Salernitana president Iervolino had a lot to say as he hit back at his former sports director Walter Sabatini as the topic of agents fees was brought. He had this to say:
"Sabatini think everybody is stupid but the only misunderstanding is his. He thinks he is more intelligent but was just lying. He wanted to pay the agent's commission, we argued because I don't accept these distortions. We wanted to give Lassana Coulibaly an increase of €200,000 but in order to complete the negotiations we would have had to give his agent €1m: a negotiation Sabatini had taken on, perhaps wary the same agent would take interest in other offers..."
This whole saga prompted La Gazzetta dello Sport to discuss the agent commissions paid by Italian clubs. According to the newspaper, AC Milan comes fourth with 12.6 million euros.
The first are Juventus with 28.9 million euros, Inter are trailing with 27.5 million euros then Roma are third with 26 million euros for the 2021-2022 season.
The numbers of AC Milan show the policy undertaken by the Rossoneri management in the last period which is to not take part in auctions and pay overpriced fees in order to win over negotiations. The club wants to cut costs and remain financially sustainable and healthy.
These are the rest of top ten spending clubs on agents fees this season: Atalanta: 8.4 million euros. Fiorentina: 8.3. Sampdoria: 7.2. Napoli: 6.9. Sassuolo: 6.8 and Udinese are tenth with 5.8 million euros.
