Great save.

Diego Milito with his 2nd.

Genius signing.

That's the kind of striker Milan needs,the one who can score easily,are there any cheap ones,like Diego:He's great.

Congrats Jose and Inter.

Can't say I'm not happy for them. they deserved this treble. I know there are football fans out there who don't share this view. I respect that. I'm just a different kind of football fan!

When Eto'o went to Inter and said he wanted to win the CL with them, I laughed at him. "you went to the wrong team!".

Damn... 45 years... I still can't believe this.

And Zanetti just captained his team to victory!


EDIT: oh, how did I forget : 4TH SPOT IS OURS! YOOOHOOO!

6 League titles, 5 domestic trophies, 2 European Cups, 1 Uefa Cup. He's won everything there is to win that he's competed in, in Portugal, England, Italy and Europe.. He hasn't even been a manager for 10 years yet.

F@ck Inter! I hope it takes them another 45 years for the next cup.

Next stop Spain.

this really pains me

Best thing out of this game is seeing Jose leave the Italian league,thank god.

I wouldn't bet on that yet.

Compliments to Inter, they played an extraordinary Champions League.

I hope so, too.

Alright, Mourinho just said on Rai 1 that he will leave.

So they won. I fell asleep during halftime.

Yay for Italy keeping 4 CL places, don't let the door hit you on the way out Jose, may it take them another 45 years to do this again.

This gives a whole new meaning to grudging respect....but congrats Inter!

I don't think Mourinho leaving means Inter will be back to their old loser selves.

Obviously not. They have too great of a team.

I meant in CL. he gave them what they lacked: winning mentality.

Another great coach would do just fine there. as for the quality of their squad.. it almost makes me depressed. the difference between Inter and Milan is colossal in that respect. that's what happens when one keep rebuilding and adding great players to the team and the other just keeps living in the past, ignoring what is needed.

God knows how many years it will take us to be back where we belong with someone like Silvio at the helm.

It will take us 5 years. End of the journey though...Inter would have 900 million euros deficit...while we'd have 0. Fair enough....

haters gotta hate. Thats all i gotta say.



Grazie Mourinho! Best coach on earth!

We also have an owner who claims he would splash a huge money on 1 great player but if you told him to spend wisely on a couple of players, he wouldn't. is money really the whole issue and cause of our problems? don't think so. management sucks. end of.

Yeah, the net balance is what matters in the end. Who cares about success and trophies...

Exactly. Ask Valencia. Or Rangers. Or even my darling Newcastle.

Comparing Milan to the likes of Newcastle... what's this world coming to?

We're AC Milan, next time you compare, make sure it's with the best and biggest clubs out there!!

Interviewer: "Jose tell us how it feels to have saved Italy's 4th champions league spot?"

Mourinho: "It feels fantastic!"

God bless ya!

omg Blue, you really went too far with that avatar... disgraceful

It's been very obvious he'd leave since the Sky Sports interview where he said he doesn't lik Italian football.

I think he's happy that he can leave while sticking 2 fingers up at Italian football. Now hurry up and win everything on Spanish football, 99% of England wants you back. Maybe he can manage us in Brazil 2014, it'd be nice yo have a coach that can pick a squad.

@ chu lip:


How? He deserves it!

Its a shame Italy won't even acknowledge what he has done. Geez....


I'm happy he's leaving, maybe he'll get the credit he deserves in spain. Too bad those Italian bastards working at FIGC are too stupid to realise that because of him they have a 4th champions league spot for another year

Or maybe the Italians acknowledge his ability as a coach but also recognize his personality for what it is.

Just what exactly did those Italian bastards do to him anyway? Mourinho is highly considered here in Italy, and all the noise that sorrounded him during his stay in Italy has been the result of his big mouth and ego.

Congrats to Inter and Mourinho.
I hate that guy more than everything on football but he is a LEGEND !
And it's not his fault if we are not rich enough to sign coaches like him !

Really? Is that right?


I haven't heard one congratulations to him from anyone in Italy yet. When we won the champions league in 07, other clubs, members of FIGC and presidnts gave a big congrats to us.

We all got labled the tag of "Milan the pride of Italy in champions league".



But this year when Mourinho not only had to win for Inter supporters but the good of Serie A in general, we don't hear a peep from anybody. In fact Galliani is the only who has come out and said that he will cheer inter on, but only for technical reasons.


That is just sad.

Well, he hates Italian football for a reason.

Yes, because people don't kiss his @ss and let him get away with whatever he feels like doing.

Really? Because I live in Italy, I watch Italian TV all the time and there are only praises about Mourinho.

Blue slow down. After some pages I can see you making posts like - I Love Blue and Black colors, than we have to kill you

This.

@ Xoff: Just because you live in Italy doesn't mean anything. With the people and resources we have on this forum, its like we are living in Italy. Fishdoll is a good example of that, she maybe living in the States; but she has alot of inside scoop. Same in my sitaution, I have a lot good freinds who live in Milan who let me know some inside scoop.


Also I'm not talking about mourinho regarded highly as a coach. I'm talking about the lack of respect shown to him and what he has done for Italy. Everyone in Italy has just gangs up on him and disrespects him because he is the coach of inter (most hated club in italy) and that isn't fair.

@d'arc:

I'll never ever be an inter fan. At the very very UNLIKELY hood of me jumping ship, I'd jump to Madrid and that is very unlikely.

I am a proud Milanista. If I wasn't I would have left when we were in UEFA Cup.

I don't care if he deserves it, he made OUR RIVAL European Champions, as Milan fan I would NEVER ever put he who makes Inter European Champions in my avatar ESPECIALLY not on the black day of happening. I could not live with myself if I did. He used to be my favourite coach when he was at Chelsea, he is the best coach and at that time I liked that, but now I simply hate him.

Yes I'm being bias in this, like it should be.

That seems to be that. Certainly, for this season's edition of the Champions League and more than likely, for Jose Mourinho's time in Italy. The Portuguese coach of Inter did not have to outwit his erstwhile colleague, Louis van Gaal, on the night; his tried system worked like a dream from the start.

Mourinho is the great protagonist in his own narratives. When he started out this season, he seemed to do so with a fatalistic assuredness that his time would soon be at an end. And he swept the board. The Coppa Italia, the Scudetto and now the grand daddy of them all, the UEFA Champions League, all bent to his will. They were all won by a disciplined band of players who facilitated their besieged coach to thumb his nose at his detractors.

The media, the referees, rival coaches and rival players have all tried and failed to knock the belligerent Mourinho from his perch. They all hoped for him and his players to fail. But they did not. Instead, as he did at Chelsea, he created the siege mentality, the cocksure, us-versus-them standpoint that has proven to hold the recipe for success.

It will not be lost on Mourinho that he has delivered Italy's first Champions League since 2007, Inter's first in 45 years, with a brand of distinctly Italian football. The sweet pay-off for him is that he has stood on the outside and showed the inward looking Italians how to do it. And he can leave the peninsula with two justifiably upright middle fingers.

He maintained Inter's domestic dominance and gave president Massimo Moratti that which he has longed for since taking over at San Siro. The owner backed his coach in the transfer market and Mourinho's men, the likes of Lucio, Wesley Sneijder, Samuel Eto'o and Diego Milito can stand proudly beside their trainer.




Shaking The Shackles Of The Peninsula| Jose Mourinho


The loyalty Mourinho has commanded from the group was as evident at the Bernabeu as it has been all season. Samuel Eto'o, once the great striker, has been converted into a diligent right-sided midfield player. Christian Chivu has scarcely played centre-back since he left Roma. The individual need for glory is foresaken for the benefit of the collective. It is left to the Special One to pick up the media glare.

Diego Milito was the outstanding individual on display for Inter throughout a classic counter-attacking performance. The Italian team were not afforded the lion's share of the ball but made the most use of it when they had it. Il Principe's passes for Sneijder and Goran Pandev deserved to be converted and his two goals were illustrative examples of the devastating strike power the Argentinian possesses. And it was the tactics of Mourinho that has allowed him to flourish instead of Eto'o.

His gameplan was the perfect remedy for Bayern's front-foot attacking style of play. The Germans managed to work some decent openings but more often than not found themselves 40 yards from goal looking at 10 Nerazzurri shirts. Van Gaal admitted before the game that his team are not among Europe's elite and so it proved. FC Hollywood were patently lacking a 'plan b'; the introductions of Miroslav Klose and Mario Gomez served a reminder that the Bavarians are still some way short of assembling a genuinely class team the like of which has been moulded by Mourinho.

Inter will win no plaudits from the Barcelona-fancying aesthetes but it is they and not the Catalans who have claimed the treble. Whether or not the Bernabeu would stand in unison and salute the pragmatism seen in the Champions League final for the sake of wins and titles remains to be seen... but not for much longer.

Well done Inter and well done Jose. Serie A has spent the past two seasons ridding itself of its best players. It is about to lose its best coach.


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First of all, with the state our team is in, Jose probably did us a huge favour because it's certainly no given that we will finish top 3 next season.

Second of all, who cares if they're local rivals? I don't live in Milan, so why the hell should I hate Inter? I don't have to put up with their fans. I'm no sheep and I won't hate Inter just because that's the cool thing to do as a fan of Milan. It's not like they even talk **** about us much, if anything it's the other way round.

Then perhaps your friends are giving you the wrong inside scoop. Italy loves Mourinho. Obviously, because he's the Inter coach, he's going to be despised by most juventini and milanisti and so on (as it's logical), but the general opinion has high regards about him as a coach... maybe less as a communicator, but that's his own fucking fault.

Fans maybe, Media, FIGC, Presidents/coaches etc...NO!

+1 I feel the same way.

I think you'll find you're wrong about the general impression of him, Blue. The one thing I've heard constantly in complaints about him was his media-whoring, grandstanding, constant stream of insults to others, and general whipping up of controversy. His coaching has never been in doubt. It's just that the 'LOOK AT ME' thing he did in England...doesn't work in Italy. And I'm glad it doesn't because, to be honest, I find it repulsive.