Roma coach Jose Mourinho has explained leaving Inter Milan for Real Madrid in 2010.
Mourinho quit Inter immediately after leading them to the Treble.
He recalled to Sport Italia: I'm always very honest with others and with myself. I could have gone to Real Madrid after my first season with Inter, but I had signed to stay more than a year. I had an incredible relationship, not only with the president, but also with his wife and children.
I went to Moratti's house at the end of the first season and we came to the conclusion that I would stay one more year. It wasn't victory or defeat in the Champions League final that would've decided my life, I already knew what I was going to do, and I wanted to go to Real Madrid.
The opportunity came for the second time and I wanted to go, it was a moment in my career where I told myself I had to. They're the biggest club in the world, there is no history, but I had that thing of winning the Serie A title.
Beyond winning or not winning the Champions League, there was a basic job that would have gone to another coach, everything was perfect.
It would have been more comfortable for me to stay at Inter instead of competing with Barcelona, I would have won another easy Scudetto, we would have gone on to become Club World Champions but it wouldn't have meant anything to me.
The smart players already knew what I was going to decide, after the Champions League final I didn't go back to Milan because I was afraid that emotions would change, and I would never go to Real Madrid again.
I refused to sign the contract with Real Madrid before the final against Bayern Munich, but I was afraid to go back to Milan because of the emotions."