but they thought I was a burden. Fiorentina doesn't want to he was waiting for such an important team to arrive. Spalletti arrived and said I want Borja. When I talk about great history I talk about history, Inter must fight for those things. We had to relaunch that Inter, the objective was to return to the Champions League but it wasn't easy. In the end we made it through suffering. With Lazio on the last day we played for the Champions League, we just had to win, then the draw and in the end the winning goal.”
Which player was Icardi?
“He carried the weight of the entire attack, in the final meters he was devastating. Top scorer together with Immobile, he scored goals with very little. He helped us reach the Champions League. Spalletti is one of the ones who gave me the most: he is of an age, but he had the ability to modernize and develop, he took cues from other coaches to find solutions.”
How was the transition from Spalletti to Conte?
“After two years of Spalletti, where we returned to the Champions League on a permanent basis, Conte arrived and was very different. Very demanding from a physical point of view in training. As soon as he arrived he said that I wasn't part of his plans, I said that I had no intention of to leave, I was convinced I could help and I stayed out of the exercises sometimes, I was the 23rd, I sometimes trained alone at 35-36 years old, but I had faith in me. He didn't care how your name, your salary, how much you've won, for him it's the moment that counts. If he sees that you're better than someone else he'll let you play we always had more space. We came close to winning, second in the league and the Europa League final. We had a bad match in the Italian Cup otherwise we would have played in the final too.”
You lost the Europa League final due to an own goal by Lukaku.
“He didn't have many faults with Sevilla. He gave us a lot that year, he scored so many goals. He always lived everything calmly, he's a teddy bear, he's very calm. He must have made the decisions to change teams and he takes them responsibility. But he is a very calm and calm person.”
What is your opinion on Handanovic's famous laser save?
“These things are viral on social media. I've never played with a more professional player than Samir, I've never seen someone train like him, so much and with such dedication. Incredible. He didn't care about what they said, he works hard.”
