> “I’ll tell you how it went. One day I called Beppe Marotta on the phone: me and him, without intermediaries,” he told the Corriere della Sera.
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> “I told him that I would like to have Lautaro in my team and that I admired the boy so much. But he didn’t even let me finish talking. He told me clearly that the player was not for sale. And that he would not be the one to decide whether to move or not.
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> “And so I stopped all the reasoning, there was no way to continue. There is a relationship of mutual trust between me and Marotta, we have not gone any further out of respect for him and Inter.”