Serie A: "I always thought that the fans were the real owners of Inter" (M. Moratti)

"Football is not a business, this is absolute, and moreso in the case of Inter (FC Internatzionale Milano, Serie A TIM). It is true that there are parameters to be respected, but this has nothing to do with business, because we did not have time for budgets; every week or every three days, there is a check (of the club) and the result of a game is the most important," said Massimo Moratti, former president of Inter Milan on 03/12/2014.

"There is no medium or long-term planning. There are the fans, their dreams, their hopes, their expectations. I always thought that the fans were the real owners of Inter," added the man who chaired Inter for 18 years (1995-2013), in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

"Managing Inter, suffering and a wonderful experience" (Massimo Moratti)

• "In the time of my father (Angelo Moratti, president of Inter from 1955 to 1968), for the whole family, Inter was a passion (not a business).
• That's why leading this club was also difficult with suffering (like the fans), a suffering which goes beyond most fans because you assume all the…