While Mendes is struggling with Gao's transfer, Gao and Inter Milan are preparing for their second title of the season.

The Coppa Italia is a knockout football competition hosted by the Italian Football Association, players from the three groups of Italian A, B and C can participate, but the same club can only send one team to participate, it is the highest level of football Cup in Italy, the final adopts a single-game deciding system, 90 minutes of tie requires 30 minutes of extra time, and the penalty shootout is still tied in extra time.

As with other leagues, the cup competition can only be regarded as a chicken rib for giants such as Milan and Juventus, so in the 78-year history of the Coppa Italia, Inter Milan have only won five titles, not even a fraction of the league titles.

Even this season, Inter Milan didn't take the Coppa Italia very seriously, and basically fought with a mixed lineup of substitutes and main players, but Sneijder played very well in the Coppa Italia and led Inter Milan to the final.

Now, after Inter Milan won the league title and reached the Champions League final, this chicken rib competition suddenly has an important meaning.

In world football, the mainstream media calls the three champions of "league champion + champion cup champion + domestic top cup champion" as the triple crown. Some other cup competitions, such as the domestic Super Cup, UEFA Super Cup, Europa League, etc., do not count, and to win the treble is equivalent to winning a grand slam in football.

In the 100-year history of Serie A, there has never been a team that has won the league, Coppa Italia and Champions Cup in a single season. Even in the great "Great International Era", Inter Milan did not do this. In the 1964-65 season, Inter won the Champions Cup and the league, but lost to Juventus in the cup and only finished second. The closest to this honour is AC Milan, who won the league and Champions Cup in 1993-94 but missed out on the final in the Coppa Italia.

In fact, it is normal for Serie A to not have a treble, looking at the whole of Europe, there are only 5 teams that can win the treble, three leagues, and only Manchester United and Barcelona have won the treble in the five major leagues.

In 1967, Scottish Celtic were the first to win the treble, in 1972, Ajax won the second, and in 1988, PSV Eindhoven won the third, but due to the relatively low pressure of domestic competitions in the Dutch and Scottish leagues, their treble was not convincing enough, and no team in Europe's top five leagues won the treble.

It wasn't until 10 years later, in the 1998-99 season, that Alex Ferguson led the Red Devils to win the Premier League, FA Cup, and Champions Cup, and then another 10 years later, last season, Barcelona won La Liga, the Copa del Rey, and the Champions Cup, and later won the Spanish Super Cup, the UEFA Super Cup, and the Club World Cup, becoming a true Grand Slam team.

For Inter, there are only two games and two titles left before the first treble in Serie A history, beating Roma in the Coppa Italia final and Manchester United in the Champions League final.

For Mourinho, even if he does not leave Inter Milan next season, he hopes to win the first treble in the 100-year history of Serie A, surpassing the "big international" era of the year.

Therefore, this Coppa Italia final against Roma has become a must-win match for Inter Milan.

However, it will not be easy for Inter Milan to win the Coppa Italia because their opponents are Roma.

In the league, Roma came from behind, creating a 20-game unbeaten streak, but unfortunately failed to reverse Inter Milan, which made Roma's firefighting coach tinker Ranieri very regretful.

Now that Roma finally have a chance to take revenge in the Coppa Italia, Ranieri, who has always had a vendetta with Mourinho, definitely does not want Mourinho to become the first treble winner of Serie A.

After the "Phonegate Incident", Italian football has always been a battle between Rome and Inter Milan, and it will always be Rome that loses in the league, and most of the Italian Cup matches are won by Rome, and now Roma is the team that has won the Italian Cup the most in Italy, they have won a total of 9 championships, according to the regulations of the Italian football world, winning 10 times Serie A can sew a gold star on the chest, and winning 10 times the Italian Cup can sew a silver star. Roma are desperate to become the first Italian team to have a silver star on their chest.

Although the Coppa Italia is not very important, Roma are now out of the league and the Europa League, and the Coppa Italia is the only title they can compete for.

Claudio Ranieri said before the game: "Now for us, winning the Coppa Italia is a very good reward for a player who has been fighting all season, I can't predict where the Champions League will end up and I don't care if Inter Milan can win the treble, I just know that we have to give it our all. Everybody knows the quality of Inter but Roma are not bad, the game is five or five, and I think it will be decided in 90 minutes, although we are ready to take penalties. ””

Roma captain Totti declared war on Inter: "It's not a game, it's a fight, every Roma fan should come and support us and we want to make the Olympic Stadium in Rome a hell for our opponents. ”

Roma vice-president De Rossi also vowed to beat Inter: "I am very sad about the defeat in the league, originally we had a chance to win the title, my only hope now is to beat Inter in the Coppa Italia, I swear to the Roma fans that we will beat Inter. ”

Although Inter Milan is stronger and will never give up the Italian Cup, there are still many media and fans who are optimistic about Rome's upset before the game, in addition to Rome playing at home, but also because Inter Milan has been a little unstable recently.

After Inter Milan defeated Barcelona to enter the Champions League final, the media continued to break the news that Mourinho will coach Real Madrid next season, and Gao Xiaodong may also go to Real Madrid with Mourinho.

Before the Coppa Italia final, "Milan Sport" just reported that Moratti gave Mourinho a contract with an annual salary of 13 million euros, "Roma Sport" immediately broke the news that the "madman" Mourinho was unwilling to stay in the "Nerazzurri" anymore, and he was even willing to cut his salary in order to join the Bernabeu.

Although the news is still fried, this time the Roma media emphasized the salary cut, as if Mourinho was fleeing from Inter Milan, which made Inter Milan very annoyed.

Inter Milan club sports manager Blanca held a press conference to reassure players and fans, "This is an old news that spread all over the sky last year, and some reporters wrote with such a conscience for the sake of sales, which made us very angry, we are very satisfied with Mourinho, Mourinho is also very comfortable at Inter, if he is no longer in charge of Inter next season, anyone will think it is unthinkable." ”

Inter Milan players have also come out in support of Mourinho, and they all expressed their belief that Mourinho will not leave them and will not give up on a team that has the potential to win the treble.

However, because Moratti and Mourinho did not speak, this made Inter Milan fans still worried, and they didn't know whether the news was true or not.

The opponent is very strong, and it is playing at home, Mourinho is also worried about causing turmoil in the army, the day before the game, he finally spoke, to the media and fans, "Real Madrid, any coach wants to coach, of course I am no exception, but this does not mean that I want to go to Real Madrid immediately, maybe in the future to coach Real Madrid, at least now I am very happy at Inter Milan, I have not considered leaving Inter Milan for the time being." Now we shouldn't put all our energy into these rumours, we are now fighting for the first treble in the history of Serie A and I want everyone to put all their energy into the Coppa Italia and take a solid second step towards making history. ”

Jose Mourinho said that he could coach Real Madrid in the future, and now Inter Milan is very happy, and he will not think about leaving for the time being, and the fans and players of Inter Milan are finally relieved, they no longer care about the news off the field, and their attention is focused on tomorrow's Coppa Italia final.