Joao Mario: Don’t go to Italy!

By Football Italia staff

Inter’s Joao Mario has warned the Sporting CP players who have rescinded their contracts ‘not to choose Italy’ as their next destination.

Bas Dost, William Carvalho, Gelson Martins and Bruno Fernandes all freed themselves from Sporting after they were victims of a training-ground attack, but Joao Mario advised the quartet against following him to Serie A.

“Don’t choose the Italian League!” said the midfielder at a Press conference ahead of Portugal’s World Cup campaign.

“The whole group is focused on what’s important, the match against Spain. A lot of us will be playing together for the first time, and that’s very important motivation for all of us.”

It comes barely a week after the 25-year-old declared his time with Inter was over and that he did not like Italian football.

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