Walter Sabatini on his greatest regret with Roma: “Not signing Rabiot.”

Walter Sabatini on his greatest regret with Roma: “Not signing Rabiot.”Former Roma sporting director Walter Sabatini looked back on his career in a recent interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport.“The record of ten consecutive victories with Roma exhilarated me,” recalled Sabatini.

“I felt at ease in the capital. [Garcia] had just arrived, everyone was ‘taking the piss’ of me. I remember the messages: ‘We have signed Sergeant Garcia’.



But I was sure he would do well and I was right.”“In those years Totti was in great shape and made the difference, and we had an incredible midfield: Strootman, De Rossi, Nainggolan, Pjanic and Keita.”“What a player Seydou was, a leader, he looked at you with the gaze of the leader and no one dared to contradict him.

And on the field he was bad, he never made a wrong choice.”“The only real big regret I have is not signing Rabiot,” he added. “It’s all his mother’s fault, Veronique.

The year before PSG had given me more than 30 million for Marquinhos, I couldn’t take him away for free. When she found out she went crazy. She hated PSG, but maybe she also wanted the compensation money, in addition to the 3 million commission.

I remember Massara translating, but she was ashamed to throw back at her all the insults I said to her.”.