The agent of Manolo Gabbiadini has explained his move to Al Nasr.

The striker has left Sampdoria for the UAE club in a permanent deal.

Silvio Pagliari told TMW: "He made a choice, he rejected other situations in Europe. When Dubai came up he immediately wanted to go there and he is very happy, there is an important technical project, brand new sports centres. As he always has done an intelligent choice, as he is."

"In Naples he scored almost thirty goals, in the Premier League he was one of the few Italians to have done really well. Of course, due to the qualities he had perhaps he could have done something more... But he paid for the role and the year after (Rafa) Benitez, if he had remained the coach with (Gonzalo) Higuain, his career could have been different."