Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is enjoying watching how Italian football handles the outspoken ways of Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho.

Ferguson, who has been involved in a host of mind games with the Portuguese coach in the past, is not surprised by the reaction to him by his fellow coaches.

"We are used to Jose," he said. "I'm not a little lad from the Govan alleys who finds himself on Fifth Avenue in New York. I'm not shocked by anything any more.

"Mourinho has a magnetic power over the media, everyone wants him because he goes from the amusing to the spirited to the offensive. He's a great media tactician.

"But he also know that when the game begins it will only be the Nerazzuri against the Reds, he can't do anything more.

"Personally I trust in those I send out on the pitch."