{"id":538718,"date":"2025-10-31T00:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/538718\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T00:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T00:33:37","slug":"forgotten-premier-league-cult-hero-reveals-he-was-close-to-suing-former-club-after-they-refused-to-give-him-food-during-miserable-spell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/538718\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Premier League cult hero reveals he was close to SUING former club after they refused to give him food during miserable spell"},"content":{"rendered":"

By LEWIS BROWNING, SPORTS REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 17:44 EDT, 30 October 2025 | Updated: 18:08 EDT, 30 October 2025 <\/p>\n

A former Liverpool<\/a> striker has claimed an Italian club he previously played for refused to feed him when he wasn’t getting regular game time.<\/p>\n

The striker, who also played for the likes of Chelsea<\/a> and Sunderland<\/a>, has made a sensational return to English football with Gary Neville<\/a> and David Beckham<\/a>‘s Salford City in the fourth tier.<\/p>\n

After attending a training camp for free agents throughout the summer, he penned a death with the League Two side. Now 34, he has played twice – 40 minutes in total – so far, and is yet to score.<\/p>\n

Having left England the first time, though, when he departed the Black Cats in 2018, he went back to his homeland of Italy, initially with AC Milan<\/a> before moving again.<\/p>\n

He went onto play for\u00a0Hellas Verona and then\u00a0Fatih Karagumruk, before joining Serie A<\/a> side Sampdoria in 2023. He scored nine times in an impressive first season, but fell down the pecking order in the second season following off-field changes.<\/p>\n

Now, Fabio Borini, the player in question, has explained how he was ready to sue the side over allegations of how he was treated.<\/p>\n

\"A <\/p>\n

A former Liverpool star has claimed one of his former sides refused to feed him when he was out of the team<\/p>\n

\"Fabio <\/p>\n

Fabio Borini, who also played for Chelsea and Sunderland, said he was ready to sue Sampdoria<\/p>\n

Borini said, via The Times<\/a>: ‘People close to me know how difficult it was because it was a very a strict position taken by the director before even meeting me. He decided that I wasn’t right, I wasn’t this, I wasn’t that, I was a problem in the dressing room, when in reality, I was the dressing room.<\/p>\n

‘I was keeping them together in the hard times because it’s my experience that brings me to do that and I can do the same here. I was ready to sue the club. I had every paper to sue the club because they can’t make me train on my own different times, no food, no involvement with the team, all these little things.<\/p>\n

‘So I was very, very, very troubled. I spoke with a friend of mine that was in Sampdoria and lived the same situation and he said, “I’m feeling like I’m healing by being away”. And I text him yesterday, and said, “I’m starting to feel those feelings again”. Because it’s a long process.’<\/p>\n

Borini initially joined Chelsea’ youth team and went onto make eight appearances for the first team without scoring.<\/p>\n

He left the Blues in 2011 and joined Liverpool a year later, featuring under Brendan Rodgers, where he was the Northern Irishman’s first signing as boss. He featured 38 times, scoring three goals, before leaving in 2015.<\/p>\n

In the summer, his Sampdoria nightmare came to and end and he trained in England before penning a deal with Salford, who are owned by Beckham and Neville and are third in League Two – one point off top.<\/p>\n

He said of his move to the club: ‘It doesn’t really matter the league or context, it’s about football,’ he said. ‘Salford is being built to be a proper football club. It’s not like they’re throwing money around for no reason, it’s football people running a football club.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sampdoria were contacted for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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