Juventus vice-President Pavel Nedved would have gone “anywhere in the world” for Jose Mourinho, except for Inter.
The Czech midfielder was offered the chance to join the Nerazzurri for the 2009-10 season, but he retired with the Bianconeri in the summer of 2009.
“Jose struck a chord,” Nedved admitted, speaking to Idnes.
Juventus vice-President Pavel Nedved would have gone “anywhere in the world” for Jose Mourinho, except for Inter.
The Czech midfielder was offered the chance to join the Nerazzurri for the 2009-10 season, but he retired with the Bianconeri in the summer of 2009.
“Jose struck a chord,” Nedved admitted, speaking to Idnes.
“He knew I was very attracted to the Champions League, because I’d never won it. But it couldn’t work, how could we be compatible? Not at all!
“If he’d called me from anywhere else in the world I’d have gone to him, but I couldn’t go to Inter.
“Inter won the Champions League? No problem, it was meant to be. Mourinho wanted it!”
Nedved also expanded on his reasoning, explaining he could never move to the Beneamata after the Calciopoli scandal which saw them awarded the 2006 Scudetto after Juve were stripped of it.
“In Italy they call it the ‘Scudetto di cartone’, the cardboard title. I could never have accepted such a title, I couldn’t appreciate it.”