Having recently signed for Salford City, ex-Liverpool forward Fabio Borini has spoken honestly about the difficult period he endured at former club Sampdoria.Having left Liverpool for Sunderland in 2015, Borini is now back in the north west as a Salford player in the fourth division.The 34-year-old has spent the last two years in Serie B at Sampdoria, where he was cast out by sporting director Pietro Accardi, playing just 298 minutes in the 2024/25 league campaign.“People close to me know how difficult it was because it was a very strict position taken by the director before even meeting me,” Borini told the Times.“I was ready to sue the club. I had every paper to sue the club because they can’t make me train on my own at different times, no food, no involvement with the team, all these little things.“So I was very, very, very troubled. I spoke with a friend of mine that was in Sampdoria and lived the same situation and he said, ‘I’m feeling like I’m healing by being away’.“And I texted him yesterday and said, ‘I’m starting to feel those feelings again’ because it’s a long process.”Despite being forced out of the Sampdoria squad in a similar way to Raheem Sterling at Chelsea – that was Borini’s own comparison – the ex-Premier League attacker still had attributes to offer.He said: “I was keeping them together in the hard times because it’s my experience that brings me to do that and I can do the same here (Salford).” Now living back in England with his Liverpudlian wife, Borini has actually moved into the old house of Man United‘s former executive vice-chairman, Ed Woodward.Protestors attacked the Cheshire home in 2021 due to Man United‘s failings at board level and the family left soon after.Borini stepped in to buy the house four years ago and joked: “Because of the protests outside, everybody was worried so I said, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll buy it [and] get the price down!’” Once deemed among Italy’s best attackers, he failed to step up to the top level when he signed for Liverpool.Bought from Roma in 2012, he was given a go by Brendan Rodgers but scored just twice in 20 first-year appearances.It was decided that he would go on loan to Sunderland the following season where he became a cult favourite.However, with Luis Suarez having left for Barcelona, he was brought back to bolster Liverpool’s forward line alongside Daniel Sturridge, Balotelli and Rickie Lambert.Again, it didn’t work out and he left for Sunderland permanently the following summer.Following a further two years on Wearside, relatively short spells followed at AC Milan, Hellas Verona, and Turkish Super Lig club Karagumruk, before he returned to Italy to play for Sampdoria.