Former AS Roma sporting director Walter Sabatini admits he regrets not signing a young Paul Pogba.
Sabatini, who has just resigned from Salernitana, has recalled being offered the departing Manchester United midfielder as a young player by agent Mino Raiola.
He told Corriere della Sera: "I had terrible clashes with agents who were exaggerating. But, for example, I still blame myself when at the time of Roma I had a bloody fight with poor Raiola, because he came to ask me for a commission of 4 million (euros) on a very young Pogba.
"We insulted each other, but today I regret a lot and I am convinced that I did a colossal bull***t, because that was an ethically boundary operation, but in the end I would have brought an enormous technical and patrimonial value to Roma.
"I had the courage to do it. They are the things of football: there is a general question on which we are all, or almost all, in agreement; then there are the particular, contingent situations, in which you have to think about it for a moment and evaluate the goodness of the occasion. Football is often played by addressing certain issues."
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