Fabiani Insists Lazio Want to Move Forward With Sarri: “Conflicts Keep the Relationship Alive”

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·13 March 2026

Fabiani Insists Lazio Want to Move Forward With Sarri: “Conflicts Keep the Relationship Alive”

Lazio sporting director Angelo Fabiani insists the club intends to finish the journey they started with Maurizio Sarri last summer.

The Background

The 67-year-old returned to the club for a second tenure 15 months following his resignation in March 2024. However, his first season back at the club has been incredibly challenging, marred by a summer transfer ban, mid-season player sales, and an ongoing fan protest against Claudio Lotito.

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Angelo Fabiani Comments on Lazio Dynamics

These unpleasant episodes have taken their toll on the relationship between Sarri and the club president, who have been trading barbs in the media. Therefore, many believe that the two men are unlikely to co-exist beyond the end of the season.

Nevertheless, Angelo Fabiani belittled the whole debacle, insisting that this sort of argument is a natural part of the working relationship between a manager and a club president.

The good relationships are also the ones with a bit of conflict. They keep the relationship alive. I see the way we, and Maurizio Sarri, express things as a relationship aimed at improving and pushing one another. Do we want to call it constructive criticism? Let’s call it that. There is nothing new under the sun, except that Sarrismo is also this.

Fabiani Claims Lazio Want to Keep Sarri Until 2028

Sarri had initially signed a two-year contract with an option for a third year back in June 2025, but this was swiftly turned into a three-year contract in July.

Fabiani highlighted the quick contract renewal as a token of trust from the hierarchy towards the head coach and his collaborators, insisting that the club wishes to keep the Tuscan tactician until the end of the contractual deadline in 2028.

With Sarri we signed a contract that provided for two years plus an additional year as an option, and we even removed that option, for both for him and for his staffm precisely because we believe in Sarri’s project. We started this new journey with him and we would like to finish it with him.