Pellegrini: With Marotta, Zhang can lead Inter Milan from China

Former Inter Milan president Ernesto Pellegrini says Steven Zhang can lead the club from China.

Pellegrini says key to the arrangement will be GM Beppe Marotta.

He told Radio Sportiva: "It also happened with Inter who had won my record Scudetto: there was talk of difficulties at the beginning and it was rumoured that I wanted to dismiss Giovanni Trapattoni and taking the job away from him wasn't like that: I trusted him, so it was right that Beppe Marotta trusted Simone Inzaghi, a winning coach, who works quietly and never raises his voice - I also like him for this reason.

"It is also right to point out the skill of Piero Ausilio. He is Marotta's right-hand man, who remembers him on every occasion."

Pellegrini added: "When there are people like Marotta in the club you can also be president in China, everything depends on the men. Marotta has an edge, he is a man I respect very much, as a manager but also as a person."