Italian head coach Antonio Conte gives instructions during the UEFA
Champions League Group F football match Inter Milan vs Slavia
Prague on September 17, 2019, at the San Siro stadium in
Milan.Marco Bertorello / AFP
Antonio Conte will continue at the helm of Inter Milan
next season, the club confirmed on Tuesday, only days after the
fiery Italian hinted he was ready to quit after just one
campaign.
Conte held a “constructive meeting focused on continuity and
strategy” with the club’s Chinese president Steven Zhang and team
management which lasted just over three hours in a villa outside
Milan.
“The two parties laid the foundations to continue working
together on the club’s project,” the club said in a statement.
Inter opted for continuity after finishing second just one point
behind champions Juventus, with the Chinese owners also confirming
confidence in the entire management team.
Conte will now lead the club’s bid to topple Juventus with
coaching novice Andrea Pirlo having replaced Maurizio Sarri as
coach at the nine-time reigning Serie A champions.
The 51-year-old Conte’s departure was being heralded following
an outburst after Inter Milan’s 3-2 Europa League final defeat to
Sevilla last week.
with the trophy after winning the UEFA Europa League final football
match against Inter Milan on August 21, 2020, in Cologne, western
Germany. Lars Baron / POOL / AFP
“Now we’ll return to Milan, we’ll take a couple of days off. We
will try to plan the future of Inter with or without me,” said
Conte, after the team missed out on a first trophy since 2011.
“It has been a very tough season from all points of view, the
best decision must be taken for the good of Inter, with the utmost
cordiality.”
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“I didn’t like some situations.”
The former Chelsea and Juventus boss took over in May 2019 on a
three-year contract worth a reported 12 million euros ($14 million)
a season.
But his relationship with club management and CEO Giuseppe
Marotta, in particular, was reported to be tense.
On the final day of the domestic season, Conte slammed the fact
that players had been offered “little protection from the
club”.
“I don’t want another year like that.”
Marotta, however, insisted last week that “everything was
forgotten” after Conte’s heated criticism.
It was not the first time Conte has publicly complained about
the club.
Conte was also critical after the club’s Champions League
group-stage exit which he blamed on a lack of investment despite
the signing of Romelu Lukaku for 75 million euros.
But he still managed to build a competitive team around strikers
Lukaku and Lautaro Martinez, which Zhang said made the club
“optimistic for the future”.
“Conte and his technical staff are doing a great job,” said
Zhang.
Former Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri had been ready to
succeed Conte, whom he also replaced in Turin in 2014, should the
former Italy boss quit, according to reports.
Allegri parted company with Juventus in 2019 and has also been
linked with Paris Saint-Germain, but preferred to stay in
Italy.
AFP
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of Justice
Malami: I need No Power to Supervise EFCC
The Honourable Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister
of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN has said that the office of the
AGF does not need the tinkering of the current Economic and
Financial Crime (Establishment) Act 2004 to enable him regulate the
Institution and could therefore not, in any ways, seek to sponsor
any bill for “more powers to control the commission”.
Malami in a statement issued by his Special Assistant
on Media, Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu,
on Tuesday 25th August 2020 , said he requires no
additional powers to effectively regulate agencies under his
supervision.
The statement read: “it is trite to say that by virtue of the
extant laws of the land as well as rules and legislations governing
the conduct of the governmental operations, the Attorney-General of
the Federation has
indisputable statutory powers to regulte the operations of the
commissions without recourse to any additional legislations.
“Section 43 of the EFCC Act has made it abundantly clear that
“the Attorney General of the Federation may make rules or
regulations with respect to the exercise of any of the
duties, functions or powers of the Commission
under this Act”.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the Attorney General of the
Federation and Minister of Justice believes in the doctrines of
separation of powers as an epitome character of the
democratic administration and could
not therefore meddle into the affairs of legislature for
megalomaniac sake”.
“It is a global practice in democratic societies that the
legislature may at their discretion and as deem fit, spearhead the
amendment of existing legislations in order to accommodate certain
exigencies occasioned by contemporary realities and the
need to improve performance to achieve best practices without any
prompting from external organs of the government.
“At the moment, the priority of the Office of the
Attorney-General of
the Federation and Minister of Justice is to see to the effective
execution of its statutory mandates of supervising all the
parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Justice in a way that
make them function in the best interest of the general public,
which constitutional responsibility he is engaged by
President Muhammadu Buhari to discharge”.
Modupe Ogundoro
Deputy Director
25th August, 2020