Firstly Mourinho has been in charge of Chelsea and then Inter for six years and so was in the CL for those years with two of the top teams in terms of squads in Europe. So six years to get it right. No one can say he wasn't backed more than any coach in Europe at that time and it stands to reason that any coach given his resources would have a high probability of winning or getting to the final. Moreoever the accumulation of Lucio, Eto, Milito, Motta and Snieder was decisive in this win. Their wages for the lentgh of contract they would have signed is important. However what is more important is that no other coach that year was backed in the CL wiht that kind of deal considering the strength of squad inter already had. Their win was hardly the stuff of legend.
No, it didn't take 6 years to get it right, he got it right with Porto just a few years into his professional career. And it's a known fact that money - particularly wage bills - are really important to league success, but it's a totally different matter in the UCL. Real Madrid have probably been between the biggest spenders in the world for decades but they haven't won the UCL for 10 years. In fact, they couldn't get past the round of 16 for a few years in a row before Mourinho (even though managers like Pellegrini, for example, got Real's record points tally during his time there). So no, the squad doesn't win the UCL for themselves, as some huge spenders never brought the trophy home - the Real Madrid galacticos, for example, and Chelsea, who are still looking for it almost 10 years after Abramovic arrived.
Nor was Inter squad the best in Europe. Among the best, for sure, but you overestimate them a lot. Thiago Motta is now playing for PSG. Diego Milito, the season after Mourinho left, scored only 8 goals (so much for a "proven world class", eh?). And I could go on.
Again, you don't seem to give Mourinho any credit for the good signings he made himself. I've shown to you how none of them were actually a certainty of success - apart from Eto'o, perhaps. Motta and Milito were 27 and 30 years old playing for Genoa. Lucio and Sneijder, as good as we now know they were for Inter, were both in their respective clubs transfer lists.
Inter probably had the biggest wage bill in Italy but it was not that bigger than the rest. I don't really care too much about his league wins in Italy though, since Inter only got back to winning ways (under Mancini) thanks to Calcio Caos which sent Juve to Serie B, and for years they were playing against hardly anyone.
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