Internazionale president Massimo Moratti has revealed that his club have yet to reach an agreement with Manchester City to seal Mario Balotelli's transfer to England.

The 19-year-old striker is also reportedly deadlocked with the Citizens over personal terms, with Moratti hoping that the deal could move forward early next week.

He told Sky Italia:"For Balotelli to go to Manchester City, we are ...

Stuttgart are interested in French-born Guinean midfielder Ibrahima Traore' (22), who belongs to German second division club FC Augsburg.

PHILADELPHIA - Rafa Benitez tries to build a team with his ideas and we already tomorrow will try to put them into practice. When there is a technical exchange with a coach who brings new visions of the game, inevitably it always takes a little 'time to assimilate them, and it will be up to us to be as fast as possible to implement these. "Javier Zanetti opened the press meetings for the new season looking to the future for example in Baltimore, where tomorrow (20 hours local, 2:00 AM Italian) is scheduled Inter-Manchester City, a match valid for the 14th edition of the Pirelli Cup 20 that will mark the debut of the new team under the guidance of the new Spanish coach.


I think it's useless to make comparisons because every coach has his own ideas. - Continued the Inter captain about the comparison between Jose Mourinho and the new coach of Inter - Everyone has seen what we have achieved under the guidance of Mourinho, now we work to do as well with Benitez, a very capable coach, determined to continue on this successful path. We wanted to play, even though everyone knows that these matches are only tests that we have to prepare the first official race, the Italian Supercup against Roma.

It is on this way that Inter want to insist and so Inter's fan that from everywhere in the world follow the Nerazzurri: "We know we have many suppotters everywhere, this makes us a great pleasure because it means that the team does well and is very popular. We hope to do well in the field right now to give them much satisfaction. "

In closing, after greeting on live TV Nerazzurri fans in Toronto, Dallas and Baltimore, where Inter will play the next friendly match, Zanetti talked about the situation of Mario Balotelli: " Mario is following a customized program. Right now I can only say that Balotelli still is an Inter player. However, we are working together to prepare the great season that puts us in front of so many commitments. "

PHILADELPHIA - A corner of Inter Club in the heart of Pennsylvania. A tour waited for many years and finally realized: about 200 members, representatives of the Inter Club "Giacinto Facchetti" in New Jersey, of Inter Club "Massimo Moratti" from New York and Inter Club "Javier Zanetti" in Brooklyn have visited this evening (it was night in Italy) the team in hotel that houses the Nerazzurri in this first part of the U.S. Summer Tour 2010.

Led by their President and Aldo Tripicchio (New Jersey), Toni Di Piazza (New York) and Pino Mittiga (Brooklyn), the members of three of the six Inter Clubs in North America have had the opportunity to meet the team and managers. Souvenir photos and autographs for everyone, from Rafael Benitez, till to Mrs. Bedy Moratti, which was given as a gift for the occasion, a painting.

PHILADELPHIA - It's one of the oldest cities in the United States of America. It was the political capital, where there were drafted the Declaration of Independence (in 1776) and the U.S. Constitution. Here, they say, it was sewn for the first time the Stars and Stripes flag. It is the city of industry, railways, Richard Gere and Grace Kelly (among others), of ancient and modern art that blends in the center, on the banks inside the Delaware River on which - from dawn to dusk - people trains, cycling, skating, walking. It is the city of brotherly love, founded in 1681 on the values of freedom and religious tolerance, but Philadelphia is (and remains) in our collective imagination for that particular race, proud and angry, in a film that in 1976 created a myth , winning three Oscars: "Rocky." Five of the six that make up the series were filmed here, but the first one never forgets. A masterpiece of 28 days. And in the masterpiece Sylvester Stallone, runs and breathless climb to the entrance of the Philadelphia Museum of Art: the gray suit, the sweat in the cold, his hands in triumph.

In Nike clothes, Marco Materazzi and Dejan Stankovic, taking advantage of a few hours of rest and with the complicity of our photographer Giorgio Ravezzani, wanted to relive, for them and all the friends of www.inter.it, the scene of "Rocky" .

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