Slow, cumbersome, shoddy, “mentally dead” he said. Yet the Kosovar giant in La Liga is another player, relentless in the area. And meanwhile Sarri is always without a deputy building …
Claudio Lotito never spends 20 million lightly. When he does, usually, it’s because the negotiation left no other choice. It was like this in 2009, when Lazio redeemed Mauro Zarate from Al Sadd for a golden weight. An operation that the Biancoceleste president, a few years later, called “the purchase that I would not do again”. Perhaps, now, his very personal list of regrets has a new and undisputed master: Vedat Muriqi.