During the long interview with Sportsmail, Marko Arnautovic, currently at West Ham, told some anecdotes about his short experience at Inter. Among the various memories were also the difficult relationship with punctuality and with José Mourinho’s inflexibility, in respect of the timetable and the rules: “In 2009 – said the Austrian – we were with Inter to do the preparation in Abu Dhabi, I did not wake up for breakfast, that was strike No. 1. Then there was a meeting with the team; the hotel was so big and my room was on the 75th floor, I waited for the lift for a long time and continued to call it, but eventually I did not arrive in time, that was catastrophe No. 2 . Then the same thing happened before a match and I thought, ‘he will kill me’. There was a small discussion and he put me out of the squad that day, I trained on my own. One time I thought there was a morning training session and I was punctual, but there was not even a car in the training centre, the session was actually in the afternoon. However, Mourinho was there with his technical staff! He stood up and started applauding me. He said to me, ‘you are my man! You have come 5 hours before training, I love you, Hold on, take my watch’. I still have that watch at home to this day. ”

Arnautovic, then talks about Balotelli: “He can be a very serious person, a true gentleman, but if he does not like a person, he will destroy them. He just wants to be a star, the best, he works very hard to achieve this. I do not know what has blocked him. ”

Source: fcinternews.it