Adriano: Mourinho didn't want me at Inter Milan

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·1 June 2021

Adriano admits his Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho was determined to get rid of him.

The pair worked together for one season, winning the Scudetto, before Adriano left.

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“Mourinho saw once that I was down and asked me to train separately," Adriano recalled in an interview with ESPN.

“I spent two weeks doing that and then I came back into the group.

“One Thursday I learned that I would be called up for the next match, but then the next day that wasn't the case and I got angry.

"There was a trip to Rome once and I wasn't included.

“I spoke with Javier Zanetti and Ivan Cordoba, thinking already that I would be leaving (in the summer).

“All the players came to my house after that to ask me to stay, but I knew I couldn't stay because he (Mourinho) would have got involved."