Moggi's network is intact
Thursday 2 July, 2009
Luciano Moggi, the former Juventus director who was disgraced by the Calciopoli scandal, insists his network is still intact.
Earlier this week, the 72-year-old who was banned from football for five years in 2006, revealed he had been advising Bologna.
“It went like this. I arrived in Bologna and I thought: 'now I will call my old friend Renzo Menarini and ask him if he wants to go to dinner… [and he did].
“Why shouldn't he want to come to dinner with me? Is it forbidden? Or perhaps someone wants to stop me from seeing people, from talking to them, from living?”
On being told people were merely concerned he was about to return to football, Moggi said:
“Why? What have I done? Did I kill? No. Did I steal? No. I only did well. To Italian football, I…”
Stopped in his tracks, Moggi was then asked if Menarini had offered him a consultancy role with Bologna.
“Who has put these stories out? Look I often go to dinner also with other Presidents. ” Moggi replied.
Asked to name them, Moggi said: “[Palermo's Maurizio] Zamparini, [Livorno's Aldo] Spinelli…”
Moggi was once again pressed if Menarini had spoken to him about a job.
“With Menarini we spoke about everything… one thing is clear. I have a five-year suspension, but anyway I could be a consultant… only that… it doesn't suit me.”
On being called a liar, Moggi replied: “I swear, I don't have the desire. Even if a lot of people call me.”
Pressed to name names, Moggi said:
“Tens of Presidents and not only in Italy. If I wanted I could put the phone down now and start working again.
“My network is intact. Connections. Relationships. Friendships. Everything could start working again in a few minutes.”
When asked if he was just trying to cause a stir, Moggi replied: “Why? You journalists write allusively that I was the king of the market, but I am only someone who understands football.”
Massaging his ego, Moggi was then told how he once promised Roma Edgar Davids if Juve got Daniele De Rossi, Alberto Aquilani and Gaetano D'Agostino - who were all 18 at the time - in return.
“I had seen them play a game against Juve's Primavera, because I got around. I visited stadiums.”
Asked if he telephoned referees, Moggi replied: “I telephoned them. So what?”
Finally, Moggi said he wasn't sick and tired of being linked with the bad side of Italian football “because, in the end, I am good.”
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Despite all this years, and knowing this fucker too well, its still suprising what fucking pathetic mythomaniac narcississtic egomaniac he is