{"id":5970,"date":"2026-04-11T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/5970\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:17:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:17:44","slug":"former-lazio-italy-striker-urges-inter-milan-to-sign-newcastle-united-midfielder-he-considers-a-true-regista-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/5970\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Lazio &#038; Italy Striker Urges Inter Milan To Sign Newcastle United Midfielder He Considers \u2018A True Regista\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paolo Di Canio has thrown his weight behind a move for Sandro Tonali to Inter Milan, declaring the Newcastle United midfielder Italy\u2019s best player of movement by some distance and questioning why he is playing for a mid-table Premier League club.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Corriere della Sera in a characteristically forthright interview, Di Canio covered the Scudetto race, the Bastoni controversy and the Italian football transfer market, pulling no punches throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonali in Italy, where would I see him? At Inter, who already have a true regista,\u201d he said, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcinternews.it\/focus\/di-canio-tonali-lo-vedo-all-inter-lautaro-come-kane-ma-come-si-fa-e-su-bastoni-dico-che-1006610\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FCInterNews;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;FCInterNews&quot;}\" class=\"link \">FCInterNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is our best player of movement by a distance. But where is he playing? In the tenth team in the English league. The Premier League is the NBA and we are Italian basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went further with a pointed observation about Roma\u2019s Donyell Malen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Aston Villa he was the third reserve, at Roma he looks like a Martian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Di Canio Defends Inter Star Bastoni &amp; Urges Him To Show Mental Strength As He Claims Tonali Is \u2018Italy\u2019s Best Midfielder\u2019<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/sempreinter.com\/2026\/04\/10\/inter-milan-bastoni-no-priority-barcelona\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bastoni;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bastoni&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Bastoni<\/a>, Di Canio was equally direct, defending the defender while urging him to rise above the noise rather than engage with it.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHysteria on one side and the other. He simulated once, not a hundred times. There is so much hypocrisy, those who accused him look the other way if the same thing happens in Lecce vs Sassuolo instead of Inter vs Juventus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He then drew on his own experience of controversy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey whistle you as they did with me in England when I received eleven games for pushing a referee. In those cases you don\u2019t care, you show you have the nerve and you keep playing. And if you complain about social media, you are stupid twice over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>On the Scudetto, <a href=\"https:\/\/sempreinter.com\/2026\/02\/13\/di-canio-communication-chivu-inter-milan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Di Canio;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Di Canio&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Di Canio<\/a> was bracingly candid about Inter\u2019s squandered opportunities in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlready Inter\u2019s title? Well, they have already shot themselves in the foot twice. For five years they should have done what Juventus did for nine seasons. They are the only club that has built consistently well. They have the best players, their rivals have changed coaches and players every year, often getting worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paolo Di Canio has thrown his weight behind a move for Sandro Tonali to Inter Milan, declaring the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3992,790,2595,1386,156,119,5,170,237,1895,696,4330,107,82,420,4331],"class_list":{"0":"post-5970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-aston-villa","9":"tag-bastoni","10":"tag-corriere-della-sera","11":"tag-donyell-malen","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-inter-milan","14":"tag-italy","15":"tag-juventus","16":"tag-lazio","17":"tag-lecce","18":"tag-newcastle-united","19":"tag-paolo-di-canio","20":"tag-premier-league","21":"tag-sandro-tonali","22":"tag-sassuolo","23":"tag-urges-inter-milan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/italy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}