Mancini: ‘Gravina could have kept me on Italy bench’

Roberto Mancini has damaged his silence and blames FIGC President Gabriele Gravina for his sudden departure from the Italy job. ‘He may’ve saved me if he wished to, for a 12 months he was attempting to revolutionise my employees.’

The CT was underneath contract till July 2026, however tended his resignation on Saturday night and it was accepted on Sunday morning with a proper announcement from the Federation.

Now Mancini has spoken to La Repubblica newspaper and given his model of occasions, brazenly blaming President Gravina.

“I defined to him that in these months I wanted to be given assist and calm, however he didn’t try this and so I resigned.”

The issues had been obvious all through the summer time, so Mancini was criticised for leaving simply weeks earlier than the essential EURO 2024 qualifiers.

“Ought to I’ve completed it earlier? Maybe. However I left the Nazionale with 25 days to go earlier than the subsequent sport, not three days.”

It got here simply days after Mancini had been given further powers in a brand new position as co-ordinator of the Azzurri together with Underneath-20 and Underneath-21 ranges, with lots of his employees members appointed to roles within the youth groups.

Nevertheless, it appears Mancini noticed that as much less of a promotion and extra of a solution to cut up aside his working group.

“Gravina had been attempting for a 12 months to revolutionise my employees. I attempted to inform him that at most he may add a few new faces, however he couldn’t take away two members of a gaggle that works and had gained. If something, it must be me who decides to substitute a member of my employees.”

The CT additionally hinted he had hoped to simply ship Gravina a message about how badly issues have been going, however the FIGC leapt on the likelihood to eliminate him as a substitute.

“Gravina had for some time considered issues very in a different way from me. I used to be massacred purely for my resolution. I wished to ship a sign to the President, he may’ve helped me if he had wished to.”

Mancini additionally confirmed he wished to remove the clause within the contract permitting the Federation to sack him if he didn’t qualify for EURO 2024.

“I had solely requested that in order that I’d have some peace and quiet over the subsequent few months. Clearly, I’d’ve gone if issues didn’t go effectively and we didn’t qualify.”