“It is shameful that Bastoni is exposed to this continual lynching in the media, as if he was guilty of who knows what,” he told DAZN.
“If you look at the World Cup elimination, the reasons behind that go much further back. In any case, a lad of his age does not deserve this kind of treatment. People make mistakes in life, but in Italy everyone thinks they are experts and psychologists, without knowing the kind of man and professional they are dealing with.
“He made a mistake, we all recognised that, but it can happen for a lad of his age. Having said all of that, Bastoni is an asset of Inter and of Italian football.
“I was reading in the paper that it was almost an obligation for him to leave this shirt and this country, but there are no such extremes. As with all players, we’ll discuss their future later on.”