Inter Milan coach Claudio Ranieri says he was never going to stick around at tonight's opponents Juventus given their transfer market approach.

Ranieri finished in second place at Juve, then was fired two weeks before the end of the next campaign.

"I took over a side that was coming up from Serie B and lacked many champions. In the last four or five years everything has changed, as they are building a new project, the philosophy and above all the budget have been totally transformed.

"Am I disappointed at not continuing in Turin? We all have our karma, our story, and I always reconstructed wherever I went, but never bowed to compromises.

"The reason I left was there were three of us choosing players. At the moment I was excluded from decisions, then I walked away."