“The level of maturity, he was a professional player, he interpreted, he understood, he wanted to see pictures, to work on his weaker foot, to work on everything that made things complicated for him.
“Most boys at that age try to hide their flaws, and he just wanted to improve. There, we started to glimpse that he was going to do something very important.
“Knowing Lautaro, he’s a boy who likes challenges and surely that’s what going to Barcelona would be for him.
“I tell you what I think: logically, Lautaro is the protagonist and he has the last word.
“He’s clearly at a very important team like Inter, but it doesn’t happen every day that Barca come looking for you and he can play with the best footballer in history, outside of the national team, and share all these days with him.
“There is no way I would pass that up.”