Mourinho @ Inter

kas wrote:I guess (hope) that means Hleb will go to Madrid

kas wrote:Or stay at Arsenal, I don't care really as long as Barça don't sign him. We don't need a central midfielder who can't defend and can't score and just spends the whole game threading the ball through spaces that don't exist. Iniesta, Xavi, and Messi can already do that.

In March, when Arsenal played AC Milan in Italy, the Belarus international left the Melia Felix Hotel with the agent Claudio Vigorelli, who is an associate of international agent Vincenzo Morabito.

"It's true that Hleb saw Vigorelli and they went out from the Melia Felix, but it's not true that they went to talk to Inter Milan," Morabito said at the time. "They went for an ice-cream. We are sorry that Mr Wenger took it badly and complained, because we have a good relationship with him."

Cesc Soler wrote:Lets just completely ignore the fact that the Hleb wants out and Wenger has agreed to let him go at the right price. Inter aren't the only club interested in him, he is a goner.

Plus he has the sort of personality where he is in danger of becoming a charicature of himself .

Pierre Littbarski wrote:Mourinho will fail at Inter - if he doesn't win CL that will be deemed a failure.

The Calciopoli (sp?) scandal has put them in such a great position domestically.

If you look at Mourinho's achievements carefully:

UEFA Cup win - very good.

(lost to Milan in SuperCup, maybe thats why he hates Sheva)

Champions League - we all remember the decision at OT (a taste of their own medicine mind), Lyon, Deportivo, Monaco.

He was a bit lucky that all the big guns conspired to fail that year.

Two titles with unrivalled spending power and some of the most nauseating football you're ever likely to see.

Last season was a complete failure (don't buy all that "2 titles per season" bullshit, the big 4 only care about FA and League cups when everything else has gone to $h!t, they did no better last season than this).

He failed miserably this season.

Over a year + the complete failure to get anything like the best from shevchenko and Ballack, 2 of Europe and the World's very best until that point.

Plus he has the sort of personality where he is in danger of becoming a charicature of himself and we don't know how a new set of players will react to him.

Hlebtastic wrote:Why does everyone seem to think Mourinho wouldn't like a player like Hleb?

Hleb is one of the most hard working players you'd ever see. The amount of times he wins the ball is unbelievable for an attacking player. When we won at Old trafford the season before last I remember him winning the ball about 9 times!! in the 1st half alone. Sure there is an element of risk in his game as likes to dribble but all Mourinho will do is tell him to do it in less dangerous areas(ie in the opposition half, far from his own goal).

Hleb is gone( ) , Mourinho signing for Inter won't change anything.

forza_rossi wrote:Is it even official that Mourinho is signing for Inter??

L.r.d wrote:

Doubt he will get Lampard, Lampard is not someone who would do well abroad. Carvalho and Drogba though. Drogba and Ibra upfront ego-central

TheCrazy58 wrote:

Hlebtastic wrote:Why does everyone seem to think Mourinho wouldn't like a player like Hleb?

Hleb is one of the most hard working players you'd ever see. The amount of times he wins the ball is unbelievable for an attacking player. When we won at Old trafford the season before last I remember him winning the ball about 9 times!! in the 1st half alone. Sure there is an element of risk in his game as likes to dribble but all Mourinho will do is tell him to do it in less dangerous areas(ie in the opposition half, far from his own goal).

Hleb is gone( ) , Mourinho signing for Inter won't change anything.

I agree with everything you say about Hleb, but he's just not nearly direct enough for Mourinho's type of game.

Reports: Mancio agrees Inter exit Tuesday 27 May, 2008
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This afternoon’s meeting between Roberto Mancini and Massimo Moratti ended in just 20 minutes and there are rumours that the Inter boss’ reign is over.

The speculation over Mancio’s future has been growing in intensity since he attempted to resign after the Nerazzurri’s Champions League exit against Liverpool in March.

Portuguese tactician Jose Mourinho has consistently been touted as a replacement this summer and that suggestion has been supported by reports that the ex-Chelsea man has been learning Italian.

However, Moratti has repeatedly insisted that he wants to keep Mancini in the hot seat and had played down talk of today’s meeting being used to discuss the Coach’s exit.

But after Mancini walked out of a private residence in Milan after 20 minutes and refused to comment on the outcome, there have been reports that he has agreed a mutual rescission of his contract with Moratti.

There have also been unconfirmed rumours that Inter director Marco Branca is in Portugal this afternoon to finalise terms with Mourinho, who could take over the reigns within a fortnight.

As yet there have been no statements from either side, but the calcio world waits with baited breath.