On his 75th birthday, former Inter President Massimo Moratti confessed Roberto Mancini, Jose Mourinho and Rafa Benitez situations overshadowed success. ‘What Mou did was terrible.’
The Nerazzurri won the Treble in 2010, but on the eve of the Champions League Final with Bayern Munich, Mourinho had already agreed terms with Real Madrid.
On his 75th birthday, former Inter President Massimo Moratti confessed Roberto Mancini, Jose Mourinho and Rafa Benitez situations overshadowed success. ‘What Mou did was terrible.’
The Nerazzurri won the Treble in 2010, but on the eve of the Champions League Final with Bayern Munich, Mourinho had already agreed terms with Real Madrid.
“It’s Inter’s destiny, I suppose,” Moratti told La Stampa newspaper. “We won the Scudetto against Parma with Mancini on the bench, I had already signed Mourinho and didn’t know how to get out of it.
“Then there’s the night in Madrid… After that, at the Club World Cup in Abu Dhabi, Benitez let loose and told us he wanted to leave. Let’s just say Inter always found a way of complicating positive situations.
“If I look back now, what Mou did was terrible, but we got along so well and I knew that intervening would’ve just raised the tension, so I stayed quiet, even though I was aware of what was going on.
“It would’ve been like asking an athlete just before the 100m race what shoes he was wearing. You just want him to win. Let’s say that Mourinho didn’t want to run the 200m race too, but he could’ve waited until the morning after to tell me about it.”