Salernitana sports director Walter Sabatini has apologised to sacked coach Pippo Inzaghi.

The AC Milan great was axed and replaced by Fabio Liverani over the weekend.

At Liverani's presentation today, Sabatini said: "You reach a certain point in life where the truth becomes necessary. It's an urgency, an urgency that I always have. I have to apologise to Inzaghi, I didn't help him enough. I carried out the January transfer market a bit slowly due to a series of complications and unfavorable episodes.

"I should have brought in some players in the very first days of January and I didn't. I didn't help a coach in difficulty and so I apologise to him for not helping him. I should have done it, but I couldn't. I offer him my apologies and wish him my best wishes for an important career."

On the choice of Liverani, Sabatini explained: "Because I know him. He is a man who grew up, even laboriously, in a dimension of Rome that I know. His life training ground was the street, the neighbourhood, and there he learns much more than in Coverciano or on a football pitch.

"He was a pain in the a** who played as a 10 in the Viterbo area and scored two goals for me when I was at Arezzo. He belonged to the Gaucci ownership, was joined by Perugia and within a few days, thanks to Cosmi's intuition, he was placed on a permanent basis in Perugia.

"It was Cosmi who took him from Serie C and put him on the field as a director: it was a great gesture, it took courage and vision. Then he established himself as dominator in the space of a few days and I have now chosen him because I remain convinced that we will be saved."