PINZOLO – Talking to Inter Channel, Walter Samuel had his say on the progress of the summer pre-season and on the approaching Nerazzurri season: "The pre-season camp is going very well, and now we'll have another day of hard training ahead of the upcoming friendly scheduled in Rovereto. Physically I'm holding up well, despite the fact that I'm not exactly the youngest guy in the world."
He did not play in the last friendly against Trentino Team, but as Samuel explained: "Silvestre only has a muscle strain and he'll recover soon. Those of us with experience here at Inter must be the ones to help him – as with all the new players – to adjust in the best way possible. There have been a few changes in the team and now we have a lot of young players. On our part, we have to try and help them and help each other in order to be able to win the Scudetto, Coppa Italia and Europa League. We seem really charged up? We've always been that way. Now there's a new group, but that doesn't change."