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Mazzola: ‘Why Inter couldn’t get Cantona’
Oh you all know, don’t you? None. After L’Inter dei Record bested everyone in 1988-1989, the Nerazzurri had to wait until Calciopoli for the football authorities to hand them the title in 2005-2006, and won it by themselves the following year.
Getting Eric Cantona would have have changed things, wouldn't you say?
With the Beneamata inquiring after the Manchester United star in the mid-90’s (a couple of years before they lured Ronaldo away from Barcelona), why did they never manage to land a decisive blow?
Sandro Mazzola would know, being a member of Inter’s front office at the time.
“I went to see Cantona and began negotiations, but there were major problems in separating him from Manchester United," Mazzola told fcinternews.
"They were asking for too much, and it would have taken a lot of effort to reel him in. We couldn’t afford to spend that much at the time”.
Really? Is this the same Inter who brought in Ronaldo, Christian Vieri, Alvaro Recoba and so on? I guess we’ll have to take his word for it.
