New Delhi: Speculation continues to run rife with suggestions that Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be leaving Inter this summer, although coach Jose Mourinho has always maintained that the Swede is not going anywhere.
The Inter boss talked about Ibrahimovic and other transfer rumours surrounding his team to Telelombardia.
"Have I talked to Ibra? No, it's a personal conviction of mine that he will stay," he said. "He played a great season and I don't see any reason why he shouldn't be happy with us. I don't think more strange things will happen because of what Real Madrid are doing. No one will pay for Ibra what he is really worth, no one will pay as much as for Cristiano Ronaldo. However, in football you never know..."
"Can Real buy him? If they want to make two teams... At the moment with Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka and all their other champions they cannot do much more," he said.
Asked if he can imagine Inter without Ibrahimovic and Maicon, who has also been linked with a move away from the club, Mourinho said, "Inter are more than one player, a coach, or a physiotherapist. It is possible to imagine Inter being without one of those. Only an Inter without the fans would be impossible."
On his former players Deco and Ricardo Carvalho, who are being strongly linked with Inter after president Massimo Moratti revealed he wants to sign the duo, the coach commented, "They are Chelsea players. I don't like to talk about other clubs' players. They used to be mine. It would be a pleasure for me to coach them again. But now Chelsea must decide what to do."
It's no secret that the main reason Ibrahimovic wants to leave, is that he wants to win the Champions League, which he thinks will be difficult with Inter.
"I also want to win the Champions League, but for the Scudetto there are four possible winners, for La Liga just two, in the Premier League there are three, while in the Champions League there are 12 teams. That's why it isn't easy," Mourinho concluded.
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