Having seen Jose Mourinho’s refusal to speak to the press while in the Los Angeles area, it’s easy to understand why now that he’s opened up over the Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Barcelona X Eto’o move.

Via DailyMail 

Mourinho knows it will be a blow to lose last year’s leading goalscorer in Serie A but, speaking about the deal for the first time, admitted it is a fantastic bit of business.

‘I was a bit angry because no coach is happy to lose Ibrahimovic,’ he told Sky Italia. ‘But no one is not happy to have Eto’o: we have lost a top player but we have taken another one.

‘If I talk as a coach and a man on the pitch, I say that I don’t want to lose this player.

‘If I talk as a manager, I say that Inter have done great business: if Ibra is worth 50million euros, Eto’o is not worth 49.

‘This is a 100million euro deal for Inter.’

Mourinho feels Ibrahimovic will adapt to life at the Nou Camp in no time but insists he would not make a similar move.

‘He had this dream and wanted to go,’ added the Nerazzurri coach. ‘He told me he would miss me and I told him exactly the same thing.

‘He’s going to a club in which I worked for four years, Barcelona are an extraordinary club and he will be happy.

‘I didn’t give him any advice but I spoke to him a few days before the final decision.

‘I told him that if he wins the Champions League with Barcelona he won’t be doing anything extraordinary, seeing as the Catalans have won it twice in three years.

‘I like doing something extraordinary, not what’s normal.’

If the president wants the Champions League, I will give him the replica I have at home,’ he said.

‘I know that’s not what he wants: he’s an honest person, he knows there are seven or eight clubs in line for the same objective.

‘If he doesn’t’ know it, I will tell him myself that two or three are stronger than us at the moment.’

Meanwhile, Ibrahimovic is delighted to be on the verge of completing his switch to the treble winners.

‘I feel like a kid,’ he told El Mundo Deportivo.

‘I am immensely happy and have a huge desire to start already at Barcelona.’