MILAN. Antonio Conte’s farewell to Inter is official. The Nerazzurri club and the Salento coach, three days before the Scudetto party with the delivery of the trophy on the San Siro lawn, reached an agreement for the consensual termination of the contract (there was still one year, expiring in June 2022 ) for a figure that should be equal to 7.5 million. Conte received a net salary of 13 million (about 25 gross). So with this severance pay, Inter saved about 17.5 million. Curiously, it is almost the same amount that would have been proposed to Conte to sign the consensual resolution at the end of August at the summit of Villa Bellini. Then the club, according to rumors, would have proposed eight million. But the agreement was not found since there were still two years of maxi-salary.
Inter thanks Conte with very heartfelt words: “The whole club would like to thank Antonio for the extraordinary work he has done, which culminated in winning the nineteenth championship. Antonio Conte will remain forever in the history of our club ”. Something more than a ritual formula. Gratitude prevails for Conte’s achievement who brought the Scudetto back to Inter after 11 years of fasting.
Conte wins and if he goes, as has often happened in his career. He did it at Juventus in 2014 after some dialectical clashes with the Juventus club which culminated with the famous phrase: “You can’t eat with 10 euros in a 100-euro restaurant”. It ended in a traumatic way even in the national team after the 2016 European Championships after Conte began to give signs of intolerance, complaining about a form of poor protection. In fact shortly after he made an agreement with Chelsea. The separation from the Blues, which ended in court in London, is even more stormy. A lawsuit from which Conte came out with a victory: the English judgments recognized him the right to have the last 9 million owed by Chelsea.
At Inter his experience ends in a similar way. Once again Conte clashes with the company for a different vision on future programs. A situation made very complicated by the Chinese property crisis, exacerbated by an extremely opaque management method. To cite the most striking case, the Zhang family has not yet explained why they did not sell the club for 800 million to BC Partners in March. An incomprehensible decision in the light of these events. Conte has lost patience even in the face of this attitude. But, as often happened in the former coach’s career, a very favorable way out would already be ready: a maxi-engagement of almost 20 million for Tottenham. London again, like five years ago. From the Blues to the Spurs.
The outburst on Twitter of the former Nerazzurri striker Eder, who plays in the Chinese team of Suning and with whom he has an open dispute over unpaid salaries: “Inter are throwing away all the work done by Mr. Conte because it has to return 100 million. They don’t care about football and the employees ».