Marco Tronchetti Provera has heaped praise on Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho. Tronchetti Provera, the Pirelli chairman and a board member of Inter, said: "Mourinho has two special characteristics: he is a great worker and is a character.

"I think that he is envied by many, loved by many and not many others are loved so much, he is a 'special' one with the great qualities of a worker, he is a one man team that manages to hold the dressing room together."

On Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Tronchetti Provera added: "One hundred million for Ibrahimovic? This has nothing to do with me, but with (president) Massimo Moratti.

"In the face of these numbers, it would be difficult to refuse."