Icardi author: ‘Inter never asked…’
By Football Italia staff

Mauro Icardi’s ghostwriter insists the striker’s words were “read incorrectly” but reveals Inter “never asked anything”.

There was controversy this weekend after a passage in the Nerazzurri captain’s book recounted an argument with the Ultras, in which Icardi threatened to have hooligans from Argentina “kill them where they stood”.

That prompted calls for him to be stripped of the captaincy, but the Beneamata confirmed earlier today he would hold onto the armband.

“It was my idea to do the book, and Mauro and Wanda immediately liked it,” Paolo Fontanesi told Premium Sport.

“It’s true that Icardi is a 23-year-old, but people forget that his 23 years are like 40 for another person, he’s had a life full of incident.

“That’s where the idea came from, I never, ever thought it would create this much controversy.

“I won’t go into details, but I regret that these words have been read incorrectly. If it had been an interview yesterday, the Curva would have been right to react in that way.

“But a book has to be considered and interpreted, and above all put into the context of its timeframe.

“Mauro’s idea was this: ‘in the game I reacted like that, I was definitely wrong and I wanted to talk about that incident to say I wouldn’t make a mistake like that today’.

“He wanted to make it clear that it was a bad incident, he wanted to heal it.”

Much of the controversy could have been avoided if someone from Inter had actually read the book…

“No-one at Inter ever asked me for anything, and maybe that was a mistake by the club, but that’s not for me to say.

“I was never allowed to knock on Inter’s door to ask if those pages were OK.

“Now we’ll review those pages, I’m at the service of the captain. If he tells me to remove those pages then we’ll do it.”
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