AS Roma chief Walter Sabatini has explained the sale of Mehdi Benatia to Bayern Munich.
Roma president James Pallotta slammed the Moroccan last week.
"Bayern Munich have asked us to put an end to this public palaver, they do not want any further statements," Sabatini said.
"I would like to return a portion of truth to this story. Benatia had good conditions but then he slipped. When I looked to him in May of last year, he had an offer from another Italian team, but he accepted our lower offer.
"In January he received external approaches and came to me saying that he wanted to stay in Rome under certain conditions and that if they were not realised then he would feel offended.
"He wanted 5m-per-season for five years. We could not give him the money but we adjusted the contract to compensate for what he had lost economically in choosing us.
"He asked for a salary that we could not give him and we had to sell him. I talked of a 61m price-tag referring to what he had done, dictated by what he had become at Roma.
"We sold Benatia because he no longer had the strength or desire to continue with us. Now it is over and there is nothing else to say."
