Inter president rules out transfer window swoop

Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti on Monday ruled out a January transfer window swoop despite his team’s 3-1 humbling at the hands of Atalanta on Sunday.

Jose Mourinho’s team were simply woeful in the first 45 minutes in which they conceded three goals and barely registered a single shot of their own.

But Moratti insisted there would be no knee-jerk reaction to Inter’s second league loss of the season.

“Yesterday was a terrible match, we played very badly, it was a match that really hurt,” he said.

“It’s hard to say what I was happy about, it wasn’t a match, from the first whistle to the last there was no running, no concentration, nothing. It’s everyone’s and no-one’s fault.

“Yesterday’s match shows you that it would be absurd to look to the transfer market. Either you have 22 players who are washed out or it’s absurd to look to the transfer market.”

Mourinho had left out two of his big money summer signings – Ricardo Quaresma and Mancini – as well as talented young forward Mario Balotelli while preferring a host of players in their 30s but Moratti refused to criticise his choices.

“Mourinho makes the decisions he feels are the right ones to choose those who are in the best form, regardless of their age,” said the president.

“I have no problem with him not changing players or leaving out younger ones in favour of older ones.

“It’s difficult for Mourinho to pick the team but he picks who he wants.”