Inter Milan chief Walter Sabatini admits he didn't get along with Roma president James Pallotta.
Sabatini left Roma last year ahead of joining Inter at the end of the season.
“What didn't work was the relationship between me and Pallotta," Sabatini confirmed, speaking to Corriere dello Sport.
“Everything worked at Roma because Roma was my life. Things were fine with Pallotta for a while, but less good after. At a certain point it was right that I change.
“My son has never forgiven me for making that choice, he goes to bed in a [Francesco] Totti shirt every night.
“I shared a silent feeling of love with many people, but I couldn't do it with Pallotta.
“Totti? With Francesco's curtain call we're losing a technical and poetic idea of football. It's not just that a champion is stopping, there will be pieces of play which go extinct because they leave with him, and that's a blow for football.
“Now I think Totti must now find the strength to set the past aside and accept the idea that there's something else in life, even if that's difficult for him.
“Not least because, from what I've read into my conversations with him, he had a real, almost adolescent, desire to keep playing."
Source: tribalfootball.com