FORMER INTER MILAN boss Roberto Mancini has slammed ‘envious’ Ruud Gullit after the Dutch great suggested the Italian had failed to prepare the club’s players for the start of the season.
Mancini was replaced by Frank De Boer, Gullit’s former teammate in the Dutch national side, when he was sacked by the Italian giants on the cusp of the Serie A season.
Inter invested heavily in players during the summer but have made a terrible start under De Boer, losing away to Chievo in their league opener and then being held to a 1-1 draw at home by Palermo.
Gullit suggested Mancini was to blame, the former AC Milan and Chelsea star claiming the respected Italian had failed to physically prepare Inter for the new season because “he was already thinking of leaving”.
Mancini, it appears, has taken the accusation badly.
He suggested Gullit was envious because of his own failure to follow his impressive playing career with a coaching career to match.
Gullit was fortunate to have had a great playing career. Full stop,” Mancini said in comments to Radio Incontro Olympia.
“In football, when you’ve been a great player and then you don’t succeed in anything else it’s sometimes difficult to accept.
These kind of people like to speak about other players and coaches. If he’s a friend of (Frank) De Boer, that’s fine. But that doesn’t give him the right to make these comments.
“But Gullit’s not the only one, there are lots like him. Envy is a terrible thing.”
Mancini won seven trophies including three consecutive league titles with Inter in a previous spell in charge at the club.
The 51-year-old also ended Manchester City’s 44-year wait to be crowned league champions when he steered them to the Premier League title in 2012.
Although Gullit led Chelsea to their first major trophy in 26 years with the FA Cup in 1997, he was controversially sacked by the club soon after.
He then had unsuccessful spells at Newcastle United, Feyenoord, LA Galaxy and Terek Grozny. In the Russian Premier League Gullit won three games out of 13 and after he was sacked the club criticised his “party lifestyle”.
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Hup outta that… Happy days the Olympic torch is coming to Ireland! This is bbrriilliiaanntt!
and it will be burning Corrib gas Yehahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Great,we can burn the banks and bondholders with it
Barry, because WE ARE NOT HOSTING THE GAMES ………………………
So, it’s no harm in it coming through our country
The Brits are having a laugh on us.
Why should the torch come we Ireland. We’re not hosting the Games. This fecking bandwagon crap will be the death of us !
Why wouldn’t you want it to come to Ireland??
How is wanting something positive considered a bad thing and “jumping on the bandwagon”?
The Brits have done enough torching
in the past already!
A nice gesture from the British, but I cant help thinking that the world will be even more confused as to whether or not we are still in the UK???
Last time I looked, Dublin was in Ireland. Have a look yourself there Alan – it’s on the east coast of Ireland just north of Bray and south of Drogheda. Here endeth the geography lesson.
So will it be coming to Ireland or just Dublin?
Oh god, here we go…..
Well said Eddie, it is fantastic news to see that the Olympic Torch will be coming to Ireland, north and south. We will always have the objectors and detractors of anything positive but lets rejoice in a bit of good news which is long overdue.